Lock for a luggage box

US8876171B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SFS Intec Holding AG · CH

Inventors

• Olav Schendel · Stuttgart, DE
• Sascha Costabel · Herrenberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 2, 2010
• Grant date: Nov 4, 2014
• Expiry date: Feb 26, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T292/308
• WIPO field: Civil engineering
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

An aircraft luggage box lock includes a stationary housing and a cover moveable about a rotary axis. The lock includes a locking pin device mountable on the housing, having two parallel locking pins, a catch mountable on the cover having two locking hooks pivotable about a pivot axis for receiving the pins for locking the lock, and a manually actuatable drive device for jointly pivoting the locking hooks away from the locking pins for unlocking the lock. The drive device has a gear rack and a sliding element linearly displaceable against pressure of a spring element. The locking hooks are connected to the gear rack or the sliding element by a knee lever hinged to the closing hook adjacent to the pivot axis thereof in such a way that the lock is openable only by tensile force acting on the hinged point of the knee lever on the locking hook.