Latch Jaw Stuck Closed. The latch jaw is a spring-loaded component inside the car door. It is designed to engage with a metal hook-shaped part on the frame called the latch post, also known as the ...

Click beetles use the elastic recoil of a spring-like mechanism in their exoskeleton to throw themselves into the air. The mechanism of the insects’ motion was discovered using high-speed synchrotron ...

Mechanism of spring-loaded seed launch discovered. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 3, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2011 / 01 / 110127090618.htm. Journal of Experimental Biology.

3 (Pull The Bolt): If the door’s locking mechanism has a latch bolt, meaning the kind of bolt that’s spring-loaded and has an angled end, look closely at the end of the bolt. If its angled end ...

Every so often, a new car will come out with fancy, seemingly new technology that, in reality, was already attempted in the '30s, '40s, or '50s. Take the push-button door handles from the Lincoln ...

2011-14 Ford Fiesta vehicles built at Cuautitlán Assembly Plant, January 26, 2010, to Oct. 31, 2013; 2012-15 Ford Focus vehicles built at Michigan Assembly Plant, October 4, 2010, to Jan. 31, 2015 ...

Innovators and inventors are often encouraged by the age-old axiom, "If you build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door." In 1882, before the modern spring-loaded mousetrap ...