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US 11,746,570 B2Granted
Vehicle door latch with override feature
AssigneeInteva Products, LLC
InventorsManuel Antonio Escamilla Hernandez, Eduardo Estrada de Leon
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Abstract
A vehicle latch, including: an override mechanism, the override mechanism having: a central door lock sector; a double lock sector; a double lock link, the double lock link operably coupling the central door lock sector to the double lock sector; a key cylinder; and a key cylinder link, the key cylinder link operably coupling the key cylinder to the central door lock sector.
Claims14
A vehicle latch, comprising:
- an override mechanism, the override mechanism having:
- a central door lock sector;
- a double lock sector;
- a double lock link, the double lock link operably coupling the central door lock sector to the double lock sector, the double lock link being pivotally secured to the double lock sector at one end and the central door lock sector at another end via a protrusion of the double lock sector that slides within an elongated opening of the double lock link;
- a key cylinder;
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- a key cylinder link, the key cylinder link operably coupling the key cylinder to the central door lock sector.
4 more elements
A method of manually overriding a vehicle latch, comprising:
- rotating a key cylinder of the latch, a key cylinder link operably couples the key cylinder to a central door lock sector of the latch, the central door lock sector being operably coupled to a double lock sector by a double lock link, the double lock link being pivotally secured to the double lock sector at one end and the central door lock sector at another end via a protrusion of the double lock sector that slides within an elongated opening of the double lock link, wherein rotation of the key cylinder causes a child lock link to move between a by-pass position and a full engaged position, when the child lock link is in the full engaged position, an inside release lever interacts and moves an inside release bypass lever through a protrusion of the child lock link that is located between portions of the inside release lever and the inside release bypass lever and wherein the protrusion of the child lock link is not located between the portions of the inside release lever and the inside release bypass lever when the child lock link is in the by-pass position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.