JPH10266645A - Door outside handle device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To miniaturize a door outside handle device in a vehicle door, and increase a degree of freedom of design in the vehicle door by directly locking the other end of a wire cable whose one end is connected to a door lock mechanism, on a lower part of a door handle whose upper part is pivotally fixed to a handle cover. SOLUTION: A dovetail groove 6 is arranged on a car inside wall surface 5 of a downward opening recess 4 formed in an end part of a handle cover 3 installed on a door outer panel 2 of a vehicle door 1, and a stepped terminal 11 of an end part of an outer cable 10 is fitted in and fixed to the dovetail groove 6. One end of a wire cable 27 slidably inserted into the outer cable 10 is connected to a door lock mechanism. The other end of the wire cable 27 is inserted into a through hole 8 and a seal member 9 of an end part of the handle cover 3, and is also extended outside in an almost staight line shape in the car width direction, and is inserted into a lower notch 26 of the handle cover 3, and a terminal 28 of the wire cable 27 is embedded in and fixed to a recess 24 formed on a door handle 20 by hot melt 29.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a door outside handle device mounted on an outer surface of a vehicle door for opening and closing the door.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As shown in Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open Publication No. 4-43670, a conventional door handle device for a vehicle includes a door latch installed on a vehicle door and a door latch installed on the door to move the door latch from inside and outside the vehicle interior. Operable opening / closing members are fixed to both ends of a push-pull wire that can slide freely through the outer cable. Since the end of the push-pull wire is fixed to the end of the lever protruding from the side door handle, the thickness of the door containing these members is accommodated to allow the lever to rotate with the rotation of the outer side door handle. Also, raindrops, etc., which penetrate the door glass and enter the door from the outside through the door glass, wet the push-pull wire. When the push-pull wire at low temperatures is frozen on the outer cable inner surface and the like, there is a possibility that sliding of the push-pull wire within the outer cable is impaired.

[0003]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to reduce the size of a door outside handle device for a vehicle door.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, a door outside handle device according to the present invention comprises a handlebar cover attached to a door outer panel and having a through hole in a vehicle width direction, and a front and rear portion of the vehicle. A door handle having an upper portion pivotally attached to the handle cover by a support shaft extending in a direction, and one end extending substantially linearly outward in the vehicle width direction through a through hole of the handle cover and engaging with a lower portion of the door handle. And a wire cable connected to the door lock mechanism at the other end.

Therefore, when the door handle whose upper portion is pivotally supported by the handle cover is operated and turned around the support shaft in the vehicle width direction outward, the lower portion of the door handle is displaced outward in the vehicle width direction. One end of the wire cable, which extends through the through hole of the handle cover and extends substantially linearly outward in the vehicle width direction and is locked at the lower portion of the door handle, is also pulled outwardly in the vehicle width direction, so that it is connected to the other end of the wire cable. In this case, one end of the wire cable is directly locked to the lower portion of the door handle, and the other end of the wire cable is engaged with the door handle as in the related art. Since there is no lever for stopping, the thickness of the door outside handle device can be reduced, and the entire device can be easily reduced in size.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The embodiments of the present invention shown in the drawings will be described below. 1 to 3, a handle cover 3 is attached to a door outer panel 2 of a vehicle door 1, and a recess 4 opening downward at an end of the handle cover 3.
Is formed, a dovetail groove 6 is provided on the vehicle inner wall surface 5 of the recess 4, and a through hole 8 in the vehicle width direction is provided on the vehicle outer wall surface 7 of the recess 4, and the vehicle outer opening of the through hole 8 is formed. A rubber-like sealing member 9 is installed so as to surround the terminal groove 11, which is attached to the end of the outer cable 10.
It is fitted into and fixed to.

On the other hand, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 4, the door handle 20 is provided with a pocket 21 opened downward.
An upper end of the arm 22 is pivotally attached to the handle cover 3 by a support shaft 23 extending in the front-rear direction of the vehicle, and a spring (not shown) attached to the support shaft 23 counterclockwise in FIG. The lower part of the door handle 20 abuts on the seal member 9 of the handle cover 3, and the seal member 9 is sandwiched between the end of the handle cover 3 and the lower part of the door handle 20.
A recess 24 that opens downward is formed in the lower portion of the door handle 20, and a notch 26 is provided in the vehicle interior wall surface 25 of the recess 24 in line with the through hole 8 of the handle cover 3.

Further, one end of a wire cable 27 slidably inserted through the outer cable 10 extends outward from the outer cable 10 in the vehicle width direction, and a through hole 8 at the end of the handle cover 3 and a seal member 9 are provided. Through, and
The steering wheel cover 3 extends substantially linearly outward in the vehicle width direction.
The terminal 28 of the wire cable 27 disposed in the recess 24 passes through the lower notch 26 and is embedded and fixed in the recess 24 by the hot melt 29.

Instead of the hot melt 29, the terminal 28 of the wire cable 27 is elastically fitted into the recess 24, or the recess 24 is covered with a cover from below.
It goes without saying that the terminals 28 of the wire cable 27 may be sealed in the inside 4 so that the terminals 28 do not come off from the recesses 24.

Further, the other end of the wire cable 27 passing through the outer cable 10 is connected to a door lock mechanism (not shown) mounted in the vehicle door 1 so that the one end of the wire cable 27 is directed outward in the vehicle width direction. The door lock function of the door lock mechanism is released by being pulled.

In the above door outside handle device, if a hand is inserted from below into the pocket 21 of the door handle 20 and the door handle 20 is pulled out to the outside of the vehicle, FIG.
As shown in FIG. 5, the door handle 20 rotates clockwise in FIG.
The wire cable 27 in which the terminal 28 is locked into the lower recess 24 of the door handle 20 is pulled outward in the vehicle width direction to release the door lock function of the door lock mechanism, so that the vehicle door 2 can be easily opened. When the vehicle door 2 is completely closed and the hand is released from the door handle 20, the door handle 20 is urged in a counterclockwise direction in FIG. At the same time as returning to the inactive state, the wire cable 27 is pulled back by the spring force of the latch in the door lock mechanism, and is automatically returned to the state of FIG. 1 without any slack.

In this case, the terminal 28 of the wire cable 27
Is locked directly to the lower portion of the door handle 20, and the door handle 20 is not formed with any special lever for locking the terminal 28. Therefore, there is no space for allowing the lever to rotate. Since it is necessary, the thickness of the door outside handle device in the vehicle width direction can be smaller than before, and therefore, the thickness of the vehicle door 1 can be reduced by downsizing the entire device, and the design of the vehicle door 1 can be reduced. There is a particularly great advantage that it is possible to easily increase the degree of freedom and reduce the cost.

A stepped terminal 11 at the end of the outer cable 10 is attached to the inner wall surface 5 of the recess 4 which opens downward from the end of the handle cover 3, and the opening of the terminal 11 is arranged in the recess 4. The upper part is covered by the handle cover 3, and the seal member 9 is sandwiched between the end of the handle cover 3 and the lower part of the door handle 20, so that the end of the handle cover 3 through which one end of the wire cable 27 is inserted. Since the through hole 8 is sealed by the seal member 9, even if raindrops or the like enter the vehicle door 1 from the outside through the door glass, the wire cable 2
7 can be reliably prevented from getting wet.

Accordingly, the possibility that the wire cable 27 freezes even at a low temperature and the slidability of the wire cable 27 in the outer cable 10 is impaired is eliminated, and the operability of the door lock mechanism by the wire cable 27 is always kept good. be able to.

Further, since the through-hole 8 at the end of the handle cover 3 through which one end of the wire cable 27 is inserted is sealed by the seal member 9, it is possible to prevent noise outside the vehicle from entering the inside of the vehicle through the through-hole 8. It also has the effect of preventing.

The terminal 28 of the wire cable 27 is
Since the hot melt 29 is embedded in the recess 24 and there is no play in the recess 24, the terminal 28 does not vibrate and generate abnormal noise when the vehicle is running. Can be easily improved.

In addition, the terminal 28 of the wire cable 27
Is disposed in a recess 24 opening downwardly below the lower part of the door handle 20, and when the door handle 20 is pulled out to the outside of the vehicle when the vehicle door 1 is opened, a wire cable 27 is provided.
Since the terminal 28 is not visible from outside the vehicle, the appearance of the door outside handle device is not impaired.

[0018]

In the door outside handle device according to the present invention, one end of the wire cable is directly locked to the lower portion of the door handle whose upper portion is pivotally supported by the handle cover, thereby reducing the thickness of the door outside handle device. The size of the device can be easily reduced by making it smaller, so the thickness of the vehicle door to which the door outside handle device is attached can also be reduced, so that the freedom of design and cost reduction of the vehicle door can be easily increased. There is a particularly strong point.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a longitudinal sectional view of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an enlarged perspective view of a main part of the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged perspective view of a main part of the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is an enlarged perspective view of a main part of the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is an operation explanatory view of the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Vehicle door 2 Door outer panel 3 Handle cover 8 Through hole 9 Seal member 10 Outer cable 20 Door handle 23 Support shaft 27 Wire cable 29 Hot melt

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A vehicle door having a handle cover attached to a door outer panel and having a through hole in a vehicle width direction, and an upper portion pivotally attached to the handle cover by a support shaft extending substantially in the front-rear direction of the vehicle. And a wire cable having one end inserted through the through-hole of the handle cover and extending substantially linearly outward in the vehicle width direction and locked at a lower portion of the door handle, and the other end connected to a door lock mechanism. Having a door outside handle device. 2. The door outside handle device according to claim 1, further comprising a sealing member which surrounds the outside opening of the through hole when the door handle is not operated, and which is sandwiched between the door handle and the handle cover.