# US 2017/0254124 A1 · Interior door lock operator integrated into pull door handle > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2017/0254124 A1 - Document ID: US20170254124A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 15/447,923 - Filed: 2017-03-02 - Published: 2017-09-07 - Earliest claimed: 2016-03-03 - Assignees: Illinois Tool Works Inc. - Applicants: Illinois Tool Works Inc. - Inventors: Zsolt WILKE; Roland OCH; Matthias SEUBERT - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20170254124A1 ## CPC - E05B 85/12: Inner door handles - E05B 77/22: Functions related to actuation of locks from the passenger compartment of the vehicle - E05B 77/245: {by blocking the movement of a movable element} - E05B 79/22: Operative connections between handles, sill buttons or lock knobs and the lock unit (mounting of non-movable base elements of a handle to a lock E05B79/06) - E05B 81/00: Power-actuated vehicle locks - E05B 81/76: Detection of handle operation; Detection of a user approaching a handle; Electrical switching actions performed by door handles - E05B: LOCKS; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; HANDCUFFS ## Abstract A side door of a motor vehicle has a door lock actuator for a door lock, and a pivoting lever pivotable about a rotational axis of a joint. The pivoting lever has a coupling section coupled to a mechanical actuating member of the door lock in the installed state. An interior door pull handle has one or more fastening regions and at least one handle region having an axial extent. The pivoting lever is integrated into the handle region of the interior door pull handle. The rotational axis is oriented substantially transversely with respect to the axial extent. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A side door of a motor vehicle, the side door comprising: a door lock actuator for a door lock, the door lock actuator being an interior door actuator, and the door lock actuator having a pivoting lever which is mounted to be pivotable about a rotational axis of a joint, the pivoting lever having a coupling section for a mechanical actuating means of the door lock, to which the mechanical actuating means is coupled in the installed state. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The side door as claimed in claim 1, the side door further comprising: an interior door handle with one or more fastening regions and with at least one handle region which can be reached behind with a hand, the handle region having an axial extent; the pivoting lever being integrated into the handle region of the interior door handle, the rotational axis being oriented substantially transversely with respect to the axial extent. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The side door as claimed in claim 2, the pivoting lever extending into at least one of the fastening regions and defining a surface there which is bent or curved in the handle region by an angle in the range from 30° to 225° with respect to the pivoting lever. ### Claim 4 (depends on 2) The side door as claimed in claim 2, the pivoting lever forming an upper side in a fastening region. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The side door as claimed in claim 1, the door lock actuator having an inertia compensation spring which prestresses the pivoting lever counter to a pivoting direction of the pivoting lever for actuating the mechanical actuating means, said spring loading the pivoting lever directly or indirectly only when the latter has been moved from a stowed position into a protruding position. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The side door as claimed in claim 1, the door lock actuator having a push-push element which is set up, as a consequence of a pressure on the pivoting lever, to pivot the latter into a protruding position which can be gripped by a hand or can be gripped in an improved manner with regard to a stowed position of the pivoting lever. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The side door as claimed in claim 1, the door lock actuator having an unlockable locking device, by means of which a locking action of the pivoting lever counter to a movement in the direction of the actuation of the mechanical actuating means is provided. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The side door as claimed in claim 7, the locking device having two springs which are stressed in an antagonistic manner with respect to one another and the rest positions of which define at least one protruding position of the pivoting lever. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The side door as claimed in claim 8, one of the springs being a catch spring, and the catch spring defining, together with the other of the two springs which are stressed with respect to one another, a second rest position which defines a stowed position of the pivoting lever. ### Claim 10 (depends on 7) The side door as claimed in claim 7, the locking device having a latching element which is situated in a latched position in a defined angular position or a defined angular range of the pivoting lever, at one or both of the positions stowed position and protruding position, the latched position being configured to be exited by way of a predefined pivoting moment in at least the direction of the actuation of the mechanical actuating means being overcome and/or to be exited by way of manual tensioning of a spring element. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The side door as claimed in claim 1, the locking device having the push-push element, and the push-push element having the latching element, the push-push element locking the pivoting lever against a pivoting movement in the direction of a door lock actuation by means of the mechanical actuating means in a locked state, and being released by way of a movement of the pivoting lever in a direction which is opposed to the movement in the direction of of the door lock actuation by means of the mechanical actuating means, with the result that the door lock is actuatable by means of the mechanical actuating means and/or the pivoting lever is movable from a stowed position into a protruding position. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The side door as claimed in claim 1, the door lock actuator having a manually actuatable electric switch which is connected to the door lock via a signal line, with the result that the door lock can be actuated electrically by way of the switch. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The side door as claimed in claim 12, a movement direction for actuating the switch and a movement direction for actuating the mechanical actuating means being substantially identical. ### Claim 14 (depends on 12) The side door as claimed in claim 12, the locking device configured to be unlocked by means of a manual unlocking movement, and a movement direction for actuating the switch and a direction of the unlocking movement being substantially identical. ### Claim 15 (depends on 1) The side door as claimed in claim 1, the door lock actuator having a pressure mechanism in addition to the pivoting lever, the pressure mechanism being set up to deflect a manual pressure force on the pivoting lever which acts on said pressure mechanism in the direction of the actuation of the mechanical actuating means. ### Claim 16 (depends on 1) A module for a side door of a motor vehicle consisting of a door lock actuator and an interior door handle, as defined in claim 1.