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US 10,968,666 · App. 16/393,443 · Granted Apr 6, 2021

Inside handle device for vehicle

Inventors: Koichiro Sugimoto (Yokohama, JP); Takao Toyama (Yokohama, JP)
Assignee: ALPHA CORPORATION
E05B79/20B60J5/04E05B79/06E05B79/08E05B79/22E05B85/12E05B85/13E05Y2201/68E05Y2900/531
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 10,968,666
App. No.
16/393,443
Granted
Apr 6, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

An inside handle device for vehicle includes a handle unit and a cable unit. In the handle unit, an operation handle including a connecting recess is rotatably connected to a handle base. The cable unit is connected to the handle unit while holding one end of an operating force transmission cable in which an inner cable is movably inserted into an outer cable. The connecting recess is locked to a connecting body formed at a tip end of the inner cable in a state where the handle unit is connected to the cable unit.

Claims (3)

1. An inside handle device for vehicle comprising: a handle unit; and a cable unit, wherein in the handle unit, an operation handle including a connecting recess is rotatably connected to a handle base, the cable unit is connected to the handle unit while holding one end of an operating force transmission cable in which an inner cable is movably inserted into an outer cable, the connecting recess is locked to a connecting body formed at a tip end of the inner cable in a state where the handle unit is connected to the cable unit, the connecting body is formed of a solid rotating body having a straight line intersecting an axis of the inner cable as a rotation axis, and has a shape protruding laterally from the axis of the inner cable and having a diameter gradually decreasing from a center toward both ends in a protruding direction, and the connecting recess includes a contact portion in contact with both side wall portions of the connecting body sandwiching a maximum diameter portion of the connecting body wherein the both side wall portions of the connecting body constitute two side wall portions formed on opposite sides of the maximum diameter portion of the connecting body so as to sandwich the maximum diameter portion, the two side wall portions each having a diameter that is less than a diameter of the maximum diameter portion of the connecting body, and the contact portion is in contact with both side wall portions of the connecting body.

2. The inside handle device for vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the connecting body is formed into a convex barrel shape.

3. The inside handle device for vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the contact portion of the connecting recess has a curvature surface matching a curvature of an outer peripheral wall surface of the connecting body, and contacts an entire surface of a corresponding portion of the connecting body.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 24, 2019
From: SUGIMOTO, KOICHIRO; TOYAMA, TAKAO
To: ALPHA CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 048985/0430 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2016-214078 · Nov 1, 2016 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTJP2017039636 · Nov 1, 2017
Related Publication 20190249464A1 · Aug 15, 2019
Cited By (1)
US 12,723,441