Automobile door locking mechanism
AssigneeMitsui Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorShinjiro Yamada
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Abstract
An automobile door locking mechanism incorporated with a child lock device which is connected to an actuator lever of the mechanism through idle means and operable to keep the locking mechanism in a locking condition even when a locking knob is released and a door handle or button is manipulated and which allows the door or button to move idly.
Claims5
An automobile door locking mechanism comprising a latch rotatable with the engagement with a striker, a ratchet for preventing the rotation of the latch in the direction for releasing its engagement with the striker, an actuator plate for releasing the engagement of rachet with latch, connecting means for effecting and releasing the engagement of the actuator plate with the rachet, and a rotary lever operable to actuate the actuator plate with the operation of an interior door handle, in which to a shaft which pivotally fixes the rotary lever, another lever is pivotally fitted, either one of said levers being formed with a slot opening which extends radially to the shaft and the other being formed with a slot opening having an idle opening which extends about the shaft, and connector means having a part which passes through the slot openings at a right angle to the rotary plane of the levers, said connector means being connected to a child lock change lever so as to slidingly change its location within the slot openings and said another lever being connected to the interior door handle.
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