LOCKING DEVICE IN PARTICULAR FOR MOTOR VEHICLE DOORS

• US 20020000726A1
• Filed: 07/03/1999
• Published: 01/03/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/1998
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG (Continental AG)
• Original Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG (Continental AG)
• Inventors: ZINTLER, ALBERT
• Application Number:
  US09/347,712
• Publication Number:
  US 20020000726A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 292/216
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 81/08 using electromagnets or solenoids
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 81/66 the bolt position, i.e. the latching status
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 81/90 Manual override in case of power failure
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 292/1047 Closure

Abstract

The invention relates to a locking device, in particular for vehicle doors, having lock elements such as a rotary latch and locking pawl, at least one lock element being brought from a locked position into an unlocked position at least as a function of the operation of a handle, said locking device being defined by manually operated means with which the at least one lock element can be brought from the unlocked position into the locked position, the means not being formed as a lock cylinder to be operated with a key.

Claims

1. A locking device, in particular for vehicle doors, having lock elements such a rotary latch and locking pawl, at least one lock element being brought from a locked position into an unlocked position at least as a function of the operation of a handle defined by manually operated leans with which the at least one lock element can be brought from the unlocked position into the locked position, the means not being formed as a lock cylinder to be operated with a key.

2. The locking device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the means act on a coupler element operated by an actuating drive, the effect of the coupler element being that an operative connection can be produced or not produced between a handle and the lock element.

3. The locking device as claimed in claim 1 or 2, wherein the means act on an actuating drive, the effect of the actuating drive being that a lock element, in particular a locking pawl, can be brought from the locked position into the unlocked position.

4. The locking device as claimed in one of the preceding claims, wherein the means can be operated only with the effect of operation in the direction of the locked position.

5. The locking device as claimed in one of the preceding claims, wherein an operating part of the means is arranged at such a point in a door or the like of the vehicle such that in order to operate the operating part manually, said point cannot be reached when the door is closed but can be reached when the door is open.

6. The locking device as claimed in one of the preceding claims, wherein the means can be fixed in the at least two positions “

unlocked” and

“

locked”

.