MUMBAI, India, July 25 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517064671 A) filed by Byd Company Limited, Guangdong, China, on July 7, for 'locking mechanism, door lock apparatus, and vehicle.'

Inventor(s) include Zhang, Xiaoqiang; Jiang, Xuyao; and Li, Ming.

The application for the patent was published on July 25, under issue no. 30/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A door lock device and a vehicle. The door lock device and the vehicle each comprise a locking mechanism. The locking mechanism comprises a cam, a locking arm and a first gear, the cam being rotationally connected to a first rotating shaft, the locking arm being rotationally connected to a second rotating shaft and connected to the cam, and the first gear being rotationally connected to the first rotating shaft and connected to the cam. The locking mechanism has a locking state and an unlocking state. In the locking state, the locking arm is connected to the first gear, so as to fix the first gear with respect to the first rotating shaft. During the process of switching the locking state to the unlocking state, the cam rotates around the first rotating shaft and drives the locking arm to rotate around the second rotating shaft, such that the locking arm is separated from the first gear, and the cam drives the first gear to rotate with respect to the first rotating shaft."

The patent application was internationally filed on Dec. 30, 2023, under International application No.PCT/CN2023/143697.

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