Ronald John Raley, 80437 Pine Valley Ct, Oxford, MI 48371

4561211, Dec 31, 1985

Aug 5, 1983

6/520529

Ronald J. Raley - Oxford MI
James R. Warren - Lincoln Park MI

General Motors Corporation - Detroit MI

E05F 1138

49374

The disclosure relates to a vehicle door and window assembly in which the door has a pair of spaced, arcuate sheet metal guide rails and the window adjacent its side edges is secured to a pair of plastic guides which are slidable on the rails for movement through a path of a given radius and with the guides maintaining the windows substantially flush with the adjacent side door structure. The plastic guides have a transverse dimension, as measured between the rails and the outer window surface, which progressively increases proceeding from their upper ends toward their lower ends so that the window has a radius which is greater than the radius of its path of movement whereby the window is moved away from its outer belt line seal when lowered into the door and whereby the window moves both upwardly and outwardly as it is being raised so that it is also substantially flush with the outer belt line of the door when in its closed position.

4886310, Dec 12, 1989

Jun 20, 1988

7/209235

Richard A. Cyr - Sterling Heights MI
Ronald J. Raley - Rochester MI

General Motors Corporation - Detroit MI

E05B 100

2923363

According to the present invention, a door handle assembly includes a handle mounted on the outside of the door panel and having a push button mounted on the handle and projecting outside the door panel to be accessible to the vehicle user. The push button is mounted for reciprocal movement to be pushed inwardly to a position inside the door panel when the push button is depressed. A door latch operating lever is mounted inside the door panel and operably connected to the door latch. The push button is hollow and has a cam surface provided on the inside thereof. The door latch operating lever has a cam follower portion extending through the door panel and into the inside of the push button to engage with the cam surface of the push button. When the push button is depressed, the cam surface pivots the operating lever to unlatch the door latch. Accordingly, the co-action between the push button and the operating lever occurs at a point outside the door panel, thereby enabling the door handle assembly to be configured to lessen its extent of intrusion into the vehicle door.