Patent ID: 7306269

Claim:
A lock ( 1 ) for a door of a motor vehicle comprising: a closing mechanism ( 6 ) designed for coupling with a lock striker ( 2 ) along a direction (B) of relative coupling; a supporting body ( 4 ) of said closing mechanism ( 6 ) having a housing seat ( 5 ) for an engagement portion ( 3 ) of said lock striker ( 2 ); said housing seat ( 5 ) having an entry area ( 11 ) for said engagement portion ( 3 ) and being delimited: laterally, by a pair of opposing side walls ( 13 ), and at an end opposite to said entry area ( 11 ), by a bottom wall ( 12 ) orthogonal to said direction (B) of relative coupling; an elastically compliant buffer ( 30 ) including a first end ( 31 ) coupled to said bottom wall ( 12 ) retaining said buffer ( 30 ) in said housing seat ( 5 ), and a second end ( 33 ) having a concave surface for receiving an impact from said engagement portion ( 3 ) of said lock striker ( 2 ) and delimiting said housing seat ( 5 ) in said direction (B) of relative coupling in order to define damped arrest of said lock striker ( 2 ); and a rigid protective shield ( 40 ) covering said second end ( 33 ) of said buffer ( 30 ) in an area of interaction with said engagement portion ( 3 ) of said lock striker ( 2 ) for evenly distributing said impact of said lock striker ( 2 ) over said second end ( 33 ) wherein opposite lateral edges ( 41 ) of said shield ( 40 ) are folded around said second end ( 33 ) of said buffer ( 30 ) thereby fixedly securing said shield ( 40 ) to said buffer ( 30 ).