Patent ID: 6951355

Claim:
A door lock system for a vehicle comprising: a latch mechanism adapted to a vehicle door and latching the vehicle door to a vehicle body; a link mechanism including an electric driving source, and a plurality of lever members for selectively locking and unlocking the latch mechanism; a housing accommodating the link mechanism, including the electric driving source, and the latch mechanism; an insertion groove into which a striker is movable to be received by a portion of the latch mechanism to latch the vehicle door to the vehicle body; the electric driving source being accommodated in an upper portion of the housing so that the entire electric driving source is above the insertion groove; the housing including a first cover, a second cover and a main body having a first dish-shaped casing portion and a second dish-shaped casing portion, the first casing portion including an opening, closed by the first cover, at one side thereof, the second casing portion connected to the first casing portion and perpendicular to each other, the second casing portion including an opening, closed by the second cover, at one side thereof; a first space between the first cover and the first casing portion, with the electric driving source disposed within the first space; the latch mechanism being supported by the second cover; and each of the lever members of the link mechanism being disposed within at least one of a) the first space defined between the first casing portion and the first cover and b) a second space defined between the second casing portion and the second cover.