Abstract: A door hinge assembly for a motor vehicle door and including a door hinge having two hinge halves attachable, respectively, to the motor vehicle door and a respective motor vehicle door pillar, and a hinge pin for connecting the two hinge halves and supported in one of the hinge halves with a running fit and removably secured in another of the two hinge halves without a possibility of rotation with respect to the another half; and a door lock formed integrally with the door hinge and including a locking element having at least one detent point and at least one brake and locking member cooperating with the locking element and located radially outwardly of the hinge pin.

Abstract: A safety device for supporting a pedal in a motor vehicle and which includes a bearing support for supporting a pedal shaft of the pedal and arranged between a front wall of the motor vehicle which is noticeably deformed inward into a passenger compartment during a frontal collision of the motor vehicle, and a cross-member which is located in the passenger compartment in a spaced relationship with respect to the front wall, is secured to a motor vehicle body, and does not substantially change a spacial position thereof during the frontal collision, with the bearing support including radially open recesses in which the pedal shaft is supported, and with the safety device further including a brace which lifts the pedal shaft of the recesses of the bearing support in case of the frontal collision and which has one of its ends supported against the front wall and another of its ends engaging the pedal shaft support forming part of the bearing support.

Abstract: An actuation device for a cable-operated parking brake of a motor vehicle and which enables actuation of the parking brake selectively by muscular energy or with a motive power assist, with the actuation device including a brake cable tightening device, and a drive for actuating the brake cable tightening device and including first and second drive elements connected, respectively, with muscular energy-actuated member and an auxiliary motor, and a planetary gear drive having a first drive member connectable with the first drive element, a second drive member connectable with the second drive element, and a third dive member connected with the cable tightening device thereby connecting the first and second drive element selectively with the cable tightening device.

Abstract: A hand brake for motor vehicles, and including a trestle provided with a toothing, a brake lever pivotally supported on the trestle, a locking pawl for retaining the brake lever on the trestle in an arbitrary selected pull position, at least one brake cable, a spring-biased tensioning element for the brake cable supported on the trestle, and a spring-biased arrangement for connecting the brake lever with the tensioning element, with the tensioning element being formed as a tooth segment or a tooth wheel which is constantly form-lockingly connected with the brake lever and a brake cable connector associated with the trestle.

Abstract: A safety device for supporting a pedal in a motor vehicle and which includes a bearing support for supporting a pedal shaft of the pedal and arranged between a wall portion of a front wall of the motor vehicle, which is noticeably deformed inward into a passenger compartment during a frontal collision of the motor vehicle, and a cross-member which is located in the passenger compartment in a spaced relationship with respect to the front wall, is secured to a motor vehicle body, and does not substantially change a spacial position thereof during the frontal collision, the bearing support including radially open bearing slot in which the pedal shaft is supported, and an element for lifting the pedal shaft of the bearing slot of the bearing support in case of the frontal collision.

Abstract: A door lock which is formed integrally with a motor vehicle door hinge and which includes a housing fixedly secured to the hinge pin or the one of the first and second hinge halves, a holding element having at least a partially curved running track concentric with a hinge pin axis and a plurality of detent points, a plurality of braking and locking members cooperating with the holding element for retaining a motor vehicle door in a predetermined braking and locking position, and formed as rolling bodies rotatable about respective support axles having their axes extending transverse to hinge pin axis, a carrier for supporting the braking and locking members, a spring for biasing the braking and locking members into engagement with the holding element, and an arrangement securing the holding element or the carrier to the housing without a possibility of rotation relative thereto and for axial displacement relative thereto.

Abstract: A detachable door hinge for motor vehicle doors which includes two hinge halves securable to a door and a door pillar, respectively, two hinge pin stubs fixedly secured in respective gudgeons of one of the two hinge halves and extending, in an attached position of the hinge, into complementary gudgeons of another one of the two hinge halves, with each of the two hinge halves being formed of a folded section of sheet metal and having, at least in a region of a hinge axis, a U-shaped cross-sectional profile, with respective gudgeons being formed in legs of respective hinge halves, and with the hinge further including elements for mutually locking the two hinge halves in their pivotal positions corresponding to both a closed position of the door and a partially open position of the door.

Abstract: A door lock formed integrally with a motor vehicle door hinge and including a housing, a first bearing ring forming a holding element with a curved running track concentric with a pin axis and a plurality of detent points, a plurality of braking and locking members rotatable about respective axes extending transverse to a hinge pin axis, a spring for biasing the braking and locking members into engagement with the holding element, a second, flat-surface, bearing ring for engaging the bearing and locking members opposite the first bearing ring, and a cage for receiving the braking and locking members, with the cage and the first, holding element-forming, bearing ring being alternatively fixedly connectable with the hinge pin and the one of the first and second hinge halves without a possibility of rotation relatively to the hinge pin and the hinge half, respectively.

Abstract: A hinge part for attachment of a motor vehicle door and including a hinge part body formed of a thin-walled hollow extruded section having at least three chambers, and two pairs of hinge gudgeon provided on opposite sides of the hinge part body for mounting the hinge part on the motor vehicle body for rotation about two, spaced from each other, pivot axes.

Abstract: A door lock for a motor vehicle door formed integrally with a detachable door hinge and including a plurality of braking and locking bodies, a support for supporting the braking and locking bodies and connected with the hinge pin for joint rotation therewith, a locking device having at least partially curved running track concentrically arranged with respect to the hinge pin axis and fixedly connected with the one of the two hinge halves of the hinge, and a spring supported against the hinge pin and at least partially congruent with the locking device for biasing the support toward the locking device, with the support including a guide member for partially receiving the braking and locking bodies and connected with the hinge pin, the guide member having a central bore through which the hinge pin extends and a recess concentric with the hinge pin axis for receiving the biasing spring, and with the guide member being formed as a monolithic shaped body of a plastic material.

Abstract: A detachable door hinge for a motor vehicle door including a hinge pin for connecting two hinge flaps for a pivotal movement relative to each other and supported in a gudgeon of one of the two hinge flaps by maintenance-free bearing sleeve for a free rotation and extending into a gudgeon of another of the two hinge flaps, the hinge pin having a radially extending shoulder engageable between adjacent surfaces of the gudgeons of the two hinge flaps, a cone adjoining the radially extending collar and which tapers toward a free end of the hinge pin and is received in a corresponding conical enlargement of a gudgeon bore of the another hinge flap, and an attachment extending into the gudgeon bore of the another hinge flap and having an outer thread and a diameter which is smaller than a diameter of the gudgeon bore of the another hinge flap and a nut for preventing an automatic lifting off of the another hinge flap, and having a neck portion extendable into the gudgeon bore of the another hinge flap into a space b

Abstract: A noise dampener for a motor vehicle door lock including a door arrester bar which pivots about an axis extending parallel to a motor vehicle door hinge axis, which is pivotally secured to one of door assembly parts, a door or a door pillar, with a bearing bolt extending through a bearing bore formed in an end region of the door arrester bar and supported in a bearing block, and which extends into a retaining housing secured to another of the door assembly parts and having locking element(s) cooperating with detent marks provided in the door arrester bar for retaining same, with the noise dampener being formed as a hollow part made of a non-metallic, noise dampening material, surrounding, at least partially, the end region of the door arrester bar, and having an interior space closed at least at two sides with the bore having a shape corresponding to a shape of the end region of the door arrester bar and with the hollow part further including a locking nose formed on a wall of the hollow part corresponding to

Abstract: A motor vehicle door lock for use with a motor vehicle door hinge having two hinge halves connectable, respectively, with two parts of a door assembly, a door and a door pillar, and pivotally connected with each other by a hinge pin, the door lock including a cylinder housing fixedly connectable with one of the two hinge halves connectable with one part of the door assembly, a cylinder stem received in the cylinder housing and fixedly connectable with another of the two hinge halves connectable with another part of the door assembly, and at least one locking member arranged in the cylinder housing or the cylinder stem with a possibility of a radial adjustment.

Abstract: A door lock for a motor vehicle door includes a plurality of braking and locking bodies, a support for supporting the braking and locking bodies, arranged concentrically with respect to a hinge pin axis and connected with the hinge pin for joint rotation therewith, a plurality of axles extending transverse to the hinge pin axis for supporting the braking and locking bodies in the support, a locking device having a running track concentrically arranged with respect to the hinge pin axis and fixedly connected with the one of two hinge halves, a spring supported against the hinge pin and at least partially congruent with the locking device for biasing the support toward the locking device, a radially extending carrier flange arranged opposite the locking device for connecting the support with the hinge pin for joint notation with the hinge pin, and a pressure plate rotatable together with the carrier flange and axially displaceable under a biasing force applied by the spring the support and the pressure plate be

Abstract: A separable door hinge for a motor vehicle door including two hinge halves attachable, respectively, to a door and a door pillar, at least partially retractable hinge pin for connecting the two hinge halves, with the hinge pin having a first portion provided with a circumferential knurling for engaging a wall of a gudgeon bore of a gudgeon of one of the two hinge halves for fixedly securing the hinge pin against rotation in a finally assembled condition of the door, and a second portion extending, in the finally assembled condition of the door, into a gudgeon bore of a gudgeon of another of the two hinge halves, with a running fit, and a radially resiliently deformable sleeve supported on the hinge pin without a possibility of axial displacement on a third portion of the hinge pin associated with the one of the two hinge halves.

Abstract: A door lock for a motor vehicle door formed integrally with a door hinge and including a locking element having a plurality of detent points, with the locking element being formed as a substantially circular track concentric with respect to the hinge pin axis and securable to one of the two hinge halves without possibility of rotation relative to the one to hinge halves, a plurality of brake and locking members arrangeable concentrically with respect to the hinge pin radially outwardly of the hinge pin and operationally connectable with the hinge pin, and a spring-biased carrier for receiving the brake and locking members and arrangeable approximately congruently with the locking element.

Abstract: A top storage well for a convertible motor vehicle, which includes a substantially U-shaped body having vertically extending front and rear walls and a substantially horizontally extending floor, and bellows formed of a water-proof flexible material and connectable with the floor and the rear wall, with a floor section of a transverse body section, which connects two legs of the U-shaped body, and a movable middle wall portion of the rear wall being together raisable upward for increasing and adjoining trunk space, and with the bellows being attached to both small sides of the floor section to the middle wall portion of the rear wall, and to stationary side sections of the body floor.

Abstract: A continuously adjustable power-actuated door lock for a motor vehicle door attachable to a motor vehicle with at least two hinges, and including a locking device connected, with a door pillar and a door and having a braking element movable between a braking position, in which the door is locked, and a release position, and a drive for displacing the braking element between the braking and release positions and including an electric motor controllable in accordance with an actual open position of the door, a direction of door movement, an instantaneous speed of the door movement, and movement characteristics of the door including door weight, inner resistance of a door attachment, with the locking device being formed integrally with one of two door attaching hinges.

Abstract: A separable door hinge for motor vehicle doors, including two hinge halves having each a gudgeon and attachable, respectively, to one of two parts of a door assembly, a door and a door pillar, a hinge pin for pivotally connecting the two hinge halves with each other and rotatably supported in the gudgeon of one of the two hinge halves with a running fit by a bearing sleeve formed of a maintenance-free bearing material, and form-lockingly secured in the gudgeon of another of the two hinge halves without a possibility of rotation relative to this hinge halves, and a receptacle, which forms an extension of a gudgeon bore of the gudgeon of the another hinge half for receiving at least a front, when viewed in an insertion direction, end portion of the hinge pin.

Abstract: An actuator for a cable-controlled hand brake of a motor vehicle including a ratchet carrier attached to the vehicle body, a brake actuating lever hingedly supported on the ratchet carrier, a spring-biased drive pawl formed as a rocker and having a circumferential toothing, a cable-supporting drive disc coupleable with the brake actuating lever and cooperating with the drive pawl, and a locking device including a toothed segment formed on the stationary ratchet carrier, and a locking pawl supported on the actuating lever, with the locking pawl being formed as a two-part locking pawl with the two parts being hingedly supported on the brake actuating lever for pivotal movement about a common axis independently of each other, and the two parts being automatically mechanically connectable with each other upon pivoting in at least one of their pivotal directions.