Abstract: A door hinge assembly for a motor vehicle door and including a door hinge having two hinge halves attachable, respectively, to the motor vehicle door and a respective motor vehicle door pillar, and a hinge pin for connecting the two hinge halves and supported in one of the hinge halves with a running fit and removably secured in another of the two hinge halves without a possibility of rotation with respect to the another half; and a door lock formed integrally with the door hinge and including a locking element having at least one detent point and at least one brake and locking member cooperating with the locking element and located radially outwardly of the hinge pin.

Abstract: A safety device for supporting a pedal in a motor vehicle and which includes a bearing support for supporting a pedal shaft of the pedal and arranged between a front wall of the motor vehicle which is noticeably deformed inward into a passenger compartment during a frontal collision of the motor vehicle, and a cross-member which is located in the passenger compartment in a spaced relationship with respect to the front wall, is secured to a motor vehicle body, and does not substantially change a spacial position thereof during the frontal collision, with the bearing support including radially open recesses in which the pedal shaft is supported, and with the safety device further including a brace which lifts the pedal shaft of the recesses of the bearing support in case of the frontal collision and which has one of its ends supported against the front wall and another of its ends engaging the pedal shaft support forming part of the bearing support.

Abstract: An actuation device for a cable-operated parking brake of a motor vehicle and which enables actuation of the parking brake selectively by muscular energy or with a motive power assist, with the actuation device including a brake cable tightening device, and a drive for actuating the brake cable tightening device and including first and second drive elements connected, respectively, with muscular energy-actuated member and an auxiliary motor, and a planetary gear drive having a first drive member connectable with the first drive element, a second drive member connectable with the second drive element, and a third dive member connected with the cable tightening device thereby connecting the first and second drive element selectively with the cable tightening device.