Latch assembly and latch
AssigneeArvinMeritor Light Vehicle Systems (UK) Ltd.
InventorSidney Edward Fisher
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Abstract
A latch bolt engages a striker to releasably secure a first door to a vehicle body or a second door by relative displacement of the latch towards the striker. The latch bolt moves in a first plane to releasably retain the striker. The assembly includes a vertical wedge arrangement includes a first wedge surface on the latch and a second wedge surface on the striker. The first wedge surface and the second wedge surface cooperate to compensate for any misalignment and to prevent movement between the striker bar portion of the striker and a mouth of the latch in a direction parallel to the first plane. The latch is a plant-in latch, and the first surface is provided on a wedge plate securable to a shut face surface of the latch. The first wedge surface and the second wedge surface can be resilient.
Claims20
A latch assembly mountable in a body of a vehicle comprising:
- a latch including a mouth, a latch bolt moveable in a first plane, and a wedge plate securable to a shut face of the latch, the wedge plate having a first wedge surface, wherein the latch is mountable to one of a first vehicle door and one of a vehicle body and a second vehicle door;
- a striker including a striker bar and a second wedge surface, wherein the striker is mountable to the other of the first vehicle door and the other of the vehicle door and the second vehicle door, and engagement of the latch bolt of the latch and the striker releasably secures the first vehicle door to the one of the vehicle body and the second vehicle door by relative displacement of the latch towards the striker;
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- a vertical wedge arrangement including the first wedge surface and the second wedge surface, the first wedge surface and the second wedge surface cooperating to prevent movement between the mouth and the striker bar in a direction substantially parallel to the first plane.
A latch assembly mountable in a body of a vehicle comprising:
- a latch including a mouth, and a latch bolt moveable in a first plane and a first wedge surface, wherein the latch is mountable to one of a first vehicle door and one of a vehicle body and a second vehicle door;
- a striker including a striker bar and a second wedge surface, wherein the striker is mountable to the other of the first vehicle door and the other of the vehicle door and the second vehicle door, and wherein engagement of the latch bolt of the latch and the striker releasably secures the first vehicle door to the one of the vehicle body and the second vehicle door by relative displacement of the latch towards the striker;
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- a vertical wedge arrangement including the first wedge surface and the second wedge surface, wherein the first wedge surface and the second wedge surface cooperate to prevent movement between the mouth and the striker bar in a direction parallel to the first plane, and at least one of the first wedge surface and the second wedge surface is a resilient surface.
A latch assembly mountable in a body of a vehicle comprising:
- a latch body for mounting within a door skin of a vehicle door;
- a wedge plate having a wedge surface for mounting to a shut face of the vehicle door;
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- a fastener to secure the latch body and the wedge plate, wherein the door skin is positioned between said latch body and the wedge plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.