DOOR LATCH WITH DOUBLE LOCKING ANTITHEFT FEATURE

摘要

A vehicle door latch assembly including a pivotal rotor (30) engageable with a striker pin (26). A pawl (46) is moveable between a blocking position retaining the rotor (30) in engagement with the striker pin (26), and a release position permitting the rotor (30) to disengage the striker pin (26). A link (54) is moveable, manually or by means of an electric motor, between a coupled position engaging the pawl (46) and an uncoupled position disengaged from the pawl (46). The link (54) also engages an actuator member (38) when the link (54) is in the coupled position and is disengaged from the actuator member (38) in the uncoupled position. The actuator member (38) may be operated when the link (54) is in the coupled position, to move the pawl (46) to the release position by means of the link (54).