Patent ID: 8807603
Filing Date: 2014-08-19
Classification: E05B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A lid lock apparatus, comprising: a housing formed by assembling a first body member and a second body member; a driving motor housed in the housing; an output gear pivotally supported within the housing and being rotatable in a first direction and a second direction by an actuation of the driving motor; a movable member movably supported in the housing, the movable member moving in one direction by a pivotal movement of the output gear in the first direction to make a lid member provided at a vehicle body be unopenable and moving in the other direction by the pivotal movement of the output gear in the other direction to make the lid member to be openable; a stopper member retained at one of the first body member and the output gear; a stopper wall formed at the other one of the first body member and the output gear and restricting the pivotal movement of the output gear by contacting the stopper member; a stopper disengagement preventing portion formed on said the other one of the first body member and the output gear, on which the stopper wall is formed, to be close to the stopper wall, the stopper disengagement preventing portion restricting a disengagement of the stopper member in an axial direction of a rotational axis of the output gear by contacting the stopper member in the axial direction of the rotational axis of the output gear; a shaft member formed on the first body member, serving as the rotational axis of the output gear, and formed with a hook at a tip end thereof; an engagement hole formed on the second body member for engaging with the hook of the shaft member by a snap-fit structure for engaging the second body member to the first body member; and an output gear disengagement preventing portion formed on the second body member for restricting the disengagement of the output gear from the shaft member by contacting the output gear in the axial direction of the rotational axis of the output gear.