Patent ID: 6428058
Filing Date: 2002-08-06
Classification: E05B,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
A motor-vehicle door latch comprising:a housing; a latch element displaceable in the housing between a position holding a bolt in the housing and a position freeing a bolt for movement into and out of the housing; a pawl movable in the housing between a latched position retaining the latch element in the holding position and an unlatched position allowing the latch element to assume the freeing position; a release lever in the housing engageable with the pawl and movable between an actuated position displacing the pawl into the unlatched position and an unactuated position leaving the pawl in the latched position; lock means including an abutment in the housing engageable in a locked position with the release lever for inhibiting movement of the release lever from the unactuated position into the actuated position and unengageable in an unlocked position with the release lever for permitting movement of the release lever from the unactuated position into the actuated position; an actuating lever in the housing coupled to the door handle and pivotal on the housing on actuation of a door unlocking member; and means including an elastically compressible link in the housing and engaged between the actuating lever and the release lever for, in the unlocked position of the lock means, transmitting movement from the actuating lever to the release lever and thereby permitting the actuating lever to operate the release lever and, in the locked position of the lock means, elastically deforming and permitting the actuating lever to move independently of the release lever and without displacing the release lever into the actuated position.