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LATCH ASSEMBLY

  • US 20120098279A1
  • Filed: 05/20/2011
  • Published: 04/26/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/21/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A latch assembly havinga chassis,a latch bolt, movably mounted on the chassis and having a closed position for retaining a striker and an open position for releasing the striker,a pawl having an engaged position at which the pawl is engaged with the latch bolt to hold the latch bolt in the closed position and a disengaged position at which the pawl is disengaged from the latch bolt thereby allowing the latch bolt to move to the open position,an eccentric arrangement defining an eccentric axis and a pawl axis remote from the eccentric axis, with the eccentric arrangement being rotatable about the eccentric axis and with the pawl being rotatable about the pawl axis,in which when the pawl moves from the engaged position to the disengaged position the eccentric arrangement rotates about the eccentric axis to move the pawl axis from a first pawl axis position to a second pawl axis position,a retaining mechanism having a retaining position at which the pawl axis is held in the first pawl axis position and having a non-retaining position at which the pawl axis is allowed to move to the second pawl axis position,a release lever operable to move the retaining mechanism from the retaining position to the non-retaining position when the release lever is moved from a rest position to a released position,in which movement of the release lever from the released position to the rest position causes the pawl axis to move from the second pawl axis position to the first pawl axis position.

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