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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 11, 1996
Klaus Gotzen, Muhlheim, DE;
Thorsten Torkowski, Duisburg, DE;
Kiekert AG, Heiligenhaus, DE;
Abstract
A latch system usable with a motor-vehicle trunk lid that is movable between an open position and a closed position has a latch engageable with the lid and having a control element movable between a latched position in which the latch retains the lid in the closed position and an unlatched position in which it allows the lid to move from the closed to the open position and a pusher engageable with the lid and displaceable between a down position with the lid in the closed position and an up position forcing the lid into the open position. A drive motor has an output engageable with the control element and the pusher and displaceable through a first position moving the control element into the unlatched position and a second position moving the pusher into the up position. A remotely operable controller operates the drive motor and displaces its output sequentially through the first and second positions.