SLIDING DOOR LOCK

摘要

SLIDING DOOR LOCK A door lock for sliding doors of trucks, vans and the like includes an exterior handle assembly and an interior handle assembly for actuating components carried in an interior housing assembly. The components include a pair of rotary latch bolts projecting through openings formed in opposite sides of the housing assembly. A pair of strikes are carried on spaced portions of a vehicle wall at locations on opposite sides of a vehicle access opening which is controlled by the door. The door is movable between a latched-closed position wherein one of the latch bolts latchingly engages one of the strikes to hold the door closed, and a latched-open position wherein the other of the latch bolts latchingly engages the other of the strikes to hold the door open. A thumb-operated lock control slide is carried by the housing assembly and provides one means for locking and unlocking the lock from inside the vehicle. A key cylinder provides a means for moving the control slide between locked and unlocked positions from outside the vehicle. The exterior handle assembly can be operated to unlatch the lock only when the control slide is in its unlocked position. The interior handle assembly can be operated regardless of the position of the control slide to release latching engagement between either of the latch bolts and its associated strike. A "slam override" feature permits the lock bolts to be moved into latching engagement with the strikes regardless of the position of the lock control slide, and prevents the driver from accidentally locking himself out of his vehicle by assuring that, when either of the latch bolts engages its associated strike, the thumb-operated slide is maintained in or moved to its unlocked position.