A safety device for a motor vehicle, which has a striker, a pawl, an ejection spring ejecting the striker, and a rotary latch, wherein the rotary latch has an opening direction of rotation, a closing direction of rotation an open position, and a main locking position, wherein the ejection spring has a leg and the leg lies directly against the striker in the main locking position of the rotary latch and the leg lies directly against the rotary latch in at least one intermediate position of the rotary latch, in which the rotary latch is between the main locking position and the open position.

A front-loading washing machine includes a door frame, a latch, a door, a seal, and a striker. The latch is secured to the door frame. The door is rotatably secured to the door frame. The seal is disposed between the door and the door frame. The striker is secured to the door. The striker is configured to disengage the latch in a first configuration while the door is in a closed position such that a gap is formed between the door and the door frame to facilitate venting from an interior of the washing machine. The striker is configured to engage the latch in a second configuration while the door is in the closed position such that the seal closes the gap between the door and the door frame to inhibit venting from the interior of the washing machine.

Systems, devices, and methods of locking a lockable volume. The lock may comprise a bolt and a slider. The slider moves linearly to move the bolt in position to engage a securement feature. The engagement of the bolt with the securement feature secures the securement feature, thereby locking the door to which the securement feature is attached.

An appliance door closure assembly is provided and comprises an inner door selectively coupled with an outer door. An anchor is in connection with the inner door and defines a retention space. A latch assembly is in connection with the outer door. The latch assembly includes a first cam having a first contact surface and pivotally coupled to a base. A second cam has a second contact surface engaged with the first contact surface of the first cam. The latch assembly is movable between a first position and a second position.

A remanence-eliminating magnetic lock includes a housing, an electromagnetic body and a resilient abutting member. The electromagnetic body can be assembled into the housing and receive externally-supplied electricity to generate a magnetic attraction force on a top surface thereof. The resilient abutting member has a fixing end to be fixed within the housing or the electromagnetic body, and an abutting end exposed from the housing or the top surface of the electromagnetic body. A peak of the abutting end is higher than the top surface of the electromagnetic body. When a metal member is magnetically attached to the top surface of the electromagnetic body, the metal member pressures the abutting end to deform. When the supply of electricity to the magnetic lock is cut off, the abutting end pushes the metal member through a restoring force thereof to move the metal member away from the electromagnetic body to eliminate remanence.

An access door may include a core, first and second stiles defined along opposites sides of the core such that the core between the first and second stiles defines a recessed pocket with each of the first and second stiles defining a channel therein extending longitudinally along an inwardly-facing edge thereof, bottom and top elongated panels each defining tongue members at opposite sides thereof and configured to be received transversely in the recessed pocket with the tongue members received within the channels defined along the inwardly-facing edges of the first and second stiles, wherein, with the top and bottom elongated panels received in the recessed pocket, exterior faces of the first and second stiles, exterior faces of the top and bottom elongated panels, and an exposed surface of the recessed pocket between the top and bottom elongated panels define an exterior surface of one side of the door.

A hands-free door unlatching and opening system is provided for an access door operatively mounted to a jamb assembly of a building, the door including a handle set having a latch normally received, with the door in a closed position, within a latch pocket of a jamb of the jamb assembly to latch the door to the jamb. The system may include a plunger axially aligned with the latch pocket opposite to the latch, an actuator operatively coupled to the plunger and responsive to actuation to advance the plunger into the latch pocket to force the latch out of the latch pocket to unlatch the door from the jamb, and means for automatically opening the door following unlatching of the door from the jamb.

An access door may include a core, stiles on opposites sides of the core, an elongated panel extending transversely between the stiles, wherein a major face of the door between the stiles defines one or more recessed pockets along a top edge of the elongated panel between and the stiles and the elongated panel, and a notch formed into the top edge of the elongated panel and extending along at least one of the recessed pockets, the notch extending downwardly into the top edge of the elongated panel so as to form a lip in the top edge of the elongated panel with the notch positioned between the lip and the one or more recessed pockets, the lip and the notch of the elongated panel together forming an accessory rail, wherein the accessory rail is configured to receive and support a complementarily configured hanger base of an accessory hanger.

The invention relates to a securing device (1; 101) for a motor vehicle, having a front hood (2, 102) and a hood lock (3, 103) with a lock holder (10, 110). The hood lock (3, 103) has a rotary latch (4, 104) with a pre-locking position and a main locking position and an electric drive (5, 105) which causes a switchover of the rotary latch (4, 104) from the main locking position into the pre-locking position. In the main locking position, a release of the lock holder (10, 110) is blocked, and the front hood (2, 102) is closed. In the pre-locking position, the lock holder (10, 110) can be manually moved between a closed position, in which the lock holder (10, 110) is engaged with the rotary latch (4, 104) and the front hood (2, 102) is locked, and an open position, in which the lock holder (10, 110) is released from the rotary latch (4, 104) and the front hood (2, 102) is unlocked.

A hood lock apparatus includes a base plate having a striker groove into which a striker enters in response to a closing operation of a hood, a latch locking the striker entered into the striker groove, a locking plate locking the latch that locks the striker, a rattle lever supporting the striker locked by the latch with the latch, and a rattle spring biasing the rattle lever holding the striker with the latch towards the striker. The rattle spring is disposed to straddle a first center line passing through a rotational shaft of the rattle lever and extending in a direction at right angles to a direction in which the striker groove extends.