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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 22, 1999
Martin Wegge, Munich, DE;
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A door lock of a motor vehicle having a premounted lock subassembly which is arranged in a hollow space of a vehicle door. The door lock is fastened on the rearward frontal area of the vehicle door and has a lock support on which a latch as well as a detent pawl, which locks the latch in the closed position, are adjustably fastened. The door has a wall area which bounds the hollow space from the occupant compartment and has a passage opening through which a transmission element connected with the lock subassembly extends to a lock operating element arranged outside the hollow space. An area of the lock subassembly covers the passage opening. The transmission element, which is connected with the lock operating element can be connected through the passage opening with an assigned connecting element of the lock subassembly after the locking subassembly is mounted to the door.