Lock, in particular for motor vehicle doors

US6523376B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• VDO Adolf Schindling AG · DE

Inventors

• Theo Baukholt · Kriftel, DE
• Klaus Rathmann · Frankfurt am Main, DE
• Jens Lubben · Schwalbach, DE
• Sven Petzold · Wiesbaden, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 12, 2001
• Grant date: Feb 25, 2003
• Expiry date: Mar 12, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T292/1082
• WIPO field: Civil engineering
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

A lock suitable for use in a motor vehicle door has a rotary latch, a locking wedge, a pawl, a setting device, and a transmission device wherein the rotary latch cooperates with the locking wedge to be locked in a locking position by the pawl. Upon actuation of a manipulator, the setting device brings the pawl electrically at least into one opening position. The transmission device brings the pawl into its opening position by actuation of the manipulator over a displacement range which is greater than a displacement range of an electric unlocking.