Method of operating an electrical control system for an automotive vehicle having a service-facility mode

US5808375A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Kiekert AG · DE

Inventors

• Stefan Armbruster · Heiligenhaus, DE
• Bettina Gottwald nee Heinze · Velbert, DE
• Achim Jahrsetz · Velbert, DE
• Wilfried Ostermann · Essen, DE
• Thomas Schönenberg · Burscheid, DE
• Fred Welskopf · Herne, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 30, 1996
• Grant date: Sep 15, 1998
• Expiry date: May 30, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T70/5973
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An electrical control system for an automotive vehicle can be switched to a service facility operating mode in which locks for the glove compartment, a storage console and the trunk can be inactivated in their closed position while other electrically-operated vehicle locks remain operable by actuators of the control system to prevent access to personal belongings by service personnel. Restoration to the normal operating mode can be effected automatically upon lapse of a time period programmed into the central unit.