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AU740850B2 - Door lock with roller catch, especially for motor vehicles - Google Patents
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AU740850B2
AU740850B2 AU34126/99A AU3412699A AU740850B2 AU 740850 B2 AU740850 B2 AU 740850B2 AU 34126/99 A AU34126/99 A AU 34126/99A AU 3412699 A AU3412699 A AU 3412699A AU 740850 B2 AU740850 B2 AU 740850B2
AU34126/99A
AU3412699A (en
1998-03-23 Priority to DE1998112606 priority Critical patent/DE19812606A1/en
1998-03-23 Priority to DE19812606 priority
1999-03-15 Application filed by Huf Hulsbeck and Furst GmbH and Co KG filed Critical Huf Hulsbeck and Furst GmbH and Co KG
1999-03-15 Priority to PCT/EP1999/001686 priority patent/WO1999049159A1/en
1999-10-18 Publication of AU3412699A publication Critical patent/AU3412699A/en
2001-11-15 Publication of AU740850B2 publication Critical patent/AU740850B2/en
Translation of WO 99/49159 (PCT/EP99/01686) Door Lock with Roller Catch, Especially for Motor Vehicles The invention relates to a door lock of the kind disclosed in the preamble of claim i. The roller catch comprises in addition to the pre-catch also a main catch into which the pawl drops. Sometimes a gap remains when closing an open door because the pawl reaches only the pre-catch of the roller catch. This means that the roller catch remains in its pre-catch position. In order to be able to close the gap, the auxiliary motor means are provided which engage the roller catch. They have the task to further move the roller catch into its final position in which the pawl drops into the main catch. In the following, this final position will be referred to as "main catch position". The door gap is now closed.
In a known door lock (DE 195 33,196 Al) two drive motors cooperate via two gears with a pivotable carousel support on which the pawl is positioned. One motor serves as a closing aid and the other motor as an opening aid. During closing, the pawl is pushed away by a pre-catch interruption lever until, by means of the locking part being inserted, the roller catch has reached its final main catch position relative to the pawl and the pawl drops into the main catch of the roller catch. Only thereafter, the drive motor is started and pivots the carousel support with the pawl so that the pawl rotates the roller catch past the main catch position into its rotational end position. In this case, a pawl that is entrained by the gear is provided, and the roller catch, after the ~F~d~1 pawl has dropped into its main catch, is still moved farther. An interruption of the drive motor is not provided and thus also does not result in a release of the transmission chain between the motor and the roller catch.
It is an object of the invention to develop a reliable door lock of the kind mentioned in the preamble of claim 1 which, on the one hand, improves the operating comfort but, on the other hand, is of a space-saving configuration. This is achieved according to the invention by the features disclosed in the characterizing portion of claim 1 which have the following meaning.
According to the invention, one and the same drive motor can be used for the closing aid as well as for the opening aid. It is sufficient in this context to arrange in the gear a transmission member which can be controlled to alternate between two switching positions. The drive energy provided by the drive motor is transmitted on a common path to the transmission member. Behind the transmission member, however, the drive energy is alternatively guided on one of two separate drive paths. One drive paths belongs to the closing aid and the other to the opening aid. It depends only on the switching position of the transmission member onto which one of the two drive paths the drive energy is directed.
Accordingly, the apparatus expenditure is substantially reduced.
For reversing the transmission member, the features disclosed in claim 2 are recommended. Usually, the transmission member is secured by a spring force in that switching position in which the drive energy of the drive motor does not reach the roller catch.
This normal situation is also present in the open position of the roller catch up to a certain limit angle position of the roller catch as well as in the final main catch position. This limit angle position may be, for example, the pre-catch position of the roller catch. Only when the limit angle position of the roller catch during closing of the door has been reached, a switching device is activated which reverses the transmission member. This switching device engages the transmission member and transfers the transmission member into its other position where the drive energy of the drive motor acts on the roller catch and can pull it shut.
Of independent inventive importance are the claim 15 and the dependent claims 16 through 19 which illustrate different alternatives. This door lock can also be used independent of a pulling shut aid and/or an opening aid. However, in individual situations the use in connection with a door lock according to claim 1 or 2 is possible and will also be explained in the following description in more detail. The door lock according to claim 15 concerns the following problem.
It is important to determine the respective position of the door unequivocally in order to, according to this determination, initiate further functions of the vehicle or to control them, for example, the interior illumination of the vehicle. For this purpose, sensors are used. In the past it was required to position the sensors within very tight tolerances for an exact position determination of the door. Moreover, the use of correspondingly exactly operating sensors was required. Finally, the high sensitivity of the sensors should not change during their service life. The manufacture of sensors with such high requirements is difficult and expensive. Moreover, the known sensors had to be exactly mounted which is cost-intensive. The invention avoids these disadvantages by special control means according to claims through 19. In this connection the following effects result.
Because of the common evaluation of the individual signals of the two sensors, an exact positioning of these sensors with respect to the roller catch or with respect to the pawl is initially not required. Mounting of the sensors is therefore facilitated, faster, and can be performed less expensively. Moreover, the invention makes it possible to even use relatively imprecisely operating sensors because the summation evaluation of the signals allows to determine the respective door position very precisely.
According to the invention it is also of no consequence when the sensitivity of the two sensors decreases over the course of time.
In this case the summation-based control logic can determine very precisely the point in time.
Further measures and advantages of the invention result from the claims, the following description, and the drawings. In the drawings, the invention is illustrated in several embodiments. It is shown in: Fig. la a plan view of the lower part of the inventive lock in the viewing direction of section line Ia-Ia of Fig. ic, when the roller catch is still in its open position but the door is on its way to being closed; Fig. lb a plan view onto the lock, in the viewing direction according to arrow Ib of Fig. ic; Fig. Ic a side view of the lock, wherein the housing is not illustrated; t i Fig. Id Figs. 2a-2c Figs. 3a-3b Figs. 4a-4c Figs. 5a-5c Figs. 6a-6c a perspective representation of an important portion of the lock illustrated in Figs. la to Ic; plan and side views of the lock, in analogy to Figs. la to Ic, in a subsequent phase of the closing movement of the door when the locking part entrains the roller catch and has moved it into its pre-catch position; the corresponding plan and side views in that movement phase of the door where the roller catch has been moved motorically by a closing aid according to the invention just into its main catch position and the closing aid is still switched on; the same plan and side views of the lock, wherein the roller catch is also in the main catch position illustrated already in Figs. 3a to 3c but the closing aid has been switched off; the aforementioned views of the lock according to the invention after an opening aid has been activated and the roller catch has been returned into the open position illustrated in Figs. la to ic; a differently embodied door lock of which only the three most important components are illustrated, together with two control means, which allow determination of the respective position of the door reliably; Figs. 7a-7c in a representation corresponding to Figs. 6a to 6c a variation of the embodiment of the control means; and Figs. 8a-8d four alternative tables for the effectiveness of a control logic, correlated with the control means of Figs. 6a to 6c and 7a to 7c, for detecting the respective door position.
The configuration of the lock is explained in more detail with the aid of Figs. la to Id. The door lock comprises a roller catch 11 which is subjected to a restoring force, illustrated by the force arrow 12, of a spring, not shown in detail. The roller catch 11 is pivotably supported on a bearing pin 15 in a housing, not shown in detail, and is usually fastened on the door, not shown in detail.
Instead of a side door, another type of door, for example, the rear hatch of a motor vehicle, could be concerned. The roller catch 11 comprises a slot-shaped receiving device 14 for a locking part which is bracket-shaped in this embodiment. When the locking part is removed from the roller catch 11, as illustrated at 10' in Fig.
la, it is maintained by its spring-load 12 and rotary stops, not illustrated in detail, in an open position illustrated in Fig. la.
In this connection, the roller catch 11 with its receiving device 14 remains accessible from the exterior. The locking part 10 is usually fastened on the door post. The arrangement of the locking part 10, however, can also be on the door, wherein the roller catch 11 is then stationarily positioned with its housing on the post.
7 2) Based on the release position 10' of Fig. la illustrated in a dashdotted line, the locking part 10 moves into the receiving device 14, when the door is closed, and pivots thus the roller catch 11, against its return force 12, in the direction of the pivot arrow from the open position illustrated in Fig. la into the precatch position illustrated in Fig. 2a. The roller catch 11 comprises at least two catches 16, 17, a pre-catch 16 and a main catch 17. A pawl 20 engages the catches 16, 17 with its locking arm 21 when the roller catch 11 is in its already mentioned pre-catch position of Fig. 2a or in a final main catch position illustrated in Fig. 3a.
When the pre-catch position of Fig. 2a has been reached, usually a gap remains between the door and the door post. The invention is now provided with a motor-driven closing aid. It is embodied in a special way and engages the roller catch. In the pre-catch position of Fig. 2a the closing part 10 is already engaged by the roller catch. There is already a positive locking connection between 11.
As illustrated by arrows 51, 52 in Fig. 2a, at least two sensors 51, 52 are provided wherein one of them (51) becomes active when the roller catch 11 is in the pre-catch position illustrated in Fig. 2. The other sensor 52 is activated when the pawl 20 has reached its pivot position illustrated in Figs. 2a and 3a, wherein the locking arm 21 engages either the pre-catch 16 or the main catch 17. The sensors 51, 52, when activated, send a signal to a schematically illustrated control logic 50. The signals are evaluated therein, and for each situation the corresponding activities of the lock are activated which will be explained in more detail in the following. This can be explained more specifically with the aid of the table of Fig. 8a.
The control logic 50 detects the open position of the roller catch 11 of Fig. la when, according to the table of Fig. 8a, first line, both sensors 51, 52 do not release the signal. This holds true also for the initial rotational path of the roller catch 11 into the position illustrated in Fig. 2a. However, when the pre-catch position of Fig. 2a has been reached, both sensors 51, 52, according to the second column of table of Fig. 8a, will send a signal. Thus, the control logic 50 will recognize unequivocally that the pre-catch position of Fig. 2a has been reached. In the final main catch position of Fig. 3a only the second sensor 52 will send a signal but not the first sensor 51, as can be seen in the last line of the table of Fig. 8a. This can also be unequivocally detected by the control logic 50. This operation of the sensors 51, 52 with the control logic 50 has the advantage that cumbersome adjustment of the sensors 51, 52 with respect to the two sensing locations on the roller catch 11 or the pawl 20 are no longer needed. Suitable sensors are members, for example, Hall sensors, which respond to permanent magnets provided on 11 or 20 and entrained therewith.
When the roller catch 11 has reached its pre-catch position illustrated in Fig. 2a, the control logic 50 will activate the "closing aid" until the main catch position of Fig. 3a has been reached. Then the closing aid will be deactivated which results in the position of the components illustrated in Figs. 4a to 4c. The switching on and switching off of the closing aid is realized by the components of the lock according to the invention which are designed in a special way.
As can be seen best in Figs. ld and lb, 1c, the closing aid comprises in this embodiment an electrically operated drive motor having arranged downstream thereof a reduction gear comprised of several members. They include a worm gear 31 rotatably driven by the motor 30 which engages a worm wheel 32. The worm wheel 22 is connected fixedly with the spur gear 33 for common rotation.
Downstream of the spur gear 33 a special transmission member 35 is provided which in the present case is comprised of a tumbler wheel.
The transmission member 35 can be switched between two switching positions, one of which is illustrated in Fig. la and the other in Fig. 2c. As can be taken from these Figures, the dash-dotted line illustrating the axle 40 of the tumbler wheel has two angle positions that differ from one another. The lower axle end indicated with 41 in Fig. ic is shaped like a ball joint at a defined location in the lock housing, not illustrated in detail, while the oppositely positioned other axle end 42 is tiltingly movable and is pivotably supported on a switching device 60. The switching device comprises first a rocker 61 which is pivotably supported in the housing at 62, and is connected via a crank guide 63 with a toothed gear segment 64. The toothed gear segment 64 meshes with a pinion 66 of the motor 65 which is referred to as a "coupling motor" for reasons which will be disclosed in the following.
The tiltable axle end 42 of the tumbler wheel 35 in the present case is under the effect of a spring force indicated by the arrow 44 which has the tendency to maintain the axle 40 in the pivoted I position, indicated in Fig. ic, relative to the spur gear 37 arranged downstream. In this connection, an upper toothing 36 provided at the tumbler wheel reaches a decoupled position relative to the spur gear 37. On the other hand, a lower toothing 34 of the tumbler wheel 35 in this case remains still in engagement with the already mentioned spur gear 33 of this gear system. Fig. Ic accordingly corresponds to a switch-off position of the transmission member 35. The spring force 44 engages in a concrete embodiment on the pin 43 of the two segments 64, which pin is illustrated in Figs. ib and id. The tooth segment 64 is supported in the housing at location 67. A guide pin 68 provided on the rocker 61 comes to rest against one end of the crank guide 63, and this determines the switch-off position of the tumbler wheel relative to the aforementioned downstream spur gear 37 of the gear system. In Figs. la to Id the drive motor 30 as well as the coupling motor 65 are standing still.
Upon further closing of the door, the locking part 10 entrains the roller catch 11 and brings it into the pre-catch position illustrated in Figs. 2a to 2c where, as mentioned above, the pawl drops into the pre-catch 16 of the roller catch 11. This fact, as has already been disclosed above, is detected by the sensors 51, 52 and reported to the control logic 50 which transfers the aforementioned transmission member 35, formed as a tumbler wheel, into the other position illustrated in Fig. 2c. Now the tumbler wheel 35 engages with its upper toothing 36 with the already mentioned spur gear 37. This provides a "switched-on" position of the transmission member 35. Now the drive motor 30 is supplied with electrical current.
The drive energy of the motor 30 transmitted via the gear members 31, 32, 33 to the transmission member 35 is now further guided by the output path arranged downstream of the transmission member of the pulling-shut aid. This output path includes the already mentioned spur gear 37 which is fixedly connected on a pinion 38 for common rotation. Also provided is a toothed gear segment 39 engaging the pinion 38 und fixedly connected to a shaft 53 for common rotation. Moreover, an output member 54 of this output path is fixedly connected to the shaft 53 which, in the present case, is in the form of a lever. The lever 54 is supported with its free end on the shoulder 55 illustrated in Fig. 2a. The drive energy coming from the motor 30 results in a drive force provided via the transmission chain 31 through 39 and 53, 54 illustrated by the arrow Fl. It has the effect that the roller catch 11 is entrained and moved further in the direction of the pivot arrow 15 of Fig.
2b. The locking part 10 engaging the roller catch 11 is also entrained until the main catch position of the roller catch 11 illustrated in Fig. 3a is reached. By means of the locking part the door has been closed by motor forces according to the pulling shut arrow 18 illustrated in Fig. 3a. The gap of the door which was present up to this point is now closed.
In Figs. 3a to 3c the pulling shut movement 18 is still illustrated in its end phase where there is still a drive connection between the motor 30 and the output member 54 of the gear via the activated transmission member 35. In this last phase, the lever 54 provides a drive force F2 which provides a greater torque onto the roller catch 11 than in the case of the pre-catch position illustrated in Fig. 2a for the following reason.
The shoulder 55 for receiving the force F1 in Fig. 2a is the profiled end of an arc-shaped rib 56 seated on a disk surface of the roller catch 11. The contact location is indicated by 57 in Fig. 2a. The arm length rl between the drive-active lever 54 and the contact location 57 on the control end 55 of the rib 56 is relatively small. The drive moment results thus as a product of rl and Fl. The corresponding torque acting on the catch roller 11 is determined by the torque arm r illustrated by a dash-dotted line in Fig. 2a and longer than rl but also by the force component Fl' which is smaller than Fl. However, this ratio changes along the path to the main catch position of the roller catch 11 of Fig. 3a.
In Fig. 3 the contact location between the lever 54 and the shoulder 55 through 57' has been moved so that the corresponding arm length r2 of the torque exerted by 54 has become smaller. The spacing between the contact location 57' and the axis 13 of the roller catch 11 is in approximation identical to that of Fig. 2a.
However, the force direction of F2 has also changed. The drive force F2 exerted by the lever 54 now acts fully on the roller catch 11, at least, however, with a substantially greater force component in comparison to Fig. 2a. The efficiency of the applied force F2 in comparison to F1 and Fl' has become greater. The torque acting on the roller catch 11 in Fig. 3a is greater relative to Fig. 2a.
The multiplication ratio of the gear between the drive motor 20 and the roller catch 11 has increased upon transition from Fig. 2a to Fig. 3a. The pulling force acting on the locking part 10 for pulling the door shut in the direction of arrow 18 has become greater.
This increase of the pulling force is very desirable. Between the door and the door frame there are, in general, elastic seals which in the last phase of the door closing movement must be compressed and therefore present a resistance to the pulling shut force. The thus resulting counter force increases thus in the last phase of the closing movement of the door. Also, the return force 12 acting on the roller catch 11 increases in this last movement phase.
Accordingly, the sum of the counter forces, which occur during closing of the door and which must be overcome by the pulling shut aid, increases. Without the aforementioned increase of the pulling force according to the invention the operating point of the drive motor 30 which is embodied as a DC motor would be displaced because of the increasing counter force. Accordingly, a smaller rpm would result in accordance with the operating characteristic line of the motor 30 as a result of the increased motor load. The rpm determines however the motor noise. A change of rpm thus results in a change of the motor noise to lower frequencies, which is perceived as uncomfortable.
When, as already disclosed, the sensors 51, 52 have recognized the main catch position of Fig. 3a, the control logic moves the described transmission member 35 again into its switched-off position which can be seen in Figs. 4a-4c. The tumbler wheel 35 in Fig. 4c is again in the angular position with its axis 40 pivoted away. This is carried out in that the switching device 60 is made inactive. For this purpose, the coupling motor 65 must only be switched off. This can have an effect on the spring force 44 acting on the transmission member 35, against which previously the switching device 60 had worked by applying an electric current to the coupling motor 65. Because of the described point of attack of the spring force 44 on the pin 43 of the toothed gear segment 64, the toothed gear segment 64 is moved back from its position in Fig. 3b into the position of Fig. 4b. Accordingly, the guide pin 68 of the rocker 61 is moved to the other end of the crank guide 63 of the two gear segment 64.
This switched-off position of the transmission member 35 from the aforementioned further drive path 37 to 39 and 53, 54 is especially of great importance when during the previously described pullingshut phase between Fig. 2a and 3a an emergency situation occurs which requires that the further closing of the door is immediately stopped. Such an emergency situation can be detected by the electric control logic in that, for example, the time required for the pulling shut process has been exceeded or that the electric current for driving the drive motor 30 has increased past a permissible limit or that power failure occurs. In this case, already on the way to the main catch position of the roller catch 11 of Fig. 3a, the current supply of the coupling motor 65 is switched off. Already on the path, before reaching Fig. 3a, a decoupling of the transmission member 35 from the drive path 37 to 39 and 53, 54 of the pulling-shut aid positioned downstream is carried out. Even when according to the inertia principle the drive motor 30 set in motion and the moved drive members 31 to 33 in front of the transmission member 35 continue to run, the movement energy of these masses is no longer transmitted onto the roller catch 11. The roller catch 11 no longer moves any farther, it can even be returned for the following reason.
Because of the elastic effect of the already mentioned door seals a counter force results. This counter force is sufficient in any case to move the roller catch 11 in an emergency situation again into its pre-catch position of Fig. 2a. Such a switching off of the transmission member 35 can, of course, also be achieved by a manual actuation of an inner grip belonging to the door lock, an outer grip, or a remote control. In the main catch position of the roller catch 11 of Fig. 4a to 4c, of course, the drive motor 30 is also automatically switched off by the control logic.
The drive motor 30 rotates by the way in the same rotational direction as the previously described pulling shut aid according to Figs. 2a to 3c. The upper end 67 of this shaft 46 can serve at the same time as the aforementioned bearing for the toothed wheel segment 64 belonging to the switching device 60. A control cam 47, illustrated in Fig. 4a, is fixedly connected to the shaft 46 and forms the output of the drive path 45, 47 belonging to the opening aid. In Fig. 4a the rest position of this control cam 47 is illustrated. In this connection, the control cam 47 is supported on a control surface 23, shown in Fig. 4a, of a further lever 22 onto which the force 25 of a two-leg spring 24, 24' acts. One spring leg 24' is supported on a stationary support location 26 in the housing while the other leg 24 provides the spring force indicated in Fig. 4a by the arrow 25, acting on the lever 22. The spring 24, 24' represents a force storage for the lever for which reason the lever 22 in the following will be referred to as "storage lever".
In the initial position of Fig. 4a the spring force 25 of the storage lever 22 cannot yet act on the pawl 20 because, as mentioned above, the control cam 47 supports the storage lever 22 on its control surface 23. However, this will change when for activation of the opening aid the drive motor 30 is further supplied with electrical current. Then the control cam 47 according to Fig. 4a is moved in the direction of the rotational path 27 via the aforementioned second drive path 45 to 47 and releases increasingly the storage lever 22. The pawl 20 is also under a spring load 28 in the counter direction as illustrated by arrow 28; even though, the higher spring force 25 exerted by the storage lever 22 is normally sufficient in order to lift the locking arm 21 of the pawl 20 out of the main catch 17 of Fig. 4a or the precatch 16 of Fig. 2a. The force transmission between the storage lever 22 and the pawl 20 is realized via the contact surface and counter contact surface 49, 49 according to Fig. 4a. Then the roller catch 11 is free and can be returned by the restoring force 12 acting on it into its open position of Fig. la. Now the locking part 10 is again released and the door can be opened.
The end phase of the opening movement can be seen in Figs. 5a to The locking part 10 has moved away relative to the roller catch 11, in comparison to the situation of Fig. 4a, in the direction of the opening arrow 19 of Fig. 5a. The roller catch 11 has returned into the open position as a result of its restoring force 12. The locking part 10 has been released from the receiving device 14 in the roller catch 11. The rotation 27 of the control cam 47 described in Fig. 4a is usually completed even before the control cam has reached a counter control surface 29 which, in this embodiment, is located on an extended arm of the pawl 20. In a crash situation, however, or in other disturbances, it may occur that the pawl locking arm 21 is seated so tightly in the main catch 17 of the roller catch 11 that the spring force 25 of the locking lever 22 is not sufficient for releasing the pawl 20. This is detected by sensors, for example, the described pawl sensor 52.
\j R~18 01 The drive motor 30 turns past the rotational position of the cam 47 illustrated in Fig. 5a. This is illustrated in Fig. 5a by the dashed arrow 27'. The cam 47 contacts, either in the case of the pawl engagement at 17 illustrated in Fig. 4a or at 16 in Fig. 2a, the aforementioned counter control surface 29 and forces the pawl locking arm 21, with enhancement by the storage spring force out of the main catch 17 or pre-catch 16.
After lifting the pawl 20 in the described disturbance situation or in the previously described normal situation of Figs. 5a to 5c, the control cam 47 is again returned by the motor, in particular, in the direction of the counter rotation arrow 48 illustrated in Fig.
This is again made possible by the drive motor 30 because there is still a drive connection with the drive path 45 to 47 of the opening aid of the gear. For this purpose, the motor 30 must only be supplied with electric current in the opposite direction.
The control cam 47 then again meets the control surface 23 of the storage lever 22 and moves it under tension of the movable spring leg 24 again into the rest position of Fig. la. All of this can again be monitored by sensors. When the storage lever 22 is again in its initial position of Fig. la, the counter current loading of the drive more 30 for this counter rotation 48 is stopped.
As has been mentioned already, the left position of the roller catch 11 according to Fig. la to ld of the first drive path 37 to 39 as well as 53, 54, belonging to the pulling shut aid and positioned downstream of the transmission member 35, is switched off. This gear portion is free. This results already after switching off the transmission member 35 in the main catch position of the roller catch 11 of Fig. 4a to 4c. At this point, no drive force coming from the drive motor 30 is exerted on the lever 54.
It can rest in the open position of Fig. la or 5a on the inner arc surface 58 of the rib 56. A light spring tension acting on the lever 54 provides a defined position of the lever 54 on this arc surface 58. This light spring tension also makes sure that, already before the beginning of the pulling shut movement according to Fig. 2a to 2c, the lever 54 is positioned at the described contact location 57 of the shoulder 55 according to Fig. 2a.
For releasing the pawl 20 via an outer and/or inner handle or a remote control, a point of attack is provided, for example, a release pin 59 as illustrated in Figs. 4a and 4c. Otherwise, the aforementioned counter control surface 29 can be provided, instead of on the pawl 20, on the storage lever 22 and can be a monolithic, fixed component of the storage lever 22. In this case, the pawl is shortened in its length relative to that of Figs. la to 5a. In this case, the contact surface 49 on the storage lever 22 and the correlated counter contact surface 69 on the pawl 20 according to Fig. 4a are, however, maintained in order to be able to transmit the spring force 25 of the storage lever 22 as an opening aid onto the pawl 20, as has been disclosed above. The one-part connection of the control and counter control surfaces 23, 29 on the storage lever 22 can be provided in the form of an eye at the lever end area of the storage lever 22, wherein the control cam 47 engages the eye opening. The eye has approximately an elongate oval shape with profiled edges. The control cam 47 then has a profiled contour. The control and counter control surfaces 23, 29 are then positioned at oppositely arranged edges of this eye. This configuration has special advantages and, independent of the embodiments of the aforementioned Figures, has its own inventive importance.
As has been mentioned above, the control means for determining the respective position of the door, as disclosed in connection with Figs. la to 5c and explained in connection with the table according to Fig. 8a, have independent inventive importance. They can also be used in connection with a door lock that has neither a pullingshut aid nor an opening aid or is provided only with an opening aid. The resulting advantages have already been disclosed in detail in the introductory portion of the description. The Figs.
6a to 6c, on the one hand, and Figs. 7a to 7c, on the other hand, show, based on the most important components of such door locks, two possibilities for the configuration of the control means.
In Fig. 6a only the roller catch 11, the pawl 20 which has been changed as disclosed in the last embodiment, and the two described sensors 51, 52 of a door lock 70 are shown. The sensors 51, 52 can be of any suitable configuration as is known in the art. They can be comprised of a mechanical or optical switch, a reed contact, a Hall sensor or other so-called sensor wire elements. The position illustrated in Fig. 6a corresponds to that of Fig. la which has been explained already with the aid of Fig. 8a, line 1. In this case, both sensors 51, 52 do not send a signal to the corresponding control logic 50, which is shown in Fig. la while in Fig. 6a only the electrical connecting lines 71, 72 extending to the sensors are illustrated. The open position of the door is now unequivocally determined.
21 The situation of this door lock 70 illustrated in Fig. 6b corresponds to the door position already explained in connection with Fig. 2a. The locking part 10 is already positive-lockingly engaged by the roller catch 11 and the pawl 20 has dropped with its locking location 21 into the pre-catch. The roller catch 11 as well as the pawl 20 have flaps 73 and 78, respectively, which in this door position reach into the area of the sensors 51, 52.
Subsequently, as already explained in connection with the curve 8a, the pre-catch position of the door is detected because both sensors 51, 52 send a signal to the control logic 15 which is not shown in detail in Fig. 6b.
In Fig. 6c the main catch position of the door is present which has lready been explained in connection with Fig. 4a. The locking location 21 of the pawl 20 is then in the aforementioned main catch 17 of the roller catch 11. The door is not completely closed.
This is detected by means of the signals sent by the two sensors 51, 52 to the control logic 50, as has been explained above in connection with the last line of Fig. 8a. This can be seen in Fig.
6c in that the aforementioned flap 74 at the pawl 20 results in the signal At the roller catch sensor 51, on the other hand, the corresponding flap 73 is removed and, instead, a cutout 75 of the roller catch 11 is in alignment with the sensor 51. Accordingly, the sensor 51 is not activated. The control logic 50 in this scenario only receives the signal from the sensor 51, as can be seen in the table of Fig. 8a.
In Fig. 7a to 7c an alternative embodiment of the door lock 70' is shown, in particular, again in the same three positions as explained supra in connection with the lock 70 in Fig. 6a to 6c.
Therefore, the above description applies here also. It is sufficient to only point out the differences.
In the door lock 70' of Figs. 7a to 7c only the bolt 76 of the locking part 10 is illustrated which has not yet been engaged by the receiving device 14 of the roller catch 11 in the open position illustrated in Fig. 7a. This bolt 76 could be formed by one leg of a bracket-shaped locking part 10 as is illustrated perspectively in Fig. id. In deviation from the previously disclosed door lock the sensor 51 in the door lock 70' of Fig. 7a to 7c does not cooperate with the roller catch 11 but with the locking bolt 76.
Accordingly, in the door lock 70' the aforementioned flap 73 of Figs. 6a to 6c can be eliminated. In analogy to Figs. 6a, the sensor 51 in door lock 70' sends the signal to the control logic 50 in the position illustrated in Fig. 7a.
When the door is in the pre-catch position according to Fig. 7b, the locking bolt 76 has reached the area of the corresponding sensor 51, and, therefore, a positive signal is sent to the corresponding control logic 50. Such a positive signal is provided because of the already described position of the pawl flap 74, provided also in the lock 70', at the pawl sensor 52, as has already been described in connection with Fig. 6b.
In Fig. 7c the main catch position of the door is now present. The locking bolt 76 has been removed from the sensor 51 so that again the signal is provided. For the same reason as in Fig. 6c, the pawl sensor 52 in this case provides a positive signal.
In Figs. 8b to 8d three further tables for the control logic 50 are listed which may result for a variation of the embodiment of the door locks 70 or 70'. As can be seen in the tables, the signals in the different positions are correlated in a different way relative to Fig. 8a, but they are always unequivocal for the control logic.
Therefore, as has been explained in connection with Fig. 6a to 7c, the logic can unequivocally detect each of the three positions of the door based on the signals. In order to obtain these signal variations in the three different door positions, it is only necessary to position the two sensors 51 and 52 differently relative to the afore described control locations 73, 74, 75 of the roller catch 11 and the pawl 20 or relative to the control bolt 76.
Another possibility is, of course, to position these control locations 73 to 76 differently while taking over the positions according to Fig. 6a to 7c for the two sensors 51, 52.
2. Door lock according to claim 1, wherein the transmission member is secured by a spring force normally in that switching position in which the drive energy exerted by the drive motor is not transmitted to the roller catch, and wherein the transmission member is connected with a switching device which, at a defined limit angle of the roller catch and/or of the pawl, is activated and transfers the transmission member into its other switching position wherein the drive energy exerted by the drive motor acts on the roller catch in the pulling shut direction, and wherein the switching device is deactivated in a disturbance situation during the pulling shut phase as well as in the main catch position and, by doing so, the transmission member is automatically returned by the spring force again into its switched off position.
3. Door lock according to claim 2, wherein the switching device is activated when the pre-catch position of the roller catch is detected by one or more *sensors.
4. Door lock according to any one of claims 1 through 3, wherein in the last phase of the pulling shut movement of the door the counter force acting on the output member, belonging to the pulling shut aid of the drive path, increases that, however, the transmission ratio and/or the efficiency between this output member and the roller catch during this phase also increases and that thereby the pulling shut force for closing the door is also increased.
5. Door lock according to claim 4, wherein during the pulling shut movement S. of the door the pulling shut force acting on the roller catch is changed such that the counter forces acting on the roller catch are compensated and the drive motor runs with a substantially constant rpm.
6. Door lock according to any one of claims 1 through 5, wherein the output member of the drive path serving as a pulling shut aid is a lever which, starting at the limit angle position, transmits a drive force onto a shoulder provided on the roller catch and entrains the roller catch against a restoring force acting thereon and/or against a resistance acting on the door. 27
7. Door lock according to any one of claims 1 through 6, wherein at the output of the drive path belonging to the opening aid a rotationally driven control cam is provided that the control cam either directly or indirectly, by means of a storage lever loaded by a spring force, lifts the pawl out of the pre-catch or out of the main catch of the roller catch.
8. Door lock according to claim 7, wherein, after lifting the pawl, the roller catch is returned from its pre-catch position or its main-catch position by the restoring force acting on it automatically into its open position. oo: 9. Door lock according to any one of claims 1 through 8, wherein the gear of ~and that the drive motor turns in the same rotational direction during the pulling shut movement as well as during the opening movement of the door. Door lock according to any one of claims 1 through 9, wherein the transmission member includes a tumbler wheel, that the switching device, when moving between its two switching positions, either tilts the axle of the tumbler wheel between two angle positions or pivots its axis-parallel or moves it axis-parallel.
11. Door lock according to claim 10, wherein one of the axle ends of the tumbler wheel is stationary but is supported in a housing of the lock as a ball joint, while the other axle end of the tumbler wheel is tiltable and rotationally supported on the switching device.
12. Door lock according to claim 10 or 11, wherein the switching device is controlled into its two switching positions by means of a rotary driven coupling motor and that the coupling motor acts by means of a crank guide on the rocker which supports the tiltable axle end of the tumbler wheel.
13. Door lock according to any one of claims 1 through 12, wherein, for opening the door, the drive motor is, switched on by actuation of inner, outer, or remote control means and is then switched off when the roller catch has reached a defined limit angle position or exceeds a defined motor running time.
14. Door lock according to any one of claims 1 through 13, wherein, instead or in addition to the spring force acting on the transmission member, the transmission member can be transferred by the switching device also into a switched-off position relative to the drive path belonging to the pulling shut aid.
15. Door lock, especially for vehicles, with a roller catch into which, during S* closing of the door, a locking part is inserted that pivots the roller catch from an open position via a pre-catch position into a main catch position, with a pawl, which in the pre-catch position drops into a pre-catch provided on the roller catch and in the main catch position drops into a main catch provided on the roller catch, optionally according to any of the claims 1 through 14, wherein for determining the respective position of the door, control means are provided, which include two sensors and a control logic connected to the sensors, wherein one sensor responds to a certain angle position of the roller catch, or a certain position of the locking part of the door post supporting the locking part relative to the lock of the door, respectively, and, subsequently, will be referred to as roller catch sensor, while the other sensor responds to the drop of the pawl into the pre-catch as well as into the main catch of the roller catch and is therefore referred to as pawl sensor, and that the control logic evaluates commonly the individual signals coming from the two sensors.
16. Door lock according to claim 15, wherein the common evaluation includes that the control logic detects the open position of the door when both sensors do not respond, moreover, that the pre-catch position is detected when the roller catch sensor as well as the pawl sensor respond, and that, finally, the main catch position of the roller catch is detected when the pawl sensor responds but not the roller catch sensor.
17. Door lock according to claim 15, wherein the common evaluation includes that the control logic detects the open position of the door when the roller catch i sensor does not respond but the pawl sensor, moreover, that the pre-catch position is detected when the roller catch sensor responds but not the pawl sensor, and, finally, that the main catch position of the roller catch is detected when S both sensors do not respond.
18. Door lock according to claim 15, wherein the common evaluation includes that the control logic detects the open position of the door when both leO• sensors do not respond, moreover, that the pre-catch position is detected when the pawl sensor responds but not the roller catch sensor, and, finally, that the main catch position of the roller catch is detected when both sensors respond.
19. Door lock according to claim 15, wherein the common evaluation includes that the control logic detects the open position of the door when the pawl sensor but not the roller catch sensor responds, moreover, that the pre-catch position is detected when both sensors do not respond, and, finally, that the main catch position of the roller catch is detected when the roller catch sensor but not the pawl sensor responds. DATED this 24 th day of September 2001 HUF HULSBECK FURST GMBH CO KG WATERMARK PATENT TRADEMARK ATTORNEYS LEVEL 21 ALLENDALE SQUARE TOWER 77 ST GEORGES TERRACE PERTH WA 6000 0 0 0*0 e 0000 r.
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