Patent ID: 8069611

Claim:
A door pane position sensor assembly, comprising: a main lift arm supporting a pane in a vehicle door, said main lift arm including a sector gear portion for being driven to rotate said main lift arm; a drive mechanism operatively engaged with said sector gear portion for rotating said main lift arm in a first rotatable direction to move said pane toward a closed position and a second rotatable direction to move said pane toward an open position; a non-uniform cam channel defined in said sector gear portion including a first channel portion and a second channel portion; a sensor mechanism having a follower received in said cam channel, said follower moving along said cam channel as said main lift arm rotates to move said pane toward said open and closed positions, said follower moving said sensor mechanism toward a first position when said follower is moved into said first channel portion of said cam channel and toward a second position when said follower is moved into said second channel portion of said cam channel.