Abstract: A motor vehicle door lock mechanism with a drive and an operating lever, the drive including a motor and a symmetrical actuating element. The actuating element engages the operating lever so that the operating lever can be moved by the drive into different operating states. The actuating element has a number of guide tracks which correspond to a number of initial positions that are equivalent with respect to the operating state of the operating lever. The operating lever comprises a journal that fits into the guide tracks is movable by the actuating element from a first operating state into a second operating state out of an initial position. If the adjustment motion of the actuating element is not completed and the actuating element is in an intermediate position, the operating lever is manually resettable into the first operating state, into one or another of the initial positions depending on the position of the actuating element relative to first and second sides of a turning point.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a motor vehicle lock having a lock catch and a locking pawl. The lock catch may be brought into an opening position, a main locking position and a preliminary locking position. The locking pawl can be brought into a lowered and raised position. The locking pawl may be arranged to hold and release the lock catch in a direction of its opening position. A memory element is assigned to the locking pawl and arranged to keep the locking pawl in the raised position. The memory element may operate with a control apparatus. The locking pawl may be releasable by motor from the raised position and may further be moveable in a direction of its lowered position unhindered by the memory element. The release by motor of the locking pawl is controllable at a predetermined triggering time by the control apparatus.

Abstract: An actuator for a motor vehicle has a drive motor, an actuating element and a blocking element. The blocking element can be deflected by the actuating element, against pretensioning, into a blocking position in which the blocking element blocks further movement of the actuating element. For this deflection, the blocking element is equipped with a tappet and the actuating element is equipped with a power transmission element. The actuating element is equipped with a stop and the blocking element is equipped with an counter-stop for blocking. Before the blocking is produced, the power transmission element releases the tappet, and after release, the blocking element, driven by its pretensioning, causes its counter-stop to fall onto the stop of the actuating element in a catch position.

Abstract: A motor vehicle lock with a latch and a ratchet, the latch being pivotable around a pivot axis, and being movable into an open position and into at least a fully latched position and the ratchet being movable into at least one holding position and into a release position, the ratchet holding the latch in the fully latched position in the holding position. Additional kinematics are coupled in a pivoting and undetachable manner to the latch so that the resetting motion of the latch out of the fully latched position in the direction of the open position causes movement of the additional kinematics and the additional kinematics are coupled to an elastic resistance element at least when the latch is in the fully latched position so that the action of the force of the resistance element on the additional kinematics causes inhibition of the first segment of the resetting motion.

Abstract: A motor vehicle component with a drive having a motor, a gearing and a component which is movable by the drive, the motor being coupled to a driving side of the gearing and a driven side of the gearing being coupled to the movable component, a kinematic chain of the gearing between the driving side and the driven side having at least two transmission elements. The drive is operable in blocking operation by a displaceable blocking element that is movable into blocking engagement with the drive. The displaceable blocking element is in addition to the drive and the adjustable component, and is engaged in a controlling manner with the first transmission element of the kinematic chain so that, depending on the position of a first transmission element, it can be moved into blocking engagement with a second transmission element of the kinematic chain.

Abstract: Motor vehicle lock with a ratchet, latch, actuation lever, internal actuation chain, external actuation chain and a control, the ratchet having an engagement position in which it holds the latch in the closed position, and a raised position in which the latch is released, the ratchet being movable from the engagement position into the raised position by the actuating lever, the control having different operating states and depending on the state, the ratchet is actuatable via the actuation lever by the internal actuation chain from an inside door handle and/or by the external actuation chain from an outside door handle or not at all. In the base state, the internal actuation chain and the external actuation chain are coupled to the actuation lever and the internal actuation chain and/or the external actuation chain can be decoupled from the actuation lever by the control depending on the operating state.

Abstract: A motor vehicle door lock with an electromechanical central locking system drive (1) and a mechanical central locking system element (2) driven by it, the central locking system drive (1) having an electric drive motor (3) and a motor control (5) with a motor state sensor (6). The central locking system element (2) can be moved by the central locking system drive (1) at least into a locked position and the motor control (5) is designed such that it triggers the electric drive motor (3) for driving the central locking system element (2) into the locked position after receiving an actuation signal from an actuation unit, such as a closing cylinder, a locking button, a remote control receiving unit or a handle (inside door handle, outside door handle).

Abstract: A holding device for a motor vehicle safety with a component which can be displaced out of a rest position suddenly into an action position, with a holding element. Such a motor vehicle safety means is, for example, a head support/roll bar which extends automatically in an accident. The holding device has a latch which fixes the component in the rest position and a ratchet arrangement which holds the latch in the engagement position. The ratchet arrangement has ratchet kinematics and an adjustable blocking element. By moving the latch out of the engagement position into the direction of the release position, the ratchet kinematics are moved and the blocking element blocks the movement of the ratchet kinematics which can be caused by the latch.

Abstract: A motor vehicle lock with an electrically openable motor vehicle lock and a child safety is proposed. A very simple and economical structure is enabled in that the opening mechanism, which can be manually actuated from the inside, can be blocked exclusively by manual actuation and the child safety can be overridden and re-enabled electrically without mechanical mechanisms. Here, a version is especially interesting in which the electrically operating child safety is temporarily deactivated (overridden) so that then, during the time interval of deactivation, the motor vehicle can be electrically opened in spite of a manually activated child safety.

Abstract: A motor vehicle lock with a latch and an associated ratchet and a motor for opening the ratchet. The motor vehicle lock has a flexible traction means which directly or indirectly connects the motor to the ratchet and which is wound up by the motor for opening the ratchet and which can be unwound by spring force when the motor is turned off.

Abstract: An actuator device, safety device and an associated method for emergency triggering of a safety mechanism of a motor vehicle. The actuator device includes an actuator and a gear, where the actuator is operable in a triggering direction for triggering the safety mechanism and the actuator device is designed such that a function test for checking operability of the actuator can be performed without triggering the safety mechanism.

Abstract: A motor vehicle door locking system and a door handle are proposed. In order to prevent unlocking or opening of an electrically triggered motor vehicle door lock by unintentional actuation of a first actuating means, a second actuating means is employed and required to be activated in combination with the first actuation means for unlocking or opening of the motor vehicle door lock, and thus unlocking or opening the assigned motor vehicle.

Abstract: A motor vehicle door with a door lock unit located on the edge side with mechanical latching elements such as a latch and ratchet, with a preferably electrical opening drive for triggering the latching elements which is preferably integrated into the door lock unit, with a mechanical inside actuating element for emergency mechanical triggering of the latching elements, which is mechanically connected to the door lock unit, and with an the electrical inside actuating element for normal operational triggering of the opening drive for actuating the latching elements, which is connected by electrical-control technology to the opening drive. It is structurally optimized in that the mechanical inside actuating element is located on the inside of the motor vehicle door in the immediate vicinity of the door lock unit, its preferably being connected directly or only with a minimum intermediate mechanism to the inside actuating lever of the door lock unit.

Abstract: A motor vehicle lock with a blocking element (2), with a electrical opening drive (3) for the blocking element (2), with control electronics (8) in the motor vehicle lock or separately from it in the motor vehicle, by which individual functions of the motor vehicle lock can be electrically triggered, and a lock mechanism by which individual functions can also be mechanically triggered. The opening drive (3) has a drive element (6) which can be driven in two opposing directions of motion, movement of the drive element in the first direction of motion releases or open the blocking element (2) and movement in the second direction of motion turns on (or off) the second function of the motor vehicle lock. The lock has an especially simple structure since turning off the second function takes place without moving the opening drive (3) in the second direction of motion exclusively by electrical control.

Abstract: The invention relates to a motor vehicle lock with a latch and a ratchet arrangement. The latch is able to swivel around a swivelling axis, and be moved into an open position, a main locked position and optionally a preliminary locked position. The ratchet arrangement is able to be moved into at least one holding position and into a release position. The ratchet arrangement when in the holding position, keeps the latch, in any case, in the main locked position. The ratchet arrangement includes ratchet kinematics and an adjustable blocking element. By resetting the latch out of the main locked position in the direction of the open position the ratchet kinematics is moved and when the ratchet arrangement is in the holding position the blocking element blocks the movement of the ratchet kinematics which can be caused by the latch and thus blocks the resetting of the latch.

Abstract: A motor vehicle door lock mechanism with a drive and an operating lever, the drive including a motor and a symmetrical actuating element. The actuating element engages the operating lever so that the operating lever can be moved by the drive into different operating states. The actuating element has a number of guide tracks which correspond to a number of initial positions that are equivalent with respect to the operating state of the operating lever. The operating lever comprises a journal that fits into the guide tracks is movable by the actuating element from a first operating state into a second operating state out of an initial position. If the adjustment motion of the actuating element is not completed and the actuating element is in an intermediate position, the operating lever is manually resettable into the first operating state, into one or another of the initial positions depending on the position of the actuating element relative to first and second sides of a turning point.

Abstract: A motor vehicle door lock with latching elements, such as a latch and a ratchet and with a lock mechanism. The lock mechanism has a drive, the drive having a drive motor, or the like, and an actuating element. The ratchet can be raised by the drive, so that the ratchet moves into an action area of the drive, such that continued motion of the drive is blocked by the ratchet. Thus, the drive can be turned off in a blocking operation. The ratchet, viewed in the kinematic chain from the drive motor to the actuating element, is engaged to the drive for blocking in front of the actuating element but not on the actuating element.

Abstract: A motor vehicle door lock with an electromechanical central locking system drive (1) and a mechanical central locking system element (2) driven by it, the central locking system drive (1) having an electric drive motor (3) and a motor control (5) with a motor state sensor (6). The central locking system element (2) can be moved by the central locking system drive (1) at least into a locked position and the motor control (5) is designed such that it triggers the electric drive motor (3) for driving the central locking system element (2) into the locked position after receiving an actuation signal from an actuation unit, such as a closing cylinder, a locking button, a remote control receiving unit or a handle (inside door handle, outside door handle).

Abstract: An electric motor actuator for a motor vehicle lock, with a reversible drive motor, an actuator drive which can be rotary driven by the drive motor. The actuator further includes an operating lever which is dynamically coupled to the actuator drive for switching the lock into an “unlocked” and “locked” operating state, an antitheft lever which is spring-loaded with a pretensioning spring and which is dynamically coupled to the actuator drive for holding the operating lever in the “locked” operating state. An emergency actuating element is used for manually engaging an antitheft lever into an “antitheft off” operating state to overcome a catch element on the actuator drive.

Abstract: A motor vehicle door lock with a drive mechanism and an assigned actuating element for moving a detent pawl, the drive mechanism being coupled to the detent pawl via a coupling mechanism. Good functionality and high fault tolerance are achieved by the coupling mechanism being coupled only when the inside handle and/or the outside handle assigned to the motor vehicle door lock is actuated.