A vehicle interior component is disclosed. The component may comprise a cover movable relative to a base between closed and open positions and a latch mechanism comprising a magnet arrangement for movement within the cover for engaged and disengaged states. The magnet arrangement may maintain the disengaged state after the cover is released from the base. A magnet of the base may retain the engaged state, a magnet may retain the disengaged state. The magnet arrangement may be concealed within the cover; a magnet arrangement may be concealed within the base. The base may comprise a first magnet on a sidewall and a second magnet on another sidewall; the cover may comprise a first magnet to engage the first magnet of the base and a second magnet to engage the second magnet of the base. The component may comprise a trim component, console, floor console, center console, or compartment.

A refrigerating unit including a compartment, a glass door, and a heating arrangement installed in a base profile of the compartment. The refrigerating unit including an elongated gasket profile having a proximal part and a distal part, wherein the proximal part includes a flexible element configured to allow the distal part to be displaced towards the base profile upon closing the glass door. The distal part includes a hollow part with a first side of the hollow part connected to the proximal part and a second side of the hollow part directed towards the glass door. The heating arrangement further includes a heat-conducting material enclosed by the hollow part and arranged with an outer side surface of the heat-conducting material abutting the second side of the hollow part, and a heating element enclosed by the hollow part and arranged for conductive heating of the heat-conducting material.

An exit device according to one embodiment includes a plurality of sensors and an electronic dogging mechanism. The exit device is configured to locally analyze sensor data to determine the security state of the exit device, report data to a management system via a wireless communication channel established between the exit device and the management system, and receive and process instructions to perform an electronic dogging operation.

The invention relates to a laboratory cabinet device for storing laboratory samples with a magnetic closure for the door. It concerns in particular a tempering cabinet for tempering laboratory samples, in particular an incubator for the growth of cell cultures. The magnetic closure works with magnetic elements arranged without contact in the closing position.

A magnetically-triggered lock mechanism for interengaging two relatively movable components. The lock mechanism includes a bolt mounted within a first component composed of a first material and displaceable between retracted and extended positions to interengage with a second component when the first and second components are in a predetermined position relative to each other and the bolt is extended, and a magnetically-releasable latch mechanism positioned to latch the bolt in a retracted position, the latch mechanism including a first magnet and mounted for movement between a biased latch engaging position and a latch releasing position. A support collar composed of a second material having higher strength than that of the first material is disposed around the bolt between an inner casing and outer casing of the first component and is spaced from the bolt to allow for sliding movement of the bolt through the support collar as the bolt moves between the extended and retracted positions. The support collar absorbs and distributes to the inner and/or outer casing a load generated from the bolt as the bolt moves to the extended position through the support collar. A second magnet is positioned to displace the latch mechanism to the latch releasing position when the first component is in the predetermined position relative to the second component.

A pet door apparatus (10) discloses a pet door frame (12), an opening (34), and closure flap (36) which is rotatable for at least partly closing the opening or extending away from the opening. A magnet (102) and magnetically attractable element are respectively on one or the other of the flap and frame, and an actuator can move the magnet or magnetically attractable element to change the distance, and magnetic attraction force, between them. A blocking member (176) attached to a side part (28) of the frame is movable under gravitational force and due to engaging cam surfaces (196, 198), from an extended, raised position for partially closing a gap (160) between the flap and frame, to a retracted, lowered position, and back to the raised, extended position by magnetic attraction between a magnet (164) on the flap and another magnet (190) on the frame.

A pet door apparatus (10) discloses a pet door frame (12), an opening (34), and closure flap (36) which is rotatable for at least partly closing the opening or extending away from the opening. A magnet (102) and magnetically attractable element are respectively on one or the other of the flap and frame, and an actuator can move the magnet or magnetically attractable element to change the distance, and magnetic attraction force, between them. A blocking member (176) attached to a side part (28) of the frame is movable under gravitational force and due to engaging cam surfaces (196, 198), from an extended, raised position for partially closing a gap (160) between the flap and frame, to a retracted, lowered position, and back to the raised, extended position by magnetic attraction between a magnet (164) on the flap and another magnet (190) on the frame.

In a door latch for a hinged or pivoting door having a latch fixture mounted in or on the door that supports a slideable bolt that is magnetically attracted to a fixed strike so as to effect latching action by extension of the bolt, a safety catch mechanism which, while engaged, prevents the bolt from extending, the safety catch mechanism having a catch member that operatively acts between the moveable bolt and the latch fixture, and an operating mechanism to operate the catch member responsive to magnetic forces from the strike. First and second actuators are disposed to opposite sides of the door, each of the first and second actuators being coupled to the latching mechanism to effect withdrawal of the latch bolt from its extended position to its retracted position upon operation by a user. A privacy lock mechanism is operable from one side of the door only and can be used to prevent the actuator on the other side of the door from operating the latch.

A magnetic lock has a magnetically operable latch having a magnetically repellable or attractable latch element. A magnetic operating device spaced from the latch has a first magnet with a respective magnetic direction and a second magnet with a respective magnetic direction. The first magnet is rotatable between a latched position with its magnetic direction generally parallel to and pointing oppositely to the magnetic direction of the second magnet for contracting a magnetic field formed by the first and second magnets, and a release position generally parallel to and with its magnetic direction pointing the same as the second magnet for extending the magnetic field to and repelling or attracting the latch element.

A cooling device includes a cabinet body that encloses a compartment, a door operatively associated with the cabinet body to selectively enclose the compartment, a heat source to heat transfer, a first magnetic element in contact with or attached to a front flange of the cabinet body and a sealing assembly for sealing an area between the cabinet body and the door of the cooling device. The heat source and the first magnetic member are at least partly in contact with each other in such a way that condensation problems thereof are effectively reduced.