Combined motor vehicle lock
AssigneeKiekert AG
InventorUwe REDDMANN
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Abstract
A method for closing and opening a motor vehicle lock door and to a motor vehicle lock includes a locking mechanism with a rotary latch and at least one pawl, a rotational movement of the rotary latch being lockable in at least one latching position by means of the pawl, a closing device, wherein the locking mechanism can be transferred from a pre-latching position into a main latching position by means of the closing device, and an opening device, wherein a door element can be transferred from a closing position into an open position by means of the opening device, and wherein a coupling element can be controlled by a drive device such that an opening and closing of the door element can be made possible by means of the closing device.
Claims18
A motor vehicle lock comprising:
- a locking mechanism with a rotary latch and at least one pawl, a rotational movement of the rotary latch being lockable in at least one latching position by the pawl,
- a closing device, wherein the locking mechanism is transferred from a pre-latching position into a main latching position by the closing device,
- an opening device,
- a door element, and
- a coupling element,
- wherein the door element is transferred from a closing position into an open position by the opening device, and wherein the coupling element is controlled by a drive device such that an opening and closing of the door element is controlled via the closing device.
A method for closing a vehicle part of a motor vehicle which is locked by a motor vehicle lock, the method comprising the steps of:
- unlocking a locking mechanism of the motor vehicle lock by operation of a drive device, transferring the vehicle part into a latching position by operation of a closing device, and subsequently coupling the closing device to an opening device by operation of the drive device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.