Trunk lid lock with remote release

US4979384A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Lectron Products, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Michael W. Malesko · Troy, US
• Ellsworth S. Miller · Rochester Hills, US
• Michael Slavin · Troy, US
• Peter Henning · Pontiac, US
• Rodney Hayden · Stoney Creek, CA
• Charles R. Martus · Troy, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 13, 1989
• Grant date: Dec 25, 1990
• Expiry date: Nov 13, 2009

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T292/1082
• WIPO field: Civil engineering
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

An improved deck lid lock with remote release for motor vehicles. The deck lid lock employs a solenoid operated rotatable armature which acts directly on a leg of a rotatable latch plate which engages a lock bar. On energization of the solenoid, the armature is attracted to the solenoid causing it to disengage the latch plate so that the deck lid may be opened. When the deck lid is closed, the lock bar is engaged by the latch plate which is returned to its normal latched position in engagement with the armature. The deck lid lock further includes a rotatable key cam which acts on the armature to enable release of the deck lid through conventional external key actuation.