Patent ID: 9701260
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: B60J,B60R

Claim:
1. A noise alleviating apparatus associated with a door of a motor vehicle for alleviating noise caused in response to movement of a window within a window opening of the door, the noise alleviating apparatus comprising: a baffle support mounted to a forward vertically-extending pillar section of the door adjacent to the window opening; a baffle supported by the baffle support for movement between a retracted position disposed within the baffle support and a deployed position extending outwardly from the baffle support; and a power-operated actuation mechanism connected to the baffle and operable for moving the baffle from its retracted position into its deployed position in response to a detection that the window has moved from a closed position to a predetermined lowered window position within the window opening, the actuation mechanism further operable for moving the baffle from its deployed position to its retracted position in response to a detection that the window has moved from an open position to a predetermined raised window position within the window opening.