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US 5,092,642 AGranted
Door handle for motor vehicles with damping element
AssigneeMercedes-Benz AG
InventorsMartin Lindmayer, Klaus Claar
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Abstract
Motor vehicle door handle of the type having a spring biased actuating lever for activating the closing mechanism. To reduce impact noise, the actuating lever is assigned, during its return movement until its end position is reached, a damping element which exerts on the actuating lever a braking force reduced with decreasing speed of the actuating lever, thus allowing a uniform return of the actuating lever into its end position and consequently an effective minimization of the impact noise.
Claims13
Door handle arrangement for actuating a closing device of a door of a motor vehicle comprising:
- an actuating lever;
- a stop
- spring means for causing a return movement of said actuating lever into an initial position defined by said stop following displacement of said actuating lever from said initial position;
- a moveable damping element adapted to be coupled to said actuating lever at least shortly before said actuating lever reaches said initial position during said return movement, there being no coupling between said damping element and said actuating lever over a portion of the return movement of the actuating lever;
- said damping element exerting on said actuating lever a damping force which decreases with decreasing speed of the actuating lever, and which until shortly before said actuating lever reaches said initial position, is greater than a force of said spring means;
- said damping force being generated by means of viscous effects.
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