EP2775075B1 - Türaußengriffanordnung - Google Patents

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EP2775075B1
EP2775075B1 EP14156821.2A EP14156821A EP2775075B1 EP 2775075 B1 EP2775075 B1 EP 2775075B1 EP 14156821 A EP14156821 A EP 14156821A EP 2775075 B1 EP2775075 B1 EP 2775075B1
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Matthias Löw
Reinhold Mathofer
Willi Put
Günter Wüstmann
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Huf Huelsbeck and Fuerst GmbH and Co KG
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05B—LOCKS; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; HANDCUFFS
    • E05B77/00—Vehicle locks characterised by special functions or purposes
    • E05B77/34—Protection against weather or dirt, e.g. against water ingress
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05B—LOCKS; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; HANDCUFFS
    • E05B77/00—Vehicle locks characterised by special functions or purposes
    • E05B77/36—Noise prevention; Anti-rattling means
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05B—LOCKS; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; HANDCUFFS
    • E05B79/00—Mounting or connecting vehicle locks or parts thereof
    • E05B79/02—Mounting of vehicle locks or parts thereof
    • E05B79/06—Mounting of handles, e.g. to the wing or to the lock
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05B—LOCKS; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; HANDCUFFS
    • E05B85/00—Details of vehicle locks not provided for in groups E05B77/00 - E05B83/00
    • E05B85/10—Handles
    • E05B85/14—Handles pivoted about an axis parallel to the wing
    • E05B85/18—Handles pivoted about an axis parallel to the wing a longitudinal grip part being pivoted about an axis parallel to the longitudinal axis of the grip part

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  • the invention is directed to an outside door handle assembly of a motor vehicle having a fastened to the inside of the door handle support, a pivotally mounted on the handle support member and from the outside of the door by a door outlet mountable and in the assembled state to the handle support extending trough housing.
  • An outside door handle assembly of the type described is, for example, from the DE 101 09 106 A1 Known and comprising a fastened to an inside of a door handle carrier which has a receptacle for a cooperating with the lock cylinder lock cylinder, and a handle recess assembly which is mountable from the outside of the door through a door outbreak into a recess in the handle support and one of the On the outside of the door operable handle element rotatably supports.
  • the invention has for its object to provide a solution that provides a structurally simple manner and cost, an improved exterior door handle assembly in which the noise propagation from the outside of the vehicle is reduced to a minimum in the vehicle interior and through which the aeroacoustics of the door outside handle assembly the growing comfort awareness of Driver and user.
  • an attachable to the handle carrier and cup-shaped housing element is provided which forms an accessible from the outside of the door and hermetically sealed to the inside of the door operating space together with the handle carrier and the bowl housing, in which the operable from the outside of the door handle element is arranged in the assembled state of the door outer handle assembly.
  • the invention provides a door outer handle arrangement in a structurally simple manner, which is distinguished by improved aeroacoustic properties.
  • the space on the side of the inside of the door is hermetically sealed from the operating room, which is accessible from the outside of the door and thus exposed to the weather, whereby the invention provides an outside door handle assembly that meets high comfort requirements and the vehicle interior windproof against the Screen outside.
  • the operating space communicating with the vehicle exterior side is hermetically sealed to the inside of the door, so that neither sound nor weather influences can spread beyond the operating space into the interior of the vehicle.
  • the exterior door handle arrangement reduces annoying, aerodynamically generated noises, such as occur when the vehicle flows around during travel, and thereby prevents undesired propagation of sound into the interior of the motor vehicle.
  • the invention provides in an advantageous embodiment, that to form the operating space a from the trough housing formed end edge and formed by the handle support contour edge sealingly abut against a bearing edge formed by the housing element.
  • the operating space in which the grip element which can be actuated from the vehicle exterior is thus arranged is not formed by a single component, but consists of several components, which ultimately contributes to the modular construction of the exterior door handle device and the accessibility to the operating space and the assembly the grip element simplified by first the handle element and the handle support can be mounted before the operating space is completed, which is only the case when the housing element is mounted from the inside of the door to the handle support and the trough housing is mounted from the outside of the door ,
  • the handle carrier and / or the housing element can not always be ensured that their respective edges are arranged in wind-tight manner one above the other, the invention provides in an embodiment that between the End edge of the trough housing, the contour edge of the handle support and the bearing edge of the housing member at least one, preferably elastically formed, sealing element is arranged.
  • the sealing element may in this case be weather-resistant, for example, to be resistant to moisture.
  • TPV thermoplastic vulcanizate with a high resistance to environmental influences.
  • the invention provides, in an advantageous embodiment, that the sealing element has, at least in sections, a compression projection protruding from its core cross-section.
  • the compression projection is compressed in its installed position between the edges of the trough housing, handle carrier and / or housing element and reinforced due to its compression, the seat of the sealing element.
  • the gripping element has at least one lever arm, the free end of which is pivotably mounted on the handle carrier outside the operating space.
  • the arranged in the operating space handle member is thus not stored in the operating space, even if the arrangement and operation of the handle member are provided in the operating space.
  • the storage of the at least one lever arm is rather provided outside of the operating space, so that the storage against the effects of weather, which act within the operating space, is arranged protected. This can increase the life of the storage, but at least reduces the susceptibility to storage.
  • the invention advantageously provides that the at least one lever arm of the gripping element extends through a through opening formed in the operating space.
  • the passage opening may in this case be formed in the housing element and / or in the carrier element and / or in the trough housing, wherein expediently provided for a lever arm passage opening is formed in the upper shell-like housing member.
  • the invention further provides, in an embodiment, for the at least one lever arm of the grip element to be arranged in the actuation space in the assembled state of the outside door handle arrangement Has cross-sectional thickening, which rests in the unactuated state of the handle member hermetically sealed at the edge of the passage opening of the operating space.
  • the lever arm must functionally have a smaller cross-section than the passage opening of the operating space, so that a movement of the handle member when it is actuated at all possible.
  • the invention provides in a further embodiment that a lever arm sealing element along the edge of the passage opening of the operating space is provided.
  • the lever arm or its cross-sectional thickening is in a sealing manner on the lever arm sealing element, so that created by trough housing, handle support and housing element operating space is formed windproof against the inside of the door, causing wind noise and weathering does not affect the operating space beyond the vehicle interior can affect.
  • a thermoplastic vulcanizate TPV can also be used as the exemplary material for the lever arm sealing element.
  • the invention provides in a further embodiment that the lever arm sealing element and the sealing element are formed as a single sealing component.
  • This one sealing member i. the one-piece design of sealing element and lever arm sealing element can then be produced inexpensively in a single manufacturing process, wherein the assembly of the one sealing component per outside door handle assembly compared to two components intended for sealing fails easier and more time-saving.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an outside door handle assembly 1 according to the invention shown in disassembled state.
  • the outside door handle assembly 1 is intended for a door 2 of a motor vehicle and comprises a handle support 3, which is fastened to the inside of the door 4, and a trough housing 5, which is mountable from the outside of the door 6.
  • a handle support 3 For attachment of the handle support 3 on the inside of the door 4, this has in the illustrated embodiment, two mounting lugs 7, for example, hold the head of a screwing, which in turn is in engagement with the handle support 3. In this way, when mounting the outside door handle assembly 1, the handle support 3 is stably screwed to the inside of the door 4.
  • the trough housing 5 is then inserted through a door outlet 8 from the outside of the door 6 in the door 2 and is then flush with its outer edge portion 30 on the outside door 6 on.
  • the trough housing 5 extends in the assembled state to the handle support 3 and is partially inserted in an opening 9 formed in the handle support 3.
  • FIG. 2 shows the trough housing 5 and the handle support 3 in an enlarged view, wherein moreover a lock cylinder 10 is shown for mechanical opening of the corresponding door lock.
  • the lock cylinder 10 can be fastened detachably by means of a bayonet connection to the handle support 3, as in FIG FIG. 1 is shown.
  • further components can be attached to the handle support, as follows with additional reference to the FIGS. 3 to 8 is described.
  • FIG. 4 shows the handle support 3 from FIG. 2 in a rear view, in which the lock cylinder 10 is omitted.
  • the lock cylinder 10 is omitted.
  • FIG. 4 It can be seen that on the handle support 3 in the upper region of a housing member 11 is mounted, which in the front views of the handle support in the Figures 1 and 2 can not be seen.
  • the housing element 11 is mounted in the assembled state of the door outer handle assembly 1 on the side facing away from the inside of the door 4 of the handle support 3 on the handle support 3.
  • FIG. 3 the essential components of the outside door handle assembly 1 are shown in a single part view, with only the trough housing 5 from the outside of the door 6 is mountable. All other components of the outside door handle assembly 1 are mounted on the inside of the door 4 of the motor vehicle door 2 via the handle support 3, which can be attached directly to the inside of the door 4, for example by means of a screw connection. To the mountable on the handle support 3 components are with reference to FIG. 3 to count a pivotally mounted on the handle support 3 handle member 12.
  • the grip element 12 is further in the sectional view in FIG FIG. 6 whereas the gripping element 12 can be seen in the Figures 1 and 2 from the handle carrier 3 and in FIG. 3 is covered by the housing member 11.
  • the handle member 12 For the pivotable mounting of the handle member 12, the handle member 12 at its two longitudinal ends in each case a lever arm 13, whose respective free end 14 is rotatably connected to a corresponding pivot axis 15, whereby the handle member 12 to a horizontal axis is pivotable.
  • the grip element 12 may be coupled to a mechanical lever system for the mechanical opening of the motor vehicle door 2. Alternatively or additionally, the grip element 12 may also be connected to a system for electrically opening the motor vehicle door 2. Constructive measures for the mechanical and electrical opening of motor vehicle doors 2 are known from the prior art, so apart from details of these options.
  • the respective pivot axes 15 of the grip element 12 extend from a pushbutton 31 serving to actuate the opening mechanism and are rotatably mounted on the upper side 32 of the handle support 3.
  • the respective lever arm 13 is rotatably connected to the corresponding pivot axis 15.
  • a spring element 16 supported on the upper side 32 of the handle support 12 is provided on each pivot axis 15, so that the grip element 12 has to be deflected against the force of the spring elements 16 in order to effect a door opening operation. Accordingly, the respective spring element 16 ensures that the grip element 12 is shifted back into its unactuated starting position as soon as the actuation process is completed and no force is exerted on the grip element 12.
  • the operation of the handle member 12 is carried out in the illustrated embodiment of the door outside 6 by a user actuates the handle member 12 through an opening formed in the trough 5 access opening 35 therethrough by the push button 31 is pulled to the outside of the door 6.
  • the gripping element 12 is covered above and in part towards the door outlet 8 from the upper side 32 of the handle carrier 3, whereas the gripping element 12 is encapsulated towards the bottom and partially in the direction away from the inside of the door 4 from the bowl-shaped well housing 5.
  • the housing element 11 is in the case of the exterior door handle arrangement 1 according to the invention provided, wherein the housing member 11 is attachable to the handle support 3. In the assembled state of the outside door handle assembly 1, the bowl-shaped bowl housing 5, the handle carrier 3 and the shell-shaped housing member 11 form an actuating chamber 17.
  • the operating space 17 is accessible only from the outside of the door 6 and receives the handle member 12.
  • trough housing 5 and the housing element 11 actuating space 17 is formed such that it is hermetically sealed against the inside of the door 4.
  • the operating space 17 is a kind of cavity, which only in the sectional view of FIG. 6 is apparent.
  • the housing element 11 forms together with the handle support 3 and the well housing 5 exclusively from the outside door 6 from accessible and hermetically sealed to the inside of the door 4 operating space 17, which from the outside of the door 6 from operable handle member 12 housed and arranged in the assembled state in the operating space 17.
  • the disassembly of the housing element 11 allows access to the operating space 17 from the inside of the door 4.
  • the hermetic sealing of the operating space 17 is facilitated by the fact that for forming the operating space 17, a terminal edge 18 formed by the trough housing 5 and a contour edge 19 formed by the handle support 3 abut sealingly against a support rim 20 formed by the housing element 11.
  • the contiguous edges 18, 19 and 20 are in FIG. 3 for the individual components of the outside door handle assembly 1 and in the FIGS. 5 and 6 showing various sectional views of the outside door handle assembly 1 in the assembled state, can be seen. As in particular the sectional views of FIGS.
  • a sealing element 21 is disposed between the end edge 18 of the trough housing 5, the contour edge 19 of the handle support 3 and the support edge 20 of the housing member 11 to increase the hermetic seal of the operating space 17 to the inside of the door 4.
  • the sealing element 21, which may consist of a thermoplastic vulcanizate (TPV), is essentially modeled on the contour of the support rim 20 of the housing element 11.
  • TPV thermoplastic vulcanizate
  • the sealing element 21 is designed in the manner of a sealing ring and follows the outer edge contour of the housing element 11, in particular the support rim 20 of the housing element 11.
  • the sealing element 21 has a compression projection 22 which protrudes from the core cross section 23 of the sealing element 21.
  • This compression lug 22 is particularly evident in FIG. 8 to recognize.
  • the compression projection 22 is only partially formed on the sealing element 21.
  • the compression projection 22 of the sealing element 21 is provided only for the portion of the superimposed edges 18 and 20 of trough housing 5 and housing element 11.
  • the grip element 3 has two lever arms 13, the free ends 14 of which are pivotably mounted on the handle carrier 3 outside the operating space 17.
  • the respective lever arms 13 of the gripping element 12 each extend through a through opening 24 formed in the operating space 17.
  • the respective through holes 24 are formed in the housing member 11.
  • the lever arms 13 have a cross-sectional thickening 25, which bears in the unactuated state of the handle member 12 sealingly on the edge 26 of the through hole 24 of the actuating chamber 17, as in FIG. 6 is shown in sectional view.
  • the collar-shaped cross-sectional thickening 25 of the respective lever arms 13 does not rest directly on the edge 26 of the respective passage opening 24. Rather, a corresponding Hebelarmdichtungselement 27 is provided between the edge 26 of the respective passage opening 24 and the respective cross-sectional thickening 25 of the corresponding lever arm 13, which is disposed along the edge 26 of the passage opening 24 of the operating space 17.
  • the lever arm sealing element 27 is designed as part of the sealing element 21.
  • the sealing member 21 and the lever arm sealing member 27 is integrally formed as a single sealing member 33, in particular the Figures 3 . 7 and 8 can be seen.
  • the sealing element 21 integrally formed thereon lever arm sealing member 27 seals the actuating chamber 17 relative to the mounting of the handle member 12 by the cross-sectional thickening 25 of the respective lever arm 13 presses against the corresponding Hebelarmdichtungselement 27 in the unactuated state of the handle member 12, wherein the pressure effect supported by the spring elements 16 is, so that the cross-sectional thickening 25 is always urged with a certain force in the direction of the edge 26 of the through hole 24.
  • the operating space 17 is formed in the illustrated embodiment of the handle support 3, trough housing 5 and the housing member 11, all at least each sections have a cup-shaped and matched shape.
  • the handle support 3 and the housing element 11 form the upper portion of the operating space 17, whereas the trough housing 5 defines the lower portion of the operating space 17.
  • the handle support 3 and the housing element 11 are designed as a one-piece component and define the upper portion of the operating space 17, but this is contrary to the modular structure of the outside door handle assembly 1 and the attachment of the Handle element 12 and access to the handle member 12 could complicate.
  • the invention described above is not limited to the described and illustrated embodiment.
  • the grip element 12 may be mounted on only a single pivot axis 15. It will be appreciated that numerous modifications which are obvious to a person skilled in the art according to the intended application can be made to the embodiment shown in the drawing without departing from the scope of the invention as defined by the claims.

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