Patent ID: 7887106
Filing Date: 2011-02-15
Classification: E05D,E05Y,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A locking device for a swinging/sliding door for vehicles, the swinging/sliding door including a door leaf having a guide rail along a bottom horizontal edge in a floor region, the swinging/sliding door being configured to be actuated by a door drive, and the locking device comprising: a mechanism arranged in the form of a parallelogram, having a horizontally arranged coupling member and two levers, each lever having a first end pivotally mounted on an installation plate and further having a second end arranged in an articulated manner on the coupling member, a pivoting lever having an end coupled to the coupling member and an opposed free end of the pivoting lever coupled to the guide rail on the swing/sliding door, the parallelogram shape being maintained during an entire operation of the locking device from an unlocked position to a locked position of the locking device; one of the levers including a guide slot into which projects a locking bolt, the locking bolt being movable in the guide slot by an actuating element actuated by the door drive when the door is moved between an opened and a closed position; and wherein the guide slot is shaped such that when the door is in the closed position, the locking bolt ends up located in a dead region of the guide slot such as to restrict movement of the locking bolt so as to lock the door in the closed position.