Patent ID: 7506406

Claim:
A door checker for an automobile, comprising: a case fixed to one of a body and a door of the automobile; a check lever movably penetrating the case, oscillatably pivotally supported by the other of the body and the door, and provided with a rack on one side face; a pinion meshed with the rack and rotatably housed in the case; a movable shoe housed in the case so that the movable shoe can be engaged with and disengaged from a tooth portion of the pinion; a check spring for biasing the movable shoe in the direction of engagement with the pinion; and a shoe pushing-up means provided in the case to separate the movable shoe from the pinion with relative movement of the case and the check lever; wherein the door is held at an arbitrary opening degree by an engaging force of the movable shoe with the pinion due to a biasing force of the check spring; and wherein the shoe pushing-up means comprises a cam plate having stopper claw that contacts an inner surface of the case to limit rotation of the cam plate caused by the pinion.