Hood lock device
AssigneeMitsui Kinzoku Act Corporation
InventorKumiko SATO
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Abstract
A hood lock device has a base plate having a striker groove, a primary latch configured to fasten a hood in a totally closed state, and a secondary latch, the secondary latch has a latch main body of steel and a handle of resin, and the latch main body has a forcing meshing portion configured to come into engagement with a striker passing across a half opening position and moving to a totally closing position and to be pressed in a latching direction opposite to an unlatching direction by the striker in a case that a hook portion configured to lock the striker recedes from the striker groove and a mounting portion provided adjacent to the forcing meshing portion and on which the handle is mounted.
Claims5
A hood lock device comprising:
- a base plate fixed to a vehicle body and having a striker groove into which a striker provided on a hood that is opened from and closed towards the vehicle body enters in response to a closing action of the hood;
- a primary latch configured to fasten the hood in a totally closed state by locking the striker in a totally closing position in the striker groove;
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- a secondary latch configured to fasten the hood in a half opened state by locking the striker in a half opening position situated closer to an opening side of the striker groove than the totally closing position,
- wherein the secondary latch comprises:
- a latch main body, which is made of steel, and which is rotatable relative to the base plate, the latch main body being configured to cause an engagement portion, which is configured to lock the striker, to enter the striker groove or to recede from the striker groove in accordance with a rotation of the latch main body;
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- a handle, which is made of resin, and which is configured to receive an operation for causing the latch main body to rotate in an unlatching direction in which the engagement portion recedes from the striker groove, and
- wherein the latch main body comprises:
- a forcing meshing portion configured to come into engagement with the striker passing across the half opening position and moving to the totally closing position and to be pressed in a latching direction, which is opposite to the unlatching direction, by the striker in a case that the engagement portion recedes from the striker groove;
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- a mounting portion provided adjacent to the forcing meshing portion, the handle being mounted on the mounting portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.