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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 11, 2016
Indiana Mills & Manufacturing, Inc., Westfield, IN (US);
Steven Gale, Colfax, IN (US);
Guy R. Dingman, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Jeffrey A. King, Markleville, IN (US);
Indiana Mills & Manufacturing, Inc., Westfield, IN (US);
Abstract
A gate assembly for a motor vehicle having an open doorway includes an elongated gate having a pivoting end mounted to a first frame component at one side of the doorway and a latching end opposite the pivoting end, a latch striker pin mounted to a second frame component at the opposite side of the doorway, a latch cam at the latching end of the gate and having a latched position and an unlatched position, and an actuator having an engaged position in which the latch cam is in its unlatched position and a disengaged position in which the latch cam is in its latched position. The gate is pivotable from a stowed position adjacent to the one side of the doorway to a deployed position across the doorway in which the latch cam in its latched position engages the striker pin to secure the gate in its deployed position.