Abstract: A wheel lock arranged to engage a threaded wheel stud, comprising: a base having a first substantially planar section and a second section, the first section having an aperture, wherein the second section extends upwardly from the first section opposite the aperture and having a slot therein, the base having a locking section extending upwardly therefrom, the locking section having at least one aperture therein, and a pivoting member having a first substantially planar section and a second section, the first section having an aperture and a hollow cylinder extending downwardly coincident with the aperture, wherein the second section curls from the first section, the second section adapted to releasably engage the slot of the base's second section, the pivoting member having a slot therein and adapted to receive the locking section when the pivoting member is hingedly positioned over the base.

Abstract: A casing latch structure is disclosed and includes a casing, a main body, a clamping element, a fastening element, and an abutting element. The casing includes a first wall and a second wall perpendicular to each other, a through hole disposed on the first wall, and a sliding groove disposed on the second wall. The main body includes a clamping portion, a sliding portion and a fastened portion. The sliding portion is connected between the clamping portion and the fastened portion arranged on two opposite sides of the second wall, and received in the sliding groove. The clamping element is sleeved between the sliding portion and the fastened portion. The fastening element is engaged with the fastened portion to lock or release the clamping portion. The abutting element includes an abutting portion and an embedded portion connected to each other and corresponding to the through hole and the sliding groove.

Abstract: The invention discloses a door opener for a door having a wing pivotally mounted to a door frame, said door opener comprising: a main body; a door opener latch hingedly mounted in the main body and pivotable between a closed position and an open position; a blocking member that is displaceable from a locking position into a release position and back, the blocking member in its locking position forming a stop for the door opener latch in the closed position to prevent pivoting of the door opener latch into the open position, and the blocking member in its release position being so far offset from the door opener latch that the door opener latch may be pivoted from the closed position to the open position and back without any restriction of movement by the blocking member; and an actuator coupled with the blocking member for releasing or locking the door opener latch.

Abstract: An electronic sensing unit for a handle attached on a car door includes a sensor and a fixing mechanism. The sensor is attached on an external side of a part of the car door extending according to a reference plane. The fixing mechanism includes a first element and a second element configured to cooperate together. The first element is configured to cooperate with the part of the car door and the sensor. The second element is configured to cooperate with the handle so that a constraint applied to the handle is transmitted to the sensor for detection of a command.

Abstract: A motor vehicle lock, in particular a motor vehicle door lock, which is equipped with a locking mechanism consisting essentially of a rotary latch and a pawl as locking mechanism components. In addition, a latching element, which is mounted on the rotary latch and/or the pawl so as to be pivotable primarily in a locking mechanism plane, is provided in an engagement region between the two locking mechanism components. In order to axially secure the latching element, according to the invention, at least one locking mechanism component is equipped with a cover which is made of the same material and at least partly extends over the latching element.

Abstract: A reset auxiliary structure for cipher wheel locks includes a knob; a cipher wheel assembly rotatable to the knob; a reset cam; and an auxiliary guide block. The knob is centrally provided with a receiving chamber for accommodating the cipher wheel assembly. The cipher wheel assembly includes a positioning piece, which is provided with a shifting lever. The reset cam is synchronously rotatable to the knob. The reset cam includes a reset surface and a guide surface that are connected. The guide surface is located beside the reset surface, and the reset surface is positioned at the highest point of the reset cam. The auxiliary guide block is movable to the reset cam. The support surface of the auxiliary guide block is positioned beside the reset surface. The shifting lever is connected with the reset cam.

Abstract: A method and a device for operating an opening drive for a motor-vehicle lock, in particular motor-vehicle door lock. Also provided is a locking mechanism which consists substantially of a rotary latch and a pawl. Further, a sensor associated with the rotary latch is provided, as well as a drive unit that indirectly or directly acts upon the pawl, the drive unit being controlled according to signals of the sensor. According to the invention, the sensor produces a signal only once the rotary latch can be freely opened.

Abstract: A device may include detecting, by at least one latch status sensor, the latch being in a partially closed state and commanding, by a controller, the latch to change from the partially closed state to a fully closed state. The device may receive, from a switch disposed in the vehicle storage compartment, a command to change the latch to either an open state or the partially closed state to at least partially open the closure. Moreover, the device may include executing, by the latch, a cinching cycle to verify that the latch is in the fully closed state and the closure is in a fully closed position. Also, the device may include executing, in response to executing the cinching cycle, a release cycle transitioning the latch from the fully closed state to the partially closed state to move the closure from the fully closed position to a partially closed position.

Abstract: An anti-vandal combination rotary lock has a lock casing sleeving a front cover outside the lock casing, a lock core seat mounted in the lock casing, and a combination lock assembly and a clutch assembly mounted on the lock core seat. The clutch assembly can selectively connect or separate the lock core seat and a lock tongue. The user must first adjust the combination lock assembly to an unlocked state, and then holds and presses the front cover to drive the lock core seat to connect the lock tongue through the clutch assembly, so that the lock tongue is rotated to an unlocked position or a locked position. When the password entered is incorrect, the lock core seat cannot be driven through the front cover to connect the lock tongue through the clutch assembly.

Abstract: A vehicle inside door lever assembly includes a frame, a lever rotatably mounted on the frame so as to be rotatable with respect to the frame, and a torsion spring structured and operably connected to the lever and the frame so as to rotationally bias the lever in a first rotational direction, toward a closed and latched condition of the lever. An extension spring is structured and operably connected to the lever and the frame so as to rotationally bias the lever in the first rotational direction when the spring is in tension. In a lever where a side impact force acting on the lever would tend to rotate the lever in a second rotational direction opposite the first rotational direction, the arrangement described may prevent the lever from swinging inwardly in the second rotational direction toward an unlatched condition and releasing the door latch.

Abstract: A mounting module for mounting on a motor vehicle door, including a functional component, the mounting module having a mounting module carrier and a body functional component fastened to the mounting module carrier. The mounting module including a mechanical interface for fastening an extension functional component, such as a handle part or handle mount of a door handle unit, a motor vehicle lock and/or a sensor device. The mounting module including a contact unit for electrically contacting the extension functional component, and, within the scope of the mounting of the extension functional component to the mounting module by means of a mounting movement introduced into the extension functional component, the extension functional component is fastened to the mounting module via the mechanical interface and the extension functional component is electrically contacted via the contact unit.

Abstract: A vault with a vault lock system is provided to securely keep valuables in the vault. The vault includes a chamber having an interior space and an opening and a vault door installed at a periphery of the opening of the chamber and configured to securely close the interior space of the chamber. The chamber includes a pair of side walls and an end portion of one of the side walls has a first recess. The vault door includes a rear panel and a front slab slide-ably coupled to the rear panel. A first edge portion of the front slab is configured to fit into the first recess at the engaged position. The vault includes at least one hinge coupling the vault door to the chamber to open or close the interior space of the chamber with the vault door.

Abstract: A vehicle door operating device includes: a casing including a base; a latch supported on the base in a manner of being pivotally movable by a shaft oriented in up-down directions; a ratchet supported on the base in a manner of being pivotally movable by a shaft oriented upward and downward; a motor arranged in the casing such that a rotary shaft is oriented leftward and rightward; and a lead screw supported in the casing in a pivotally movable manner such that a rotation axial direction is oriented in left-right directions, having a gear part engaging with a pinion gear of the motor and a spiral groove line part with which an operated part provided in the ratchet directly engages, and moving the ratchet from the engagement position to the release position by one rotation in one direction in accordance with rotation of the rotary shaft of the motor.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a door striker assembly having an improved interface between a striker pin and a base plate. The striker pin comprising a raised section wherein a cross-section of the raised section comprises a bottom taper and a top taper where the bottom taper is inserted into a base plate aperture from a top side of the base plate for seating the striker pin into the base plate aperture. The present disclosure also provides a method for forming the aforementioned door striker assembly.

Abstract: An electric strike comprising a housing, keeper, actuator module, and actuator. The module comprises a keeper support bracket coupled with the actuator and configured to move between blocking and unblocking positions, and first and second keeper supports extending from opposite ends of the bracket. When the actuator is in a first position, the bracket is in the blocking position so that the first and second keeper supports are coupled to respective first and second ends of the keeper such that a load placed on the keeper when in a locked position is transferred through the keeper supports to a back housing wall. When the actuator is moved to a second position, the bracket is in the unblocking position so that the first and second keeper supports are decoupled with the respective first and second ends of the keeper to allow the keeper to rotate to an unlocked position.

Abstract: An electric strike for use with a sliding door is provided. The strike comprises a housing defining a cavity including first and second walls, each having first and second slots defined therein. A keeper is disposed within the cavity and movable between latched and unlatched positions. The keeper includes first and second ends, wherein each includes respective outwardly extending first and second keeper pins. The first and second keeper pins extending from each end of the keeper are disposed in the respective first and second slots. A blocking member is pivotably mounted to the housing and includes first and second portions. The second portion of the blocking member is engaged with the first keeper pin when the first portion of the blocking member is selectively engaged with a plunger of an actuating mechanism in the first engaged position to selectively maintain the keeper in the latched position.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a door handle assembly for a vehicle comprising a handle seat, a handle cover, an illumination unit, and a sealing element. The handle seat comprises a cavity and an opening connecting with the cavity. The handle cover covers the opening of the handle seat to close the cavity, and the handle cover comprises a light-transmitting area made of a light-transmitting material. The illumination unit is held in the cavity, and the illumination unit comprises a housing and an illumination element enclosed in the housing. The housing comprises a front wall facing the handle cover, and the front wall is made of the light-transmitting material. The sealing element is clamped between the front wall and the handle cover and arranged around the light-transmitting area of the handle cover to seal a gap between the front wall and the light-transmitting area of the handle cover from the outside.

Abstract: A door latch device includes: an open link including a lever main body, an inertia lever part, and a release energizing member configured to energize the inertia lever part to be maintained at an operating position with respect to the lever main body, an operation force of the door handle being not transmitted to the ratchet lever even in a state in which the lever main body is disposed at an unlocked position, in a case where the inertia lever part is disposed at a non-operating position against energizing force of the release energizing member; a ratchet lever; and a restriction mechanism disposed between the lever main body and the inertia lever part, the restriction mechanism being configured to restrict returning movement to the operating position in a case where the inertia lever part moves to the non-operating position.

Abstract: A door lock for a handle, comprises a housing, a rotatable connector inside the housing, a first elastic element and a second elastic element both arranged inside the housing. The rotatable connector is interacted with the handle. The first elastic element is at least configured to provide a restoring force for the handle to return to its origin position when the handle is rotated upward to lock the door, and the second elastic element is configured to provide a restoring force for the handle to return to its origin position when the handle is rotated downward to unlock and open the door, as well as to provide enough resistance to remain handle at its origin position when the handle is released. The door lock is effort-saving for the users to rotate the handle upward, and also adapted for various handles having different weights, to be remained at the origin position when the handle is released.

Abstract: A vehicle latch assembly, including: a remote cinching actuator; and a vehicle latch, the vehicle latch including: a latch housing; a claw pivotally mounted to the latch housing; a cinching lever pivotally mounted to the latch housing; a push out lever pivotally mounted to the cinching lever; an actuator housing secured to the latch housing; an inside release lever pivotally mounted to the actuator housing; a bypass lever pivotally mounted to the inside release lever, the bypass lever movable between a first position and a second position with respect to the inside release lever; a power release lever pivotally mounted to the actuator housing; a pawl, the power release lever being operably coupled to the pawl wherein movement of the power release lever causes the pawl move between an engaged position and a disengaged position, the pawl preventing rotation of the claw when the pawl is in the engaged position and the pawl does not prevent rotation of the claw when the pawl is in the disengaged position; wherein