Motor-vehicle door lock
    21.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11933091B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-19

    申请号:US15734585

    申请日:2019-05-31

    申请人: Kiekert AG

    发明人: Ulrich Weichsel

    摘要: A motor-vehicle door lock, which is equipped with a locking mechanism, comprising a rotary latch and at least one pawl, and with a closing drive and an opening drive for the locking mechanism. The rotary latch can be transferred into an overtravel position by means of the closing drive. According to the invention, in order to open the locking mechanism, the rotary latch is held in the overtravel position by means of the closing drive. In this way, the opening drive can open the pawl and subsequently the closing drive can travel back when the locking mechanism is open.

    FASTENING A BOWDEN CABLE ELEMENT TO A FORCE-TRANSMISSION ELEMENT

    公开(公告)号:US20240044182A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-08

    申请号:US18266769

    申请日:2021-12-06

    发明人: Ludger GRAUTE

    摘要: A force-transmission device for an actuation mechanism of a movable vehicle element. The force-transmission device includes a movably held force-transmission element, a Bowden cable element having an end, an end piece fastened to the end of the Bowden cable element, and a stop. The movably held force-transmission element is held in a manner preloaded in a first direction into an end position by a preload force and is movable in a second direction opposite to the first direction in order to transmit an actuating force for the actuation mechanism. The end piece of the Bowden cable element is held against the movably held force-transmission element. The movably held force-transmission element transmits, in the end position, at least a portion of the preload force to the end piece of the Bowden cable element, and the end piece is held so as to be pressed against the stop.

    Latch device for vehicle trunk lid
    24.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11236533B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-02-01

    申请号:US16067078

    申请日:2016-10-05

    摘要: The present invention aims to reduce the operation noise of a latch device for a vehicle trunk lid when the lid is opened. A latch device for a vehicle trunk lid includes: latch 16 that is engaged with a striker; ratchet 18 that is engaged with latch 16; opening lever 43 that causes ratchet 18 to rotate in a direction in which ratchet 18 is disengaged from latch 16; output member 39 that rotates opening lever 43 in the release direction. Opening lever 43 is rotatable between an unblocked position where it is rotatable in the release direction and a blocked position where it is prevented from rotating in the release direction by colliding with the output member. When driven and rotated, output member 39 abuts against opening lever 43 that is in the unblocked position and rotates opening lever 43 in the release direction to the blocked position, and opening lever 43 is further rotated a predetermined angle by colliding with output member 39 in the blocked position.

    LOCK APPARATUS
    26.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20210095498A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-04-01

    申请号:US17010091

    申请日:2020-09-02

    申请人: NIFCO INC.

    发明人: Koji KONDO

    IPC分类号: E05B79/18 E05B77/36 E05B83/30

    摘要: A lock apparatus includes a lid configured to turn to open and close an opening of a box; a rod switchable between a locked position where a tip of the rod projects to outside of the lid and an unlocked position where the tip is retracted to inside of the lid; and a guide member attached to the inside of the lid and configured to slidably support the rod. The lid includes one of an engaging portion and an engaged portion, and the guide member includes another of the engaging portion and the engaged portion. The engaging portion and the engaged portion are configured to move the guide member in a direction intersecting a lid opening and closing direction to thereby fix and press-fit to each other without rattle.

    ELECTRONIC HANDLE FOR A VEHICLE DOOR AND VEHICLE DOOR

    公开(公告)号:US20210002930A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-07

    申请号:US16919663

    申请日:2020-07-02

    摘要: An electronic handle for a vehicle door includes a bracket, a grip movably mounted on the bracket between a first position and a second position, the grip configured to move from the first position to the second position when a pulling force is applied on the grip by a user, a magnetic retainer configured to hold the grip in the first position, an electronic system configured to electronically cooperate with a latch for opening the vehicle door when activated in a first configuration corresponding to a normal use, and a back-up system configured to cooperate with the latch for opening the vehicle door when activated in a second configuration corresponding to an emergency or a lack of electrical power. The electronic system is configured to activate in response to a detection of a pulling force applied on the grip that is lower than a predetermined force.

    VEHICLE DOOR ASSEMBLY
    29.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200248488A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-06

    申请号:US16264952

    申请日:2019-02-01

    摘要: An outer door panel and an inner door panel are fixed to one another defining a cavity therebetween. A door handle assembly is fixedly attached to the outer door panel, with at least a portion of the door handle assembly overlaying an inboard surface of the outer door panel within the cavity. An inboard portion of the door handle assembly has a connection structure. An upwardly extending bracket within the cavity is fixed to an upper end and a lower end of at least one of the inner door panel or the outer door panel. The upwardly extending bracket is spaced apart from the door handle assembly. A vibration absorbing member has a first end fixed to the connection structure of the door handle assembly and a second end attached to the upwardly extending bracket at a location spaced apart from upper and lower ends of the upwardly extending bracket.

    VEHICLE DOOR LATCH APPARATUS
    30.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200224465A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-16

    申请号:US16630968

    申请日:2017-10-20

    摘要: A power unit for a powered cinching mechanism with a favorable level of operational noise is provided. A door latch apparatus includes latch unit and power unit. Latch unit has latch that engages striker, ratchet that engages latch and first cinching lever that displaces latch from a half-latched position to a full-latched position. Latch unit is attached to an end portion of a vehicle door. Power unit includes motor, cable drum, deceleration mechanism and closed-type housing that houses them. Operational noise at 300 mm right above the housing of power unit is 42.2 to 40.9 dB at a supply voltage to the motor of 9V, 47.5 to 43.9 dB at a supply voltage of 12V, and 49.7 to 46.5 dB at a supply voltage of 16 V. Deceleration mechanism includes a worm gear and a helical gear.