Central door-lock system for motor vehicles

• US 4,364,249 A
• Filed: 03/24/1980
• Issued: 12/21/1982
• 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:
  US06/132,978
• Time in Patent Office: 1,002 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. 25, 292/DIG. 23
• US Class Current: 70/264
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 77/245 by blocking the movement of a movable element
• 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 81/40 Nuts or nut-like elements moving along a driven threaded axle
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 81/56 Control of actuators
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 292/23 Vehicle door latches
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 292/25 Remote control
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 292/1021 Motor
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 292/1082 Motor
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/65 Central control
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/7113 Projected and retracted electrically

Abstract

A central door-lock system has a plurality of door latches each of which is provided with a detent displaceable between open and closed positions for allowing the door to open and for holding it closed. This detent can be acted on by a manual door-opening handle through mechanism including a primary latch member which is connected to the handle and connectable to the detent and which is movable between a lock position preventing the handle from displacing the detent between the open and closed positions and an unlock position permitting the handle to displace the detent between the open and closed positions. A secondary latch member is displaceable between a lock position urging the primary latch member into the respective lock position, an unlock position permitting the primary latch member to move freely between the respective lock and unlock positions, and an antitheft position positively holding the primary member in the respective lock position. Each latch is operated by a servoactuator having a servomotor connected to an actuator element for displacing the respective secondary latch member between the respective lock, unlock an antitheft positions. A central switch is connected to all of the servomotors to operate them jointly and thereby jointly displace the secondary latch members between the respective positions.

Claims

1. A central door-lock system comprising:

a plurality of door latches each including

a detent displaceable between a closed position securing the respective door to the respective doorpost and an open position permitting the respective door to separate from the respective doorpost,

a manual door-opening handle,

mechanism including a primary latch member connected to said handle and connectable to said detent and movable between a lock position preventing said handle from displacing said detent between said open and closed positions and an unlock position permitting said handle to displace said detent between said open and closed positions,

means including a secondary latch member connected to said primary latch member and displaceable between a lock position urging said primary latch member into the respective lock position, an unlock position permitting said primary latch member to move freely between the respective lock and unlock positions, and an antitheft position positively holding said primary latch member in the respective lock position;

respective servoactuators for said latches each including an actuator element connected to the respective secondary latch member and means including a servomotor for displacing the respective secondary latch member via the respective actuator element between the respective lock, unlock, and antitheft positions; and

means including a central switch connected to said servomotors for operating same jointly and thereby jointly displacing said secondary latch members between the respective positions.

2. The system defined in claim 1 wherein said servomotors each have a rotary output carrying a threaded spindle and said actuator elements are in threaded engagement with the respective spindle.

3. The system defined in claim 1 wherein each of said servoactuators includes:

a nut threaded on the respective spindle;

a two-arm lever forming the respective actuator element and pivotal on the respective servoactuator, each lever having one arm connected to the respective secondary latch member and another arm; and

an overload coupling engaged between each nut and the respective lever, said nuts being in positive operative engagement with the respective other arms in the antitheft positions of the respective secondary latch members.

4. The system defined in claim 1 wherein each of said latches includes a fork constituting the respective detent, said mechanisms each including a pivotal pawl connected between the respective latch members and the respective detents.

5. The system defined in claim 1 wherein the latch members of each latch are pivotal therein about the same axis between the respective positions which are angularly offset from one another, said latches each including a spring braced angularly between the respective latch members, said secondary member of each latch bearing only via the respective spring on the respective primary member in the lock position but bearing positively and directly on the respective primary member in the respective antitheft position.

6. The system defined in claim 5 wherein said secondary members each have a bent out tab that directly engages the respective primary member in the antitheft position of the secondary member.

7. The system defined in claim 1 wherein each of said members of each latch has a portion positively blocking said mechanism against displacement of the respective detent into the open position in the lock positions of the respective latch members and in the antitheft position of the respective secondary latch member.

8. The system defined in claim 1 wherein each latch includes a manual door-locking element connected to the respective mechanism and displaceable between a lock position in which it moves the respective primary member into the respective lock position and an unlock position in which it moves the respective primary member into the respective unlock position.

9. The system defined in claim 8 wherein in the lock position of said manual elements the respective door handles are disconnected from the respective detents.

10. The system defined in claim 8 wherein said latch members of each latch are independently pivotal relative to each other between the respective lock and unlock positions.