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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2019
Brose Schließsysteme Gmbh & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Wuppertal, Wuppertal, DE;
David Rosales, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Brose Schließsysteme GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Wuppertal, Wuppertal, DE;
Abstract
A motor vehicle lock for a hatch leaf including a catch, for the interaction with a lock striker, pivotable around a catch axis from an open position in a closing direction into a main closed position. A pawl pivotable around a pawl axis from a release position in an engagement direction into a main engagement position. The pawl including a main holding surface that when the pawl is in a main closed position or a main engagement position, the main holding surface holds the catch. A cinching mechanism may drive the catch in a closing direction to a main closed position. The cinching mechanism including a pawl cinching contour and a catch cinching contour, such that as the pawl moves in an engagement direction, the pawl may drive the catch to produce the catch cinching movement.