Motor vehicle door lock or the like
AssigneeRobert Bosch GmbH
InventorsBernhard Kordowski, Bernd Weyerstall
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Abstract
A motor vehicle door lock or the like including a housing with a lock latch and a detent pawl located therein, an electrical opening aid for electrical actuation of the detent pawl in a normal state, a lock mechanism for mechanical actuation of the detent pawl in a special state, remotely controllable control electronics for remote operation of the door lock, a chain of force exerting components that runs from an outside door handle into the lock mechanism, and a plurality of electrical sensors assigned to the chain of force exerting components in the lock mechanism, the plurality of electrical sensors being adapted to trigger the switching functions of the control electronics and the opening aid.
Claims16
Motor vehicle lock comprising:
- a housing having a lock latch and a detent pawl located therein, the detent pawl being assigned to the lock latch and holding the lock latch in a closed position and releasing the lock latch in an actuated position;
- an electrical opening aid for electrical actuation of the detent pawl in a normal operational state;
- a lock mechanism for mechanical actuation of the detent pawl in a special operational state, the lock mechanism being adapted to be disabled relative to the detent pawl in said normal operational state;
- remotely controllable control electronics for remote operation of the motor vehicle lock,
- a chain of force exerting components that extends from an outside door handle into the lock mechanism;
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- at least one electrical sensor assigned to a portion of the chain of force exerting components that is located within the lock mechanism, the at least one electrical sensor being adapted to trigger switching functions of the control electronics and the electrical opening aid,
- wherein, in the special operational state, the detent pawl is mechanically actuatable via the chain of force exerting components, and
- wherein, in the normal operational state, the at least one electrical sensor is operable to trigger the electrical opening aid to thereby electrically actuate the detent pawl by movement of the chain of force exerting components in response to operation of the outside door handle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.