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US 2016/0186460 A1Published application
Cylinder lock assembly with non-rotating elements
OwnerMoshe Dolevinventor
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Abstract
A cylinder lock assembly includes a plug rotatable in a cylinder lock body. The plug includes chambers, each of which has a chamber depth axis. A plurality of thin, planar plug locking elements are received in the chambers. Each plug locking element has a key cut interface probe for interfacing with a key cut formed on a key. Each plug locking element is arranged to move along the chamber depth axis and does not rotate about the chamber depth axis. Each key cut interface probe has a predetermined orientation with respect to the chamber depth axis.
Claims7
A cylinder lock assembly comprising:
- a plug rotatable in a cylinder lock body and comprising a plurality of chambers, each of said chambers having a chamber depth axis;
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- a plurality of thin, planar plug locking elements received in said chambers, each of said plug locking elements comprising two parallel planar surfaces and further comprising a shear line surface for interfacing with driver pins in the cylinder lock body and a second surface opposite said shear line surface, each of said plug locking elements comprising a key cut interface probe for interfacing with a key cut formed on a key, wherein the key cut interface probe is formed on said second surface and protrudes outwards from the plug locking element in a direction away from the chamber of the plug locking element, and
- wherein said two parallel planar surfaces of each of said plug locking elements are arranged to move along said chamber depth axis and not rotate about said chamber depth axis, and each of said key cut interface probes has a predetermined orientation with respect to said chamber depth axis,
- and wherein at least one of said chambers has more than one plug locking element disposed therein.
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