Handle assembly for motor-vehicle door latch
AssigneeKiekert AG
InventorsAndreas Kasper, Jürgen Kill
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Abstract
A handle assembly for a motor-vehicle door latch has an adapter plate shaped to fit on a motor-vehicle door and forming a pivot and a seat, an electrical connector sleeve snugly fittable in the seat, and a handle having an arm fittable in the connector sleeve and with the pivot. The handle is movable between a partially installed position and a fully installed position. In the partially installed position the arm snugly engages in the connector, the connector is snugly fitted in the seat, and the arm is out of engagement with the pivot. In the fully installed position the arm is still engaged snugly in the connector but the connector is pulled out of the seat, and the arm is in pivotal engagement with the pivot and pivotal about the pivot jointly with the connector sleeve.
Claims11
A handle assembly for a motor-vehicle door latch, the handle assembly comprising:
- an adapter plate adapted to fit on a motor-vehicle door and forming a pivot and a seat;
- an electrical connector sleeve snugly fittable in the seat;
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- a handle having an arm fittable in the connector sleeve and with the pivot, the handle being movable between a partially installed position with the arm engaging snugly in the connector, the connector snugly fitted in the seat, and the arm out of engagement with the pivot and a fully installed position with the arm engaged snugly in the connector, the connector pulled out of the seat, the arm in pivotal engagement with the pivot, and pivotal about the pivot jointly with the connector sleeve.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.