Vehicle latch with open assist
AssigneeInteva Products, LLC
InventorsHector Sanchez Rojas, Pedro Alfredo Alvarado Herdia
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Abstract
A vehicle latch assembly, including: a remote cinching actuator; and a vehicle latch, the vehicle latch including: a latch housing; a claw pivotally mounted to the latch housing; a cinching lever pivotally mounted to the latch housing; a push out lever pivotally mounted to the cinching lever; and wherein the remote cinching actuator is operably coupled the cinching lever by a cable, wherein actuation of the remote cinching actuator causes rotation of the cinching lever and during rotation of the cinching lever, the push out lever travels in one of a bypass path wherein the push out lever does not contact the claw and a push out path wherein the push out lever contacts the claw and provides an opening force to the claw.
Claims17
A vehicle latch assembly, comprising:
- a remote cinching actuator;
- and
- a vehicle latch, the vehicle latch comprising:
- a latch housing;
- a claw pivotally mounted to the latch housing;
- a cinching lever pivotally mounted to the latch housing;
- a push out lever pivotally mounted to the cinching lever;
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- wherein the remote cinching actuator is operably coupled the cinching lever by a cable, wherein actuation of the remote cinching actuator causes rotation of the cinching lever and during rotation of the cinching lever, the push out lever travels in one of a bypass path wherein the push out lever does not contact the claw and a push out path wherein the push out lever contacts the claw and provides an opening force to the claw;
- wherein the vehicle latch further comprises a clutch lever, the clutch lever being movable between a bypass position and a non bypass position, wherein when the clutch lever is in the non bypass position the clutch lever causes the push out lever to travel in the push out path when the cinching lever is rotated.
A vehicle latch assembly, comprising:
- a remote cinching actuator;
- and
- a vehicle latch, the vehicle latch comprising:
- a latch housing;
- a claw pivotally mounted to the latch housing;
- a cinching lever pivotally mounted to the latch housing;
- a push out lever pivotally mounted to the cinching lever;
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- wherein the remote cinching actuator is operably coupled the cinching lever by a cable, wherein actuation of the remote cinching actuator causes rotation of the cinching lever and during rotation of the cinching lever, the push out lever travels in one of a bypass path wherein the push out lever does not contact the claw and a push out path wherein the push out lever contacts the claw and provides an opening force to the claw;
- wherein the push out lever is spring biased towards the bypass path by a push out lever spring;
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- wherein the push out lever spring is secured to the cinching lever at one end and the push out lever at another end.
A method opening a vehicle latch of a vehicle latch assembly, comprising:
- actuating a remote cinching actuator of the vehicle latch assembly when a pawl of the vehicle latch is in a disengaged position with respect to a claw of the vehicle latch and the claw of the vehicle latch is in a latched position, wherein the remote cinching actuator is operably coupled a cinching lever of the vehicle latch by a cable and actuation of the remote cinching actuator causes rotation of the cinching lever and during rotation of the cinching lever, a push out lever rotatably mounted to the cinching lever travels in a push out path wherein the push out lever contacts the claw and provides an opening force to the claw;
- wherein actuation of the remote cinching actuator when the pawl of the vehicle latch is in an engaged position with respect to the claw of the vehicle latch causes rotation of the cinching lever and during rotation of the cinching lever, the push out lever rotatably mounted to the cinching lever travels in a bypass path wherein the push out lever does not contact the claw;
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- wherein actuation of the remote cinching actuator when the pawl of the vehicle latch is in the engaged position with respect to the claw of the vehicle latch and the claw is in a secondary position where the pawl contacts the claw causes rotation of the cinching lever and during rotation of the cinching lever, a cinch link pivotally mounted to the cinching lever contacts the claw and rotates the claw into a primary position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.