Mitsui Minings & Melting Co., Ltd.

Mitsuhiro Watanabe

Hideaki Nozawa

Nobuyoshi Fujimatsu

Miki Ogino

A door of a vehicle is opened and closed by a handle mounted to the side of the door. In the door, a vehicle door lock control connected to the handle comprises a base plate on which an operating lever and a release lever are pivotally secured. The release lever is connected to a door-latching device which engages with or disengages from a vehicle body. The door is placed by a knob via a knob lever in a locked position where the door cannot be opened by the handle. The knob is coupled to the knob lever.

Vehicle door lock control

An automotive childproof safety lock control apparatus including a door latch which can hold a door of a vehicle in a closed position, a childproof safety lock unit which can be displaced to an unlocking state where the release of the door latch from a latching state is enabled by controlling an inner handle provided inside of the vehicle to open the door and a locking state where the release of the door latch from the latching state is disabled, and a drive unit which is linked to the childproof safety lock unit and the door latch so as to displace the childproof safety lock unit from the locking state to the unlocking state and release the door latch from the latching state when activated in one direction and to displace the childproof safety lock unit from the unlocking state to the locking state when activated in the other direction.

Automotive childproof safety lock control apparatus

In a vehicle door lock control, an operating handle is provided at a door inside or outside a vehicle to enable a door to open and close. The handle is connected to an operating lever. In a locked position, the door cannot be opened by the operating handle, while it can be opened by the operating handle via a release lever in an unlocking position. The release lever pivotally secured on a base plate is connected to a door latch device of the door to allow the door latch device to disengage from a striker of a vehicle body in the unlocking position thereby opening the door by the operating handle. A lock control pin is moved by a knob lever to control the release lever to allow the door to open. The knob lever is operated by a knob manually inside the vehicle or by an actuator electrically.

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Mitsuhiro Watanabe