Witte Automotive Gmbh

Bernd Gellhaus

Thorsten Janssen

Matthias Wiemann

Tsevetelina Stoycheva

Jai-Kwon Yu

Stefanie Angelkorte

Selcuk Aydin

A motor vehicle lock in accordance with the invention comprises a pivotable catch having a jacket surface, a pawl which is acted on by a preloading force and which is pivotable between a blocking position in which the pawl blocks the catch and an unblocking position in which the catch is unblocked, a release lever for pivoting the pawl against the preloading force, and an arresting device for arresting the pawl in a release position in which it releases the catch, wherein a part of the arresting device is formed by the release lever.

Vehicle lock

An operating element with a drive motor equipped with a drive shaft, which can be driven in two opposite rotational directions to move an actuating element between two end positions by a motion transmission device. Each of two motion transmission devices includes a winding body, onto which a traction element is wound in the direction opposite to that in which the traction element of the other transmission device is wound. The free end of the traction element is attached to the actuating element.

Operating element movable back and forth by traction elements wound in opposite directions on winding bodies

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Bochum, Germany

Bernd Gellhaus