Abstract: A door lock has a forked latch 3 mounted capable of pivoting about a lock housing 1. It has a truncated conical oval recess 12 into which a component 11 with an also truncated conical oval region engages. A spring 14 presses the forked latch 3 against this component 11. As a result the friction between the forked latch 3 and the component 11 increases when the oval shape of the recess 12 and the component are offset 90.degree. from one another but not when the oval shapes are aligned in the same direction.

Abstract: A device for motorized opening and closing of pivotable body panels of motor vehicles, especially the rear trunk lid or rear hatch and/or the hood of automobiles, has a motor-actuated lever system engaging in an articulated manner, on the one hand, with the body panel, and on the other hand, with the body. The body end of the lever system is articulated at a slide block guided slidingly in a guide track. The slide block is operatively connected to a driver that is secured to a control cable. The ends of the control cable can be wound onto or off a common cable pulley actuated by an electric motor.