IP Library Granted Patent US 11,560,739
Granted Patent B2
US 11,560,739 · App. 16/377,399 · Granted Jan 24, 2023

Door handle arrangement for a vehicle

Inventors: Roland Och (Rottendorf, DE); Zsolt Wilke (Bad Mergentheim, DE); Andreas Rudolf (Würzburg, DE)
Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
E05B79/06E05B85/103E05B85/107B60J5/04E05Y2900/531Y10S292/31Y10T292/57
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 11,560,739
App. No.
16/377,399
Granted
Jan 24, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

A door handle arrangement for a vehicle, includes a housing and a handle lever which is mounted on the housing such that it can be moved between a rest position and an actuating position for unlocking and/or opening a vehicle door, it being possible for the housing to be oriented on a vehicle body outer part which forms a part of the outer surface of a vehicle body and has a handle cut-out for the handle lever, first positioning projections being provided on the housing, which first positioning projections are configured to bear against an angled-over edge of the vehicle body outer part, which angled-over edge delimits the handle cut-out of the vehicle body outer part at least in regions, and, as a result, to position the handle lever with the housing in at least one spatial direction in relation to the handle cut-out.

Claims (20)

1. A door handle arrangement for a vehicle, comprising:

a housing and a handle lever which is mounted on the housing such that the handle lever can be moved between a rest position and an actuating position for unlocking and/or opening a vehicle door,

wherein the housing is oriented on a vehicle body outer part which forms a part of the outer surface of a vehicle body and has a handle cut-out for the handle lever,

wherein first positioning projections are mounted on the housing directly adjacent around a periphery of the handle lever when the handle lever is in the rest position, which first positioning projections are configured to bear against a peripheral side of an angled-over edge of the vehicle body outer part, which angled-over edge delimits the handle cut-out of the vehicle body outer part at least in regions, and, as a result, to position the handle lever with the housing in at least one spatial direction in relation to the handle cut-out, wherein the peripheral side faces away from the handle cut-out.

2. The door handle arrangement as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first positioning projections are configured to position the handle lever with the housing in all spatial directions in relation to the handle cut-out by way of bearing against the peripheral side of the angled-over edge of the vehicle body outer part.

3. The door handle arrangement as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the first positioning projections are connected to the housing by way of a latching connection.

4. The door handle arrangement as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first positioning projections are arranged in each case at a spacing from the periphery of the handle lever, and in that, in order to position the handle lever with the housing, the angled-over edge is received in the space which is formed in each case by way of the spacing.

5. The door handle arrangement as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the handle lever has two longitudinal sides and two transverse sides, and in that the first positioning projections are arranged on the housing adjacently with respect to the two longitudinal sides and with respect to the two transverse sides of the handle lever.

6. The door handle arrangement as claimed in claim 1 , wherein, in the rest position, the handle lever terminates substantially flush with that outer surface of the vehicle body which surrounds the handle cut-out.

7. The door handle arrangement as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a vehicle body inner part which can be fastened to the vehicle body outer part, it being possible for the housing to be fastened to the vehicle body inner part, and the vehicle body inner part having a cut-out, through which the housing protrudes with the handle lever in the state, in which it is fastened to the vehicle body inner part.

8. A door handle arrangement for a vehicle, comprising:

a housing and a handle lever which is mounted on the housing such that the handle lever can be moved between a rest position and an actuating position for unlocking and/or opening a vehicle door,

wherein the housing is oriented on a vehicle body outer part which forms a part of the outer surface of a vehicle body and has a handle cut-out for the handle lever,

wherein first positioning projections are provided on the housing, which first positioning projections are configured to bear against a peripheral side of an angled-over edge of the vehicle body outer part, which angled-over edge delimits the handle cut-out of the vehicle body outer part at least in regions, and, as a result, to position the handle lever with the housing in at least one spatial direction in relation to the handle cut-out, wherein the peripheral side faces away from the handle cut-out; and

a vehicle body inner part fastened to the vehicle body outer part, the housing fastened to the vehicle body inner part, and the vehicle body inner part having a cut-out, through which the housing protrudes with the handle lever in the state, in which the handle lever is fastened to the vehicle body inner part;

wherein second positioning projections are provided on the housing, which second positioning projections pre-position the housing in at least one spatial direction in relation to the vehicle body inner part on the cut-out of the vehicle body inner part in the state, in which the housing is fastened to the vehicle body inner part.

9. The door handle arrangement as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the second positioning projections position the housing in all spatial directions in relation to the vehicle body inner part.

10. The door handle arrangement as claimed in claim 9 , wherein the second positioning projections are connected to the housing by way of a latching connection.

11. The door handle arrangement as claimed in claim 10 , wherein the cut-out of the vehicle body inner part has two longitudinal sides and two transverse sides, and in that, in the state in which they are fastened to the vehicle body inner part, the second positioning projections bear against the two longitudinal sides and against the two transverse sides of the cut-out of the vehicle body inner part.

12. The door handle arrangement as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the housing can be fastened to the vehicle body inner part via a plurality of tolerance compensation elements.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 8, 2019
From: OCH, ROLAND; WILKE, ZSOLT; RUDOLF, ANDREAS
To: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
Reel/Frame 048817/0007 →
Priority Claims (1)
DE 102018108307.6 · Apr 9, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20190309547A1 · Oct 10, 2019