Unlocking device for a vehicle hood

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016168884-A1
Application number	US-201514963288-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Dec 9, 2015
Priority date	Dec 16, 2014
Publication date	Jun 16, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

An unlocking device has a release lever that is connected pivotably to a carrier element and is in each case connected via Bowden cables to a catch hook for clip elements in a vehicle hood. The catch hook is moved by the Bowden cables that are actuated via the release lever, counter to the spring force of a spring element into an unlocking position for opening the vehicle hood.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An unlocking device for a vehicle hood, the unlocking device having a carrier element that is actuable via a release lever and is connected via Bowden cables to at least one catch hook in the vehicle body, the catch hook being pivotable via the Bowden cables, and the Bowden cables are moveable by the release lever into an unlocking position for opening the hood, the carrier element comprising: a cylindrical bearing sleeve having an elongate bushing shaft, with the release lever connected on head side of the cylindrical bearing sleeve, the bearing sleeve being guided in an axially rotatable manner in an elongate spacer bushing that is held in a positionally fixed manner in a base plate via a quarter-turn fastener and a serrated ring held at a free end of the cylindrical bearing sleeve, is axially supported on the end side of the spacer bushing.

2 . The unlocking device of claim 1 , wherein a cup-shaped annular bushing is formed around an outer circumference of the carrier element and defines a receiving space, a torsion spring element being disposed in the receiving space.

3 . The unlocking device of claim 2 , wherein the cup-shaped annular bushing has a head wall formed with an annular rotational-guiding annular groove.

4 . The unlocking device of claim 3 , wherein the spacer bushing has an upper end in the rotational-guiding annular groove and a lower end with a bearing ring that rests on an upper surface of the base plate and is fastened in the base plate via the quarter-turn connection.

5 . The unlocking device of claim 4 , wherein the cup-shaped annular bushing of the carrier element has a lower end supported rotatably on an upper surface of the bearing ring of the elongate spacer bushing, and the bearing ring having a lower surface that rests on the base plate.

6 . The unlocking device of claim 1 , wherein the bearing ring of the elongate spacer bushing engages over the base plate from above and, in a fastening position, is connected in a positionally fixed manner to the base plate via the quarter-turn fastener.

7 . The unlocking device of claim 1 , wherein the torsion spring element has an upper end disposed in the receiving space of the cup-shaped annular bushing and connected to the carrier element and the torsion spring element further having a turned-away lower end in the bearing ring of the spacer bushing in a manner hooked into a receiving opening.

Assignees

• Porsche Ag

Inventors

• Hillgaertner Klaus

Classifications

• E05B83/16

  Locks for luggage compartments, car boot lids or car bonnets · CPC title

• E05C19/12 Primary

  pivotally mounted {around an axis (E05C3/045, E05C3/40 take precedence)} · CPC title

• F16C1/14

  Construction of the end-piece of the flexible member; Attachment thereof to the flexible member · CPC title

• E05B85/10

  Handles · CPC title

• B62D25/12

  Parts or details thereof (locks E05B, {E05B83/16; devices for holding open E05C17/00, e.g. while carrying oversize objects E05C17/042}; hinges E05D; counterbalancing means E05F; {checks, stops, buffers E05F5/00; } springs, {e.g. pneumatic springs} F16F) · CPC title