Motor vehicle door lock housing

• US 9,642,277 B2
• Filed: 03/24/2012
• Issued: 05/02/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/09/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kiekert AG (Lingyun Industrial Corporation Limited)
• Original Assignee: Kiekert AG (Lingyun Industrial Corporation Limited)
• Inventors: Blumenthal, Frank
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Chau N
• Assistant Examiner(s): Varghese, Roshn
• Application Number:
  US14/110,892
• Publication Number:
  US 20140216810A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,865 Days
• Field of Search: 174533, 174535, 361736, 361762, 361772, 361793
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 63/0056 Locks with adjustable or exchangeable lock parts adjustable strikers E05B15/024; adjustable to different keys E05B35/083; adjustable bolt or backset E05B63/06; adjustable coupling means for bars, rods, cables E05C9/20
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 81/54 Electrical circuits for locking several wings simultaneously E05B77/48
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 85/02 Lock casings
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/1427 Housings

Abstract

A motor vehicle door lock housing comprising at least one outwardly facing recess (2) for receiving electric strip conductors (3) and with passages (4) in the recess (2) for connecting the strip conductors (3) to the housing interior, wherein the strip conductors (3) together with at least one strip conductor board (6) carrying the latter can be placed in the recess (2).

Claims

1. A motor vehicle door lock housing comprising:

at least one outwardly facing recess, electric strip conductors that are arranged on a strip connector board, and the housing having passages in the recess for connecting the strip conductors to an interior of a housing, the passages extending through the housing from a base of the recess on which the strip connector board rests to an external surface of the housing, and wherein;

the strip conductors together with the strip conductor board are received in the recess,

electric/electronic components are mounted on an upper surface of the strip conductor board that is opposite to a bottom of the recess,

the strip conductor board and the electric/electronic components are embedded in a casting compound in the recess,

the strip conductor board contains feet that extend through the passages on a housing side,

the passages through the housing define a universal hole pattern in which the passages can accommodate different patterns of feet in which a number of feet differs from the number of passages,

the recess contains a support for the strip conductor board,

the support is designed as a continuous frame and is provided on an edge of the recess, and

the recess is sealed by the strip conductor board in the manner of a cover to form a space between a bottom surface of the strip conductor board and the base of the recess, and the casting compound is predominantly arranged between a surface or top of the strip conductor board and an edge at a head of the recess, the casting compound being located inside the housing and not extending into passages that do not contain feet.

2. The motor vehicle door lock housing according to claim 1, wherein the feet on the housing side are designed as strip conductor extensions and each extend through the passages individually.

3. The motor vehicle door lock housing according to claim 1, wherein the feet on the housing side engage in plug receptacles in the interior of the housing.

4. The motor vehicle door lock housing according to claim 1, wherein the support is of a height, which together with the height of the strip conductor board having the electric/electronic components corresponds to or is smaller than a depth of the recess.

5. The motor vehicle door lock housing according to claim 1, wherein the strip conductor board including the strip conductors and the electric/electronic components defines a preassembled subassembly.

6. The motor vehicle door lock housing according to claim 1, wherein the recess is designed for receiving different strip conductor boards.

7. The motor vehicle door lock housing according to claim 1, wherein the strip conductor board insertable in the recess corresponds to its own strip conductor board hole patterns.

8. The motor vehicle door lock housing according to claim 7, wherein all of the strip conductor board hole patterns correspond to a universal hole pattern in the recess.

9. The motor vehicle door lock housing according to claim 1, wherein an upper surface of the casting compound is flush with an upper surface of the housing.