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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 15, 2011
Hiroyuki Kouzuma, Miyazaki, JP;
Hiroyuki Kouzuma, Miyazaki, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Honda Lock, Miyazaki, JP;
Abstract
A door lock device for a vehicle is provided in which a lock release member that is operable between an operating position at which the ratchet is operated toward the side on which the ratchet engages with the latch and a standby position at which free pivoting of the ratchet is allowed and that is urged toward the standby position is driven to the operating position by a drive member which engages with the lock release member when an actuator is operated, the door lock device being capable of releasing a locked state of a door by operation of the actuator and also being capable of releasing the locked state of the door by a manual operation, wherein an engagement release mechanism () releases engagement of a drive member () and a lock release member () in response to a manual operation for releasing the locked state of the door being carried out while the drive member () is engaged with the lock release member (). This enables recovery of a state in which a door can be held in a closed state even in a state in which a drive member has stopped at an operating position due to malfunction of an actuator in a state in which a locked state of the door is released.