Nissan Motor Company Limited

Yasumasa Okada

Tatsuhiko Matsui

Minoru Shimatsu

A vehicle trunk lid opening mechanism including a lid pivotally mounted to the trunk, and two torsion bars which are arranged to produce, when the lid is closed, a torsional force to urge the lid to open. One end of each torsion bar is connected to the lid hinge and the other end of each bar is retained in a mounting hole formed in a panel of a body pillar located in the trunk.

Torsion hinge

In a lid opener mechanism including two locking devices for respectively locking two lids, and two control wires respectively connected at their one ends to the two locking devices for making the locking devices inoperative when pulled in a given direction, there is provided a handle device for operating the control wires. The handle device comprises a supporter stationarily arranged at a position far from the two locking devices, a single lever swingably arranged on the supporter and having one end forking into first and second work portions, at least one spring spanned between the supporter and the lever to bias the lever to take a predetermined neutral position, and two pins which are arranged to connect the other ends of the control wires to the first and second work portions of the lever, whereby when the lever is swung in a direction against the force of the spring causing one of the first and second work portions to pull the corresponding control wire in the given direction, the correspondng locking device becomes inoperative thereby to unlock the corresponding lid.

Handle device of lid opener mechanism

A latch mechanism is provided which comprises a latch member and an open member to move the latch member to its open position. The latch mechanism has a frist condition in which the latch and open members are in conjoint action and a second condition in which the latch and open members are out of conjoint action.

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Yasumasa Okada