Outer handle device for vehicle door
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Honda Lock
InventorNorio SHIMIZU
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Abstract
An outer handle device for a vehicle door includes: a latch mechanism; an outer handle having a grip and a coupling arm that is consecutively provided at the other end of the grip and is coupled to the latch mechanism; a base member that is made of a synthetic resin and arranged on the outer side of the outer panel; a metallic reinforcing plate that is interposed between the base member and an outer surface of the outer panel; a cylinder lock configured to switch between locked and unlocked states of the vehicle door, that is disposed in the base member; and a receiving portion that is provided in the reinforcing plate and abuts against the coupling arm during a turning operation of the outer handle to an opening side of the vehicle door to restrict a turning end of the outer handle.
Claims5
An outer handle device for a vehicle door comprising:
- a latch mechanism;
- an outer handle having a grip that is arranged on an outer side of an outer panel of a vehicle door and has one end turnably supported by the outer panel, and a coupling arm that is provided at the other end of the grip and is coupled to the latch mechanism;
- a base member that is made of a synthetic resin and arranged on the outer side of the outer panel;
- a metallic reinforcing plate that is interposed between the base member and an outer surface of the outer panel;
- a cylinder lock configured to switch between locked and unlocked states of the vehicle door, that has a cylinder body fastened to the outer panel by joint fastening with the reinforcing plate and the base member and is disposed in the base member;
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- a receiving portion that is provided in the reinforcing plate and abuts against the coupling arm during a turning operation of the outer handle to an opening side of the vehicle door to restrict a turning end of the outer handle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.