Actuating portion for a vehicle door handle assembly and method for producing such an actuating portion
AssigneeIllinois Tool Works Inc.
InventorsZsolt Wilke, Elmar Fries, Steffen Kolb
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
An actuating portion for a vehicle door handle assembly, in particular an inner door handle assembly, wherein the actuating portion includes a carrier portion formed by co-injection, having a core and an outer layer, and a decorative portion connected to the carrier portion, in particular integrally, wherein the actuating portion has been produced in a multi-component injection-molding method, in particular in a three-component injection-molding process.
Claims13
An actuating portion for a vehicle door handle assembly, wherein the actuating portion has been produced in a multi-component injection-molding method, and wherein the actuating portion comprises a carrier portion formed by co-injection-molding, having a core and an outer layer, and a decorative portion integrally connected to the carrier portion;
- wherein the outer layer of the carrier portion formed by co-injection comprises, at least regionally, a plastic having a cool-touch effect;
- wherein one of the carrier portion or the decorative portion has been produced in a first co-injection step using a first mold half and a second mold half, resulting in a first precast, and wherein the other of the carrier portion or the decorative portion has been produced in a second injection-molding step fired at the first precast after a change of the first mold half or the second mold half, resulting in a second precast, while the first precast remains in the first mold half or second mold half until the second precast is fired at the first precast.
A method of manufacturing an actuating portion for a vehicle door handle assembly, wherein the actuating portion comprises a carrier portion formed by co-injection with a core and an outer layer and a decorative portion integrally connected to the carrier portion, wherein the actuating portion is produced in a multi-component injection-molding method;
- wherein the outer layer of the carrier portion formed by co-injection comprises, at least regionally, a plastic having a cool-touch effect;
- wherein one of the carrier portion or the decorative portion is produced in a first co-injection step using a first mold half and a second mold half, resulting in a first precast, and wherein the other of the carrier portion or the decorative portion is produced in a second injection-molding step fired at the first precast after a change of the first mold half and/or the second mold half, resulting in a second precast, while the first precast remains in the first or second mold half until the second precast is fired at the first precast.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.