Patent ID: 8646211

Claim:
Sliding door system, comprising: at least one sliding door, which is configured to be slidingly disposed in front of an opening to be covered by the at least one sliding door, the at least one sliding door has an upper sliding-door mount and a lower sliding-door mount, an upper guide rail structured to receive the upper sliding-door mount in a displaceable manner and a lower guide rail structured to receive the lower sliding-door mount in a displaceable manner, which guide rails extend parallel to each other in the longitudinal direction and parallel to the opening, and which each of the guide rails have an inner width that is at least twice as great as the thickness of the sliding door, the upper sliding-door mount and the lower sliding-door mount each being at most half as wide as the inner width of each guide rail, wherein the at least one sliding door is slidingly coupled with the upper and lower guide rails such that it can be moved, perpendicularly in relation to a plane of the opening to be covered, into a recessed position located closer to the opening and into a lifted-out position at a greater distance from the opening, a door position driver structured to provide separate stable states of the door at different positions, the stable states including the recessed position and the lifted-out position wherein the door position driver is also structured to drive a position of the door toward both of the recessed position and the lifted-out position; a row of first magnets is disposed, respectively, along a center line of the lower guide rail and another row of first magnets is disposed along a center line of the upper guide rail, and a row of second magnets is disposed, respectively, in the lower sliding-door mount and another row of second magnets is disposed in the upper sliding-door mount, such that repelling forces act between the row of first magnets and the row of second magnets, wherein the recessed position and the lifted-out position each constituting a stable state of the sliding door, from which the sliding door can be moved into the respectively other stable state after a defined resistance force produced from the door position driver and acting transversely in relation to the direction of displacement has been overcome.