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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 1996
Filed:
Feb. 21, 1995
Thorsten Torkowski, Herne, DE;
Kiekert Aktiengesellschaft, Heiligenhaus, DE;
Abstract
A central lock system for a motor vehicle having a trunk door and a gas-filler door, has respective latches at the trunk and gas-filler doors movable between locked and unlocked positions corresponding to locked and unlocked conditions of the respective doors and an actuator adjacent the trunk latch having a single output member displaceable between an actuated and an unactuated position and a motor connected to the member for displacing same between the respective positions. Respective trunk and gas-filler links are connected to the respective latches and are both connected to the member. A controller is connected to the motor for actuating same and thereby simultaneously moving the trunk and gas-filler latches between the locked and unlocked positions.