An interlock servo was an integral component found in Cardassian airlocks.
In 2369, an airlock malfunctioned on Deep Space 9 and left three people trapped inside for well over an hour. Chief Miles O'Brien asked Lieutenant Jones to activate the interlock servos and rerouting a power coupling to try to open the airlock hatch. (DS9: "Babel")
Interlock servos were first mentioned in a scene deleted from "Emissary". The line was retained in the novelization of Emissary.
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- Interlock servo at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works