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US 12,312,841 B2Granted
Emergency access device for a vehicle openable leaf
AssigneeVitesco Technologies GmbH
InventorsXavier Bajul, Nicolas Lefrancq
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Abstract
Emergency access device for a vehicle opening leaf, including: —a graspable pull rod that is movable between a retracted position and a deployed position; —a retention needle that is movable transversely to the pull rod between a position for blocking the pull rod in its retracted position and a position for releasing the pull rod; —an electric ejector designed to release the pull rod; —a mechanical ejector designed to release the pull rod; the pull rod including an oblique path designed to cause the retention needle to move from its blocking position to its releasing position during a movement of the pull rod in translation.
Claims20
An emergency access device for a vehicle opening leaf, the emergency access device comprising:
- a body;
- a graspable pull rod that is connected to a lock actuator and is movable between:
- a retracted position in which the pull rod is retracted into the body and a deployed position in which the pull rod protrudes from the body, the graspable pull rod comprising a slanted surface slanting toward a radial groove of the graspable pull rod;
- an elastic member that urges the pull rod toward the deployed position of the pull rod;
- a retention needle that is movable transversely to the pull rod between a blocking position for blocking the pull rod in the retracted position of the pull rod and a releasing position for releasing the pull rod, the retention needle including a stopping finger;
- an electric ejector configured to release the pull rod from the retracted position, the electric ejector comprising an electric actuator configured to move the retention needle from the blocking position of the retention needle to the releasing position of the retention needle;
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- a mechanical ejector configured to release the pull rod from the retracted position, the mechanical ejector comprising a slider that is movable between:
- an immobilizing position for immobilizing the retention needle in the releasing position and a releasing position for releasing the retention needle,
- wherein the pull rod comprises a conical surface forming an oblique path configured to cause the retention needle to move from the blocking position to the releasing position during a movement of the pull rod in translation in the body by movement of the stopping finger rising along the oblique path formed by the conical surface.
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An emergency access device for a vehicle opening leaf, the emergency access device comprising:
- a body;
- a graspable pull rod that is connected to a lock actuator and is movable between:
- a retracted position in which the pull rod is retracted into the body and a deployed position in which the pull rod protrudes from the body;
- an elastic member that urges the pull rod toward the deployed position of the pull rod;
- a retention needle that is movable transversely to the pull rod between a blocking position for blocking the pull rod in the retracted position of the pull rod and a releasing position for releasing the pull rod;
- an electric ejector configured to release the pull rod from the retracted position, the electric ejector comprising an electric actuator configured to move the retention needle from the blocking position of the retention needle to the releasing position of the retention needle;
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- a mechanical ejector configured to release the pull rod from the retracted position, the mechanical ejector comprising a slider that is movable between:
- an immobilizing position for immobilizing the retention needle in the releasing position and a releasing position for releasing the retention needle,
- wherein the pull rod comprises an oblique path configured to cause the retention needle to move from the blocking position to the releasing position during a movement of the pull rod in translation in the body,
- wherein the pull rod comprises a hollow body and a longitudinal slot, and the lock actuator comprises a cable that is threaded into the hollow body, and
- wherein the pull rod is configured, in the deployed position, to pivot with respect to the cable so that the cable protrudes from the longitudinal slot.
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An emergency access device for a vehicle opening leaf, the emergency access device comprising:
- a body;
- a graspable pull rod that is connected to a lock actuator and is movable between:
- a retracted position in which the pull rod is retracted into the body and a deployed position in which the pull rod protrudes from the body;
- an elastic member that urges the pull rod toward the deployed position of the pull rod;
- a retention needle that is movable transversely to the pull rod between a blocking position for blocking the pull rod in the retracted position of the pull rod and a releasing position for releasing the pull rod;
- an electric ejector configured to release the pull rod from the retracted position, the electric ejector comprising an electric actuator configured to move the retention needle from the blocking position of the retention needle to the releasing position of the retention needle;
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- a mechanical ejector configured to release the pull rod from the retracted position, the mechanical ejector comprising a slider that is movable between:
- an immobilizing position for immobilizing the retention needle in the releasing position and a releasing position for releasing the retention needle,
- wherein the pull rod comprises an oblique path configured to cause the retention needle to move from the blocking position to the releasing position during a movement of the pull rod in translation in the body,
- wherein the pull rod comprises a radial groove bounded by:
- an annular stopping surface configured to cooperate with a stopping finger situated at one end of the retention needle in order to keep the pull rod in the retracted position, and
- a conical surface forming said oblique path.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.