US Patent Issued to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP on Oct. 14 for "Door lock for a vehicle, with reduced noise generation" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,227, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Door lock for a vehicle, with reduced noise generation" was invented by Joachim Kuehnel (Ebersbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A door lock for a vehicle includes a rotary latch for form-fittingly holding a locking element, a blocking mechanism for blocking the rotary latch from releasing, and a wedge system having a wedge lever and a connection piece, which can be brought into a self-locking contact position in order to reduce a relative movement between the locking element and the rotary latch. The blocking mechanism contacts a circumfe...