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US 12,497,808 B2Granted
Motor vehicle lock
AssigneeKiekert AG
InventorMadhu Basavarajappa
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Abstract
A motor vehicle lock, in particular a motor vehicle door lock, which has a lever arrangement consisting of at least two levers. The two levers are supported coaxially with respect to each other on a common bearing pin. The bearing pin is anchored in a lock housing. According to the invention, the bearing pin consists of at least two parts, namely a plug-in pin and a plug-in pin receptacle. Each bearing pin part is provided with one stop which together form a spacer between the two levers.
Claims13
A motor vehicle door lock comprising:
- a lever arrangement including at least two levers, the at least two levers being supported coaxially with respect to each other on a common bearing pin, the common bearing pin being anchored in a lock housing,
- wherein the common bearing pin is formed in two bearing pin parts including a plug-in pin and a plug-in pin receptacle, the two bearing pin parts each being provided with a stop that together define a spacer between the at least two levers, wherein the stops and the spacer are arranged between the at least two levers when the at least two levers are assembled onto a respective one of the two bearing pin parts and the plug-in pin is received in the plug-in pin receptacle, so as to form the common bearing pin on which the at least two levers are coaxially supported,
- wherein each of the stops of the bearing pin parts is designed as a circular arc segment that extends eccentrically from a respective one of the two bearing pin parts to extend partially along the respective one of the two bearing pin parts.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.