Patent ID: 8444168

Claim:
Improved configuration of an electro-mechanical fifth wheel lock control unit comprising: a Lock Controller fitted with a closure lid having a solenoid guiding axle bearing and one micro-processed control unit, said Lock Controller being installed in a free niche of a bottom half of a fifth wheel; wherein the Lock Controller is made in a cast casing shaped in a rectangular trapezoidal profile, containing one milled cylinder that ends up in a chamber that cuts out an intermediate extension between a front orifice and the lid, with a recessed design, designed to close the chamber and the solenoid guiding axle bearing that comprises a heat-sinking tube designed to sink the heat produced by the solenoid guiding axle bearing coupled to a bearing axle having an outer diameter symmetric to an inner diameter of the heat-sinking tube working as the solenoid guiding axle bearing and also of a locking pin and a locking ring holds a spring inside the chamber limiting a course of the locking pin; wherein a bottom opening houses the micro-processed control unit and one foot having a first hole and a second hole are available on the Lock Controller that is installed in the free niche of the bottom half of a fifth Wheel where a third hole is made through a wall to allow the passage of an extension and a fourth hole made at a locking bar at the face coinciding with the wall limits the course of the locking pin and a safety ring is either welded or glued to a section of a long rod.