US 12,146,356 B2
Door hinge device for vehicles
Chungsik Yim, Anyang-si (KR); Soo Bok Kim, Incheon (KR); Hyungin Yun, Seoul (KR); and Ki-Ryun Ahn, Daegu (KR)
Assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, Seoul (KR); KIA CORPORATION, Seoul (KR); and PYEONG HWA AUTOMOTIVE CO., LTD., Daegu (KR)
Filed by HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, Seoul (KR); Kia Corporation, Seoul (KR); and PYEONG HWA AUTOMOTIVE CO., LTD., Daegu (KR)
Filed on Oct. 13, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/965,405.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2022-0002596 (KR), filed on Jan. 7, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0220719 A1, Jul. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. E05D 15/58 (2006.01); E05F 15/622 (2015.01); E05F 15/652 (2015.01)
CPC E05D 15/58 (2013.01) [E05F 15/622 (2015.01); E05F 15/652 (2015.01); E05D 2015/586 (2013.01); E05Y 2900/531 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A door hinge apparatus for a vehicle, including a case provided on one side of a vehicle body corresponding to one end portion of a door in a diagonal direction of the vehicle body toward an outside of the vehicle body, rails disposed in a longitudinal direction on upper and lower sides of the case, respectively, and a hinge slider connected through a hinge axis to a door hinge bracket fixed to the one end portion of the door in a slidably provided state along the rails disposed inside the case, the door hinge apparatus comprising:
a striker provided on one side of the hinge slider; and
a latch portion including a claw lever, a pawl lever and a base plate, wherein the latch portion is provided on one side of the case inside the case, and configured for restraining or releasing the striker through the claw lever and the pawl lever at positions where the hinge slider slides and moves in an external diagonal direction of the vehicle body, wherein the claw lever and the pawl lever are positioned on the base plate.