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.
Claims9
A vehicle door handle device comprising:
- 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, 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.
A vehicle door handle device comprising:
- 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;
- a lever member configured to release a latch unit of the door lock device;
- and
- a biasing member configured to bias the lever member to an initial position, wherein
- the cover member includes an actuating portion configured to actuate the lever member by rotating from the covered state to the exposed state, and
- when the lever member actuated is returned to the initial position, 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.