Thomas B Tyler

US Patent:

56826460, Nov 4, 1997

Filed:

May 13, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/645161

Inventors:

Thomas F. Tyler - Farmington Hills MI
Joseph J. Savalle - Dearborn MI
Brett A. Johnson - Chesterfield MO
Henry J. Ziaja - Dearborn MI
Terrence W. Gillay - Bloomfield Twp. MI
Earl L. Watson - Walled Lake MI

Assignee:

Chrysler Corporation - Auburn Hills MI

International Classification:

E05D 512
E05D 710

US Classification:

16386

Abstract:

A vehicle door hinge assembly according to this invention has a hinge bracket for mounting on each of a door and a body pillar of a vehicle. Each hinge bracket has a pair of spaced-apart legs wherein the pair of legs of one hinge bracket is received within and adjacent the pair of spaced-apart legs of the other bracket when the hinge brackets are hingedly mated together. The hinge brackets have aligned holes formed through their respective pairs of legs through which a hinge pin is received to hingedly mate the two hinge brackets together. The improvement comprises the hinge pin having a threaded tip or end and one of the legs of the outer hinge bracket having a nut affixed thereto in coaxial relation to the hole formed therein, or a the hole therein being threaded, and the threaded end of the hinge pin screwed therein when the hinge pin is inserted in the holes in the respective pairs of legs of the hinge brackets to hingedly mate the hinge brackets together.