Trimark Corporation

Kevin P Eschweiler

Marvin L Larsen

Barbara J Pickar

Chris J Wildeboer

Ken L McConnell

Theresa M Glaser

Bruce E Boerschel

Douglas W Smith

Timothy J Zweibohmer

Terry M Birchler

Ricci L Marzolf

Erik C Turocy

Shawn Whetstone

Robert W Donaldson

Matthew L Hidding

Jennifer Lynn Bearman

Christopher R Zenner

Eric J Johanson

Chad A Uhlenhake

Jeff S Macon

Vehicle inside door handle

Vehicle outside door handle

Inside door handle for motor vehicle

Remote pull handle

Door latch handle

A door lock assembly is provided for use on multiple types of door latches. The assembly includes a housing, a paddle pivotally mounted on the housing, and a pivot plate pivotally mounted on the housing and operatively connected to the door latch. An actuator is mounted on the housing and is operatively connected to the paddle. A pin is slideably received within a slot in the pivot plate and moved between first and second positions in response to locking and unlocking of a locked cylinder. The actuator engages the pin in the first position so as to actuate the pivot plate and thereby open the door latch when the paddle is pulled. The actuator disengages the pin in the second position so that the paddle free floats when pulled and precludes the pivot plate from opening the door latch when the locked cylinder is locked or the power actuator is actuated.

Door lock assembly with free floating paddle

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.

Latch assembly for a movable closure

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. As the first handle is moved from the first position for the first handle into the second position for the first handle, the first handle causes the first latch assembly to change from the latched state into the released state. The first handle is movable from the first position for the first handle into the second position for the first handle by exerting a force on the first handle in a first direction. The first frame part, first handle, and first latch assembly are capable of being mounted in an operative position on the closure element so that a force exerted on the first handle in the first direction to move the first handle from the first position for the first handle into the second position for the first handle has at least a component thereof tending to move the closure element from the first position for the closure element toward the second position for the closure element. With the first frame part, first handle, and first latch assembly in the operative position on the closure element with the closure in the first position for the closure element and the latch assembly in the latched state, a user can exert a force on the first handle in the first direction that both a) changes the first latch assembly from the latched state into the released state and b) urges the closure element from the first position for the closure element towards the second position for the closure element.

Latch system for movable closure

Actuator for latch system

Latch assembly

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.

Latch assembly for movable closure

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New Hampton, IA, United States of America

Kevin P Eschweiler