Vehicle door outer handle device
AssigneeMinebea Accesssolutions Inc.
InventorsYasuhiro Saitou, Tatsuya Ooyama, Yusuke Goto
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Abstract
A vehicle door outer handle device includes: a handle rotatable between a storage position in which the handle is stored in a base and a normal operation position in which the handle is rotated to a vehicle exterior side; a transmission lever configured to rotate in conjunction with rotation of the handle; and a switch configured to electrically operate a door latch device attached to a door. The switch maintains an ON state by contact of the transmission lever when the handle is rotated from the storage position toward the normal operation position and is switched to an OFF state by separation of the transmission lever when the handle is rotated to the normal operation position.
Claims4
A vehicle door outer handle device, comprising:
- a base adapted to be attached to a door of a vehicle;
- a handle attached to a vehicle exterior side of the base and rotatable between a storage position in which the handle is stored in the base and a normal operation position in which the handle is rotated from the storage position to the vehicle exterior side;
- a transmission lever attached to the base and configured to rotate in conjunction with rotation of the handle;
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- a switch attached to the base and configured to electrically operate a door latch device attached to the door by switching between an ON state and an OFF state in accordance with rotation of the transmission lever,
- wherein the switch maintains the ON state by contact with the transmission lever when the handle is rotated from the storage position toward the normal operation position, and
- the switch is switched to the OFF state by separation of the transmission lever when the handle is rotated to the normal operation position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.