Abstract: A handle housing intended for attachment on a vehicle door panel is of injection molded plastic construction and has a base adapted to engage against the surface of the door panel. The housing carries at least one anchor leg, and preferably several, which project from the base and extend through registering apertures provided in the panel. Each of these anchor legs has a foot at the end thereof which is adapted to engage and underlie the underside of the panel when the housing is slid longitudinally along the surface so that the foot will engage with the underside of the housing and thereby prevent the housing from being pulled away from the panel. The housing also has a plurality of locking legs projecting from the base and extending through registering openings in the panel.

Abstract: The vehicle door has a mounting panel with a track formed therein by integral flanges struck from the panel. The window regulator arm has a roller carried thereon for engaging with the track to permit movement of the roller along the panel. The track has an open end permitting entry of the roller into the track when the roller has obtained both axial and cross-track alignment with the track. In order to facilitate installation of the roller into the track, the roller has an end face and the panel has an integral portion thereof underlying the open end of the track and being engaged by the end face of the roller to establish the roller in a position of axial alignment with the panel from which the roller may be easily entered into the open end of the track.

Abstract: A vehicle door has a window regulator carried by a panel and a motor drive unit with a drive gear projecting from an opening in a housing and adapted to drive the window regulator. A cover is provided for attachement on the housing to close the opening. The cover has a plurality of spaced apart first tangs which engage the housing to effect attachment of the cover on the housing. The cover also has a plurality of spaced apart second tangs which project away from the housing. A plurality of openings are provided in the panel to register with the plurality of second tangs and receive the second tangs in snap fitting engagement with the openings so that the motor drive unit is attached to the door panel. The first tangs may be attached to the housing by either staking the housing to the tangs or by the tangs having a snap fitting engagement with the housing.

Abstract: A handle bracket intended for attachment on a vehicle door panel is a sheet metal stamping having a pair of spaced apart legs which carry spaced apart feet extending longitudinally and adapted to overlie the planar surface of the door panel. Each of the feet has a toe portion and a heel. The panel has a pair of toe straps struck from the panel and defining receptacles for receiving the toe portions of the feet when the feet are abutted with the panel and then slid longitudinally along the surface into the receptacles. The panel also has a pair of openings therein which register with the heel portions of the feet. The heels have integral retaining flaps bent forwardly from the underside thereof and being admitted through the openings in the panel to become engaged with the panel when the feet are abutted with the panel and then slid longitudinally along the surface.

Abstract: A mounting bracket for mounting a window regulator motor housing with three holes to a door panel having three holes aligned with the holes in the power regulator motor and three slots. The mounting bracket has three legs projecting radially outward from a central portion. Each leg has an arm that depends toward the door panel carrying a tab with a ramp surface for engaging the door panel for flexing the tab as tab is inserted in a normal direction to the panel through the slot of the door panel. Each tab has a shoulder for engaging the door panel upon the tab flexing back after insertion of the tab into the slot so that the bracket is secured to the door panel. The central portion engages the motor housing for sandwiching the motor housing between the mounting bracket and the door panel so that the motor housing is mounted to the door panel.

Abstract: According to the invention a door latch includes a cylindrical plastic housing member adapted for mounting within an aperture of a vehicle door and having an integrally molded escutcheon which overlies the walls of the door panel defining the door aperture. A molded plastic cylindrical handle member is rotatably journaled within the housing for rotary movement. A plastic cylindrical actuator member rotatably journaled within the handle member is connected with the door latch to unlatch the door latch upon axial movement of the actuator member. A cam means acts between the handle member and the actuator to effect axial movement of the actuator member in response to rotary movement of the handle member. The housing member preferably has upper and lower walls having coaxially lined apertures, while the handle member and a guide member slidably carried by the handle member each have integral bosses adapted to slip fit within the apertures of the walls of the housing member.