Motor vehicle locking mechanism
AssigneeKiekert AG
InventorsThorsten Bendel, Thorsten Nottebaum
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Abstract
A method for controlling a motor vehicle locking mechanism and to a motor vehicle locking mechanism, in particular a motor vehicle door lock, comprising a control unit, at least one electric drive that can be controlled by the control unit, and at least one illuminant that can be associated with the locking mechanism, the illuminant being controllable in accordance with a status of the locking mechanism and/or of a vehicle component accommodating the locking mechanism, said status being detectable by the control unit, the illuminant being integrated into a switching circuit of the electric drive.
Claims10
A motor vehicle locking mechanism, in particular a motor vehicle door lock, comprising a control unit, at least one electric drive wherein the drive can be controlled by the control unit, at least one illuminant that can be associated with the locking mechanism, wherein the illuminant is being controllable in accordance with a status of the locking mechanism, which can be recorded by the control unit, and/or of a vehicle component accommodating the locking mechanism, characterized in that the illuminant is integrated into a switching circuit of the electric drive.
A procedure to control an illuminant is provided in a Motor vehicle lock, in which by means of a control unit a status of the latch is recorded and dependent on the recorded status all connections of a drive are supplied with voltage and in which the illuminant integrated in a switching circuit of the drives is supplied with voltage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.