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US 10,400,484 B2Granted
Inertia lock for vehicle latch
AssigneeInteva Products, LLC
InventorsJean Bernard Didier, Romain Bachelot
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Abstract
A vehicle latch is provided. The vehicle latch having: an inertia lever rotationally mounted to the latch for movement about an axis between a first position and a second position; and a lock link operatively coupled to the inertia lever such that movement of the inertia lever from the first position to the second position causes the lock link to move from a first position to a second position, wherein the latch is in a locked state when the lock link is in the second position.
Claims16
A vehicle latch, comprising:
- an inertia lever rotationally mounted to the latch for movement about an axis between a first position and a second position;
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- a lock link operatively coupled to the inertia lever such that movement of the inertia lever from the first position to the second position causes the lock link to move from a first position to a second position, wherein the latch is in a locked state when the lock link is in the second position, and wherein the lock link operatively couples a release lever to a pawl lifter of the latch via a protrusion that extends away from a surface of the lock link, and wherein the release lever and the pawl lifter are each rotationally secured to the latch for rotational movement about another axis such that the release lever and the pawl lifter are each rotationally secured to the another axis.
A method of locking a vehicle latch, comprising:
- rotationally mounting an inertia lever to the latch for movement about an axis between a first position and a second position;
- operatively coupling a lock link to the inertia lever such that movement of the inertia lever from the first position to the second position causes the lock link to move from a first position to a second position, wherein the latch is in a locked state when the lock link is in the second position;
- rotationally mounting a release lever and a pawl lifter to the latch, wherein the release lever and the pawl lifter are each rotationally secured to the latch for rotational movement about another axis such that the release lever and the pawl lifter are each rotationally secured to the another axis;
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- operatively coupling the release lever to the pawl lifter via a protrusion that extends away from a surface of the lock link when the lock link is in the second position.
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