Patent ID: 7625020
Filing Date: 2009-12-01
Classification: E05B,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A vehicle door lock control comprising: an operating handle mounted to a door of a vehicle; a base plate fixed in the door and having at least one opening, the base plate comprising a first side that faces an interior of the vehicle and a second side that faces an exterior of the vehicle; an operating lever pivotally secured to the base plate and connected to the operating handle so that door-opening operation of the operating handle is transmitted to the operating lever; a door-latching device mounted to the door to allow the door to engage with or disengage from a body of the vehicle; a release lever pivotally secured to the base plate and connected to the door-latching device; a knob lever disposed on the second side of the base plate, the knob lever being capable of moving between an unlocked position where the operating lever allows the door-latching device to disengage from the body of the vehicle via the release lever and a locked position where the operating lever does not allow the door-latching device to disengage from the body of the vehicle via the release lever; a guide member fixed to the first side of the base plate and having an opening; and a locking knob operated manually from the interior of the vehicle, the locking knob comprising an operating portion that can be operated in the interior of the vehicle, a slider that is slidably coupled to the guide member and a connecting portion coupled to the knob lever through one opening of the at least one opening in the base plate and the opening in the guide member to operate the knob lever to the unlocked position or the locked position.