Locking Apparatus
AssigneeLantrn Limited
InventorAaron Cooper
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Abstract
A locking apparatus (3) for securing a luggage article (1) comprises a mechanism for unlocking the locking apparatus (3) including at least one moveable member (11, 12, 13) which is moveable in an unlocking operation. The locking apparatus (3) has at least one detector arrangement (42, 49, 55a, 55b) associated with at least one moveable member (11, 12, 13) by at least one linkage (19, 37a, 37b, 41) between the detector arrangement (42, 49, 55a, 55b) and the moveable member (11, 12, 13), the linkage (19, 37a, 37b, 41) triggers the detector arrangement (42, 49, 55a, 55b) upon the movement of the moveable member (11, 12, 13).
Claims27
A locking apparatus for securing a luggage article comprising:
- a mechanism for unlocking the locking apparatus including at least one moveable member moveable in an unlocking operation,
- at least one detector arrangement associated with at least one moveable member by at least one linkage between the detector arrangement and the moveable member such that at least one linkage triggers the detector arrangement upon movement of the moveable member.
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A detecting part of a locking apparatus comprising one or more detector arrangements configured to monitor movement one or more moveable members of an unlocking mechanism of a locking part of the locking apparatus between a locked state and an unlocked state of the locking apparatus.
A locking part of a locking apparatus, the locking part comprising:
- an unlocking mechanism comprising at least one moveable member moveable in an unlocking operation,
- at least one linkage moveable with at least one moveable member,
- wherein at least one linkage is engageable with one or more detector arrangements for detecting movement of one or more moveable members.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.