Handle arrangement
AssigneeU-Shin Italia S.p.A.
InventorsChristophe Perrin, Thomas Lanno
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Abstract
The invention relates to a handle arrangement comprising a handle, a deploying system of the handle pivotally coupled with the handle and comprising a toggle member pivoting about a primary axis A1 and comprising a central body with two opposite ends to which extend one arm respectively, each arm being connected to one extremity of the handle, and a counterweight pivoting about a secondary axis A2 parallel to the primary axis A1, and a declutching system cooperating with the deploying system and having a clutch position and a declutch position, wherein the declutching system cooperates with the central body of the deploying system, and wherein the declutching system, the counterweight and the toggle member pivot about respective axles.
Claims11
A handle arrangement comprising
- a handle moveable between a stowed position, an intermediate position in which the handle causes an electrical unlatching of a door and a deployed position in which the handle causes a mechanical unlatching of the door,
- a deploying system of the handle pivotally coupled with the handle and comprising a counterweight being rotatably mounted in the handle arrangement,
- a declutching system being rotatably mounted in the handle arrangement on a primary axis A1, the declutching system cooperating with the deploying system and having a clutch position, in which it impairs with the deploying system movement to prevent the handle to move from the intermediate position to the deployed position in case a load force beneath a predetermined force threshold is applied on the handle, and a declutch position wherein the declutching system allows the handle to move from the intermediate position to the deployed position in case a load force above a predetermined force threshold is applied on the handle,
- wherein the counterweight pivots about a secondary axis A2 parallel to the primary axis A1 and is configured to trigger the mechanical unlatch of the door when the handle is in the deployed position,
- wherein the deploying system comprises a toggle member comprising a central body with two opposite ends to which extend one arm respectively, each arm being connected to one extremity of the handle and the toggle member being pivotally mounted in the handle arrangement about the primary axis A1 and driving into rotation the counterweight,
- wherein the declutching system cooperates with the central body of the deploying system and both pivot about the primary axis A1 in the same direction,
- wherein the declutching system, the counterweight and the toggle member pivot about respective axles and wherein the central body of the toggle member comprises a cavity in which the declutching system is arranged, the declutching system being surrounded by the central body,
- wherein the declutching system comprises a housing arranged on the axle of the declutching system and pivoting about the primary axis A1, and
- wherein in the clutch position, when a torque of magnitude applied on the housing is beneath the determined force threshold, the housing is blocked from rotation around the declutching system axle, and in the declutch position, when a torque of magnitude applied on the housing is above the determined force threshold, the housing is free to rotate around the axle.
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