Robert Boschgmbh

Brose Schliesssysteme Gmbh & Co. Kg

Matthias Koerwer

Robert Hugel

Thomas Huck

Tarek Mili

Peter Kusserow

Bernardo Erices

Peter Bohr

Ingmar Hentsch

Holger Thoene

Frank Hegerfeld

Peter Schlosser

The invention relates to a method for operating a closing device, wherein a closing element (), with the aid of a drive motor () controlled by a control unit (), can be displaced in a closing direction up against a stop edge, wherein the control unit () can be shifted into a normal-operation mode, in which position-related information is sensed as the current position of the closing element (), and into a sleeping mode, in which no sensing of position-related information takes place, the method having the following steps: &#x2014;interrogating whether a wake-up condition, in which the control unit () goes from the sleep mode into the normal-operation mode, is present; &#x2014;if the presence of the wake-up condition is established, and if the closing element (), prior to assuming the sleep mode, last moved in the closing direction, the position-related information is subjected (S) to a predetermined correction value in order to correct the position-related information, in respect of an actual position of the closing element (), into an opening direction.

Method for operating a closing device, and a closing device

This invention relates to an electrical component of a motor vehicle, the electrical component. The electrical component includes control electronics and at least one plug-and-socket connection for electrical connection of the electrical component to a coordinating control or another electrical component. The plug and socket connection further includes a plug, a plug housing and a connecting line. The plug-and-socket connection is detachably connectable, on one end, to a plug receptacle and wherein at least part of the control electronics is housed in the plug-and-socket connection.

Electrical component of a motor vehicle

The present invention is directed to a motor vehicle door lock such as a side door lock, a rear door lock, a rear hatch lock, or a hood lock and a process for controlling such a motor vehicle door lock, wherein the lock includes an electric motor drive for reaching a set position depending upon at least one start-up characteristic acquired when the electric motor drive is actuated and is at least one of shut off and short circuited prior to a set position in time and space.

Motor vehicle door lock and process for its control

A motor vehicle door lock with a lock latch ( ) and a detent pawl ( ) which holds the lock latch ( ) in the locked position (main catch ( ) and optionally a preliminary catch ( )) and with a motorized opening drive ( ), the motorized opening drive ( ) having a drive motor ( ) which is preferably an electric motor and has a step-down gear ( ) which, on the driven side engages the detent pawl ( ) of a detent pawl lever ( ) or the like which moves the detent pawl ( ) and lifts the detent pawl ( ) when the drive motor ( ) is triggered accordingly, so that the lock latch ( ) is released&mdash;opening position. This releasing is optimized with regard to opening forces by a lifting spring ( ) being provided which acts in the lifting direction of the detent pawl ( ) in association with the step-down gear ( ) or the detent pawl lever ( ) or the like, so that the lifting spring ( ) is tensioned when the opening drive ( ) reverses from the open position into the locked position and so that the lifting spring ( ) reinforces the opening motion and the lifting motion of the detent pawl ( ) with its spring force when the opening drive ( ) is advanced from the locked position into the open position.

Motor vehicle door lock or the like

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Wuppertal, Germany

Matthias Koerwer