Vehicle door handle device
AssigneeMinebea Accesssolutions Inc.
InventorsSeiji Kawamura, Tadashi Saito
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Abstract
A vehicle door handle device includes a handle case including a hole, a cylinder lock unit disposed facing the hole and configured to switch a door lock device between a locked state and an unlocked state, a cover member pivotably supported by the handle case and configured to switch between a covered state of covering a keyhole of the cylinder lock unit and an exposed state of exposing the keyhole by pivoting at the hole, and a lever member configured to release a latch unit of the door lock device. The cover member includes an operation portion configured to rotate the cover member from the covered state to the exposed state and actuate the lever member.
Claims8
A vehicle door handle device comprising:
- a handle case including a handle recess and a hole, wherein the hole is located within the handle recess;
- a cylinder lock unit disposed facing the hole and configured to switch a door lock device between a locked state and an unlocked state;
- a cover member pivotably supported by an inner peripheral surface of the hole and configured to switch between a covered state of covering a keyhole of the cylinder lock unit and an exposed state of exposing the keyhole by pivoting at the hole;
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- a lever member configured to release a latch unit of the door lock device, wherein
- the cover member includes an operation portion configured to rotate the cover member from the covered state to the exposed state and actuate the lever member, and
- the cover member is configured to actuate the lever member by a pressing operation of the operation portion until the latch portion is released.
A vehicle door handle device comprising:
- a handle case including a handle recess and a hole, wherein the hole is located within the handle recess;
- a cylinder lock unit disposed facing the hole and configured to switch a door lock device between a locked state and an unlocked state;
- a cover member pivotably supported by an inner peripheral surface of the hole and configured to switch between a covered state of covering a keyhole of the cylinder lock unit and an exposed state of exposing the keyhole by pivoting at the hole;
- a lever member configured to release a latch unit of the door lock device;
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- a biasing member configured to bias the lever member to an initial position, wherein
- the cover member includes an operation portion for rotating the cover member from the covered state to the exposed state, and an actuating portion configured to actuate the lever member by rotating of the cover member from the covered state to the exposed state,
- the actuating portion is configured to actuate the lever member by a pressing operation of the operation portion until the latch portion is released, and
- wherein when the lever member returns to the initial position after being actuated, the biasing member rotates the cover member from the exposed state to the covered state via the actuating portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.