Motor-vehicle trunk latch

US5868444A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Kiekert AG · DE

Inventors

• Horst Brackmann · Velbert, DE
• Bernhard Funk · Essen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 12, 1997
• Grant date: Feb 9, 1999
• Expiry date: Sep 12, 2017

Classification

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

Abstract

A latch has a bolt mounted a trunk lid, a housing mounted on a motor-vehicle body and having a notch in which the bolt is receivable, and a fork pivotal on the housing about a main axis and displaceable between a closed and an open position. A plate pivoted on the housing at the main axis carries a pawl pivoted on the plate about a pawl axis offset from the main axis and displaceable between a holding position engaging the fork and, in the locked position of same, retaining the fork in the locked position and a releasing position clear of the fork and permitting same to pivot freely. An opening lever pivotal on the plate about a lever axis offset from the main axis is engageable with the pawl and formed with an actuating formation engageable with a formation of a link member displaceable relative to the housing. An electrical actuator coupled to the plate pivots it about the main axis in one direction and thereby, in the holding position of the pawl with the fork in the closed position, pulls the bolt into the notch and in the opposite direction to press the formations against each other and thereby pivot the opening lever against the pawl to put the pawl into the releasing positio…