Patent attributes
A motor vehicle lock includes a latch and a ratchet arrangement. The latch is able to swivel around a swivelling axis, and be moved into an open position, a main locked position and optionally a preliminary locked position. The ratchet arrangement is able to be moved into at least one holding position and into a release position. The ratchet arrangement when in the holding position, keeps the latch, in any case, in the main locked position. The ratchet arrangement includes ratchet kinematics and an adjustable blocking element. By resetting the latch out of the main locked position in the direction of the open position the ratchet kinematics is moved and when the ratchet arrangement is in the holding position the blocking element blocks the movement of the ratchet kinematics which can be caused by the latch and thus blocks the resetting of the latch.
