US 12,291,911 B2
Door hinge device for vehicles
Hyungin Yun, Seoul (KR); and Chungsik Yim, Anyang-si (KR)
Assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, Seoul (KR); and KIA CORPORATION, Seoul (KR)
Filed by HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, Seoul (KR); and Kia Corporation, Seoul (KR)
Filed on Sep. 30, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/957,009.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0188086 (KR), filed on Dec. 27, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0203867 A1, Jun. 29, 2023
Int. Cl. E05D 15/28 (2006.01); B60J 5/04 (2006.01); E05D 3/12 (2006.01)
CPC E05D 15/28 (2013.01) [B60J 5/0479 (2013.01); E05D 3/127 (2013.01); E05D 2700/00 (2013.01); E05Y 2900/531 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A door hinge apparatus for vehicles including a case provided at one side of a vehicle body corresponding to one end portion of a door in a diagonal direction toward the outside of the vehicle body, rails provided at an upper side and a lower side in the case, respectively in a longitudinal direction, and a hinge slider provided to slidably move along the rails inside the case including an external case, and connected to a door hinge bracket fixed to the one end portion of the door, the door hinge apparatus comprising:
a first striker provided at one side of the hinge slider inside the case;
a second striker provided at one side of the door to correspond to an external surface of the external case; and
a hinge latch unit including first and second claw levers provided on the rails through two lever shafts, and a pawl lever, and achieved so that the first claw lever restrains or releases the first striker while the second claw lever acts on the pawl lever by the second striker at a location at which the hinge slider slidably moves in an external diagonal direction of the vehicle body.