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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2021
Aisin Technical Center of America, Inc., Northville, MI (US);
Aisin Corporation, Kariya, JP;
Ryan Heins, Wixom, MI (US);
Nicholas Ozog, South Lyon, MI (US);
Takashi Nishio, Novi, MI (US);
Toshio Machida, Kariya, JP;
Shinsuke Takayanagi, Kariya, JP;
Aisin Corporation, Kariya, JP;
Aisin Technical Center of America, Inc., Northville, MI (US);
Abstract
A powered latch assembly for a vehicle tailgate includes a latch having a slot structured to receive a striker therein during closing of a tailgate. The latch is structured to be rotatable about a rotational axis into a latched position of the latch when the striker is received in the slot so as to maintain the tailgate in at least one closed position of the tailgate associated with the latched position. The latch is also structured so that, with respect to a vertical plane extending through the rotational axis, a centroid of a cross-section of the striker taken through a portion of the striker residing inside the slot resides along a first side of the plane when the latch is in a fully-latched position.