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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2019
Motherson Innovations Company Limited, London, GB;
Romeo Wieczorek, Stuttgart, DE;
David-Kenneth Jaeger, Stuttgart, DE;
Jean-Francois Bourdon, Harnes, FR;
Ludovic Carpentier, Harnes, FR;
Motherson Innovations Company Limited, London, GB;
Abstract
A latch assembly for an access door of a storage compartment in a vehicle, includes a locking bar configured to move into an engaged configuration which enables the access door to be placed and held into a closed position and a disengaged configuration which permits the access door to be placed into an opened position; and an automatic locking mechanism including a shape memory alloy (SMA) actuator configured to be coupled to the access door, and further including a locking feature operably coupled to a portion of the locking bar, and configured to engage and disengage the SMA actuator which is electrically energized to move into a locked position to prohibit the locking feature from moving. A latch assembly for an access door of a storage compartment in a vehicle includes an SMA actuator configured to move the locking bar into the disengaged configuration with the storage compartment.