Lock arrangement
AssigneeMeritor Light Vehicle Sytems ( UK) Limited
InventorSidney Edward Fisher
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Abstract
A lock arrangement including a lock having an unlocked and locked condition, the lock arrangement further including an actuable element having a first position at which the lock is unlocked and a second position at which the lock is locked, the lock arrangement further including means for ensuring the actuable element passes through a transitory position in changing the state of the lock from at least one of the locked and unlocked conditions to the other of the locked and conditions in which one of the locked and unlocked conditions of the actuable element is on the path of the actuable element between the transitory and the other of the locked and locked positions.
Claims23
A lock arrangement comprising:
- a lock having an unlocked and a locked condition, the lock arrangement further including an actuable element having a first position at which the lock is in said unlocked condition and a second position at which the lock is in said locked condition, the lock arrangement further including a mechanism for ensuring the actuable element passes through a transitory position in changing the state of the lock from at least one of the locked and the unlocked conditions to the other of the locked and the unlocked conditions in which one of the first and second positions of the actuable element is on a path of the actuable element between the transitory and the other of the first and second positions;
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- a latch having a locked condition and a released condition, wherein the lock arrangement is operable to lock the latch and wherein the actuable element further has a release position at which the latch is set to the released condition.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.