Opening apparatus for a motor vehicle door element
AssigneeKiekert AG
InventorsUwe Reddmann, Holger Schiffer, Ömer Inan, Christian Sturm, Peter Szegeny
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Abstract
A motor vehicle lock having a locking mechanism with a rotary latch and at least one pawl, wherein a rotary movement of the rotary latch can be locked by means of the pawl, an electric drive device with which the pawl can be transferred from a locking position into a release position for the locking mechanism, and an opening device, wherein a vehicle part interacting with the motor vehicle lock can be moved by means of the opening device from a closed position into an open position, and wherein a safety means is provided, wherein the safety means makes it possible to hold the vehicle part in the event of a power failure.
Claims12
A motor vehicle lock comprising:
- a locking mechanism with a rotary latch and a pawl, wherein a rotary movement of the rotary latch is locked by the pawl,
- an electric drive device that transfers the pawl from a locking position into a release position for the locking mechanism,
- an opening device, wherein a vehicle part interacting with the motor vehicle lock is moved by the opening device from a closed position into an open position,
- a safety lever, wherein the safety lever holds the vehicle part in the event of a power failure to the electric drive, and
- a lock strike,
- wherein the safety lever is spring-biased toward engagement with the lock strike, wherein the safety lever is held in a release position separated from the lock strike during the locking mechanism moving from a locking position of the locking mechanism to a release position of the locking mechanism during normal operation, and wherein the safety lever is released from the release position of the safety lever in the event of a power failure of the motor vehicle lock and the safety lever is biased into engagement with the lock strike.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.