Motor vehicle locking system with an electrical opening device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11525288-B2
Application number	US-201816757448-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 18, 2018
Priority date	Oct 20, 2017
Publication date	Dec 13, 2022
Grant date	Dec 13, 2022

Abstract

A motor vehicle locking system for a door or hatch, comprising a locking mechanism with a rotary latch and a pawl for latching the rotary latch, a drive pulley for an electrical opening means, which drive pulley can be rotated in a motorized manner in an operating direction for tripping the locking mechanism, and a return spring for rotating the drive pulley in the direction opposite the operating direction, wherein the drive pulley can be rotated in the operating direction without being influenced by the return spring or at least without spring load. Therefore, higher loads can be moved by the drive pulley.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A motor vehicle locking system for a door or flap, the motor vehicle locking system comprising:
a locking mechanism having a catch and a pawl for latching the catch,
an electric motor,
a drive pulley for an electrical opening means, wherein the drive pulley can be rotated, in a motorized manner by the electric motor, in an operating direction from a basic position to an end position to trigger the locking mechanism, and
a return spring for rotating the drive pulley in a second direction counter to the operating direction, wherein the drive pulley is rotated in the operating direction without influence by the return spring or any spring load to a freewheel end position between the initial position and the end position;
wherein:
during a normal operation the drive pulley is rotated in the motorized manner by the electric motor from the basic position to the end position in the operating direction to release the locking mechanism, and the drive pulley is rotated back in the motorized manner by the electric motor in the second direction counter to the operating direction to the basic position; and
during an emergency operation in which there is no power to the electric motor, the return spring rotates the drive pulley back in the second direction counter to the operating direction to the freewheel end position.

2. The motor vehicle locking system according to claim 1 , wherein the freewheel end position has a freewheel rotational angle range relative to the basic position that is at least 30° and at most 180°.

3. The motor vehicle locking system according to claim 2 , wherein a spring load rotational angle range during which the spring is loaded directly adjoins the freewheel rotational angle range in the operating direction.

4. The motor vehicle locking system according to claim 2 , wherein the drive pulley comprises a carrier for carrying along the return spring for pre-tensioning the return spring, upon rotation of the drive pulley in the operating direction.

5. The motor vehicle locking system according to claim 4 , wherein the carrier is a cam or a tappet.

6. The motor vehicle locking system according to claim 4 , wherein the carrier can carry along the return spring, in the operating direction, only into a freewheel end position that limits the freewheel rotational angle range in the operating direction, and the return spring can rotate the drive pulley back in the second direction counter to the operating direction only as far as the freewheel end position.

7. The motor vehicle locking system according to claim 1 , wherein, in the basic position and in the freewheel end position of the drive pulley the pawl can latch together with the catch, and in thean end position of the drive pulley the pawl cannot latch together with the catch.

8. The motor vehicle locking system according to claim 1 , wherein the drive pulley comprises or forms a control contour for a lever for releasing the locking mechanism, wherein the lever can be pivoted, depending on a rotational angle position of the drive pulley, by rotating the drive pulley and thus the control contour.

9. The motor vehicle locking system according to claim 8 , wherein the control contour protrudes on an axial surface of the drive pulley, and the lever can slide along the control contour radially during rotation of the drive pulley.

10. The motor vehicle locking system according to claim 8 , wherein the lever is the pawl or is movably coupled to the pawl whereby pivoting of the lever can lead to pivoting of the pawl.

11. The motor vehicle locking system according to claim 8 , wherein during a rotation of the drive pulley in the operating direction, the lever is pivoted before or after the return spring is carried along.

12. The motor vehicle locking system according to claim 1 , wherein the drive pulley is a gearwheel or a worm wheel having teeth around the periphery thereof in order to be able to be driven by the electric motor.

13. The motor vehicle locking system according to claim 2 , wherein the freewheel rotational angle range is at most 90°.

14. The motor vehicle locking system according to claim 2 , wherein the freewheel rotational angle range is at least 90° and/or at most 180°.

15. The motor vehicle locking system according to claim 8 , wherein a lever pivot axis of the lever is oriented to be parallel with a drive pulley axis of rotation of the drive pulley.

16. The motor vehicle locking system according to claim 8 , wherein a free end of the lever is movable along a lateral face of the drive pulley.

17. The motor vehicle locking system according to claim 16 , wherein the drive pulley includes a protruding annular collar arranged about a drive pulley axis of rotation of the drive pulley, wherein the free end rests radially on the protruding annular collar.

Assignees

• Kiekert Ag

Inventors

• Schiffer Holger
• Scholz Michael
• Inan Ömer
• Herrmann Michael

Classifications

• E05B85/26

  Cooperation between bolts and detents · CPC title

• E05B81/42

  Cams · CPC title

• E05B81/14 Primary

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

• E05B81/50 Primary

  Powered actuators with automatic return to the neutral position by non-powered means, e.g. by springs · CPC title

• E05B81/34

  of geared transmissions · CPC title