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A vehicle door latch assembly including a pivotal rotor engagable with a striker pin. A pawl is moveable between a blocking position retaining the rotor in engagement with the striker pin, and a release position permitting the rotor to disengage the striker pin. A link is moveable, manually or by me

A vehicle door latch assembly including a pivotal rotor engagable with a striker pin. A pawl is moveable between a blocking position retaining the rotor in engagement with the striker pin, and a release position permitting the rotor to disengage the striker pin. A link is moveable, manually or by means of an electric motor, between a coupled position engaging the pawl and an uncoupled position disengaged from the pawl. The link also engages an actuator member when the link is in the coupled position and is disengaged from the actuator member in the uncoupled position. The actuator member may be operated, when the link is in the coupled position, to move the pawl to the release position by means of the link. A Bowden cable may be connected to an interior operating handle, the link, and the actuator member to permit locking, unlocking, and unlatching from a single operating handle. A lost motion connection may be provided which cooperates with an over-center spring to improve the feel of the operation of the lock of the latch assembly from the interior operating handle. In another embodiment, a single lever is connected to the Bowden cable to be pivoted thereby to selectively cause the link to rotate between the coupled and uncoupled positions, and to axially drive the link to place the latch assembly in the unlatched condition.

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A vehicle door latch assembly adapted to be mounted to a vehicle structure to engage a striker bolt, comprising: a pivotal rotor adapted in a first position to engage the striker bolt; a pawl operatively coupled to said rotor and moveable between a blocking position retaining said rotor in said firs

A vehicle door latch assembly adapted to be mounted to a vehicle structure to engage a striker bolt, comprising: a pivotal rotor adapted in a first position to engage the striker bolt; a pawl operatively coupled to said rotor and moveable between a blocking position retaining said rotor in said first position, and a release position permitting said rotor to move from said first position; a link operatively coupled to said pawl and engaging said pawl in a coupled position, said link being selectively moveable between said coupled position and an uncoupled position in which said link is disengaged from said pawl; a lever operatively coupled to said link to selectively move said link between said uncoupled position and said coupled position, said lever being further operatively coupled to said link such that, when said link is in said coupled position, said lever can be selectively operated to cause said link to move said pawl to said release position; and an actuator member operatively coupled to said link and engaging said link when said link is in said coupled position, said actuator member being disengaged from said link when said link is in said uncoupled position, said actuator member being selectively moveable between an unactuated position and an actuated position in which said actuator member causes, when said link is in said coupled position, said link to move said pawl to said release position.