Patent ID: 6382687
Filing Date: 2002-05-07
Classification: E05B,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
A power-closing motor-vehicle door latch comprising:a housing; a fork engageable around a bolt, formed with an abutment, and pivotal on the housing from an open position through a partially closed position into a fully closed position; a latch pawl engageable with the fork in the partially and fully closed positions to retain the fork therein; a rocker pivotal on the housing between inner and outer positions; a closing pawl pivoted on the rocker between an entrainment position engageable with the fork abutment and a freeing position unengageable with the fork abutment; a crank drive for displacing the rocker outward toward the outer position with the closing pawl in the entrainment position so as to pivot the fork from the partially closed position into the fully closed position and for displacing the rocker oppositely inward toward the inner position; a control member pivotal on the rocker between a pair of end positions; actuating means including an actuation formation on the control member and an abutment on the housing for displacing the control member into one of its end positions on displacement of the rocker into the outer end position and for displacing the control member into the other of its end positions on displacement of the rocker inward into the inner and position; and spring means engaged between the control member and the closing pawl for urging the closing pawl into the freeing position when the control member is in the one end position and for during the closing pawl into the engaging position when the control member in the other end position.