Patent ID: 8651537
Filing Date: 2014-02-18
Classification: E05B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A door lock apparatus comprising: a latch mechanism having a latch adapted to be supported by a vehicle door so as to be freely rotatable and being engagable with a striker provided at a vehicle body and having a pawl adapted to be supported by the vehicle door so as to be freely rotatable and stopping a rotation of the latch being engaged with the striker, at a half latched position and a fully latched position of the latch, in order to maintain the vehicle door at a slightly opened state and a fully closed state; a half latch detection mechanism coupled to the latch which detects a state where the latch is in the half latched position; a full latch detection mechanism coupled to the latch which detects a state where the latch is in the fully latched position; driving means which rotates the latch being in the half latched position toward the fully latched position; an intermediate position detection mechanism coupled to the latch which detects that the latch is in an intermediate position between the half latched position and the fully latched position; and controlling means which controls the driving means to start the drive of the driving means in order to rotate the latch toward the fully latched position on the basis of the detection that the latch is in the half latched position, to stop the drive of the driving means on the basis of the detection that the latch is in the fully latched position and to temporally stop the drive of the driving means on the basis of the detection that the latch is in the intermediate position.