Interior door handle arrangement of a vehicle, and method for producing an interior door handle arrangement

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2025034919-A1
Application number	US-202418916921-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Oct 16, 2024
Priority date	Apr 11, 2018
Publication date	Jan 30, 2025
Grant date	—

Abstract

An interior door handle arrangement of a vehicle, includes a housing and an actuating section which is arranged on the housing, wherein the housing and/or the actuating section have/has a carrier section made from a first plastic and a visible section made from another, second material which is connected to the carrier section in an integrally joined manner. A method for producing such an interior door handle arrangement is also provided.

First claim

1 . A method for producing an interior door handle arrangement, wherein the interior door handle arrangement includes a housing and an actuating section which is movably arranged on the housing, wherein the actuating section has a carrier section made from a first plastic and a decoration section made from a second plastic which is connected to the carrier section in an integrally joined manner, wherein the actuating section is produced using a multi-component injection molding process.

2 . The method as claimed in claim 1 for producing an interior door handle arrangement, wherein a magnet is applied to a surface of the carrier section in a still flowable state of the plastic, causing ferromagnetic metal particles in the first plastic approach the surface.

3 . The method as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the injection molding process comprises producing the actuating section by at least the steps:
a) producing one of the carrier section of the first plastic or the decoration section of the second plastic, in a first injection molding shot using a first mold half and a second mold half defining a first cavity resulting in a first blank, b) producing the other of the carrier section or the decoration section in a second injection molding shot onto the first blank after a change of the first mold half and/or the second mold half in order to define a second cavity resulting in a second blank, while the first blank remains in one of the first mold half and the second mold half until the second blank was shot onto it.

4 . The method as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the change of the first mold half and/or the second mold half comprises an exchange of one of the first mold half or the second mold half by a third mold half, while the first blank remains in the non-exchanged tool half, wherein the second blank is formed by at least the third mold half.

5 . The method as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the actuating section has a front side intended to face a vehicle interior compartment and a rear side intended to face away from the vehicle interior compartment, wherein in the one of the first cavity or second cavity, which is intended to form the decoration section, the second plastic is injected
a) at a location which is to become a portion of the rear side of the actuating section, such that the second plastic flows along at least one concave mold edge or at least one concave arcuate mold portion towards the front side of the actuating section or b) at a location which is hidden by a housing in which the actuating section is intended to be movably arranged.

6 . The method as claimed in claim 5 , wherein the second plastic flows around the at least one mold edge or the at least one arcuate mold portion over at least a width of 5 mm.

7 . The method as claimed in claim 5 , wherein the carrier section is produced in the first injection molding shot and the decoration section is produced in the second injection molding shot:
wherein in the one of the first mold half or the second mold half, in which the first blank remains until the second blank was shot onto it, a first volume defining a mold portion for a surface of the rear side of the actuating section is masked in the first injection molding shot by a slider of that mold half or by a protruding portion of the respective other mold half, and wherein the first volume is unmasked after the first injection molding shot by retracting the slider or exiting the protruding portion of the respective other mold half, such that for the second injection molding shot there is a passageway from a surface of the rear side towards the front side allowing the second plastic to flow along the at least one mold edge or the at least one arcuate mold portion towards the front side of the actuating section.

8 . The method as claimed in claim 3 , wherein a surface of the first or second cavity, which is forming a front side of the decoration section, is over at least 70% of its surface polished such that the value of the surface roughness Ra is smaller than or equal to 2 μm.

Assignees

• Illinois Tool Works

Inventors

• Wilke Zsolt
• Fries Elmar
• Contini Anna Lisa

Classifications

• B60R11/0217

  for loud-speakers · CPC title

• B29K2995/0008

  Magnetic or paramagnetic · CPC title

• B29K2505/00

  Use of metals, their alloys or their compounds, as filler · CPC title

• B60R2011/0045

  with visible part, e.g. flush mounted · CPC title

• B60R2011/0021

  Doors · CPC title