LOCK FOR A VEHICLE REAR DOOR OR A REAR HATCH PROVIDED WITH A WINDOW WIPER

• US 20010013236A1
• Filed: 06/17/1999
• Published: 08/16/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/1996
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Bernd Weyerstall, Ulrich Budde
• Original Assignee: Bernd Weyerstall, Ulrich Budde
• Inventors: WEYERSTALL, BERND, BUDDE, ULRICH
• Application Number:
  US09/284,972
• Publication Number:
  US 20010013236A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 70/239
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 1/0416 including other vehicle fittings
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 1/166 characterised by the combination of a motor-reduction unit and a mechanism for converting rotary into oscillatory movement
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 1/583 including wiping devices
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 17/0029 motor-operated for vehicles E05B81/20
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 79/20 using flexible connections, e.g. Bowden cables
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 81/13 a single actuator for driving a lock and additional vehicle components, e.g. window wipers or window lifters
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 81/20 for assisting final closing or for initiating opening
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 81/25 Actuators mounted separately from the lock and controlling the lock functions through mechanical connections
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 83/16 Locks for luggage compartments, car boot lids or car bonnets
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/5898 With switch

Abstract

The subject matter of the invention is a motor vehicle rear door lock or rear hatch lock with locking components such as a fork latch and detent pawl and with an electrical drive motor (12) which raises the detent pawl optionally via an intermediate lever (5) to open the rear hatch (1), with gearing (13) connected on the output side, for use in a rear hatch (1) with a rear window wiper device (4) with an electrical wiper motor. To achieve higher integration and for simplification it is provided that the wiper motor is used as an electric drive motor (12) and for this reason can be operationally coupled via the gearing (13) to the detent pawl and to the intermediate lever (5).

Claims

1. Motor vehicle rear door lock or rear hatch lock with locking components such as a fork latch and detent pawl and with an electrical drive motor (12) which raises the detent pawl optionally via an intermediate lever (5) to open the rear hatch (1), with gearing (13) connected on the output side, for use in a rear hatch (1) with a rear window wiper device (4) with an electric wiper motor, the wiper motor being used as an electric drive motor (12) and for this reason it can be operationally coupled via the gearing (13) to the detent pawl and the intermediate lever (5), characterized in that the rear window wiper device (4) is integrated with the rear hatch lock into a module, that the drive motor (12) can be triggered in two directions of rotation and the gearing (13) in one direction of rotation closes the power transmission train to the wiper device (4), and in the other direction of rotation closes the power transmission train to the detent pawl or to the intermediate lever (5).

4. Motor vehicle rear hatch lock as claimed in one of

claims 1

to

3

, wherein the detent pawl or the intermediate lever (5) is connected via a rod assembly (7) and/or a Bowden cable (20) to the gearing (13).

5. Motor vehicle rear hatch lock as claimed in one of

claims 1

to

4

, wherein an idle stroke means coupled to the locking cylinder (9) is inserted into the power transmission train to the detent pawl or to the intermediate lever (5), and allows mechanical lifting of the detent pawl which proceeds from the locking cylinder (9) using the idle stroke.

2. Motor vehicle rear door lock or rear hatch lock with locking components such as a fork latch and detent pawl and with an electrical drive motor (12) which raises the detent pawl optionally via an intermediate lever (5) to open the rear hatch (1) with gearing (13) connected on the output side, for use in a rear hatch (1) with a rear window wiper device (4) with an electrical wiper motor, the wiper motor being used as an electric drive motor (12) and for this reason can be operationally coupled via the gearing (13) to the detent pawl or the intermediate lever (5), wherein the rear window wiper device (4) is integrated with the rear hatch lock into a module, wherein the drive motor (12) can be triggered in one direction of rotation, but at two speeds of rotation, and the gearing (13) at one speed of rotation, preferably at lower rpm, closes the power transmission train to the wiper device (4), and at the other speed of rotation, preferably higher rpm, it closes the power transmission train to the detent pawl or to the intermediate lever (5).

3. Motor vehicle rear hatch lock as claimed in

claim 2

, wherein the drive motor (12) can be triggered in two directions of rotation and in one of the directions of rotation at two speeds of rotation, and the gearing in one direction of rotation at one, preferably lower speed of rotation, closes the power transmission train to the wiper device (4), and at the other, preferably higher speed of rotation, it closes the power transmission train to the detent pawl or to the intermediate lever (5), and in the other direction of rotation closes the power transmission train to a tightening aid of the motor vehicle rear hatch lock.