Patent ID: 6986272

Claim:
Ignition lock, in particular for a driving authorization system in a motor vehicle that interacts for authentication purposes with an electronic key, a chip card, or an identification sensor, comprising: a switching control element, a moving element that can move from a starting position into at least one actuating position, said moving element having a switching effect on the control element in the actuating position, and a lever that can be inserted into the moving element for the manual movement of the moving element, wherein a locking feature interacts with the lever in the inserted state so that the removal of the lever from the moving element is blocked, wherein the lever contains an actuating element for the release of the locking feature, so that upon actuation of the actuating element, the lever can be removed from the moving element, wherein the moving element is designed as a rotor which can be rotated from the starting position into the actuating position via the lever, and wherein in the actuating position an elastic force acts upon the rotor so that the rotor automatically returns to the starting position when the manual actuation on the lever stops, and furthermore, preferably proceeding from the starting position in the one direction of rotation initially in a first actuating position, the ignition of the motor is switched on, in a subsequent second actuating position the motor is started and, proceeding from the starting position in the other direction of rotation in a third actuating position, the ignition of the motor is switched off.