Motor vehicle door lock with a lock unit and a control unit which are separate from one another

US6779372B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Horst Arlt · Wülfrath, DE
• Rainer Berger · Remscheid, DE
• Bernhard Kordowski · Dortmund, DE
• Bernd Weyerstall · Wuppertal, DE
• Peter Bartel · Hattingen, DE
• Edgar Budzynski · Dortmund, DE
• Christian Lippold · Bochum, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 28, 2002
• Grant date: Aug 24, 2004
• Expiry date: Jun 30, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T70/5973
• WIPO field: Civil engineering
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

A motor vehicle door lock with mechanical lock elements in a lock unit, the door lock includes a lock mechanism with several interacting elements in a control unit which is arranged at a location that is spatially separate from the lock unit in or on a motor vehicle door or hatch. The lock unit is connected to the control unit by a remote power transmission in the form of a Bowden cable, and the lock element in the lock unit can be mechanically actuated from an element of the lock mechanism in the control unit by the remote power transmission. In the lock unit, there is at least one component which is to be supplied with electricity to be triggered and/or to be interrogated, the at least one component is electrically connected by an electrical connecting element to lock electronics in the control unit, and the electrical connecting element is integrated into or combined with the mechanical power transmission.