Door lock assembly
AssigneeToyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorToshinori Iwatani
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Abstract
A door lock assembly includes a door trim including a through hole, and a locking device that is disposed on a vehicular exterior side with respect to the door trim and locks and unlocks a vehicular door. The locking device includes a lock knob holder and a door lock knob. The lock knob holder has a tubular shape and two holes at two opposite ends and one of the two holes is adjacent to the through hole and another one is an insertion hole. The door lock knob has a bar shape and is disposed in the lock knob holder so as to be movable between an unlocked position and a locked position. The door lock assembly further includes an insertion guide portion disposed adjacent to the insertion hole and includes a guide surface having a width that increases as it extends away from the insertion hole.
Claims12
A door lock assembly comprising:
- a door trim including a through hole;
- a locking device that is disposed on a vehicular exterior side with respect to the door trim and locks and unlocks a vehicular door, the locking device including
- a lock knob holder having a tubular shape and having two holes at two opposite ends, one of the two holes being adjacent to the through hole and another one of the two holes being an insertion hole, and
- a door lock knob having a bar shape and disposed in the lock knob holder so as to be movable between an unlocked position at which the door lock knob projects upward from a vehicular interior side surface of the door trim through the through hole and a locked position at which the door lock knob is positioned lower than the unlocked position;
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- an insertion guide portion disposed adjacent to the insertion hole and including a guide surface having a width that increases as it extends away from the insertion hole, wherein
- the guide surface of the insertion guide portion includes a curved guide portion and a flat guide portion,
- the curved guide portion has a shape of a circular truncated cone cut along an axial direction and has a curved surface,
- the flat guide portion is flat and adjacent to the insertion hole and continuous from the curved guide portion and has a width that increases in a vehicular front-rear direction as the flat guide portion extends toward the insertion hole, and
- an axis of the flat portion is tilted relative to a longitudinal axis of the locking device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.