Patent ID: 8011136

Claim:
A power door actuator assembly comprising: a rail assembly adapted to be mounted on a vehicle body adjacent a door opening of the vehicle body; an electric motor having an output shaft extending upwardly from an upper face of the motor; a sun gear on the output shaft of the motor; a plurality of compound planet gears each having a large diameter lower portion meshingly engaging the sun gear and a small diameter upper portion; a ring gear surrounding and meshingly engaging the small diameter upper portions of the planet gears; a cable driven by the ring gear and extending at least in part along the rail assembly; a mounting plate adapted to be secured to the vehicle body proximate the rail assembly and including a main body portion positioned in overlying, confronting relation and secured to the upper face of the motor and a central aperture through which the motor output shaft extends; and a plurality of planet shafts extending upwardly from the mounting plate main body portion in a circumferentially spaced relation to the output shaft wherein each of said shafts journals a respective one of said planet gears thereon; a plurality of support posts separate from and spaced from the planet shafts and upstanding from the mounting plate main body portion in a circumferentially spaced relation to the motor output shaft; and a support plate fixedly secured to upper ends of the support posts at circumferentially spaced locations on the support plate and receiving upper ends of the planet shafts.