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US 12,146,352 B2Granted
Interior door handle arrangement of a vehicle, and method for producing an interior door handle arrangement
AssigneeIllinois Tool Works Inc.
InventorsZsolt Wilke, Elmar Fries, Anna Lisa Contini
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Abstract
An interior door handle arrangement of a vehicle, includes a housing and an actuating section which is arranged on the housing, wherein the housing and/or the actuating section have/has a carrier section made from a first plastic and a visible section made from another, second material which is connected to the carrier section in an integrally joined manner. A method for producing such an interior door handle arrangement is also provided.
Claims13
An interior door handle arrangement of a vehicle, comprising:
- a housing and an actuating section which is movably arranged on the housing, wherein the actuating section has a carrier section made from a first plastic and a decoration section made from a second plastic which is connected to the carrier section in an integrally joined manner, wherein the actuating section is configured with the decoration section and the carrier section molded together as a monolithic unit;
- wherein the actuating section includes a rear side configured for facing toward a door in an installed state and a front side that is viewable from an interior of the vehicle in the installed state, wherein the decoration section forms the front side, and at least portions of the rear side are formed by the carrier section;
- wherein the second plastic forms at least one convex edge or at least one convex arcuate portion of an external surface of the actuating section so that the second plastic extends around an in continuous bonded contact with a corner portion of the carrier section to the rear side of the actuating section such that a borderline region between the first plastic and the second plastic at the convex edge or convex arcuate portion is visible from the rear side of the actuating section, wherein the corner portion is formed by intersecting regions of a front facing surface portion of the carrier section and a side facing surface portion of the carrier section.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.