Motor vehicle door lock with locking elements

US6308998A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Kiekert AG · DE

Inventors

• Stefan Armbruster · Heiligenhaus, DE
• Johannes-Theodor Menke · Velbert, DE
• Thomas Schönenberg · Burscheid, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 5, 1999
• Grant date: Oct 30, 2001
• Expiry date: Aug 5, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T292/85
• WIPO field: Civil engineering
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

A motor-vehicle door holding a lock provided with actuating elements operable to lock the door has an actuating system having an outside opening handle displaceable on the door, a pivot on the door, a first compensating lever pivotable on the pivot and having an outer end forming a seat, and a first rod part having an outer end connected to the handle and an inner end bearing on the seat in a predetermined direction. A second rod part having an outer end connected to the lock actuating elements and an inner end connected to an outer end of a second compensating lever pivotable on the pivot. A spring braced between the levers urges their outer ends angularly apart with the outer end of the first compensating lever bearing against the predetermined direction on the first rod-part inner end. A screw engaged between the levers offset from the pivot can releasably fix the levers together for joint pivoting. This screw is loosenable for relative pivoting of the levers.