Motor vehicle lock arrangement

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11199031-B2
Application number	US-201515127284-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 18, 2015
Priority date	Mar 22, 2014
Publication date	Dec 14, 2021
Grant date	Dec 14, 2021

Abstract

The disclosure relates to a motor vehicle lock arrangement for a closure element which is movably coupled to a motor vehicle body, wherein a motor vehicle lock is provided, which in the mounted state is arranged on the closure element or on the motor vehicle body. It is proposed that a servo drive is provided for exerting a driving force on the closure element in its opening direction, so that the closure element can be moved in a motorized positioning process from a closed position into a gap position, and in this way an engagement gap can be created between closure element and motor vehicle body.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A motor vehicle lock arrangement for a closure element which is movably coupled to a motor vehicle body, comprising a motor vehicle lock, which in a mounted state is arranged on the closure element or on the motor vehicle body,
wherein the motor vehicle lock arrangement comprises a servo drive for exerting a driving force on the closure element in an opening direction, so that the closure element is selectively moved in a motorized positioning process from a closed position into a gap position, and in this way an engagement gap is selectively created between the closure element and the motor vehicle body,
wherein the motor vehicle lock comprises a latch bolt, wherein the latch bolt is selectively brought out of an open position by a movement in a closing direction of the latch bolt into at least one closed position, wherein the at least one closed position comprises a main closed position, in which the latch bolt engages with a striker for the transmittal of door holding forces, and wherein the latch bolt is selectively brought out from the at least one closed position by a movement in an opening direction of the latch bolt into the open position, in which the latch bolt releases the striker in the opening direction of the closure element, wherein the latch bolt is selectively moved by the servo drive in the motorized positioning process for creating the gap position of the closure element under motor power in the opening direction of the latch bolt into a gap position of the latch bolt,
wherein the latch bolt is selectively moved by the servo drive in the motorized positioning process in motorized manner in the opening direction of the latch bolt so that the latch bolt pushes the closure element via the striker into the gap position of the closure element,
wherein the open position of the latch bolt lies between the at least one closed position of the latch bolt on the one hand and the gap position of the latch bolt on the other hand,
wherein the latch bolt comprises a driving contour for pushing the closure element into the gap position, and
wherein a freewheeling is provided between the latch bolt and the servo drive such that the latch bolt is selectively moved from the open position into the at least one closed position without movement of any component of the servo drive.

2. The motor vehicle lock arrangement as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the closure element, after the motorized positioning process, is selectively further moved manually, free of the servo drive, in the opening direction of the closure element.

3. The motor vehicle lock arrangement as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a hand engagement arrangement on the closure element is accessible from an outside of the closure element through the engagement gap, and/or wherein a handle of a hand engagement arrangement is selectively moved outwardly through the engagement gap.

4. The motor vehicle lock arrangement as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the at least one closed position of the latch bolt comprises a pre-closed position.

5. The motor vehicle lock arrangement as claimed in claim 4 , further comprising a locking pawl which is selectively brought into a locked position, in which the locking pawl locks the latch bolt in the at least one closed position, and which is selectively brought into a release position in which the locking pawl releases the latch bolt in the opening direction of the latch bolt.

6. The motor vehicle lock arrangement as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the closure element is selectively moved in a motorized manner by the servo drive in a pulling shut process in the closing direction, so that the closure element is taken from a pre-closed position into a main closed position.

7. The motor vehicle lock arrangement as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the latch bolt is selectively moved by the servo drive in a pulling shut process in a motorized manner in the closing direction of the latch bolt so that the latch bolt pulls the closure element via the striker into the main closed position of the closure element.

8. The motor vehicle lock arrangement as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the latch bolt is selectively brought into engagement unidirectionally with the striker between the open position and the gap position such that a driving force of the latch bolt on the striker is selectively exerted only in the opening direction of the closure element by the servo drive.

9. The motor vehicle lock arrangement as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the latch bolt is selectively moved bidirectionally by the servo drive.

10. The motor vehicle lock arrangement as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the latch bolt comprises an inlet opening for the striker and wherein the latch bolt pushes the striker during the motorized positioning process in the opening direction of the closure element, out from the inlet opening.

11. The motor vehicle lock arrangement as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a control arrangement is provided, by which an opening process of the closure element is selectively controlled, and wherein by the control arrangement in the course of the opening process the motorized positioning process is selectively controlled in that the closure element is moved by the servo drive from the closed position into the gap position and in this way the engagement gap is created between the closure element and the motor vehicle body, and wherein the closure element, after the motorized positioning process, is selectively further moved manually in the opening direction of the closure element.

12. A closure element arrangement comprising a closure element, which is selectively movably coupled to a motor vehicle body, and with a motor vehicle lock arrangement associated with the closure element as claimed in claim 1 ,
a hand engagement arrangement is provided on the closure element, which is not accessible when the closure element is in the closed position owing to the interaction of the closure element and the motor vehicle body and which is accessible through the engagement gap when the closure element is in the gap position.

13. The closure element arrangement as claimed in claim 12 , wherein the hand engagement arrangement is arranged in the region of an end face of the closure element bordering on the engagement gap.

14. The closure element arrangement as claimed in claim 12 , wherein the hand engagement arrangement comprises a handle, which is selectively moved outward through the engagement gap.

15. A method for the operation of a motor vehicle lock arrangement as claimed in claim 1 , comprising
a control arrangement, by which an opening process of the closure element is selectively controlled, and wherein by the control arrangement in the course of the opening process the motorized positioning process is controlled in that the closure element is moved by the servo drive from the closed position into the gap position and in this way the engagement gap is created between the closure element and the motor vehicle body.

16. The method as claimed in claim 15 , wherein the closure element, after the motorized positioning process, is further moved manually in the opening direction of the closure element.

17. The method as claimed in claim 15 , wherein a locking pawl is lifted, by an auxiliary opening drive unit, and the closure element is then moved by the servo drive in the motorized positioning process from the closed position into the gap position.

Assignees

• Brose Schliesssysteme Gmbh

Inventors

• Wirths Rainer

Classifications

• E05B81/20 Primary

  for assisting final closing or for initiating opening · CPC title

• E05B81/06

  using rotary motors · CPC title

• E05B81/14 Primary

  operating on bolt detents, e.g. for unlatching the bolt · CPC title

• E05B85/107

  Pop-out handles, e.g. sliding outwardly before rotation · CPC title

• B60J5/0416

  Assembly panels to be installed in doors as a module with components, e.g. lock or window lifter, attached thereto · CPC title