Mitsui Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Yoshihiko Fujihara

Hirofumi Watanabe

Jiro Mitsui

A vehicle door latch device comprises a connecting member for connecting a lock pin with a lock lever. The connecting member has a lever side member connected to a lock lever, a pin side member connected to a lock pin, and a connecting spring for elastically connecting the lever side member with the pin side member. The connecting member changes length thereof against the elasticity of the spring to allow the lock lever to be displaced to an unlocked position from a locked position, when the lock pin cannot be displaced from a disengagement position to an engagement position by a displacement of the lock lever from a locked position toward an unlocked position while the open lever is in a door-opening position.

Anti-panic vehicle door latch device

A door lock apparatus with automatic door closing mechanism comprises a latch engaging with a striker secured to a vehicle body, an automatic door closing motor for over-rotating the latch at its half-latched position beyond its full-latched position while the motor rightly rotates, a switch adapated to turn to continuously ON when the latch is between the half-latched and full-latched positions and turn to OFF when the latch is at other position than between the half-latched and full-latched positions, and a controller for rightly rotating the motor when door closing operation turns the switch from its OFF condition to ON condition and reversely rotating motor when the switch turns from ON to OFF.

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Yamanashi-ken, Japan

Yoshihiko Fujihara