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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2022
Brose Fahrzeugteile Gmbh SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Bamberg, Bamberg, DE;
Daniel Foerst, Bamberg, DE;
Thomas Salhoff, Hallstadt, DE;
Norbert Hess, Coburg, DE;
Jakub Stasko, Ostrava, CZ;
Abstract
A motor vehicle lock for a flap of a motor vehicle. The motor vehicle lock is equipped with a lock catch for engaging with a closing part in a holding manner and a pawl which is paired with the lock catch and which locks an opening of the lock catch in the lowered position and releases the lock catch in a raised position, wherein the motor vehicle lock has an electric closing drive and a control assembly, wherein the control assembly actuates the closing drive in a closing routine so as to move the lock catch in the closing direction from a starting position. The control assembly actuates the closing drive in the closing routine so as to move the lock catch from the starting position into a delay position in order to carry out a delay action and then move the lock catch into the main closing position.