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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2021
Brose Schließsysteme Gmbh & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Wuppertal, Wuppertal, DE;
Ludger Graute, Essen, DE;
Markus Zillert, Düsseldorf, DE;
Serkan Gülkan, Hattingen, DE;
Andreas Hoffmann, Voerde, DE;
Brose Schließsysteme GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Wuppertal, DE;
Abstract
A motor vehicle lock includes a lock latch, at least one pawl, an electric drive arrangement, and a drive controller. The drive controller controls the drive arrangement to carry out an opening movement that adjusts an adjusting arrangement of the lock from a starting position to a raising position of the adjusting arrangement, in which the adjusting arrangement raises the pawl. A clutch arrangement is arranged between an actuating lever and the pawl, wherein, in an intermediate position, the adjusting arrangement shifts, in the opening movement, the clutch arrangement out of the disengaging state into the engaging state, before the adjusting arrangement raises the pawl when the raising position is reached. In an unlocking routine, the controller controls the drive arrangement to start the opening movement, and, responsive to an intermediate position criterion representative being met, modifies the control such that the adjusting arrangement does not reach the raising position.