Huf Hülsbeck & Fürst Gmbh Co.kg

Dirk Ruppach

Jörg Berghahn

Eckart Schuler

Rolf Kamps

Artur Torka

Udo Orzech

Hans-Günter Kaiser

Lothar Schemberg

Jürgen Moczygemba

The invention relates to a latch that comprises a lock and a closing part (). Said lock comprises a catch (), a click () equipped with an adjusting arm () and a motorised opening aid (). Said catch () comprises a receiving element for the closing part () and at least one stop notch () for engaging the click (). The opening aid () is equipped with an eccentric () that is driven by a motor, whereby the eccentric curve interacts with a lateral adjusting surface of the adjusting arm () and ensures that the clink () is displaced in a motorised manner from its locked position in the stop notch () into an elevated position. In order to prevent problems in the latch, an end segment () of the eccentric () and/or the adjusting arm () of the clink () is elastic. When in the elevated position, the clink () is on a fixed stop (), performing an elastic deformation () when passing the eccentric end segment () on the adjusting arm () of the clink (), until an end-sided shoulder of the eccentric () catches behind a counter shoulder on the adjusting arm (). After catching, the eccentric shoulder is supported on the clink counter shoulder and prevents the eccentric () from reversing.

Latch for vehicles

A locking device for a movable carbody part has a lock and an interacting locking member. The lock has a rotary latch with pre-catch, main catch, and recess. When closing the carbody part, the locking member moves into the recess and rotates the rotary latch into a pre-catch position in which a pawl drops into the pre-catch. A motor-driven closing aid has a working lever and a control lever that are pivotably supported within the lock and have crossing slider block guides. The same slider block is guided in both slider block guides. When the working lever is pivoted by the motor of the closing aid, a shoulder of the slider block hits a counter shoulder of the rotary latch and rotates the rotary latch from the pre-catch position into a main catch position in which the pawl is supported on the main catch of the rotary latch.

Locking device for a movable carbody part such as a rear hatch of a vehicle

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Bochum, Germany

Dirk Ruppach