Patent ID: 7832240
Filing Date: 2010-11-16
Classification: E05B,E05C,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A lid lock device for locking a lid which is mounted in a box and which is opened and closed, the lock device comprising: a housing fixed to the lid; a hook member including: an elastic biasing unit biasing the base element of the hook member outward the housing so that the hook portion of the hook member is brought into engagement with the lock portion; a control member including a peripheral wall defining an inner space thereinside and being slidably supported on the housing to include the raised portion of the hook member inside the inner space; and a translating unit configured to translate the control member between: wherein the peripheral wall of the control member includes: wherein when the control member is translated to the closing corresponding position by the translating unit, the recessed portion comes to a position where the raised portion is brought into abutment with other portions of the first wall than the recessed portion so as to prevent the operating portion from being operated, and wherein when the control member is translated to the opening corresponding position by the translating unit, the recessed portion comes to a position where the raised portion is made to enter the recessed portion so as to enable the operating portion to be operated against a biasing force of the elastic biasing unit.