Device for locking detachable roof in motor vehicle
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsDaiichi Shiraishi, Shingo Satoh
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Abstract
A device for locking a detachable roof in a motor vehicle to a vehicle body. The lock device has first and second lock pins which are caused to appear and disappear in synchronism with each other in directions opposite to each other by means of a control lever through a first lever, a second lever and connecting mechanisms. These lock pins are inserted into lock holes formed on the vehicle body sides, whereby the roof is fixed to the vehicle body. The turning paths of the connecting mechanisms are shifted in position in the directions of rotary axes of the first and the second levers.
Claims16
A device for locking a detachable roof in a motor vehicle, comprising:
- first and second levers mounted on rotary axes mountable to said detachable roof in contact with each other in a manner to be rotatable in synchronism with each other in directions opposite to each other;
- first and second lock pins axially, linearly, movably supportable on said detachable roof by means of guides mountable at positions opposite to each other on said detachable roof with the first and the second levers interposed therebetween, said first and second lock pins being connected to the first and the second levers, respectively, through connecting mechanisms, and insertable at forward ends thereof into lock holes formed in a motor vehicle body and opposed to the lock pins;
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- a control lever connected to one of the first and second levers to rotate the same,
- wherein the first and the second levers are arranged such that the turning paths of connecting portions of said connecting mechanisms are spaced from each other in directions of the rotary axes of the first and second levers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.