Patent ID: 7422268

Claim:
Sliding door arrangement for a motor vehicle, comprising: a sliding door, the sliding door being slidably movable into the opened position and into a closed position, and a lock arrangement for fixing the door in the opened and the closed positions, the lock arrangement having a catch lever arrangement with a pivoting catch lever, the catch lever being movable into an engaged state and into a raised state and being pretensioned into the engaged state, the catch lever arrangement having a first engagement element and a second engagement element which are engageable by the catch lever in the engaged state, the catch lever being engageable with the first engagement element when the sliding door is in the opened position and the catch lever, in the engaged state, fixing the sliding door in the opened position, wherein the catch lever is engageable with the second engagement element when the sliding door is in the closed position and wherein the catch lever, in the engaged state, fixing the sliding door in the closed position, and wherein the arrangement is such that the pretensioning of the catch lever in a direction toward the engaged state rises by movement of the sliding door into the closed position.