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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2000
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
The subject matter of the invention is a motor vehicle door lock or the like with a lock latch ( ) and a detent pawl which keeps the lock latch in the main catch and the preliminary catch, with an electrical auxiliary closing drive ( ) which is turned on after the lock latch ( ) has reached a preclosing position and then transfers the lock latch ( ) by motor into the main closing position, and with an electric auxiliary opening drive ( ) which is turned on to raise the detent pawl ( ) off the main catch or the preliminary catch of the lock latch ( ). This door lock is characterized in that the coupling of the auxiliary closing drive ( ) has a mechanical coupling element ( ) which can be raised for decoupling and which can be raised by a correspondingly controlled actuation of the electrical auxiliary opening drive ( ). One version is especially important in which power supply to the electrical auxiliary opening drive ( ) takes place via the extra battery ( ) which is always recharged from the vehicle electrical system ( ) (active electrical redundancy), but power supply of the electrical auxiliary closing drive ( ) takes place directly from the vehicle electrical system ( ).