DE102022112482B3 - Handle assembly with an inside door opener and a loop handle in a vehicle door - Google Patents

Abstract

A loop handle for an interior door opener (10) of a vehicle door (1), the interior door opener (10) having a U-shaped or ring-shaped handle bracket (14) which is pivotably attached to a door structure about a bracket axis (z), the Handle bar (14) is coupled to a tensile force transmission element (16) which leads to a door lock and is functionally coupled there to an unlocking element of the door lock, and the handle bar (14) has a passage opening between two legs (14', 14") (15) is characterized in that the loop handle (2) has a coupling element (20) to which a pull loop (22) is attached, and in that the coupling element (20) has an outer contour which conforms to the contour of at least one area of the passage opening (15) formed between the two legs (14', 14") of the U-shaped handle (14) is adapted such that the coupling element (20) can be inserted into the passage opening (15) and locked there.

Description

The invention relates to a handle arrangement with an inside door opener and a loop handle in a vehicle door. The invention also relates to a vehicle, in particular a motor vehicle with at least one vehicle door that has such a handle arrangement.

The interior door openers of a motor vehicle, for example an automobile, are usually formed by a bracket-like door operator which has a handle bar which is attached to a door structure so that it can pivot about a bracket axis, the handle bar being connected to a tensile force transmission element, for example a door linkage or a Bowden cable. is coupled, which leads to a door lock and is functionally coupled there with an unlocking element of the door lock. By pulling on the handle bar, it pivots around the bar axis and thereby pulls on the tensile force transmission element, which actuates the unlocking element of the door lock and unlocks it, so that the vehicle door can be opened. In high-performance sports cars and motorsport vehicles, instead of the handle bar, there is often only a handle loop, usually formed from a fabric strip, which is directly coupled to the tensile force transmission element and transmits a tensile force acting on it directly to the tensile force transmission element. With this construction, the mass of the handle bar and thus its weight is saved. Such a loop handle door opener is therefore often associated with the sportiness of a motor vehicle and loop handle door openers are popular “optical tuning aids”.

In some sports vehicle types, it is possible to replace the standard handle door opener with a loop handle door opener, which is available in the parts portfolio for this vehicle type and is usually only installed as standard in motorsport variants of this type of sports vehicle. However, such replacement requires in-depth knowledge of vehicle door construction and certain mechanic skills, and is time consuming.

From the DE 10 2005 045 640 A1 a handle arrangement in a tailgate of a vehicle is known in which a recessed grip element with a lower recessed grip and an upper recessed grip is inserted into a recess in the tailgate on the inside thereof. The lower recessed grip is used to reach in when closing the tailgate. The upper recessed grip is used to reach into the trunk when the tailgate is closed and allows the recessed grip element to be pulled out of the recess in the tailgate. Since the recessed grip element is coupled to an unlocking element of the tailgate lock by means of a tensile force-transmitted element, the tailgate lock can be opened from the inside when the recessed grip element has been pulled out of the recess and is pulled further on it.

The FR 2 985 695 A1 shows and describes a tether assembly in a vehicle and its attachment to a structural panel of the vehicle.

The DE 33 43 161 A1 shows and describes a pivoting vehicle door handle on the inside of a vehicle door having a metal handle bracket.

The object of the present invention is to specify a handle arrangement with an inside door opener and a loop handle for an inside door opener of a vehicle door, which can be retrofitted easily and without great effort.

This problem is solved with the features of patent claim 1 .

Such a handle arrangement with an inside door opener and a loop handle in a vehicle door is provided for the inside door opener of a vehicle door, which has a U-shaped or ring-shaped handle bar which is attached to a door structure so that it can pivot about a bar axis, the handle bar having a tensile force Transmission element is coupled, which leads to a door lock and is functionally coupled there with an unlocking element of the door lock, and wherein the handle bar between two legs forms a passage opening. According to the invention, such a loop handle is characterized in that the loop handle has a coupling element to which a pull loop is attached, and that the coupling element has an outer contour that matches the contour of at least one area of the through-opening formed between the two legs of the U-shaped handle bar is adapted so that the coupling element can be inserted into the passage opening and locked there.

With this handle arrangement, the loop handle can be easily retrofitted without tools, without mechanical knowledge of the door structure and without dismantling the vehicle door, by inserting its coupling element into the passage opening and locking it there. The standard handle bar is retained and is supplemented by the pull loop of the loop handle.

Further preferred and advantageous design features of the loop handle according to the invention are the subject matter of dependent claims 2 to 6.

The coupling element is preferably provided with latching elements, for example latching hooks or latching lugs, which are arranged in order to lock the coupling element in the handle by entering into a latching connection with elements of the handle, for example the legs, the bridge and/or the bridge plate. Such a snap-lock connection facilitates the insertion and locking of the coupling element into the passage opening in the handle in one operation and thus enables the loop handle to be attached to the standard handle without tools.

It is also advantageous if the pull loop is guided through a through-slot in the coupling element and, in the installed state, is held on the side of the coupling element pointing away from the vehicle interior. As a result, the attachment of the pull loop to the coupling element is invisible from the vehicle interior, so that the visual appearance of the loop handle mounted on the handlebar comes close to that of standard equipment.

Preferably, the two ends of the pull loop passed through the passage slot are sewn, glued or welded or otherwise connected to one another on the rear side of the coupling element facing away from the vehicle interior, whereby a thickened area of the pull loop is formed, which prevents the pull loop from slipping through the passage slot in the direction of the vehicle interior prevented. The thickened area can be accommodated in a recess provided on the back of the coupling element.

Alternatively, it is advantageous if the pull loop is attached to the coupling element by means of an attachment means. Such a fastener can be a screw or a rivet, for example.

In a particularly preferred embodiment of the invention, which can be combined with other embodiments, it is provided that the coupling element is designed to close the passage opening when it is inserted into the handle bar. In this variant, the coupling element fills the passage opening in the handle bar and thus forms a closed surface delimited by the legs of the handle bar, which leads to the appearance of an optically integral assembly.

Preferred exemplary embodiments of the invention with additional design details and further advantages are described and explained in more detail below with reference to the attached drawing.

• 1 einen herkömmlichen inneren Türöffner mit einem Bügelgriff;
• 2 einen erfindungsgemäßen Schlaufengriff und
• 3 den in einen Griffbügel des herkömmlichen inneren Türöffners mit Bügelgriff eingesetzten Schlaufengriff.

Show it:

• 1 a traditional interior door opener with a loop handle;
• 2 a loop handle according to the invention and
• 3 the loop handle inserted into a handle bar of the conventional inside door opener with a loop handle.

1 shows a conventional door opener 10 on the inside of a vehicle door 1. The door opener has a panel frame 12 with a handle shell 11, which forms a protruding into the inner door panel 13 indentation. In the grip shell 11 is a U-shaped handlebar 14 with an upper leg 14', a lower leg 14" and a front web 14''', which integrally connects the front ends of the two legs 14', 14" in the direction of travel F , intended. In the area of the rear end of the two legs 14', 14'', a rear web plate 14'''' is provided, which connects the two legs 14', 14'' to one another on their side facing away from the front web 14'''. Surrounded by the two legs 14′, 14″, the front web 14″″ and the rear web plate 14″″ of the handle bracket 14, a passage opening 15 is formed in the handle bracket 14, which normally allows one or more fingers to reach into the a handle shell forming a recessed grip 11 and thus makes it easier to grip the front web 14 '''of the handle 14.

The handle bar 14 is in its rear area by an in 1 only schematically indicated bracket axis z pivoted relative to the door structure. on the in 1 The non-visible rear end of the handle bar 14 is provided with a lever attachment that extends backwards away from the bar axis z and from the web plate 14'''', which is hidden inside the vehicle door behind the door panel 13 and which is equipped with an in 1 tractive force transmission element 16 shown only schematically by dashed lines is coupled. The tensile force transmission element 16 is connected in a manner known per se to an unlocking element of the (in 1 not shown) door lock functionally coupled, so that by pulling on the handle bar 14 in the direction of the vehicle interior (from the plane of the drawing 1 towards the viewer) the door lock is unlocked.

2 shows a loop handle 2 according to the invention with a coupling element 20 and a pull loop 22 attached to the coupling element 20. In the example shown, the coupling element 20 is a cuboid body which has a passage slot 21 through which the pull loop 22 is passed. on the inside 2 On the non-visible rear side of the coupling element 20, the free ends of the pull loop 22 are sewn, glued or welded together and form a thickened area there, which is in a 2 recess 23 shown only in dashed lines is accommodated on the rear side of the coupling element 20 pointing away from the vehicle interior. The thickened area of the pull loop 22 prevents the pull loop 22 from slipping through the passage slot 21 into the vehicle interior, so that a tensile force (arrow K) directed into the vehicle interior, which is applied to the pull loop 22, is transmitted to the coupling element 20.

With regard to its outer contour, the coupling element 20 is designed in such a way that it can be inserted into the passage opening 15 from the rear side of the handle bar 14 facing away from the vehicle interior and can be locked there. The loop kicks in as it comes in 3 is shown, from the passage opening 15 out into the vehicle interior. Latching devices, for example latching hooks or latching lugs, which are provided on the coupling element 20 and which are connected to the legs 14', 14", the front web 14''' and/or or the rear web plate 14'''' of the handle bar 14 come into locking engagement.

The invention is not limited to the above exemplary embodiment, which merely serves to explain the core idea of the invention in general. Rather, within the scope of protection, the device according to the invention can also assume other configurations than those described above. In this case, the device can in particular have features which represent a combination of the respective individual features of the claims.

Reference signs in the claims, the description and the drawings are only intended for a better understanding of the invention and are not intended to limit the scope of protection.

Reference List

1

vehicle door

2

loop handle

10

conventional door opener

11

Grip shell / recessed grip

12

fairing frame

13

inner door panel

14

handle bar

14'

upper thigh

14"

lower thigh

14'''

front bridge

14''''

rear bridge plate

15

passage opening

16

Traction force transmission element

20

coupling element

21

passage slot

22

pull loop

23

recess

f

driving direction

K

traction

e.g

bracket axis

Claims (7)

Handle arrangement with an inner door opener (10) and a loop handle (2) in a vehicle door (1), the inner door opener (10) having a U-shaped or ring-shaped handle bracket (14) which can be pivoted about a bracket axis (z) on a Door structure is attached, wherein the handle bar (14) is coupled to a tensile force transmission element (16) which leads to a door lock and is functionally coupled there to an unlocking element of the door lock, and wherein the handle bar (14) between two legs (14 ' , 14") forms a passage opening (15), the loop handle (2) having a coupling element (20) to which a pull loop (22) is attached, and the coupling element (20) having an outer contour which conforms to the contour at least of a region of the passage opening (15) formed between the two legs (14', 14") of the U-shaped handle bar (14) is adapted in such a way that the coupling element (20) can be inserted into the passage opening (15) and locked there. handle arrangement claim 1 , wherein the coupling element (20) is provided with latching elements which are designed to lock the coupling element (20) in the handlebar (14) by being fitted with elements (14', 14", 14''', 14'''') of the handle bar (14) enter into a latching connection. handle arrangement claim 1 or 2 , wherein the pull loop (22) is passed through a passage slot (21) in the coupling element (20) and, in the installed state, is held on the side of the coupling element (20) pointing away from the vehicle interior. handle arrangement claim 3 , wherein the pull loop (22) passed through the passage slot (21) is sewn, glued or welded or otherwise connected to one another at both ends on the rear side of the coupling element (20) facing away from the vehicle interior, whereby a thickened area of the pull loop (22) is formed is. handle arrangement claim 3 , wherein the pull loop (22) is attached to the coupling element (20) by means of a fastener. Handle arrangement according to one of the preceding claims, in which the coupling element (20) is designed to close the passage opening (15) when it is inserted into the handle bar (14). Vehicle, in particular motor vehicle, with at least one vehicle door (1) which has a handle arrangement according to one of the preceding claims.

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