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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2002
Raja Raymond, Clarkstone, MI (US);
Aleksandar Hrnjak, Windsor, CA;
Marek Czekanski, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Kiekert AG, Heiligenhaus, DE;
Abstract
A motor-vehicle door latch has a pair of engageable parts one of which is movable between a pair of end positions and through an intermediate position and a pair of end-position sensors and an intermediate position sensor operable when the parts reach the respective positions. A drive engages at least one of the parts for displacing the parts from one end position through the intermediate position into the other end position. A controller operates the drive to displace the parts from the one end position to the intermediate position only when travel of the parts from the one end position to the intermediate position takes place in less than a predetermined first time and displaces the parts from the intermediate position to the other end position only when travel of the parts from the intermediate position to the other end position takes place in less than a predetermined second time different from the first time.