Vehicle door latch

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8967679-B2
Application number	US-201113030030-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 17, 2011
Priority date	Feb 18, 2010
Publication date	Mar 3, 2015
Grant date	Mar 3, 2015

Abstract

A vehicle door latch assembly is disclosed herein, the vehicle door latch assembly having: a fork bolt movably secured to the latch assembly, the fork bolt being capable of movement between a latched position and an unlatched position; a detent lever movably secured to the latch assembly, the detent lever being capable of movement between an engaged position and a disengaged position, the detent lever retains the fork bolt in the latched position when the detent lever is in the engaged position and a engagement surface of the detent lever contacts an engagement surface of the fork bolt; and an actuator for moving the detent lever into the disengaged position from the engaged position, the actuator being configured to prevent the detent lever from moving back to the engaged position until the fork bolt has been moved to the unlatched position.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle door latch assembly, comprising:
a fork bolt movably secured to the latch assembly, the fork bolt being capable of movement between a latched position and an unlatched position;
a detent lever movably secured to the latch assembly, the detent lever being capable of movement between an engaged position and a disengaged position, the detent lever retains the fork bolt in the latched position when the detent lever is in the engaged position and an e…

Assignees

• Estrada Eduardo
• Vazquez Francisco J
• Rodriguez Jorge I
• Parks David R
• Inteva Products Llc

Inventors

• Estrada Eduardo
• Vazquez Francisco J
• Rodriguez Jorge I
• Parks David R

Classifications

• Y10T292/108

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• E05B81/14 Primary

  Fixed Constructions · mapped topic

• E05B81/15

  Fixed Constructions · mapped topic