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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2025
Filed:
May. 10, 2021
Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Bamberg, Bamberg, DE;
Florian Pohl, Ebersdorf, DE;
Alexander Müller, Bischberg, DE;
Mehdi Jaouhari, Bamberg, DE;
Rene Bekendam, Remscheid, DE;
Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Bamberg, DE;
Abstract
A control assembly for operating a motor vehicle locking system, including an electric drive motor for providing a motorized locking function. The control assembly including a control circuit for controlling the electric drive in an adjustment routine, the control circuit is electrically disconnected from a chargeable energy store, and in an emergency operating mode, responsive to the reception of an operating signal, the control assembly connects the chargeable energy store to the control circuit to provide electrical energy for the adjustment routine, the control assembly includes a monitoring assembly monitoring a state of charge variable of the chargeable energy store in a monitoring routine. The control assembly includes a trigger circuit which, responsive to satisfying a predefined trigger criterion and irrespective of the reception of the operating signal, connects the chargeable energy store to the monitoring assembly to provide electrical energy for the monitoring routine.