Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Ryujiro Akizauki

Tomoaki Imaizumi

Eiji Itami

Norikazu Kobayashi

Hiroshi Ishihara

Hiroyuki Mizushima

An apparatus for perfectly closing a door of a vehicle basically comprising a latch, a pawl, a motor, an active lever, a latch lever, a pawl switch, and a latch switch. The door closing begins with the action of the latch moving from the door half-closed to the closed position an shown by the switching off of the pawl switch with the latch switch turning on. The electric motor activates upon detecting the door half-closed position and stops when the closed position is reached.

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Toyota, Japan

Ryujiro Akizauki