DRIVE UNIT FOR SECURING AN AXIS-OF-ROTATION DISTANCE OF TRANSMISSION ELEMENTS

• US 20170051539A1
• Filed: 04/16/2015
• Published: 02/23/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kiekert AG (Lingyun Industrial Corporation Limited)
• Original Assignee: Kiekert AG (Lingyun Industrial Corporation Limited)
• Inventors: HANDKE, Armin
• Application Number:
  US15/304,567
• Publication Number:
  US 20170051539A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 81/16 operating on locking elements for locking or unlocking action
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 81/25 Actuators mounted separately from the lock and controlling the lock functions through mechanical connections
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 81/34 of geared transmissions
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 81/36 Geared sectors, e.g. fan-shaped gears
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 19/001 for conveying reciprocating or limited rotary motion
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2019/008 Facilitating the engagement or stopping of gear sections

Abstract

The invention relates to a drive unit (1, 41) for automotive applications, in particular a central locking drive unit for a motor-vehicle door closure, comprising a motor (2, 42) and a transmission unit (3, 43). The transmission unit has at least a first transmission element (4, 44) and a second transmission element (5, 45), which have, respectively, a first tooth segment (6, 46) and a second tooth segment (7, 47) and a first axis of rotation (8, 48) and a second axis of rotation (9, 49). The transmission unit also has a first stop (10, 50). The drive unit has at least a first stop position, and at least the first transmission element (4, 44) has a locking element (11, 51), which is locked in the first stop position by means of an accommodating element (12, 52) and secures a distance (20) of the first axis of rotation (8, 48) of the first transmission element (4, 44) from the second transmission element (5, 45) in the first stop position.

Claims

1. A drive unit for motor vehicular applications, in particular a central locking drive unit for a motor vehicle door latch, with a motor, a gear unit which has at least one first gear element and a second gear element each with a first toothed segment and a second toothed segment and a first rotational axis and a second rotational axis and a first stop, whereby the drive unit has at least a first stop position,

wherein at least the first gear element has a locking element which is locked in the first stop position using an attaching element and in the first stop position safeguards a distance of the first rotational axis of the first gear element to the second gear element.

2. The drive unit according to claim 1,

wherein the attaching element is arranged on the second gear element and the locking element is blocked in the first stop position by means of the attaching element in the radial direction of the first gear element.

3. The drive unit according to claim 1,

wherein the first gear element is a gearwheel.

4. The drive unit according to claim 1,

wherein the first gear element is driven by a worm and the second gear element is a gearwheel, whereby the second gear element interacts with a lever.

5. The drive unit according to claim 1,

wherein the second gear element is formed as a lever and the second toothed segment of the second gear element is formed on an external radius of the second gear element.

6. The drive unit according to claim 1,

wherein the toothed segment of the second gear element is formed on an internal radius of the second gear element and overlaps the first toothed segment of the first gear element.

7. The drive unit according to claim 1,

wherein the first stop is elastically deformable.

8. The drive unit according to claim 1,

wherein the drive unit has a second stop and a second stop position.