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US 5,516,167 AGranted
Vehicle door lock apparatus
AssigneeAisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsShigeru Hayakawa, Nozomu Torii, Masao Ohhashi
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Abstract
A vehicle door lock apparatus includes a latch mechanism, a locking lever which permits the latch mechanism to be operated and prevents the latch mechanism from being operated and detecting member connected with the locking lever including a detecting shaft, wherein the locking lever is rotatably supported on the detecting shaft and the locking lever is rotated with the detecting member integrally about the detecting shaft.
Claims14
A vehicle door lock apparatus comprising:
- a latch mechanism for establishing a latched condition of a vehicle door;
- a rotatable key locking lever for being connected to a key cylinder of a vehicle for movement between an unlocked position in which operation of the latch mechanism is permitted and a locked position in which operation of the latch mechanism is prevented;
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- detecting means for detecting the locked or unlocked position of the key locking lever, the detecting means including a detecting shaft, the key locking lever being fixed in position on the detecting shaft so that rotation of the key locking lever directly results in rotation of the detecting shaft.
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A vehicle door lock apparatus comprising:
- a latch mechanism for establishing a latched condition of a vehicle door;
- a first movable locking lever movable between an unlocked position in which the latch mechanism is permitted to be operated and a locked position in which the latch mechanism is prevented from being operated;
- a second movable locking lever movable between an unlocked position in which the latch mechanism is permitted to be operated and a locked position in which the latch mechanism is prevented from being operated;
- first detecting means for detecting the locked or unlocked position of the first locking lever, the first detecting means including a first detecting shaft on which is mounted the first locking lever so that rotation of the first locking lever results in rotation of the first detecting shaft;
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- second detecting means for detecting the locked or unlocked position of the second locking lever, the second detecting means including a second detecting shaft on which is mounted the second locking lever so that rotation of the second locking lever results in rotation of the second detecting shaft.
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A vehicle door lock apparatus comprising:
- a latch mechanism for establishing a latched condition of a vehicle door;
- a rotatable locking lever for being connected to a locking element of a vehicle to permit the latch mechanism to be operated and to prevent the latch mechanism from being operated;
- an actuator connected with the locking lever for operating the locking lever;
- detecting means operatively associated with the locking lever for detecting a locked or unlocked position of the locking lever;
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- a connector integrally formed on the actuator for relaying a signal output from the detecting means and for receiving electric power to be supplied to the actuator.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.