Abstract: A door latching mechanism includes a slide housed within a frame adapted for sliding motion of the slide within the frame and a spindle rotatably mounted to the frame and adapted to move the slide between a retracted and an extended position. A void is defined between an exterior surface of the frame and an interior surface of a cover housing the frame and the slide. An insert includes wings, which extend into the void and are positioned on opposite sides of the slide from each other.

Abstract: A motor vehicle electric door lock with an outside housing which is essentially closed on all sides, with an inlet channel for the key collar and with, located in the outside housing, a rotary latch, a detent pawl which holds the rotary latch, a separate detent pawl lever which is dynamically connected to the detent pawl or which is made on the detent pawl as an extension, and an electrical opening drive unit with a drive motor, step-down gearing, and a driven element, the driven element via the detent pawl lever driving the detent pawl in the lifting direction and engaging the actuating section of the detent pawl lever.

Abstract: A slide latch assembly (10) includes an elongated housing (18) that slidably receives a latch pawl (36) with a leaf spring (42) having a pair of legs (44) that bias the latch pawl toward a latched position. The construction of the housing (18) and the latch pawl (36) permit the latch assembly to have a relatively thin construction.

Abstract: A releasable locking assembly for a door control cylinder is disclosed. The assembly fits over the rod of the door control cylinder and includes a locking flange member maintained in a confined space within a pair of concentric closed end cup members. The locking flange member engages the rod to hold the door control cylinder in an extended position by gently pushing on the outer cup member and disengages the locking flange member by further opening the door, allowing the cylinder rod to retract in a controlled manner.

Abstract: As herein described a plastic or metal hollow frame device which when mounted within the bolt cavity on a door frame and therefrom extending outwards with curved ‘U’ shaped arms through the strike plate aperture mounted concentric with and above the said frame bolt cavity, and thence into the space between the door frame and the edge of the closed door, i.e. the door gap, upon which door is mounted an associated spring bolt door lock, in such a manner that when the spring bolt is located within the strike plate aperture and the frame bolt cavity, i.e.

Abstract: A motor vehicle door handle assembly including a first housing piece adapted to be mounted at one end of a bowl shaped depression formed in the outer skin of the vehicle door, a second housing piece adapted to be mounted at the other end of the depression in the outer skin, and an elongated handle pivotally mounted at one end thereof on the first housing piece and including a latch finger on the other end thereof received in a receptacle in the second housing piece to allow access to a latch actuator to control the latching and unlatching of the door.

Abstract: A lock arrangement including a lock having an unlocked and locked condition, the lock arrangement further including an actuable element having a first position at which the lock is unlocked and a second position at which the lock is locked, the lock arrangement further including means for ensuring the actuable element passes through a transitory position in changing the state of the lock from at least one of the locked and unlocked conditions to the other of the locked and conditions in which one of the locked and unlocked conditions of the actuable element is on the path of the actuable element between the transitory and the other of the locked and locked positions.

Abstract: A motor-driven lock (2) includes a housing (3), a lock body (4), a motor (5), a transmission device (6) mating with the motor and the lock body, a lid (7), an enclosure (8), and a cover (9). The lock body includes a controller (41) having a gear portion (410), and a cap (43) attached to the controller. The transmission device includes a first gearshaft (60) mating with the motor, a second shaft (61) meshed with the first gearshaft, a wheel (62) meshed with the second gear shaft, a screw shaft (63) fixing the wheel thereon, a slider (64) mating with the screw shaft, a yoke (65) slidingly movable along the housing and actuatable by the slider, and a gear set (66) attached to the cap of the lock body, meshed with the gear portion of the lock body and mated with either of two racks (653) of yoke.

Abstract: A hinge device for use in an electric or electronic apparatus is provided, in which a pivoting portion moves with respect to a fixed portion around a hinge portion. Accordingly, the hinge device has effects of a simple assembly and an easy maintenance. Also, the hinge device plays a role of a hinge which can freely adjust a torque transferred to the upper bracket to thus generate a proper frictional force constantly and adjust a rotational angle according to an angle formed by the upper and lower contacting portions of the holder.

Abstract: A magnetic catch assembly for securely holding a door or cover on a machine in a closed position. The assembly comprises a unitary, injection molded, plastic member at least one portion of the member being magnetized to form the magnetic catch and at least one portion of the molded unitary member forming a mounting bracket adapted to securely mount the magnetic catch assembly to the machine.

Abstract: A hinge rotates a cover pivotably connected to a device housing from a closed position to an open position. A shaft is connected to the cover. The shaft and cover have a common axis of rotation. A spring having a top end and a bottom end is affixed at its bottom end to the device housing. A line has a first end connected to the top end of the spring and a second end wound onto the shaft. When the cover is in the closed position, the spring is in an extended state. Upon release of the cover from the closed position, the spring force returns the spring toward a neutral state, thereby unwinding the line from the shaft and causing rotation of the cover to the open position.

Abstract: The actuating device for a hood should be designed in such a way that an actuation from the outside for misuse is not possible. For this purpose, the actuating device is equipped with a handle, in which a locking sensing device and a catch element, which is connected with a Bowden cable, are arranged. By pressing the locking sensing device in the direction of the catch element is created a rigid connection between the locking sensing device and the catch element. For this purpose, the actuating sensing device is equipped with a catch nose and the catch element with a catch recess.

Abstract: A sealed micro-actuator device for positioning a slider in a disc drive comprises a micro-actuator body, which includes a stator, a rotor, and a motor for moving the rotor with respect to the stator. The micro-actuator device includes means for sealing the micro-actuator body to prevent debris from reaching the motor. In a preferred embodiment, the means for sealing comprises a plurality of cavities formed in the micro-actuator body and an injection molded polymer seal with a plurality of protrusions that extend into the plurality of cavities. A first subset of the plurality of protrusions make contact with the stator, thereby holding the means for sealing in place. A second subset of the plurality of protrusions extend into cavities formed in the rotor. The second subset of protrusions does not contact the rotor.

Abstract: A handle for a vehicle door has a control lever hinged to a connecting structure for connection to the door, and a detecting assembly for detecting the presence of a user's hand about to open the door; the detecting assembly having a magnetic aerial, which is housed inside the lever to detect the variation in a magnetic field caused by the user's hand nearing the handle, and is connected by a sliding connection to a circuit carried by the connecting structure and which supplies a presence signal to a control unit for releasing the respective lock upon reading an identification code carried by the user.

Abstract: A door safety barrier for being positioned adjacent a doorway having a door mounted therein for interfering with movement of the door relative to the doorway. The door safety barrier defines a security opening between the door and the doorway for preventing entry therethrough, and includes a housing for being embedded into a floor adjacent the door. The housing defines a chamber therein. An elongate plunger is positioned within the chamber for reciprocating movement between an extended, operative position above the floor for engaging a side of the door to prevent movement of the door past the plunger, and a retracted, inoperative position below the bottom of the door for permitting passage of the door over the plunger. A latch assembly cooperates with the housing and the plunger for alternately locking the plunger in the extended, operative and retracted inoperative positions, respectively.

Abstract: A lock chassis including a chassis housing having two substantially identical housing halves. The housing halves mate to form the housing when oriented 180° relative to each other. The housing halves include sidewalls having a lateral face positioned to abut the opposite housing half when the housing halves are coupled together. The housing is secured by lugs that mate with pockets in the lateral face of the sidewall of the opposite housing half and screws which extend through apertures in one housing half and into threaded holes in the lateral face of the sidewall of the opposite housing half.

Abstract: A mechanical end face seal comprising two relatively rotatable seal rings, a resilient bellows for providing a secondary seal between one seal ring and either a housing or a rotating shaft and a finger spring element nested in the bellows. The resilient bellows comprises an elastomeric material, such as molded rubber, and has a single convolution having a general cross-sectional shape of an inverted “Omega.” The finger spring member comprises a plurality of generally “U” shaped spring fingers which provide the axial biasing force to urge the ring faces in sealing relation. In a preferred embodiment, the spring includes ferrules for providing radially inward force on a flange portion of each end of the bellows to maintain the secondary seal.

Abstract: Disclosed is a snap lock device for a sliding door of a machine casing, which sliding door is preferably reinforced on at least one side by a sheet metal fold or a hollow rectangular profile, with a handle which is swivelably mounted at the reinforced side of the sliding door and which cooperates with a latch bolt device, and with a retaining device for receiving the latch bolt when the door is closed, this retaining device being arranged on or accommodated in a door frame or in a profile defining an opening in the machine casing. The handle comprises a bar whose ends are supported around a swivel pin extending parallel to the reinforced side of the door leaf and located behind the door leaf or inside the sheet metal fold or hollow profile, the ends of the bar being received in a bar holder, and at least one of the two bar holders is coupled with a hook which is mounted so as to be swivelable coaxially to the swivel pin and has free travel and forms the lock latch.

Abstract: A lock and emergency release system for a door normally power operated by a door operator. The system comprises a lock displaceable between an idle position to a functional position in which opening of the door by the door operator is prevented. An emergency release handle is manually operable for simultaneously displacing the lock to its idle position and releasing the door from the door operator, thereby allowing the door to be manually opened.

Abstract: A case lock is disclosed to include a fixed retaining member and a movable lock body assembly respectively fastened to the top and bottom cover shells of a case for locking the case. The movable lock body assembly includes a front cover, an actuating member pivoted to the front cover, a sliding retainer, a link pivoted between the actuating member and the sliding retainer and adapted to move the sliding retainer in an axial direction while the link is driven by the actuating member and moved along with said actuating member, and a back cover covered on the front cover and defining with the front cover a space in which the actuating member, the link and the sliding retainer are positioned.