System comprising a component and an actuating apparatus for the component

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10794096-B2
Application number	US-201415035771-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 19, 2014
Priority date	Nov 18, 2013
Publication date	Oct 6, 2020
Grant date	Oct 6, 2020

Abstract

A system including a component which can be mounted movably in or on an automobile and an actuating apparatus for the component, the actuating apparatus having a push-push mechanism which interacts with the component, it being possible for the component to be moved out of a closed position by manual exertion of a pressing force counter to the prestress of a spring into an unlocked position in order to unlock the push-push mechanism, out of which unlocked position the component is moved into a partially open position driven by the prestress of the spring, out of which partially open position the component can be moved into an open position by manual exertion of a pulling force.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A system comprising a component mounted movably in or on an automobile and an actuating apparatus for the component, the actuating apparatus having a push-push mechanism which interacts with the component, the component movable out of a closed position by manual exertion of a pressing force counter to the prestress of a spring into an unlocked position in order to unlock the push- push mechanism, out of which unlocked position the component is moved into a partially open position driven by the prestress of the spring, out of which partially open position the component is moved into an open position by manual exertion of a pulling force, wherein tensioning means are provided which prestress the spring during the movement of the component out of the partially open position into the open position, with the result that the component is subsequently moved out of the open position into the closed position without a counterforce by the spring and the tensioning means includes a pivotably mounted actuator connected to the component via the spring.

2. The system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the prestress of the spring or of another spring element moves the component out of the open position back into the closed position.

3. The system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the component is a door handle which is mounted pivotably on the automobile, and the door handle terminates flushly with inner skin or outer skin of the automobile.

4. The system as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the door handle and actuator are pivotably mounted to pivot about pivot axes which are different and parallel to one another, and a tappet of the push-push mechanism being arranged on the actuator, on the outer side of which tappet a control cam is formed, the tappet being surrounded, at least in the closed position and the unlocked position of the door handle, by a control ring of the push-push mechanism, which control ring is mounted rotatably and axially fixedly in a housing of the push-push mechanism, the control ring having, on its inner side, at least one control projection which is guided in the control cam of the tappet.

5. The system as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the spring is a leg spring or helical spring which is held fixedly with one end on the door handle and fixedly with its other end on the actuator.

6. The system as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the door handle and the actuator in each case have an actuating section, the actuating sections movable to be brought into contact with one another, as a result of which the door handle, during its movement out of the closed position into the unlocked position, likewise moves the actuator between a closed position and an unlocked position, and as a result of which the actuator, during its movement out of the unlocked position into a partially open position, likewise moves the door handle between the unlocked position and the partially open position.

7. The system as claimed in claim 4 , wherein, in the partially open position, the actuator assumes a pivoting position such that the tappet is situated outside the housing of the push-push mechanism.

8. The system as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the tappet of the actuator, during a movement of the door handle out of the partially open position into the open position, enters into the housing of the push-push mechanism again, the at least one control projection of the control ring being received in a locking recess of the control cam, with the result that the tappet is locked in the housing in a locked position.

9. The system as claimed in claim 4 , wherein a first cam is formed on the actuator and a second cam is formed on the door handle, the cams interacting in such a way that the actuator, during a movement of the door handle out of the partially open position into the open position, is pivoted in such a way that the spring is prestressed.

10. The system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein damping means are provided which damp a movement of the component directly or indirectly.

Assignees

• Illinois Tool Works

Inventors

• Hamacher Kai
• Och Roland
• Beck Christian
• Rudolf Andreas
• Oberst Joachim
• Karlein Johannes

Classifications

• E05B85/107

  Pop-out handles, e.g. sliding outwardly before rotation · CPC title

• E05B77/42

  Means for damping the movement of lock parts, e.g. slowing down the return movement of a handle (E05B77/38 takes precedence) · CPC title

• E05B85/103 Primary

  creating a completely closed wing surface · CPC title

• E05B85/12

  Inner door handles · CPC title

• E05B5/006

  essentially defining a completely closed surface together with the wing · CPC title