Closure fasteners – Bolts – Swinging
Patent
1991-11-22
1992-08-25
Moore, Richard E.
Closure fasteners
Bolts
Swinging
292DIG56, E05C 326
Patent
active
051412705
ABSTRACT:
A vehicle door lock device consists of a striker and a lock body. The striker has a pair of straight leg portions and arc shape portions, respectively formed at end portions of the leg portions. The lock body has a guide groove through which the striker proceeds or moves, a latch adapted to engage with the striker entering the guide groove, a ratchet keeping an engaged condition of the latch and striker, and a resilient stopper positioned at an end of the guide groove. The stopper has a first abutting portion against which the straight leg portion abuts and an arc shape second abutting portion against which the arc shape portions of the striker abuts. The leg portion abuts against the first abutting portion when the latch of the lock device situates at its mid position between the half latched position or condition and the full latched position or condition of the latch. While, the arc shape portion of the striker and the second abutting portion of the stopper abuts against each other, when the lock device or latch situates at its full latched position. The first abutting portion and/or the second abutting portion have groove portions of arc shape in section, improving a contact efficiency of the stopper and the striker.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4130308 (1978-12-01), Jeavons
patent: 4756563 (1988-07-01), Garwood et al.
patent: 5064229 (1991-11-01), Hamada et al.
Mitsui Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
Moore Richard E.
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