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US 9,284,758 B2Granted
Operating device for a vehicle door latch
AssigneeMitsui Kinzoku Act Corporation
InventorsKazuhito Yokomori, Kohei Yamashita
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Abstract
An operating device for a vehicle door latch comprises an inside handle, a base member fixed to a door, and inside lever connected to the inside handle, a locking lever, a housing, a motor, an output lever, a detected lever coupled to the inside handle and an inside-handle detecting switch. The motion of the inside handle is detected by the inside-handle detecting switch via the detected lever of the device to make the door open or close. Another detecting switch detects motion of a swinging member outside the housing.
Claims2
An operating device for a vehicle door latch, comprising;
- an inside handle disposed on a door inside a vehicle, wherein the inside handle is swingable between an opening direction and a closing direction;
- a base member fixed to the door;
- an inside lever pivotally mounted to the base member and connected to the inside handle;
- a locking lever moving between an unlocking position for validating a releasing action of the inside lever and a locking position for invalidating the releasing action of the inside lever;
- a housing fixed to the base member;
- a motor disposed in the housing;
- an output lever disposed outside the housing to move the locking lever between the unlocking position and the locking position by actuation of the motor;
- a detected lever pivotally mounted to the housing and coupled to the inside handle so as to swing in response to the swinging of the inside handle;
- and an inside-handle detection switch disposed in the housing to detect an opening swinging direction of the detected lever and a closing swinging direction of the detected lever so as to enable the swinging of the inside handle to be detected;
- wherein the inside-handle detecting switch detects the opening and closing swinging directions of the detected lever and therefore, the opening and closing directions of the inside handle, respectively, so as to transmit a signal to control circuits to open and close the door, respectively.
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