Patent ID: 7503618
Filing Date: 2009-03-17
Classification: B60J,E05D,E05Y

Abstract:
1. A wheeled automotive vehicle comprising: a body structure, including a driver compartment and including an opening into the compartment; a door cooperatively dimensioned and configured to close the opening, the opening being formed by portions of the body structure at a front and a rear side of the opening; a hinge pivotably holding said door in a first position, at one of the front and rear side of the opening; and a guide system, provided along a lower portion of the door in its closed condition and on the same side of the opening as the hinge, and arranged to allow the entire door to slide upwardly along said guide system from a closed position to the first position, and wherein said hinge is arranged to allow the door to pivot, from the first position in a direction away from the opening around an axis extending in a transverse direction of a longitudinal direction of said vehicle.