Central vehicle door-lock system

• US 4,342,209 A
• Filed: 03/24/1980
• Issued: 08/03/1982
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kiekert AG (Lingyun Industrial Corporation Limited)
• Original Assignee: Kiekert GmbH & Company KG
• Inventors: Kleefeldt, Frank
• Primary Examiner(s): LYDDANE, WILLIAM
• Application Number:
  US06/132,977
• Time in Patent Office: 862 Days
• Field of Search: 70/262-264, 70/280, 70/283, 70/237, 70/256, 292/144, 292/201, 292/DIG. 3, 292/DIG. 14, 292/DIG. 23, 292/DIG. 25
• US Class Current: 70/264
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 77/28 for anti-theft purposes, e.g. double-locking or super-locking
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 77/48 by electrical means
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 81/06 using rotary motors
• 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 81/28 Linearly reciprocating elements
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 292/03 Automobile multiple door latches
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 292/23 Vehicle door latches
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 292/25 Remote control
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/5889 For automotive vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/65 Central control
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/7113 Projected and retracted electrically

Abstract

A central vehicle door-lock system has several door latches each including a detent movable between a lock position securing the door closed and an unlock position allowing the door to be opened by means of a mechanism inside the door latch. Each of these latches is associated with a servoactuator having an actuator that is engaged via this mechanism with the respective detent and that is in turn moved by an operator. This operator, therefore, can move the actuator and with it the latch detent between lock and unlock positions, and the operator itself is movable by a servomotor into an antitheft position. A lock pawl on the actuator can, in the lock position of the actuator and in the antitheft position of the operator, move from a freeing position permitting displacement of the actuator from the lock to the unlock position into a blocking position preventing such displacement to lock up the entire latch. The servomotors are all controlled by a central switdch which can operate them all jointly between the lock, unlock, and antitheft positions. Thus when the switch is in the antitheft position the mechanisms of the latches cannot displace the detents to the respective unlock positions.

Claims

1. A central vehicle door-lock system comprising:

at least two door latches each including a detent movable between a lock position securing the respective door to the respective doorpost and an unlock position permitting separation of the respective door from the respective doorpost, and mechanism for displacing said detent between said lock and unlock positions;

respective servoactuators each including

an actuator operatively engaged via said mechanism with the respective detent and displaceable between respective lock and unlock positions,

an operator engageable with said actuator and displaceable between respective lock, unlock, and antitheft positions,

a servomotor connected to said operator for displacing same between the respective unlock, lock, and antitheft positions,

link means connected between said detents, actuators, and operators for joint displacement of same between the respective lock and unlock positions, and

a lock pawl displaceable by the respective operator only in the lock position of the respective actuator and in the antitheft position of the respective operator from a freeing position permitting displacement of the respective actuator from the respective lock to the respective unlock position into a blocking position preventing displacement of the respective actuator from the respective lock to the respective unlock position; and

control means connected to said servomotors and including a switch displaceable between a respective unlock position for displacing said operators into the respective unlock positions, a respective lock position for displacing said operators into the respective lock positions, and a respective antitheft position for displacing said operators into the respective antitheft positions, whereby when said switch is in said antitheft position said mechanisms cannot displace said detents into the respective unlock positions.

2. The system defined in claim 1 wherein each of said servoactuators has a housing containing the respective actuator, operator, and servomotor, and formed with an internally open recess, each of said pawls being pivotally mounted on the respective actuator and being engageable in the lock position of same in the respective recess.

3. The system defined in claim 2 wherein each of said actuators, when urged to move from the respective lock to the respective unlock position, creates a moment of force effective on said pawl in a direction urging it out of said recess.

4. The system defined in claim 2 wherein the actuator and operator of each servoactuator are both slidable in the respective housing next to each other, said pawls each having a side turned away from the respective recess and engageable by the respective operator in the respective antitheft position.

5. The system defind in claim 4 wherein said operators each have a formation engageable with the side of the respective pawl only in the respective antitheft position.

6. The system defined in claim 5 wherein each of said actuators has a depressable portion turned toward the respective operator and engageable by the respective formation and biasing means for urging the respective depressable portion outwardly with sufficient force for the respective operator to entrain said actuator on displacement between the respective lock and unlock positions, each of said depressable portions being depressable on displacement of the respective operator from the respective lock to the respective anti-theft position.

7. The system defind in claim 1 wherein said link means includes a rigid link rod extending between each of said actuators and the respective latch mechanism.

8. The system defined in claim 1 wherein each of said detents is a locking fork and each of said mechanisms includes a latch member displaceable between a coupling position engaged between the respective actuator and the respective fork and an uncoupling position disengaged from between the respective actuator and the resptive fork.

9. The system defined in claim 8 wherein each of said latches further includes:

a lock element coupled to the respective latch member for displacing same between said coupling and decoupling postions; and

a door handle coupled to the respective latch member and couplable therethrough to the respective detent for displacing same between the respective lock and unlock postions.

10. The system defined in claim 9 wherein each of said latch members has a formation engageable in the respective decoupling position for preventing displacement of the respective detent out of the respective lock position.