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US 12,631,054 B2Granted
Motor vehicle lock, in particular a motor vehicle door lock
AssigneeKiekert AG
InventorRobert S. Pettengill
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Abstract
A motor vehicle lock, in particular a motor vehicle side door lock, having a locking mechanism consisting of a rotary latch and at least one pawl, a closing device having at least one drive pawl for driving the rotary latch, wherein the drive pawl can be brought into engagement with the rotary latch a lock housing, and wherein the drive pawl can be disengaged from the rotary latch by actuation of a release lever.
Claims17
A motor vehicle lock comprising:
- a locking mechanism comprising a rotary latch and a pawl,
- a closing device having a drive pawl for driving the rotary latch,
- a lock housing, wherein the drive pawl is actuated into engagement with the rotary latch, and
- a release lever, wherein actuation of the release lever results in the drive pawl disengaging from the rotary latch,
- further comprising a lever mechanism, wherein the drive pawl is actuated by the lever mechanism,
- wherein a part of the lever mechanism is mounted on a shaft of the locking mechanism, and
- wherein the shaft is a shaft of the pawl.
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A motor vehicle lock comprising:
- a locking mechanism comprising a rotary latch and a pawl,
- a closing device having a drive pawl for driving the rotary latch,
- a lock housing, wherein the drive pawl is actuated into engagement with the rotary latch, and
- a release lever, wherein actuation of the release lever results in the drive pawl disengaging from the rotary latch,
- further comprising an ejector lever, wherein the release lever is brought into engagement with the ejector lever and the ejector lever deflects the drive pawl to release the drive pawl from engagement with the rotary latch, and
- wherein the release lever has two arms including a first arm for actuation of the release lever and a second arm, wherein an end of the second arm straddles a portion of the ejector lever.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.