JPH067195Y2 - Door handle device for automobile - Google Patents

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a handle body fixedly supported by a door through a fixing means, a handle member that is rotated by an operator from a closed position to an open position, and a handle member. The handle member is rotatably supported with respect to the handle body, and the handle means is provided with a continuous means capable of attaching and detaching the member to and from the handle body at a detachable position outside the operating range between the open position and the closed position of the handle member. The present invention relates to a door handle device for an automobile, which is provided with a stopper that prevents rotation to the attachment / detachment position.

2. Description of the Related Art A door handle device of the type described above is well known in the prior art (for example, see Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 59-126876). In order to assemble a handle device of this type, first the handle member is assembled to the handle body in the detaching position, then the handle member is rotated into a proper position within the working range between the open position and the closed position, and then, Attach the contact member to the handle member side,
The contact member may be brought into contact with the stopper integrally formed with the handle body to prevent the handle member from rotating to the attachment / detachment position. The assembled handle device is used by being fixed to the door by the fixing means. As described above, the handle device of this type can be assembled and used relatively easily, but in the conventional handle device, since the stopper is integrally formed on the handle body, the handle member strongly hits the stopper. do it,
If the stopper were damaged, the entire body of the handle had to be replaced even when the rest of the handle body was completely intact, which was very uneconomical.

OBJECT The object of the present invention is to provide a door handle device which eliminates the above-mentioned conventional drawbacks.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a door handle device of the type described at the beginning, in which fixing means is a screw grommet detachably attached to the door and the handle body, and is screwed into the gromlot. A door and a tapping screw that locks a screw grommet to the handle body, and the handle member occupying the open position can be brought into contact with the screw grommet to prevent the handle member from rotating to the attaching / detaching position. In this way, a configuration is proposed in which the position of the screw grommet is set and the grommet also has the function of the stopper.

Embodiment An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

Door handle device 1 for an automobile shown in FIGS. 1 and 2.
Is rotatably supported on a handle main body 3 fixed to the inside of a vehicle door 2 and between the closed position shown by a solid line and an open position shown by a chain line in FIG. And the handle member 4 is formed.

The handle body 3 is attached to the door 2 via a fixing means 5 described later.
Fixedly supported by the inner panel 6 of the
Is a convex portion 7 (see FIGS. 3 and 4) protruding from the handle body 3.
Although it rotates around the drawing), this convex portion will be described in detail later. The handle member 4 has a handle operating portion 8 operated by an operator and an arm portion 9 integrated with the handle operating portion 8. The arm portion 9 passes through the opening 10 (see FIG. 3) of the handle main body 3 to the inner panel 6 side. And one end of the operating rod 11 is connected to the tip thereof. Reference numeral 12 is a door trim arranged inside the vehicle by the inner panel 6 as well.

When the operator rotates the handle member 4 from the closed position shown by the solid line to the opened position shown by the chain line in FIG. 2, the operating rod 11 is pulled to the left as shown by the chain line in FIG. The locking device (not shown) is unlocked and the door 2 can be opened freely.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, a spring accommodating portion 13 is formed in the handle member 4, and a torsion coil spring 14 is arranged therein, and one end 14a of the spring 14 is disposed on the handle member 4 and the other end. 14b is locked to the handle main body 3, whereby the handle member 4 is biased by the spring force in the closing direction. Therefore, when the handle member 4 is rotated to the open position and then the hand is released, the handle member 4 is automatically returned to the closed position by the spring force and is held there.

Next, the structure of the connecting means including the above-mentioned convex portion 7 and the concave portion 15 (FIGS. 3 and 4) formed in the handle body 3 will be described.

As is apparent from FIG. 3, a pair of convex portions 7 are provided on both side walls of the handle main body 3 so as to face each other, and a pair of concave portions 15 are formed on both side portions of the handle member 4. The convex portion 7 and each concave portion 15 are fitted to each other as shown in FIG. The convex portion 7 has a form in which a flat portion 16 is formed by cutting off a part of a cylindrical body, and each concave portion 15 of the handle member 4 is partitioned by the peripheral surface portion 17 of the arc lock and has a notched opening. 19 is formed.

When the handle member 4 is assembled to the handle body 3, the handle member 4 is set up with respect to the handle body 3 which is not yet fixed to the door 2 as shown in FIG. 6, the openings 19 of the recesses 15 are aligned with the protrusions 7 as shown in FIG. 6, and the protrusions 7 and the recesses 15 are fitted to each other as shown in FIG. The position of the handle member 4 at this time is the attachment / detachment position, and this attachment / detachment position is outside the above-mentioned operating range. In FIG. 2, the attachment / detachment position of the handle member 4 is shown by a broken line.

The handle member 4 can be easily detached from the handle body 3 by performing the operation reverse to the above operation.

In this way, the connecting means rotatably supports the handle member 4 with respect to the handle body 3, and the handle body 3 is detached at an attachment / detachment position outside the operating range between the open position and the closed position. The handle member 4 can be attached to and detached from the.

After the handle member 4 is assembled to the handle body 3 as described above, if the member 4 is rotated to a position within the operating range between the closed position and the open position, the flat portion 16 of the convex portion 7 is formed. The arc-shaped outer peripheral surface other than the above and the arc-shaped peripheral surface 17 of the recess 15 are slidably fitted to each other as shown in FIGS. 4 and 5. Therefore, the handle member 4 can freely rotate within the operation range without coming out from the handle body 3. FIG. 5 shows a state when the handle member 4 reaches the open position.
However, in this state, the handle member 4 can be rotated to the attachment / detachment position (FIG. 7) described above, so that the handle member 4 may come out of the handle body 3. Therefore, a stopper is provided to prevent the handle member 4 assembled to the handle body 3 from rotating to the attachment / detachment position.

In the illustrated door handle device, the fixing means 5 has a function as a stopper so that the fixing means 5 has two functions of fixing the handle body 3 to the inner panel 6 and a function as a stopper. It is configured.

The fixing means 5 is composed of a screw grommet 20 and a tapping screw 21 as shown in FIG. As described above, after the handle member 4 is assembled to the handle body 3 and the member 4 is rotated to a position within its operating range, the screw grommet 20 is inserted into the notch 22 formed in the handle body 3 by the arrow B. It is inserted as shown, and the first engaging groove 23 is engaged with the handle body 3. As a result, the screw grommet 20 is locked to the handle body 3 as shown in FIG. 8 (see also FIG. 9).

On the other hand, the inner panel 6 of the door 2 is formed with a mounting hole 26 having a wide portion 24 and a narrow portion 25 as shown in FIG. 8, and the handle main body 3 to which the screw grommet 20 is mounted as described above is mounted on the inner panel 6. Close to the panel 6, the grommet 20 is inserted into the wide portion 24 of the mounting hole 26 as shown by the arrow C in FIG. Next, the handle body 3 is slid toward the narrow portion 25 (arrow D), the grommet 20 is fitted into the narrow portion 25, and the second engaging groove 27 is engaged with the inner panel 6 ( (Fig. 9). Finally, as shown in FIG. 9, a tapping screw 21 is screwed into the central hole of the screw grommet 20 to open the lower part of the grommet, and the grommet 20 is integrally locked to the inner panel 6 and the handle body 3. By performing the reverse operation, the screw grommet 20 can be easily detached from the door 2 and the handle body 3.

As described above, the fixing means 5 includes the door 2 and the handle body 3.
Screw grommet 20 detachably attached to and
And a tapping screw 21 screwed into the grommet 20 to lock the screw grommet 20 to the door 2 and the handle body 3.

Here, when the handle main body 3 and the handle member 4 are assembled to the door 2 as shown in FIG. 2, a part of the screw grommet 20 acts as the stopper portion 28. That is, even if the handle member 4 is to be rotated further clockwise than the open position shown by the chain line in FIG. 2, a part of the member 4 hits the grommet 20 and the stopper portion 28 and the rotation is prevented. Therefore, the handle member 4 does not rotate to the attachment / detachment position described above, and it is possible to prevent the handle member 4 from coming off the handle body 3. In this way, the position of the screw grommet 20 is set so that the handle member 4 occupying the open position is brought into contact with the screw grommet 20 to prevent the handle member 4 from rotating to the attachment / detachment position. 20 is also used as a stopper. As a result, the handle member 4 can be smoothly rotated within the operating range thereof as described above, and the door lock device can be unlocked.

As described above, when the handle member 4 is rotated to the open position, the member 4 becomes a screw grommet 20 as a stopper.
However, when the handle member 4 is rotated with an excessively large force at the time of such a rotation operation and the member 4 is hit against the screw grommet 20 with a shocking large force, the screw grommet 20 as the stopper is damaged. Sometimes. In that case, since the stopper was conventionally formed integrally with the handle body, if the stopper is damaged, the entire handle body must be replaced with a new one, even if the rest of the handle body is completely intact. I had to do it.
However, in the door handle device according to the present invention,
Since the screw grommet 20 as a stopper is configured as a separate member from the handle body 3 and is detachably attached to the handle body 3, when the screw grommet 20 is damaged, only this part needs to be replaced. As for the body 3, it can be used as it is. In this way, it is possible to improve the economy more than ever before.

Further, the screw grommet 2 which is one element of the fixing means 5
Since 0 is used as a stopper, it is possible to obtain an advantage that an increase in the number of parts can be prevented.

Effect According to the present invention, the stopper for preventing the handle member from rotating to the attaching / detaching position is constituted by the screw grommet of the means for fixing the handle body to the door.
When this grommet is damaged, it is only necessary to replace it, and the handle body can be used as it is, and the economy can be improved. Moreover, the number of parts can be reduced.

[Brief description of drawings]

1 is a front view of the door handle device as viewed from the inside of the vehicle, FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken along the line II-II of FIG. 1, FIG. 3 is an exploded perspective view of the door handle device, and FIG. 1 is a sectional view taken along the line IV-IV of FIG. 1, FIG. 5 is a sectional view similar to FIG. 4 when the door handle member is rotated to the open position, and FIG. 6 is a sectional view when the handle member is attached to the handle body. FIG. 7 is a sectional view similar to FIG. 4, and FIG. 7 shows the handle member at the attaching / detaching position.
A sectional view similar to FIG. 4, FIG. 8 is a perspective view for explaining the mounting state of the screw grommet, and FIG. 9 is IX-IX in FIG.
It is a line sectional view. 1 ... Door handle device, 2 ... Door 3 ... Handle body, 4 ... Handle member 5 ... Fixing means 20 ... Screw grommet 21 ... Tapping screw

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A handle main body fixedly supported by a door via fixing means, a handle member that is rotated by an operator from a closed position to an open position, and the handle member is rotatable with respect to the handle main body. And a connecting means that allows the handle member to be attached to and detached from the handle body at a detachable position outside the operating range between the open position and the closed position of the handle member, and the handle member rotates to the detachable position. A door handle device for an automobile, comprising: a stopper for preventing such a problem, wherein the fixing means is a screw grommet detachably attached to the door and the handle body, and the door and the handle are screwed into the gromelot. It consists of a tapping screw that locks the screw grommet to the main body,
The position of the screw grommet is set so that the handle member occupying the open position is brought into contact with the screw grommet to prevent the handle member from rotating to the attaching / detaching position, and the grommet functions as the stopper. A door handle device that doubles as a door handle.