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US 6,304,003 B1Granted
Locking device, in particular for a vehicle
AssigneeMannesmann VDO AG
InventorsKlaus-Peter Rathmann, Axel Schäfer, Erhard Franz, Peter Kleinmichel
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Abstract
The invention relates to a locking device, in particular for a door, a tailgate, a trunk lid or the like of a vehicle, with at least one actuating drive which is capable of being activated in order to set functions of the locking device and which is operatively connected to an element of the locking device via at least one transmission element, according to the invention means being provided which detect the continuous movements and functional positions of the actuating drive or of the transmission element.
Claims11
A locking mechanism comprising:
- a drive mechanism;
- a transmission element;
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- a locking mechanism, wherein the drive mechanism rotates the transmission element and the transmission element has a plurality of functional positions each of which corresponds to a condition of the locking mechanism, and further comprising a means for detecting the functional position of the transmission element and wherein the transmission element may be continuously rotated to repeatedly change functional positions of the transmission element.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.