Motor-vehicle door latch with position-sensing switch

US5722706A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Kiekert AG · DE

Inventors

• Peter Bartel · Hattingen, DE
• Dirk Hundertmark · Herne, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 10, 1995
• Grant date: Mar 3, 1998
• Expiry date: Apr 10, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T292/68
• WIPO field: Civil engineering
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

A motor-vehicle door latch for securing a door to a doorpost has a support mounted on a doorpost, a bolt projecting from the support, and a latch fork pivoted on the door, including a switch-actuating part, and movable between an engaged position interfitting with the bolt and retaining the door in a closed position fixed relative to the doorpost and a disengaged position out of engagement with the bolt and permitting the door to move relative to the doorpost. A switch on the support detects the position of the switch-actuating part and generates a door-closed output when the fork is in the engaged position and a door-open output when the fork is in the disengaged position.