Patent · US Expired

Power-actuated motor-vehicle door latch

US5667263A · kind A · utility

11Cited by

7References

3Claims

0Family size

Assignee

Kiekert AG · DE

Inventors

Frank Kleefeldt · Heiligenhaus, DE
Peter Bartel · Hattingen, DE
Horst Brackmann · Velbert, DE
Theodor Menke · Velbert, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 28, 1995
Grant date	Sep 16, 1997
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 28, 2015

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10T292/57
WIPO fieldCivil engineering
WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

A motor-vehicle door latch has a housing and a locking mechanism in the housing having an inside locking lever displaceable between a locked position in which the latch is locked and unlocked position in which the latch is unlocked. An output element rotatable about an axis on the housing is formed with a spiral main groove having a pair of ends and with a transverse connecting groove extending between the ends. A pin mounted directly on the locking lever rides directly in the spiral groove. A reversible electric motor can rotate the output element so that the pin travels between the ends of the spiral groove for displacing the locking lever into the locked position when the pin engages one of the groove ends and for displacing the locking lever into the unlocked position when the pin engages the other of the groove ends. A locking element connected to the inside locking lever displaces same manually between its positions with movement of the pin along the connecting groove between the spiral groove ends.

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