Patent ID: 6843517
Filing Date: 2005-01-18
Classification: E05B,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
1. In a motor-vehicle door latch having a lever displaceable between a locked position in which the latch is locked and an unlocked position in which the latch is unlocked and a plate carrying the latch and adapted to be exposed at a door edge, the improvement wherein the plate has an inside face and is formed at the face with a throughgoing hole; the lever has a flat part closely juxtaposed at the hole with the inside face of the plate and blocking the hole in both the unlocked and locked positions; and the lever has on the flat part a ridge exposed at the hole in the unlocked position through the hole, not projecting into the hole, and engageable by a tool inserted through the hole to move the lever from the unlocked to the locked position.