US 12,276,139 B2
Locking device
Thorsten Janssen, Velbert (DE); Dirk Janssen, Bergisch Gladbach (DE); and Heinz-Joachim Klein, Haan (DE)
Assigned to Witte Automotive GmbH, Velbert (DE)
Filed by WITTE Automotive GmbH, Velbert (DE)
Filed on Dec. 14, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/644,136.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 215 931.9 (DE), filed on Dec. 15, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0186531 A1, Jun. 16, 2022
Int. Cl. E05B 81/16 (2014.01); E05B 81/14 (2014.01); E05B 81/20 (2014.01); E05B 85/26 (2014.01)
CPC E05B 81/16 (2013.01) [E05B 81/14 (2013.01); E05B 81/20 (2013.01); E05B 85/26 (2013.01); E05Y 2900/50 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A locking device for a movable vehicle element of a vehicle, comprising:
a rotary catch,
a locking element and
an associated blocking mechanism having at least one blocking element and a movable actuating element for locked coupling of the rotary catch and the locking element, wherein the movable actuating element is designed to move the rotary catch
from a pre-latching position, in which the rotary catch is coupled in a closing manner to the locking element and is in latching engagement with the blocking element, and where the actuating element overlaps the blocking element and wherein the actuating element is out of contact and arranged distant from the rotary catch, into a main latching position and subsequently into a final closed position going beyond the main latching position and
wherein the movable actuating element is designed to stop the rotary catch in this final closed position and to block or lock the rotary catch in this final closed position until an opening process, wherein the rotary catch and the blocking element are out of latching engagement in the final closed position.