Patent ID: 7568740

Claim:
Motor vehicle lock, comprising: a ratchet, a latch, an actuation lever, an internal actuation force transmission chain, an external actuation force transmission chain, and a control means for controlling operation of the lock, wherein the ratchet has an engagement position in which it holds the latch in a closed position, and has a raised position in which the latch is released, the ratchet being movable from the engagement position into the raised position by means of the actuating lever, wherein the control means has a plurality of different operating states and depending on the operating state of the control means, the ratchet is actuatable via the actuation lever by means of the internal actuation force transmission chain from an inside door handle and by means of the external actuation force transmission chain from an outside door handle and can be precluded from being actuated at all, the control means having a base state in which the internal actuation force transmission chain and the external actuation force transmission chain are coupled to the actuation lever and, wherein at least one of the internal actuation force transmission chain and the external actuation force transmission chain is adapted to be decoupled from the actuation lever by the control means depending on the operating state, wherein the control means has a central locking clutch by which unlock (UL) and center lock (CL) operating states can be turned on, and wherein the control means has an overriding lever which is moveable by means of the internal actuation force transmission chain by actuation of the inside door handle such that the central locking clutch is movable from a position which corresponds to the center lock operating state into its position which corresponds to the unlock operating state.