Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

Reginald Leo McDonald

Lloyd Walker Rogers, Jr

John R Rice

David A Sedlak

Thomas B Blake

Pat Santarelli

Eric Oswin Gottschling

A vehicle door latch mechanism includes a latch assembly, an inside latch handle assembly, an outside latch handle assembly, a lock assembly and a child security assembly. An unlocking assembly is disposed between the lock assembly and the inside latch handle assembly. The unlocking assembly interrelates the inside latch handle assembly and the lock assembly so that operating the inside latch handle unlocks the door. This allows a person to unlatch the door from outside the door even when the door is latched and locked, and even when the child security lock is activated.

Door latch with child security lock and unlocking assembly

A vehicle door latch has a locking mechanism and a latching mechanism and inside and outside handle levers for unlatching the vehicle door latch. Each handle lever cooperates with the locking mechanism and the latching mechanism independently of the other so that the vehicle door latch can be unlocked and unlatched by one handle lever when the other handle lever is stuck in an unlatched position.

Vehicle door latch

A vehicle door latch has a locking mechanism and an unlatching mechanism that cooperate with each other and an inside handle lever so the door latch can be unlocked and unlatched by an inside door handle or the like.

A vehicle seat is mounted on the vehicle floor by a seat adjusting mechanism permitting fore and aft adjusting movement of the seat. A grooved rod is mounted on the vehicle floor. A locking device connected to the seat belt buckle houses a jaw sleeve which surrounds and is normally freely slidable along the grooved rod during seat adjustment. The jaw sleeve is slotted at one end to form a plurality of tooth members having a ramped outer surface. A collar formed integral with the jaw sleeve is threaded to receive a bolt attach to the seat adjuster and provides the connection of the locking device with the seat adjuster. The collar is moveable within a recess in the housing of the locking device from the normal, unlocked position in which the tooth members clear the grooves of the rod to a locked position in which the housing acts on the ramped surface of the tooth members to deflect the tooth member into a rod groove to lock the locking device on the rod under the imposition of a substantial occupant restraint load on the locking device by the seat belt. The seat belt attachment bracket is pivotable about the locking device housing to allow variable positioning of the belt buckle assembly during seat adjustment.

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Macomb Township, MI, United States of America

Reginald Leo McDonald