Trimark Corporation

Paccar Inc.

Marvin L Larsen

Kevin P Eschweiler

Stephen J Gleason

Chris J Wildeboer

Donald R Miehe

Ken L McConnell

Theresa M Glaser

Kenneth William Bryant

Mark Steven Jeffries

Julie M Houdek

Barbara J Pickar

Jennifer Lynn Bearman

Dave S Magner

Tobias J Schwickerath

Shayne E Dodge

Kenneth L McConnell

Eric J Johanson

Chad A Uhlenhake

Kenneth Lloyd Mcconnell

The door handle bracket and latch assembly of the present invention includes a bracket subassembly and a latch. The latch has a spring mounted rotor and a spring mounted catch which function to maintain a door in a latched or unlatched condition. The bracket subassembly includes a mounting plate, a pivotally mounted trip lever, and a rotational release cam receiving the drive shaft of the door handle. Upon rotation of the door handle in either a clockwise or counterclockwise direction, the release cam pivots the trip lever, which in turn pivots the catch out of retentive engagement with the rotor, such that the rotor rotates to the unlatched position to allow the door to move from the latched closed position to an unlatched open position. The assembly has a simple design with a low profile and versatile mounting options.

Door handle bracket and latch assembly

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 key operated, lock actuating system having a housing and a lock cylinder that is pivotable relative to the housing around a first axis. An actuator assembly is pivotable around the first axis between a fully locked position and an unlocked position. The lock actuating system includes a first key having a first configuration and a second key having a second configuration. The first key can be used to change the actuator assembly between the locked and unlocked positions. The second key, which cannot be fully inserted to be operable with the actuator assembly in the locked position, can be used to change the actuator assembly between the unlocked position and an intermediate locked position.

Lock system operable with multiple keys

Outside paddle assembly for road vehicles

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

Inside paddle assembly for road vehicles

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

A lock assembly having a key plug with an axis, a first housing defining a receptacle for the key plug and guiding movement of the key plug in the receptacle around the key plug axis, a latch assembly including a first movable latch element, structure cooperating between the first housing and the latch assembly for supporting the latch assembly in an operative position on the first housing wherein the first latch element is movable between first and second positions relative to the first housing, a retaining element, structure for mounting the retaining element to the key plug for movement relative to the key plug between first and second positions, with the key plug being movable into the key plug receptacle to an operative position and removable from the key plug receptacle with the retaining element in its first position, and structure cooperating between the retaining element and latch assembly for preventing withdrawal of the key plug from the first housing receptacle with the key plug in its operative position and the retaining element in its second position.

Lock assembly with interchangeable key plug

Flush door latch assembly

A lock assembly having a housing and a plunger assembly guided for movement relative to the housing between a latched position and an unlatched position with the plunger assembly and housing in assembled relationship. A tab is provided on one of the plunger assembly and housing and is repositionable from an assembly position into a holding position. With the tab in the assembly position, the plunger assembly and housing can be placed in and taken out of, their assembled relationship. In the holding position, the tab maintains the plunger assembly and housing in assembled relationship.

Lock assembly

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New Hampton, IA, United States of America

Marvin L Larsen