Apparatus for unlocking a door lock for a vehicle
AssigneesAisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYasuaki Suzuki, Naofumi Fujie, Toshimitsu Oka, Kazunori Sakamoto, Kouji Aoki, Osamu Fujimoto, Yutaka Kondoh, Masahiro Miyaji
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Abstract
An apparatus for unlocking a door lock for a vehicle, comprising a plurality of door locks for being mounted on doors of the vehicle, a collision direction detecting device for detecting a direction of an impact applied to a vehicle; and an unlocking mechanism for unlocking a door lock located on a side opposite to a collision side based on the direction detected by the collision direction detecting device.
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An apparatus for unlocking a door lock for any one of first and second doors provided respectively on opposite first and second side surfaces of a vehicle, comprising:
- door locks mountable on the first and second doors of the vehicle and for locking said first and second doors;
- collision direction detecting means for detecting an impact caused by a collision and applied to the first door on said first side surface of said vehicle;
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- an unlocking mechanism for unlocking a locked one of said door locks mounted on said second door on said second side surface opposite to the first door to which the impact is applied.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.