Automotive vehicle decklid latch system
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsMichael King Lam, James Joseph Loschiavo, Bhupendra Patel
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Abstract
A truck latch system has a handle presented from the decklid within the trunk in substantially vertical fashion and is operative to move a trunk latch to an unlatched position when grasped and pulled in a generally downward direction to prevent the decklid from latching to a rear trunk wall and to unlatch the decklid from the trunk wall when latched thereto.
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A trunk latch system for an automotive vehicle having a trunk partially defined by a rear trunk wall and having a trunk opening closable by a trunk decklid, the system comprising:
- a latch mounted on a rear portion of the decklid for releaseably latching to a striker mounted on the rear trunk wall, the latch movable between a latched position and an unlatched position;
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- a handle presented from the decklid within the trunk in substantially vertical fashion and operative to move the latch to the unlatched position when grasped and pulled in a generally downward direction to prevent the decklid from latching to the rear trunk wall, and to unlatch the decklid from the rear trunk wall when latched thereto.
An interior trunk release system for an automotive vehicle having a trunk partially defined by a rear trunk wall and a decklid movable between an open position and a closed position, comprising:
- a latch having a catch for operatively engaging a striker, the latch and the striker adapted to be oppositely mounted on the decklid and the rear trunk wall, the catch movable between a latched position engaged with the striker for holding the decklid in the closed position covering the trunk, and an unlatched position disengaged from the striker allowing the decklid to move to the open position;
- a pawl in the latch movable between an engaged position engaged with the catch preventing movement of the catch from the latched position to the unlatched position and an unengaged position allowing the catch to move from the latched position to the unlatched position;
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- a handle presented from the decklid within the trunk in substantially vertical fashion, the handle operative to move the pawl between the engaged position and the unengaged positions, so that a tension force resulting from grasping the handle and pulling in a generally downward direction moves the pawl to the unengaged position preventing the decklid from latching to the rear trunk wall.
A trunk latch system for an automotive vehicle having a trunk partially defined by a rear trunk wall and having a trunk opening closable by a decklid, the system comprising:
- a latch, adapted to be mounted on an interior surface of the decklid, having a catch and a pawl, the catch movable between a latched position engaging a striker located on the rear trunk wall to hold the decklid in a closed position and an unlatched position disengaged from the striker allowing the decklid to uncover the trunk open;
- the pawl movable between an engaged position preventing movement of the catch from the latched position to the unlatched position and an unengaged position allowing the catch to move from the latched position to the unlatched position;
- a handle suspended from an interior section of the decklid so as to extend substantially vertically therefrom when the decklid is in either the open position or the closed position covering the trunk;
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- the handle operative to move the pawl between the engaged and unengaged positions so that a tension force resulting from grasping the handle and pulling in a generally downward direction moves the pawl to the unengaged position preventing the catch, and thus the decklid, from latching to the rear trunk wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.