Vehicle door opening assembly
AssigneeMinebea Accesssolutions South America Ltda.
InventorPaulo Sergio Carmo
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Abstract
A vehicle door handle to control the opening of a vehicle door includes a door latch mechanism to release the vehicle door when actuated and a handling element mobile with respect to a handle frame between a rest position and an actuation position in which it actuates the door latch mechanism. The vehicle door handle also includes at least one static magnetic element fixed in motion with the handle frame and at least one mobile magnetic element solidary in motion with the handling element, generating a haptic feedback by defining stable or unstable positions of the handling element in which the static and mobile magnetic element face and attract or repel each other.
Claims8
A vehicle door latch assembly to control the opening of a vehicle door, comprising:
- a door latch mechanism configured to release the vehicle door when actuated;
- a handling element that is configured to be moved with respect to a handle frame between a rest position and an actuation position in which the handling element actuates the door latch mechanism;
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- at least one static magnetic element fixed in motion with the handle frame and at least one mobile magnetic element solidary in motion with the handling element, generating a haptic feedback by defining stable or unstable positions of the handling element in which the static magnetic element and mobile magnetic element face and attract or repel each other,
- wherein either the static magnetic element or the mobile magnetic element comprise at least two magnetic elements defining at least two unstable intermediary positions with a stable position in between said unstable positions, and
- wherein the static and mobile magnetic elements comprise magnets that define, when facing each other, unstable positions by repelling each other.
A vehicle door latch assembly to control the opening of a vehicle door, comprising:
- a door latch mechanism configured to release the vehicle door when actuated;
- a handling element that is configured to be moved with respect to a handle frame between a rest position and an actuation position in which the handling element actuates the door latch mechanism;
- and
- at least one static magnetic element fixed in motion with the handle frame and at least one mobile magnetic element solidary in motion with the handling element, generating a haptic feedback by defining stable or unstable positions of the handling element in which the static magnetic element and mobile magnetic element face and attract or repel each other,
- wherein either the static magnetic element or the mobile magnetic element comprise at least two magnetic elements defining at least two unstable intermediary positions with a stable position in between said unstable positions, and
- wherein at least one of respectively the static and mobile magnetic elements comprises magnets of alternating polarity, defining, when facing at least one magnet of respectively the mobile or static magnetic element at least one unstable position by repelling each other and at least one stable position by attracting each other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.