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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2013
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Erlanger, KY (US);
Norman Charles Kerr, III, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Erlanger, KY (US);
Abstract
A vehicle door opening prevention apparatus includes a thin cross-section spacer or flange coupled to a plate attached to a door handle frame in a vehicle door's door handle assembly. One end of the flange is positioned relative to a door lock assembly mounted within the vehicle door to limit the maximum amount of lateral inward movement of the door handle assembly toward the door lock assembly during lateral forces exerted on the vehicle door to prevent movement of an actuator pin to a door lock assembly unlatch position via movement of a fork coupled to a handle and engaged with the actuator pin.