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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2023
Filed:
May. 14, 2018
Mitsui Kinzoku Act Corporation, Yokohama, JP;
Hirotaka Nishijima, Yokohama, JP;
Shintaro Okawa, Yokohama, JP;
Katsuyuki Ishiguro, Yokohama, JP;
Shunsuke Tamura, Yokohama, JP;
Hibiki Ogura, Yokohama, JP;
MITSUI KINZOKU ACT CORPORATION, Yokohama, JP;
Abstract
Vehicle door latch apparatus has; latch that engages strike and that rotates from an unlatched position to a full-latch over rotating position; ratchet member that is rotatably supported by ratchet shaft, wherein ratchet member has pawl portion that is movable between a latch engaging position, where pawl portion can face full-latching engaging portion of latch, and a latch releasing position, where pawl portion is not engaged with full-latching engaging portion; and ratchet restrainer that is positioned on a side of ratchet member and that restrains ratchet member. Ratchet member is configured to be pushed out from latch engaging position to a latch releasing position by release component force Fthat acts on ratchet member in a latch releasing direction, wherein release component force Fis generated when latch returning force that acts on latch is applied to ratchet member at the latch engaging position.