Patent ID: 9670701
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: E05B,Y10S,Y10T

Claim:
1. A motor-vehicle door latch device comprising: a latch shaft; a latch pivotally mounted on the latch shaft and comprising a full-latch engaging portion and a half-latch engaging portion, the latch being capable of engaging a striker of a vehicle body; an engagement-member shaft; an engagement member pivotally mounted to the engagement-member shaft, the engagement member being capable of engaging the full-latch engaging portion of the latch to fully engage the latch with the striker and of engaging the half-latch engaging portion of the latch to incompletely engage the latch with the striker; a half-latch avoiding member fixed to the latch shaft and turning with the latch, the half-latch avoiding member having a half latch avoiding guide path, a first guide path that communicates with the half-latch avoiding guide path, a second guide path that communicates with the first guide path and a third guide path that communicates with the second guide path and the half-latch avoiding guide path to form a loop, the first guide path being gently inclined upward from the half-latch avoiding guide path to the second guide path, the third guide path being gently inclined upward from the second guide path to the half latch avoiding guide path; a releasing member pivotally mounted to the engagement-member shaft and rotating with the engagement member; and a connecting member that is pivotally mounted to the engagement-member shaft and has a guide pin that engages in and slides along the loop of the half latch avoiding guide path and the first the second and the third guide paths of the half-latch avoiding member, wherein the guide pin of the connecting member engages in the half-latch avoiding guide path not to engage the half-latch portion of the latch with the engagement member.