Door lock formed integrally with a separable door hinge for a motor vehicle door

US6073309A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Ed. Scharwaechter GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Bernd Kluting · Radevormwald, DE
• Alexander Zernickel · Herzogenaurach, DE
• Detlef Gorgens · Wermelskirchen, DE
• Rolf Fleischhauer · Fürth, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 12, 1998
• Grant date: Jun 13, 2000
• Expiry date: Aug 12, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC E): Fixed Constructions
• CPC primary: E05Y2900/531
• WIPO field: Civil engineering
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

A door lock which is formed integrally with a motor vehicle door hinge and which includes a housing fixedly secured to the hinge pin or the one of the first and second hinge halves, a holding element having at least a partially curved running track concentric with a hinge pin axis and a plurality of detent points, a plurality of braking and locking members cooperating with the holding element for retaining a motor vehicle door in a predetermined braking and locking position, and formed as rolling bodies rotatable about respective support axles having their axes extending transverse to hinge pin axis, a carrier for supporting the braking and locking members, a spring for biasing the braking and locking members into engagement with the holding element, and an arrangement securing the holding element or the carrier to the housing without a possibility of rotation relative thereto and for axial displacement relative thereto.