Kiekert Ag

Kierkert Ag

Ulrich Nass

Johannes-Theodor Menke

Thorsten Bendel

Ömer Inan

Ludger Graute

Andreas Beck

Horst Brackmann

Carsten Fuchs

Christian Barmscheidt

Frank Kunst

Matthias Ochtrop

Volker Westerwick

Philippe Mih

Alexander Buschmann

Thomas H&uuml;lsmann

Frank Kunt

Lars Kretschmer

Dominik Scholz

Mathias Ochtrop

Wolfgang Jokiel

The invention relates to an actuating device for joint action upon at least two different elements of a motor vehicle door lock, with at least one sheathed cable having a core and sheath, wherein the sheathed cable is provided in the longitudinal extent thereof with at least two force transmission units which are designed for interaction with a first element at one end and with a second element at the other end upon action on the sheathed cable, and one of the two elements is designed as an actuating lever, wherein the other element is a closing/opening element operating on a locking mechanism.

Actuating device

A drive unit () comprising at least one electric drive motor () that moves a functional element (), wherein the functional element () assumes, during its movement, a stop position () for switching off an electric drive motor (), and at least one frictional element () cooperating with the functional element (), wherein the frictional element () is disposed along a segment of a motion pathway () before the functional element () reaches the stop position (). In addition, a motor vehicle lock () having a central locking mechanism () with such a drive unit ().

Drive unit comprising a blocked functional element for a central locking mechanism

The invention relates to a motor vehicle door lock, comprising a circuit arrangement having at least one sensor () and a connected control unit (), wherein the sensor () has at least two switching states ('open' and 'closed'), which correspond to varying current intensity (I; I) at the output of said sensor and are detected by the control unit (), and the two switching states (&#x201c;open&#x201d; and &#x201c;closed&#x201d;) of the sensor () belong to different current paths () of a line network () and/or to different voltage states of an output line.

Motor vehicle door lock having a circuit arrangement

A motor-vehicle door latch has a latch mechanism, a locking lever movable between a locked position and an unlocked position, a motor drive, and a blocking lever engageable with the locking lever. The locking lever can be decoupled from the blocking lever during fast unlocking so that the locking lever can move into its unlocked position. A spring-loaded force-transmitting lever is coupled to the drive so as to, when displaced thereby in one direction, entrain the locking lever for fast unlocking and so as to, when displaced by the drive in an opposite direction, deflect.

Locking system for the door of a motor vehicle

A power-closing bolt assembly for a motor-vehicle door latch has a housing, a bolt pivotal in the housing about a pivot axis between a pair of angularly offset end positions, and interengaging bolt and housing abutments respectively on the bolt and on the housing bearing angularly of the pivot axis on each other in each of the end positions. A drive displaces the bolt between the end positions. The housing abutments are spaced apart relative to the pivot axis by more than 180&deg;.

Power-closing bolt for motor-vehicle door latch

A motor-vehicle door latch housing has a dielectric plastic body, an electrical device secured to the body, a plurality of electrical conductors each at least partially imbedded in the body and each having an end forming a terminal adjacent the device, and a plurality of connectors on the device each is elastically deformable and bearing elastically on a respective one of the terminals. Each terminal fits in a predetermined direction with the respective connector. The connectors are deformed elastically transversely to the installation direction when fitted with the respective terminals. Thus as the device is fitted to the body, its connectors are automatically joined to the terminals.

Motor-vehicle latch housing with integral conductors

A drive for a door bolt of a motor-vehicle door latch has a pivot shaft fixed on the bolt offset from the bolt, a motor having a rotary output, a transmission having an input connected to the motor output and an output shaft, and a coupling directly joining the output shaft of the transmission to the pivot shaft for rotation of the bolt by the motor. The transmission output shaft and the pivot shaft are coaxial. The shafts have confronting ends formed with respective sets of axially projecting teeth that axially overlap, engage in each other, and form the coupling. These teeth are of generally triangular cross section and the teeth of the bolt shaft are angularly interleaved with the teeth of the transmission shaft. In addition a star-section element centered on the axes is formed with a plurality of radially open pockets each receiving a respective one of the teeth. This star element is elastomeric.

Bolt drive for motor-vehicle door latch

A mount for attachment to a window having a pair of faces and a hole extending between the faces has a body adapted to engage one of the faces and having a pin projecting with play through the hole and past the other face, a retainer adapted to engage the other face and formed with a passage snugly receiving the pin, and an eccentric ring engaged in the hole and having an eccentric passage snugly receiving the pin. Formations on the ring and on the retainer are interengageable in any of a multiplicity of angularly offset position of the retainer relative to the eccentric ring and retain the ring against rotation in the hole relative to the bodies. The pin is in a different position relative to the window hole in each of the angularly offset positions. The eccentric ring includes an inner ring having a cylindrical inner periphery forming the eccentric-ring passage and a cylindrical outer periphery having a center offset from that to the inner periphery, and an outer ring having a cylindrical inner periphery engaging the inner-ring outer periphery and an outer periphery directly engaging edges of the window hole.

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Muelheim/Ruhr, Germany

Ulrich Nass