Motor-vehicle door latch with composite housing

Details Motor-vehicle door latch with composite housing Motor-vehicle door latch with composite housing

1994-02-18

1996-04-09

Boucher, Darnell M.

Closure fasteners

Bolt casings

292216, 292DIG38, E05C 326

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055055060

ABSTRACT:
A motor-vehicle door latch has a molded synthetic-resin housing having a floor side plate, a perimeter wall projecting laterally from an inside face of the plate, and a cover plate. The housing is unitarily formed with a plurality of pivots. Mechanism inside the housing includes a latching fork, a latching pawl, and operating levers mounted on respective pivots. A metal reinforcing plate is imbedded in the floor side plate only in the region of the fork and pawl and is unitarily formed with upstanding tabs extending into and imbedded in the pivots of the fork and pawl only. The pivots of the operating levers are substantially wholly formed of the plastic of the housing.

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