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US 2021/0230911 A1Published application
Motor-vehicle door lock
AssigneeKiekert AG
InventorUlrich WEICHSEL
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Abstract
A motor-vehicle door lock, which is equipped with a locking mechanism, comprising a rotary latch and at least one pawl, and with a closing drive and an opening drive for the locking mechanism. The rotary latch can be transferred into an overtravel position by means of the closing drive. According to the invention, in order to open the locking mechanism, the rotary latch is held in the overtravel position by means of the closing drive. In this way, the opening drive can open the pawl and subsequently the closing drive can travel back when the locking mechanism is open.
Claims19
A motor vehicle door latch comprising:
- a locking mechanism including a catch and at least one pawl;
- a closing drive;
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- an opening drive for the locking mechanism, wherein the closing drive is configured to to transfer the catch to an overtravel position, wherein, wherein during opening of the locking mechanism, the catch is held in the overtravel position by the closing drive when the opening drive moves the at least one pawl to an open position of the pawl, wherein the opening drive holds the at least one pawl in the open position when the closing drive moves back to a position in which the closure drive is configured to enable the catch to move from the overtravel position to an open position of the catch when the locking mechanism is open.
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