Kiekert Ag

Kiekert Aktiengellshaft

Daimier Chrysler

Kiekert Aktiengsellschaft

Thorsten Bendel

Karsten Barth

Claus Töpfer

Serkan Gülkan

Ulrich Weichsel

Martin Lindmayer

Werner Pohle

Armin Handke

Thomas Waldmann

Matthias Ochtrop

Michael Scholz

Christian Sturm

Holger Schiffer

Ömer Inan

Ludger Graute

Thorsten Nottebaum

Klaus Götzen

Hans Deischl

Johannes T Menke

Winfried Schlabs

Bernhard Drost

Michael Herrmann

Peter Szegeny

Tobias Konrad

Andreas Ziganki

Thorsten Torkowski

Thomas Schönenberg

Ulrich Nass

Tim Sonnenschein

Dieter Meyer

Wolfgang Much

Manuel Reusch

Dirk Eichel

Michael Merget

Kevin Zhang

Volker Westerwick

Marco Eggert

Claus Toepfer

Stefan Ebersohn

Karl Krause

Andreas Sohlbach

Kay-Olaf Loock

Kai Schrenke

Dorothea Müller

Thomas Kippes

Dirk Hanisch

Michael Berres

Matthias Kellersohn

Dusan Petrus

Klaus Töpfer

Jens Richter

Wolfgang Hogräfer

Susanne Adrian-Gülpinarli

Jan Faitl

Daniel Koch

Tobias Klocke

Matthais Ochtrop

Mathias Ochtrop

Johannes Theodor Menke

Carsten Fuchs

Tomas Janacek

Carsten Barth

Serkan GÜLKAN

A method for controlling at least one motor-vehicle closure element, more particularly a motor-vehicle door. A personal transmitting unit is sensed by at least one closure-element receiving unit. According to the invention, the personal transmitting unit is located by means of at least two spatially distanced closure element-side receiving units and is evaluated in accordance with its relative position and/or velocity in comparison with the motor-vehicle closure element.

Method and device for controlling at least one motor-vehicle closure element

A motor vehicle lock, in particular a motor vehicle door lock, which is equipped with a locking mechanism arranged in a lock housing and made up substantially of a rotary latch and a pawl. Furthermore, an electromotive drive is provided, in particular for the locking mechanism and an emergency power source for emergency electrical power supply of the drive. According to the invention, the emergency power source is arranged in the lock housing in such a way that it can be replaced.

Motor vehicle lock

A motor vehicle lock, in particular a motor vehicle door lock, which is equipped with a locking mechanism essentially consisting of a rotary latch and a pawl. Furthermore, an actuating lever chain for the locking mechanism is provided. The actuating lever chain has at least one actuating lever, a coupling element, and a trigger lever on the locking mechanism side. Furthermore, an inertia element is also provided for acting on the coupling element at least in the event of a crash. According to the invention, the coupling element is disengaged during normal operation and is only engaged in the event of a crash by means of the inertia element.

A lock for a motor vehicle, comprising a locking mechanism composed of a rotary latch and at least one pawl, an assisted closing device, an electric drive, and a torque converter, wherein a variable torque is adjustable in the assisted closing device by means of the torque converter, and wherein the assisted closing is achieved at least in some regions by means of a frictional connection.

Lock with assisted closing device for a motor vehicle

A motor vehicle lock, in particular a motor vehicle door lock, which is equipped with an electromotive drive for an actuation lever chain and in particular locking lever chain. An emergency energy store for providing electrical power to the drive in the event of emergency activation and in particular emergency unlocking is also provided. In accordance with the invention, the drive, for emergency actuation and in particular emergency unlocking, acts on the actuation lever chain or locking lever chain against the force of a restoring spring.

Motor vehicle lock, in particular motor vehicle door lock

A motor vehicle panel, in particular motor vehicle door which comprises a lighting unit and an energy accumulator unit arranged in the door leaf for supplying energy to at least the lighting unit. According to the invention, the energy accumulator unit is coupled to the lighting unit via at least one detachable electric connection.

Motor vehicle panel, in particular motor vehicle door

The invention relates to a motor vehicle door lock which is equipped with a locking mechanism () that consists essentially of a rotary latch () and a pawl (). Furthermore, an electrical drive () for the locking mechanism () is provided. Moreover, an actuating lever chain () is implemented between the electrical drive () and the locking mechanism (), wherein a coupling element () of the actuating lever chain () can at least be decoupled with the aid of an emergency actuating element () that can be acted on manually. According to the invention, the emergency actuating element () acts on the coupling element () predominantly in a linear manner in relation to a link ().

Motor vehicle door lock

A door drive for a motor vehicle door or motor vehicle flap, which is provided with an electromotive drive, a transmission downstream of the drive, and a force-transmission element. The force-transmission element is operatively connected to a leaf of the motor vehicle door or motor vehicle flap. An output element of the transmission and the force-transmission element are coupled by a toothing with compensation for play. According to the invention, the output element and/or the force-transmission element are not only designed to be moveable for play compensation, but can also be permanently fixed after the compensation for play.

Door drive for a motor vehicle door or motor vehicle flap

An emergency actuating device for a closing system of a movable part of a vehicle, in particular of a door, sliding door, flap or tailgate, having at least one energy store, a communication unit for wireless communication with an ID transponder, and an electronics unit for activating a lock of the movable part, whereby the lock of the movable part can be transferred from a locking position into an unlocking position or vice versa.

Emergency actuating device for a movable part of a vehicle

A door handle module for a movable part of a vehicle, in particular for a side door, tailgate, bonnet or luggage compartment hatch, comprising a handle support that can be mounted on the outer skin of the movable part, a handle mounted movably on the handle support and having an operating mechanism that can be hidden at least in part by the outer skin, the operating mechanism being operatively connectable to a latch or a latch drive so that an, in particular mechanical, operation of the latch of the movable part can be performed, and further comprising a sensor unit having at least one sensor element in order to detect a user intention in an operating region of a door handle depression of the movable part so that the lock or the latch drive is electrically actuatable in the operating region in the event that a user intention is identified.

Door handle module

A device for opening a door or flap on a motor vehicle, comprising a handle that a user can grip from outside the motor vehicle, a motor vehicle locking mechanism, and a means for actuating the locking mechanism using the handle, said actuating means being a cable that is placed between the handle and the motor vehicle locking mechanism.

Device for opening a door or flap on a motor vehicle

A method for actuating a motor vehicle lock and a locking device for a motor vehicle includes an actuating lever, a lock and a Bowden cable arranged between the actuating lever and the lock, the lock can be actuated by means of the actuating lever and with the aid of the Bowden cable, and a functional unit arranged on the Bowden cable and comprising an electric drive.

Locking device for a motor vehicle

The invention relates to a securing device (), which has a front hood () and a hood lock () with a lock holder (), for a motor vehicle. The hood lock () has a rotary latch () with a pre-latching position and a main latching position in which the front hood () is closed and locked, an electric drive () which switches the rotary latch () from the main latching position into the pre-latching position, and a bayonet-type closure system () with a closed position, a release position, and an intermediate position. In the closed position, the rotary latch () is located in the main latching position; in the intermediate position, the rotary latch () is located in the pre-latching position and the lock holder () is engaged with the rotary latch (); and in the release position, the lock holder () is released by the rotary latch () and the front hood () is unlocked.

Securing device with a front hood and a bayonet-type closure system

A motor vehicle lock comprising a lock housing, an electric power supply and at least one illuminant which can be connected to the electric power supply, emits light into a light-guiding element and can be placed directly on a circuit board located inside the lock housing.

A lock holder for a motor vehicle lock includes a locking bolt and a mounting plate, wherein the locking bolt can be fastened together with the mounting plate to a motor vehicle body, a cover cap, wherein at least the mounting plate can be covered at least in areas by the covering cap, and wherein the covering cap can be connected in such a way to the mounting plate that the cover cap forms at least in regions a surface area with the mounting plate.

Lock holder for a motor vehicle lock

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