Kiekert Ag

Gerhard Menz

Bernhard Funk

A motor-vehicle door latch has a housing adapted to be mounted in a motor-vehicle door having an inner wall, an opening lever displaceable into an actuated position for unlatching the door, an inside door handle, and a child-safety button on the inner door wall displaceable between an actuated position and an unactuated position. A child-safety lever on the housing is displaceable between a child-safety on position and a child-safety off position and a child-safety actuating element connected to the button and to the lever is displaced by the button on displacement of the button between its actuated and unactuated positions between a pair of end positions corresponding to the on and off positions of the child-safety lever. An actuating assembly connected to the child-safety actuating element and connected between the inside door handle and the opening lever displaces the opening lever into the actuated position on operation of the inside door handle when the child-safety lever is in its off position and decouples the opening lever from the opening lever when the child-safety lever is in its on position.

Motor-vehicle door latch with child-safety lockout

A motor-vehicle door latch has a housing, a latching fork on the housing pivotable into and out of a locked position, a latching pawl engageable with the fork and pivotable into and out of a retaining position holding the lock in the locked position, and a release lever connected to the latching pawl. A main inside actuating lever pivotal on the housing carries a secondary inside actuating lever provided with an actuating pin and pivotal on the main inside actuating lever between a coupling position with the pin engageable with the release lever on pivoting of the main lever and a decoupling position unengageable with the release lever on pivoting of the main lever. An inside door handle connected to the main inside actuating lever can pivot same and, only in the coupling position of the secondary lever, engage the pin against the release lever and displace the pawl out of the retaining position. An integral child-safety assembly including a knob, a shaft fixed on the knob, and a fork fixed on the shaft and engaging directly around the pin is displaceable between an off position holding the pin in the coupling position and an on position holding the pin in the decoupling position.

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Heiligenhaus, Germany

Gerhard Menz