Opening apparatus for a motor vehicle door element
AssigneeKiekert AG
InventorUwe Reddmann
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Abstract
An opening apparatus for a motor vehicle door element, the opening apparatus having an electric drive and an actuator, wherein the actuator can be displaced by the drive and a gear mechanism arranged between the actuator and the drive, such that a movement of the door element can be made possible by displacement of the actuator, and a sensor for detecting the door element movement, wherein at least one gear mechanism component of the gear mechanism is pivotably received in the opening apparatus, and the pivoting movement of the gear mechanism component can be detected by the sensor.
Claims18
An opening apparatus for a motor vehicle door element, the opening apparatus comprising:
- an electric drive;
- an actuator, wherein the actuator is configured to be displaced by the electric drive and a gear mechanism arranged between the actuator and the electric drive to displace the actuator to move the door element;
- a sensor for detecting movement of the motor vehicle door element,
- wherein the gear mechanism includes at least one gear mechanism component pivotably accommodated in the opening apparatus, and
- wherein the at least one gear mechanism component comprises a gear mechanism carrier;
- and
- a spring mounted on the gear mechanism carrier,
- wherein the gear mechanism carrier is biased by the spring toward a neutral position when the spring is loaded by pivoting of the gear mechanism carrier,
- wherein the gear mechanism carrier is configured to pivot from the neutral position in the opening apparatus in response to displacement of the actuator, and
- wherein the pivoting movement of the gear mechanism carrier from the neutral position is detected by the sensor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.