| 摘要 |
A latch assembly having a chassis, a latch bolt, movably mounted on the chassis and having a closed position for retaining a striker and an open position for releasing the striker, a pawl having an engaged position at which the pawl is engaged with the latch bolt to hold the latch bolt in the closed position and a disengaged position at which the pawl is disengaged from the latch bolt thereby allowing the latch bolt to move to the open position, in which the pawl is rotatably mounted via a pawl pivot pin about a pawl axis, and in which the pawl pivot pin includes a first arcuate portion having a first radius about the pawl axis, and in which the cross-sectional area of the pawl pivot pin, taken perpendicular to the pawl axis, is greater than the area of a circle having the first radius. |
