Unlocking lever device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9644409-B2
Application number	US-201514689525-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 17, 2015
Priority date	Apr 18, 2014
Publication date	May 9, 2017
Grant date	May 9, 2017

Abstract

An unlocking lever device includes: a lever member which is operated to rotate to allow a locking mechanism to perform an unlocking operation; a sign member which is stored in a storage recessed portion provided in the lever member; a bias member which biases the sign member in a direction of protrusion from the storage recessed portion; and an inclined surface which regulates the protrusion of the sign member from the storage recessed portion in accordance with a position of rotation of the lever member by being abut against the sign member, and generates a bias force which allows the lever member to rotate.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An unlocking lever device, comprising:
a lever member which is operated to rotate to allow a locking mechanism to perform an unlocking operation;
a sign member which is stored in a storage recessed portion provided in the lever member;
a bias member which biases the sign member in a direction of protrusion from the storage recessed portion; and
an inclined surface which regulates the protrusion of the sign member from the storage recessed portion in accordance with a position of rotation of the lever member by being abut against the sign member, and generates a bias force which allows the lever member to rotate.

2. The unlocking lever device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the unlocking lever device comprising a supporting member which includes a side wall portion which is orthogonal to a rotation shaft and supports the lever member to be rotatable, and an engaging recessed portion into which an engaging protrusion portion provided in the sign member is inserted is formed in the side wall portion, and
wherein the inclined surface is formed on an inner circumferential surface of the engaging recessed portion.

3. The unlocking lever device according to claim 2 ,
wherein the lever member is operated to rotate via an access window,
wherein the supporting member supports the lever member at a position which faces the access window, and
wherein the storage recessed portion is formed at a position to which the sign member moves in the access window as the sign member is disposed outside the access window and the lever member is unlocked when the locking mechanism is in a locked state.

4. The unlocking lever device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the sign member and the bias member have the same material and are formed to be integrated with each other.

5. The unlocking lever device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the locking mechanism includes a latch which has a groove portion in which a striker is engaged with a circumferential surface thereof and is provided to be rotatable, and a pole which holds an engaged state with the striker by being engaged with the latch and regulating the rotation of the latch, and releases the engaged state by being operated to rotate, and
wherein, a linking portion which is linked to the pole is provided in the lever member.

6. The unlocking lever device according to claim 5 ,
wherein the pole has a fitting projection, and
wherein the linking portion is an aperture which is fitted to the fitting projection.

Assignees

• Aisin Seiki

Inventors

• Iwasa Kazuya
• Yamakawa Yasuhiro

Classifications

• B60N2/366 Primary

  characterised by the locking device · CPC title

• E05C19/14 Primary

  with toggle action · CPC title