摘要:
A CLOSURE LATCH FOR A VEHICLE BODY OR THE LIKE INCLUDES A PIVOTAL LATCH BOLT FOR ENGAGING A FIXED STRIKER, THE LATCH BOLT BEING BIASED TO A DETENT RETAINED UNLATCHED POSITION AND MOVABLE TO A LATCHED POSITION BY A POWER DRIVEN PINTOOTH DRIVE WHEEL. THE LATCH BOLT IS RELEASABLY LOCKED IN THE LATCH POSITION BY DETENT MEANS ENGAGING THE PIN-TOOTH DRIVE WHEEL PREVENTING FURTHER ROTATIONAL MOVEMENT OF THE PIN-TOOTH DRIVE WHEEL BY THE POWER MEANS. UNLATCHING IS EFFECTED BY DISENGAGEMENT OF THE DETENT MEANS FROM THE PIN-TOOTH DRIVE WHEEL PERMITTING FURTHER POWER DRIVEN RO-
TATION OF THE PIN-TOOTH WHEEL TO RELEASE THE LATCH BOLT AND TO POSITION THE PIN-TOOTH DRIVE WHEEL FOR ANOTHER LATCHING CYCLE.
摘要:
A vehicle body hood latch assembly includes a blocking lever pivoted on a latch housing and biased to either a blocked position or an unblocked position by an overcenter spring. The blocking lever includes a blocking edge which, when the blocking lever is in blocked position, is engaged by a tab mounted on a release lever to prevent movement of the release lever from an unreleased position to a released position and consequent undetenting of a bolt. Movement of the blocking lever to unblocked position moves the blocking edge out of the path of the tab and allows movement of the release lever to the released position and the undetenting of the bolt. The tab slides along a return edge of the blocking lever during this movement of the release lever and moves the blocking lever back toward blocked position such that the spring moves overcenter and returns the blocking lever to blocked position substantially concomitant with the undetenting of the bolt.
摘要:
An improved hood-type closure installation for vehicles including a closure supported on the vehicle body by a pair of hinge assemblies for movement between open and closed positions relative to an opening in the vehicle body, each hinge assembly including an intermediate support pivotally mounted on the vehicle body for movement between extended and retracted positions. The intermediate supports carry pintles to support the closure for the aforementioned movement between the open and closed positions and are normally maintained by frangible locking means in the extended positions. Forced rearward bodily shiftable movement of the closure generally in the plane thereof initiates fracture of the frangible locking means after which each intermediate support pivots from the extended to a retracted position and simultaneously forcibly constrains the rear edge of the closure to move in a path of motion toward a position below the corresponding edge of the vehicle body opening.
摘要:
A closure latch for a vehicle body deck lid or the like includes a striker mounted to the deck lid for movement with the deck lid and being positioned thereon to be in operative relation to a latch member in the form of a wedge plate slidably mounted on the vehicle body. The wedge plate is reciprocable between an unlatched position, a latched position and a release position with movement from the unlatched position to the latched position and from the latched position to the release position being power assisted so that during final closure, the wedge plate is power driven to effect latching whereby the deck lid is firmly forced into closure contact against the vehicle body with a weather seal therebetween and whereby further power movement of the wedge plate will effect a power-assisted unlatching of the deck lid, a releasable detent mechanism being used to hold the wedge plate in a latched position.