Motor vehicle electric door lock and a process for installing a motor vehicle door lock made as an electric lock

US6641184B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Bernardo Erices · Bensberg, DE
• Simon Brose · Hattingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 2, 2002
• Grant date: Nov 4, 2003
• Expiry date: Jan 2, 2022

Classification

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

Abstract

A motor vehicle electric door lock with an outside housing which is essentially closed on all sides, with an inlet channel for the key collar and with, located in the outside housing, a rotary latch, a detent pawl which holds the rotary latch, a separate detent pawl lever which is dynamically connected to the detent pawl or which is made on the detent pawl as an extension, and an electrical opening drive unit with a drive motor, step-down gearing, and a driven element, the driven element via the detent pawl lever driving the detent pawl in the lifting direction and engaging the actuating section of the detent pawl lever.The outside housing includes a trough-shaped bottom part made especially as a plastic molding and an essentially flat cover which is likewise made especially as a plastic molding and which closes the bottom part on the open side, that the rotary latch and the detent pawl are located in the lowermost plane on the bottom of the bottom part, that in the lowermost plane of the bottom part, in addition to the rotary latch and the detent pawl, the electrical drive unit is located in the drive housing and that in the second-lowermost plane, preferably supported on the same…