Patent ID: 8727398

Claim:
A motor vehicle lock having locking elements and having a lock mechanism, the locking elements comprising a lock catch and a pawl, wherein the lock catch interacts with the pawl and wherein the lock mechanism is moveable into different functional states selected from “unlocked,” “locked,” “anti-theft locked” and “child-safety locked,” wherein the lock mechanism includes at least one functional element which can be adjusted into functional positions corresponding to the different functional states, wherein the motor vehicle lock comprises at least two pivotable adjusting elements and wherein at least one functional element is designed as a resiliently elastically bendable wire or strip, and can thereby be bent in a resiliently elastic manner, as a bendable functional element, into different functional positions and the bendable functional element provides a switchable coupling between at least two of the pivotable adjusting elements of the motor vehicle lock, and in a first functional position, the bendable functional element is or can be engaged with the pivotable adjusting elements and the bendable functional element couples the pivotable adjusting elements, and in a second functional position, the bendable functional element is disengaged from at least one of the pivotable adjusting elements and decouples the pivotable adjusting elements.