Door handle assembly for vehicle and method for controlling the same

A door handle assembly for a vehicle, comprising:

• a door handle;
• a handle housing configured to provide an accommodation space for the door handle;
• a drive lever rotatably coupled to the handle housing and rotatably coupled to the door handle;
• and
• an actuator configured to transmit a driving force to the drive lever to deploy the door handle from the handle housing,
• wherein the door handle is deployed from the handle housing as the drive lever is rotated with respect to the handle housing by the driving force of the actuator, and the door handle is rotated with respect to the drive lever, and
• wherein the door handle comprises:
• a signal receiver configured to receive a signal associated with deployment of the door handle;
• a weight body;
• and
• a handle body configured to accommodate the signal receiver on one side thereof and the weight body on the other side thereof with respect to a rotation axis of the drive lever.

A door handle assembly for a vehicle, comprising:

• a door handle;
• a handle housing configured to provide an accommodation space for the door handle;
• a drive lever rotatably coupled to the handle housing and rotatably coupled to the door handle;
• and
• an actuator configured to transmit a driving force to the drive lever to deploy the door handle from the handle housing,
• wherein the door handle is deployed from the handle housing as the drive lever is rotated with respect to the handle housing by the driving force of the actuator, and the door handle is rotated with respect to the drive lever,
• wherein the door handle includes an optical device configured to emit light that corresponds to a vehicle signal received from the vehicle, wherein the optical device comprises:
• a light source configured to irradiate the light;
• a light guide configured to guide the light irradiated from the light source and emit the light to the handle cover;
• a substrate configured to support the light source;
• and
• a controller configured to control an operation of the light source,
• wherein the light guide comprises:
• a light incident part configured to receive the light from the light source, and
• a light emission part configured to emit the light incident on the light incident part, and
• wherein the light emission part comprises:
• a light emission surface disposed towards the handle cover and configured to emit the light incident on the light incident part to the handle cover;
• and
• a light diffusion surface provided on an opposite side of the light emission surface and configured to diffuse the light incident on the light incident part to the light emission surface.

A door handle assembly for a vehicle, comprising:

• a door handle;
• a handle housing configured to provide an accommodation space for the door handle;
• a drive lever rotatably coupled to the handle housing and rotatably coupled to the door handle;
• and
• an actuator configured to transmit a driving force to the drive lever to deploy the door handle from the handle housing,
• wherein the door handle is deployed from the handle housing as the drive lever is rotated with respect to the handle housing by the driving force of the actuator, and the door handle is rotated with respect to the drive lever,
• wherein when the door handle is accommodated in the handle housing, the door handle is disposed parallel to a vehicle door, and
• wherein during deployment by the driving force of the actuator, the door handle becomes inclined with respect to the vehicle door, and upon completion of the deployment, the door handle is disposed outside of the handle housing and parallel to the vehicle door.