Patent ID: 11970887
Assignee: KIEKERT AG
Field: Civil engineering (Other fields)
Classification: CPC E  H | IPC E

Claim 0:
1. A lock for a motor vehicle, the lock comprising:
a locking mechanism including a rotary latch and at least one pawl,
a closing device having an electric drive, wherein the locking mechanism is configured to be transferred from an opening state into a main locking state by the closing device, and
a control unit for the closing device, wherein the control unit is configured to operate the closing device to prevent a closing operation of the closing device based on a measurement variable of the closing device, wherein the control unit is configured to operate the closing device to prevent the closing operation in response to a detection by the control unit of a threshold deviation of the measurement variable relative to a setpoint value curve of an expected performance of the measurement variable of the closing device;
wherein the setpoint value curve corresponds to a calibration of the lock for the measurement variable in relation to actual loads when using the lock.