Locking device
AssigneeWitte Automotive GmbH
InventorsThorsten JANSSEN, Dirk JANSSEN, Heinz-Joachim KLEIN
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Abstract
A locking device for a movable vehicle element of a vehicle may have at least a rotary catch, a locking element and an associated blocking mechanism. The blocking mechanism may have at least one blocking element and a movable actuating element for locked coupling of the rotary catch and the locking element. The movable actuating element may be designed to move the rotary catch into a closed position going beyond at least one latching position and to stop in this closed position. The rotary catch and the blocking element may be out of latching engagement in the closed position.
Claims16
1-15 (canceled)
A locking device for a movable vehicle element of a vehicle, comprising:
- a rotary catch,
- a locking element and
- an associated blocking mechanism having at least one blocking element and a movable actuating element for locked coupling of the rotary catch and the locking element, wherein the movable actuating element is designed to move the rotary catch into a closed position going beyond at least one latching position and to stop in this closed position, wherein the rotary catch and the blocking element are out of latching engagement in the closed position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.