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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2009
Yasunari Sakai, Kariya, JP;
Takao Yamamoto, Kariya, JP;
Tomochika Mizuta, Kariya, JP;
Abstract
A door lock release mechanism includes a spacer, which is fixed to a handle baseand restricts depression of an outside handle in an inward direction of a vehicle when a door of the vehicle is deformed, and an engagement portion, which is formed in the spacerand arranged at a position outside the normal path of an opening operation of the door lock release mechanism. The engagement portionis moved to a position in the path of the opening operation of the door lock release mechanism to restrict the opening operation of a latch open leverthrough deformation of the door of the vehicle when a side collision occurs. As a result, simply through the engagement portionformed in the spacer, which restricts displacement of the outside handlein the inward direction of the vehicle, the unlocking operation of the latch open leveris prevented to avoid unlocking of the door when the door is deformed through the side collision.