Vehicle door handle device
AssigneeAisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorToshihiko Ishida
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Abstract
A hand grip has an arm and a leg. The arm and the leg extend through a door outer panel and are supported by a holder member and a frame member in a freely pivotable manner, respectively. By operating the hand grip in the same direction as when a sliding door is opened, the arm is pivoted relative to the holder member retained at an initial position, so that a full close latch mechanism is unlocked. By operating the hand grip in the same direction as when the sliding door is closed, the leg is pivoted relative to the frame member, while the holder member is pivoted relative to the frame member against urging force of a coil spring, so that a full open latch mechanism is unlocked.
Claims7
A vehicle door handle device comprising:
- a frame member adapted for being fixed to an inner surface of a panel member of a vehicle door, the vehicle door being movable forward or rearward of the vehicle, the vehicle door being held at a fully closed state by a full close latch mechanism and being held at a fully open state by a full open latch mechanism;
- a holder member pivotably coupled to a front end or a rear end of the frame member;
- an urging member for urging the holder member so as to retain the relative position of the holder member with respect to the frame member at an initial position;
- a hand grip adapted for being arranged outside of the panel member;
- a pair of first and second coupling portions that are provided at a front end and a rear end of the hand grip, the coupling portions being pivotably supported by the holder member and the frame member while extending through the panel member;
- wherein
- by operating the hand grip in either one of a first direction in which the vehicle door in the fully closed state is opened and a second direction in which the vehicle door in the fully open state is closed, the second coupling portion of the hand grip is pivoted about the first coupling portion relative to the holder member, the holder member being retained at the initial position by the urging member, so that the vehicle door is released either from the fully closed state or the fully open state;
- by operating the hand grip in the other one of the first direction in which the vehicle door in the fully closed state is opened and the second direction in which the vehicle door in the fully open state is closed, the first coupling portion of the hand grip is pivoted about the second coupling portion relative to the frame member while the holder member is pivoted relative to the frame member against urging force of the urging member, so that the vehicle door is released from the other one of the fully closed state and the fully open state;
- and
- wherein the holder member and the hand grip are separate components.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.