Patent ID: 6641184
Filing Date: 2003-11-04
Classification: E05B,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
A motor vehicle electric door lock comprising:an outside housing close on all sides and which is made as a plastic molding, with an inlet channel for the k y collar and with, located in the outside housing, a rotary latch, a detent pawl which holds the rotary latch, a separate detent pawl lever which is dynamically connected to the detent pawl or which is made on the detent pawl as an extension, and an electrical opening drive unit with a drive motor, a step-down gearing, and a driven element, the driven element via the detent pawl lever driving the detent pawl in a lifting direction and engaging an actuating section of the detent pawl lever, wherein the outside housing is elongated and has two flat sides and comprising a trough-shaped bottom part made as a plastic molding with one large open side and an essentially flat cover made as a plastic molding and which closes the trough-shaped bottom part n the open side, and wherein the rotary latch and the detent pawl are located in a lowermost plane on a bottom of the trough-shaped bottom part of the outside housing, the electrical drive unit is located in a drive housing in the lower most plane on the bottom of the trough-shaped bottom part of the outside housing, and the detent pawl lever is located in a second-lowermost plane relative to the bottom of the trough-shaped bottom part of the outside housing an the driven element of the drive unit is located on the outside of a drive housing in the second-lowermost plane relative to the bottom it of the trough-shaped bottom part of the outside housing.