Motor-vehicle door latch

US6568722B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Kiekert AG · DE

Inventors

• Kurt Raffelsiefer · Velbert, DE
• Marek Dragon · Bocholt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 1, 2001
• Grant date: May 27, 2003
• Expiry date: Aug 1, 2021

Classification

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

Abstract

A motor-vehicle door latch has a housing, a part displaceable relative to the housing to release the latch, and mechanism on the housing operable to displace the part and release the latch. An actuating lever is pivotal on the housing between an unactuated position and an actuated position and a locking lever is also pivotal on the housing between a locked position coupling the actuating lever with the mechanism to displace same and an unlocked position uncoupling the actuating lever from the mechanism. Respective formations directly formed on the actuating lever and on the locking lever are directly engageable with each other for displacing the locking lever into the unlocked position on displacement of the actuating lever into the actuated position.