Patent ID: 6883357

Claim:
An indicating lock for a rimless glass door comprising: a seat assembly having an interior seat with at least one recess defined at a side of the interior seat, a first chamber defined in the interior seat, a first hole defined through the interior seat and a latch hole transversally defined through the interior seat, and an exterior seat with at least one finger extending towards the interior seat and fastened in the at least one recess by fasteners, a second chamber defined in the exterior seat, a second hole defined through the exterior seat and at least one arcuate slot defined around the second hole; a driving member having an interior disk received in the first chamber, a pole formed on the interior disk and extending through the first hole, an exterior disk received in the second chamber, a core inserted though the second hole and mounted in the exterior disk, multiple magnetic elements respectively received in the interior disk and the exterior disk, wherein polarities of the magnetic elements in the interior disk and the exterior disk are opposite to each other; a locking member having an inner latch movably received in the first chamber and driven by the interior seat, and an outer latch connected with the inner latch and extending though the latch hole; and an indicating ring mounted at a side of the exterior disk facing the exterior seat, the indicating ring printed with at least two different marks corresponding to the at least one arcuate slot.