Abstract: A rear slider window assembly for a vehicle includes a movable window panel that is movable along channels of a fixed window panel via guide pins. A first guide pin moves along a first channel, which as a slot established therealong and therethrough. An electrical connector electrically connects electrical terminals at the fixed window panel to electrical terminals at the movable window panel, and includes a pin follower that extends through the slot of the first channel to electrically connect to a flexible cable connected to terminals at the fixed window panel and to electrical terminals at the movable window panel. The lower rail may include a water drainage element including (i) a hole established through the lower rail and (ii) a drainage receiving conduit attached at the fixed window panel beneath the hole of the lower rail and spaced from the lower rail.

Abstract: A rear slider window assembly includes a frame portion, at least one fixed window panel and at least one movable window panel that is movable along the frame portion. The movable window panel is movable between a closed position and an opened position and has a first electrical element (such as a heater element) established thereat. The first electrical element is electrically connected to a power source of the vehicle irrespective of whether the movable window panel is in the opened or closed position. The first electrical element may be electrically connected to the power source of the vehicle via a flexible connector that is connected at one end to the first electrical element and at another end to an electrical connector at the fixed window panel, such as at an electrical element of the fixed window panel.

Abstract: An invention is provided for an independently operable ventilating security garage door system. The invention includes a ventilating security garage door that is permeable to light and air, and is wider than the existing garage door. The system also includes a plurality of ventilating security garage door rails that allow the ventilating security garage door to move between open and closed positions. Each rail is disposed to an outside of an existing garage door rail. Connected to the ventilating security garage door via cables is a rear torsion assembly, which is disposed behind the ventilating security garage door. In operation, the rear torsion assembly provides torque to assist in opening and closing the ventilating security garage door.

Abstract: An automatic opening/closing apparatus for vehicle, which is provided with a tensioner mechanism for applying a predetermined tension to a cable member, is downsized. A case of a driving unit is provided with a tensioner housing, and the tensioner mechanism for applying the predetermined tension to a cable is accommodated in the tensioner housing. The tensioner mechanism includes a pulley holder movably mounted on a guide shaft, and a spring for biasing the pulley holder, wherein a movable pulley is rotatably supported by the pulley holder. The cable drawn in the tensioner housing is wound about the movable pulley so that a direction in which the cable is drawn out from the case is substantially parallel to a direction in which the cable is drawn out from a driving drum, whereby the predetermined tension is applied to the cable by a spring force of the spring.

Abstract: A drive assembly moves a vehicle closure panel from an open to a closed condition. The drive assembly has a housing and a motor mounted on the housing. A drum and gear assembly is rotatably mounted on the housing. The drum and gear assembly has a drum having a helical groove, a gear in driving engagement with the motor, and a spring biasing the drum in a winding direction relative to the gear. The drum and gear have a lost motion connection therebetween. A cable has an end connected to the closure panel and an opposite end connected to the drum about the helical groove in the winding direction. The drum rotates in the winding direction relative to the stationary gear as the closure panel is manually moved from the open to the closed condition with the spring maintaining a cable tension. The drum and gear rotate together in the winding direction upon energizing the motor effecting powered movement of the closure panel to the closed condition.

Abstract: An opening-and-closing device opens and closes a sliding door by using a cable connected to the sliding door movably attached to a vehicle body. The opening-and-closing device has a base bracket, a motor, a transmission, a rotary drum, a first conduit fixed portion, a second conduit fixed portion, a first tension controller and a second tension controller. The base bracket is fixed to the vehicle body with bolts. The motor, the transmission, the rotary drum, the first and second conduit fixed portions and the first and second tension controllers are fixed to a disposition face of the base bracket. The first and second tension controllers are respectively disposed between the rotary drum and the first conduit fixed portion and between the rotary drum and the second conduit fixed portion, and applies tension to the cable fed from the rotary drum to take up the slack.

Abstract: A retractable cover apparatus for use with an open-top bin is disclosed and comprises a cover and a support. The cover includes a cover portion and one or more carriage portions. Each carriage portion includes a pair of spaced-apart rollers rotatably mounted to said cover portion. The support defines a bifurcated track which permits constrained movement of said rollers in a manner which provides for movement of said cover between a sheltering position and an upwardly tilted open position; and between the sheltering position and a sealed position, relatively lower than the sheltering position. At the sheltering position, the cover overlies said open top when said bin is operatively disposed therebeneath; at the open position, the cover permits loading into said bin when said bin is operatively positioned; and at the sealed position, the cover is adapted to substantially seal said open top against the infiltration of atmospheric precipitation.

Abstract: A device for urging a door into a first position includes a spring apparatus (16) including a winding drum (22) having a conical outer peripheral surface (27) and a torsional spring (24) for imparting a relatively constant urging force to a cable 23 secured to the door in the direction of the first position.

Abstract: An automatic sliding door cable mechanism with a take up guide member (46) mounted in a drum (14) for taking up slack of a cable during installation of the cable. A second drum (16) has an elliptical profile drum helix (96) for increasing durability of the operating cable for the automatic door.

Abstract: A hinge system for deploying panels or other structures from a satellite or spacecraft has at least two configurations. The panels are held in a substantially stacked disposition in the stowed configuration by the hinge system which connects to each panel and includes an intermediate arm sized to span any necessary space between the two panels in the stowed configuration. A deployment cable is attached to one of the panels and threaded over a series of pulleys disposed on the hinge system and onto a spool in the other panel. When the spool is driven to wind the deployment cable onto it, the tension in the cable pulls on the pulleys, causing the hinge to unfold and then slide into a housing located on one of the panels. This deployed configuration allows the panels to be held aligned and directly adjacent to one another by the tension of the deployment cable.

Abstract: A cable actuator for a casement sash includes a cable engager that moves against an opening pull cable and diverts the cable to an elongated path when the sash is closed. When the opening pull cable is tensioned to open the sash, this moves the cable back to a shorter tensioned path that moves the cable engager in a way that initiates opening the sash. Thereafter, the sash opens further in response to winding in of the opening pull cable.

Abstract: A door panel assembly including a door panel having a first and second side, a drive mechanism being mounted on the first side of the door panel and having an output shaft on which is mounted a window regulator cable drum, and a window regulator cable drum housing being mounted on the second side of the door panel and being made of metal and having at least one integral cable support.

Abstract: The present application discloses a retrofit power door assembly for installation on a manual door assembly. One aspect of the application related to a retrofit power door assembly having an axial operator. Another aspect of the application relates to a retrofit power door assembly having a clutch with a manually engageable release member.

Abstract: A window regulator apparatus for moving a window glass in the vertical direction of a vehicle door incorporates a plurality of pulleys rotatably supported on the vehicle door, a drum rotatably supported to the vehicle door, and a cable jointed to the window glass, guided to the pulleys and looped around the drum. The drum includes a first spiral groove which supports one end of the cable and a second spiral groove which supports the other end of the cable. The second spiral groove is formed to spiral in a direction opposite the first spiral groove. The extending points of the cable relative to the first spiral groove and the second spiral groove are defined to gradually change where the cable releases from the drum in the radial direction of the drum by the rotation of the drum.

Abstract: A compact and thin wire-driving device for a window regulator which absorbs elongation of wire automatically, wherein both ends of a driving wire are wound round two pulleys arranged parallel, i.e. a first pulley and a second pulley, in the same direction; a first gear is secured coaxially to the first pulley; a second gear is adjacent coaxially to the second pulley through ratchet teeth; the first gear and second gear are meshed to each other; and, when the wire is wound up round the first pulley, a slack of the wire is wound up round the first pulley and the second pulley remains stopped.

Abstract: A mechanism for opening and shutting hinged doors, having special utility for discharge doors on silage elevators remotely operable by control ropes, which mechanism is firmly held in both open or closed position by gravity force holding the mechanism against a stop element which employ a door operating pulley, to one side of which is attached a control arm to open and close the door. The pulley is caused to rotate slightly past the point where said control arm is at its uppermost position when the door is opened and lowermost position when the door is closed and the stop means on said pulley prevents further rotation so that the door is held both open and shut by the force of gravity thereon.

Abstract: An insulating system for reducing heat loss from a structure during one part of the day and for permitting light to enter the structure during another part of the day, this system comprising a roll mounted on the structure, a flexible sheet of material wound around the roll, structure supporting the roll immediate its length and engaging portions of the wound sheet, and means for unwinding the sheet from around the roll and deploying it in a plane and for rotating the roll to rewind the sheet therearound; and a system for detecting build-up of snow or ice.