THREE-POINT SUPPORT OF A SLIDING DOOR

Abstract

Device for guiding a door element, for example, a sliding door for a passenger transport vehicle, has a first and a second guiding profiled element, wherein the two guiding profiled elements are arranged parallel to each other at a distance from each other, and three guiding elements in total, by means of which the door element is guidably connected to the two guiding profiled elements, wherein two of the guiding elements are guidably arranged on the first guiding profiled element and one of the guiding elements is guidably arranged on the second guiding profiled element.

Claims

1. A device for guiding a door element comprising: a first and a second guiding profiled element, wherein the guiding profiled elements are oriented parallel to each other and at a distance from each other; and three guiding elements guidably connecting or contacting the door element with the first and second guiding profiled elements, wherein two of the guiding elements are guidably located on the first guiding profiled element and another one of the guiding elements is guidably located on the second guiding profiled element, wherein the device defines a sliding direction of the door element, and the sliding direction defines an axis thereof; the three guiding elements define a substantially V-shape configuration, and the door element defines at least two corners, and said two of the guiding elements are located at or near the corners of the door element relative to the axis of the sliding direction, and the third guiding element, relative to a length of the door element, located at an opposite end of the door element from the corners and centrally in the sliding direction so that the three guiding elements substantially define a substantially equally-sided triangle configuration.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the first guiding profiled element is located near or at a first upper end of the device, and the second guiding profiled element is located near or at an opposite second lower end of the device.

3. The device according to claim 1, wherein the distance between the first and the second guiding profiled element corresponds substantially to a length of the door element.

4. The device according to claim 1, wherein the door element is configured in a substantial C-shape.

5. The device according to claim 1, wherein each of the three guiding elements comprises at least one runner.

6. The device according to claim 5, wherein said two guiding profiled elements are substantially U-shaped and define a first and a second contact surface.

7. The device according to claim 6, wherein the first and the second contact surfaces of the guiding profiled element define a distance therebetween substantially corresponding to a diameter of the runners.

8. A passenger transport vehicle comprising a device for guiding a door element comprising: a first and a second guiding profiled element, wherein the guiding profiled elements are oriented parallel to each other and at a distance from each other; and three guiding elements guidably connecting or contacting the door element with the first and second guiding profiled elements, wherein two of the guiding elements are guidably located on the first guiding profiled element and another one of the guiding elements is guidably located on the second guiding profiled element, wherein the device defines a sliding direction of the door element, and the sliding direction defines an axis thereof; the three guiding elements define a substantially V-shape configuration, and the door element defines at least two corners, and said two of the guiding elements are located at or near the corners of the door element relative to the axis of the sliding direction, and the third guiding element, relative to a length of the door element, is located at an opposite end of the door element from the corners and centrally in the sliding direction so that the three guiding elements substantially define a substantially equally-sided triangle configuration.

9. (canceled)

10. A device as in claim 1, wherein the door element includes a sliding door for a passenger transport vehicle.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0024] Further details and advantages will become apparent from the following description with the aid of examples, which are to be understood not to be limiting, and with reference to the drawings.

[0025] FIG. 1 is a front view of a device for guiding a door; and

[0026] FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the device of FIG. 1 along section A-A.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0027] FIG. 1 shows a frontal illustration of a device 10 for guiding a door element 12, for example, a sliding door for a passenger transport vehicle. The device 10 has a first guiding profiled element 14 and a second guiding profiled element 16, wherein the two guiding profiled elements 14, 16 are arranged parallel to each other at a distance from each other. The distance of the two guiding profiled elements 14, 16 corresponds substantially to the extent or length of the door element 12. In addition, the device 10 has three guiding elements 17, 18, 19 in total in this embodiment, by means of which the door element 12 is in contact or connected, e.g., slidingly, with the two guiding profiled elements 14, 16. Two of the guiding elements 17, 18 are arranged on or at the first guiding profiled element 14, and one of the guiding elements 19 is arranged on or at the second guiding profiled element 16, so that the three guiding elements have or define a V-shaped arrangement on the door element. The first guiding profiled element 14 is arranged, in relation to the extent of the door element 12, at a first upper end 11, and the second guiding profiled element 16 is arranged accordingly at an opposite second lower end 13 of the device 10.

[0028] In FIG. 2 a cross-sectional illustration of the device 10 along section A-A in FIG. 1 is illustrated, which shows the door element 12 in its cross-section. In the present embodiment, the door element 12 is configured so as to be C-shaped.