Lock for a motor vehicle
AssigneeKiekert AG
InventorsUdo Orzech, Heiko Hemmer
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Abstract
The invention relates to a lock (1) for a motor vehicle, in particular a tailgate lock, comprising a locking mechanism (2) having a rotary latch (3) and having at least one pawl (4, 5), wherein the rotary latch (3) can be latched in a pre-latching position and a main latching position, having a main latching pawl (5) and having a pre-latching pawl (4), wherein a pre-latching element (17) of the locking mechanism (2) is formed by an angled region of a metallic main body (18) of the rotary latch (3), and wherein the angled region (17) can be placed in engagement with a closing pawl of a closing device.
Claims16
A lock for a motor vehicle comprising:
- a closing device including a closing pawl,
- a locking mechanism including:
- a rotary latch including a metallic main body with a pre-latching element, and a pre-latching pawl having-an-ORG and a main latching pawl,
- wherein the rotary latch is latched in a pre-latching position and a main latching position,
- wherein in the pre-latching position of the rotary latch, the pre-latching pawl directly engages the pre-latching element, and
- wherein the closing pawl of the closing device engages the pre-latching element to move the rotary latch to the main latching position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.