Abstract: A latch assembly for a movable closure. The latch assembly has a housing with a front, a rear, and a first wall with a forwardly facing surface and an opening through the first wall. The latch assembly further has an actuating assembly including a paddle that is pivotably mounted for movement relative to the housing about a first axis between first and second positions. The paddle has a second wall with a rearwardly facing surface. The actuating assembly further has a post projecting rearwardly from the second wall into the opening through the first wall. The post has a third wall which fully blocks the opening through the first wall as viewed from the front of the latch assembly with the paddle in the first position.

Abstract: A latch system for a closure element that is slidable relative to a mounting frame between first and second positions. The mounting frame has a strike element to be engaged to releasably maintain the closure element in a first position. The latch system has a first frame part, a first handle that is mounted to the first frame part for movement between first and second positions, and a first latch assembly having a latched state and a released state. The first latch assembly in the latched state is capable of cooperating with the strike element to selectively prevent the closure element from moving from the first position for the closure element into the second position for the closure element. The first latch assembly in the released state permits the closure element to move from the second position for the closure element into the first position for the closure element and from the first position for the closure element into the second position for the closure element.

Abstract: A latch assembly for a movable closure, which latch assembly has a housing having a front and rear and a wall with a forwardly facing surface, and an actuating assembly that is changeable between first and second states. The actuating assembly has an actuator element that is operable to selectively change the actuating assembly from the first state into the second state. The housing wall has an opening therethrough to allow the actuating assembly to extend from forwardly of the housing wall through the housing wall opening to rearwardly of the housing wall and reposition a latch element at the rear of the housing as an incident of the actuating assembly changing from the first state into the second state. The actuating assembly has a wall disposed in front of the housing wall that fully blocks the housing opening as viewed from the front of the housing.