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US 12,723,442 B2Granted
Back door lock mounting structure
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYosuke Ichiki, Yoshiki Nagataki, Shinji Sakurashita
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Abstract
The back door lock mounting structure includes a back door having a front wall, a rear wall, and a bottom wall; a back door lock configured to be disposed in a door inner space between the front wall and the rear wall; and a bracket configured to be mounted to the back door lock and fastened to the front wall, the bracket has a fastening portion configured to be disposed on the front wall and fastened to the front wall outside the door inner space.
Claims3
A back door lock mounting structure comprising:
- a back door having a front wall, a rear wall, and a bottom wall;
- a back door lock configured to be disposed in a door inner space between the front wall and the rear wall;
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- a bracket configured to be mounted to the back door lock and fastened to the front wall, wherein the bracket has a fastening portion configured to be disposed on an outer surface of the front wall opposite the door inner space, the fastening portion fastened to the front wall,
- wherein the back door lock is configured to be fastened to the bottom wall of the back door at a position of the back door lock below a center of the back door lock in a longitudinal direction, and
- wherein the bracket is configured to be fastened to the front wall at a position of the back door lock above the center of the back door lock in the longitudinal direction.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.