Closing device for a movable element, in particular for a door of a vehicle

US6279972A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Mannesmann VDO AG · DE

Inventors

• Sigmar Brill · Nassau (Lahn), DE
• Reinhard Stalter · Usingen, DE
• Gerhard Menz · Heiligenhaus, DE
• Klaus Rathmann · Frankfurt am Main, DE
• Axel Schafer · Bad Soden, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 24, 1999
• Grant date: Aug 28, 2001
• Expiry date: Jun 24, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T292/1047
• WIPO field: Civil engineering
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

The invention relates to a closing device for a movable element, in particular for a door, a flap or the like, of a vehicle, having a rotary latch which arrests or releases a closing bolt, it being possible for the rotary latch to be arrested by a detent pawl to effect a closed position of the element and it being possible for the detent pawl to be driven by an actuating drive for the purpose of releasing the rotary latch to effect an opening position of the element, the invention making provision for means which control the actuating drive in such a manner that after the actuating drive has been driven from a rest position in the direction of a working position for the purpose of releasing the rotary latch it is returned in a controlled manner from the working position into the rest position.