Door outside handle for vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9523220-B2
Application number	US-201414290602-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 29, 2014
Priority date	Dec 18, 2013
Publication date	Dec 20, 2016
Grant date	Dec 20, 2016

Abstract

A door outside handle for vehicle may include a door handle which has a handle hinge formed at one end and a handle lever formed at the other end and has a lever groove formed on a lower end bottom surface of the handle lever, a handle base which has a hinge hole formed at one end and a lever hole formed at the other end into which the handle hinge and the handle lever are inserted, and has two shaft coupling portions separately formed at a position corresponding to where the lever hole is formed, and a balance weight which includes a balance shaft rotatably inserted into the shaft coupling portions and has an assembly protrusion formed to be fitted to the lever groove.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A door outside handle for vehicle, comprising:
a door handle having a handle hinge formed at a first end of the door handle;
a handle lever formed at a second end of the door handle;
a lever groove formed on a lower end bottom surface of the handle lever;
a handle base including:
a hinge hole formed at a first end of the handle base, wherein the handle lever is inserted into the hinge hole;
a lever hole formed at a second end of the handle base, wherein the handle lever is inserted into the lever hole; and

two shaft coupling portions separately formed at a position of the handle base, corresponding to where the lever hole is formed;
a balance weight including:
a balance shaft rotatably inserted into the shaft coupling portions; and
an assembly protrusion formed to be fitted to the lever groove, wherein the assembly protrusion is integrally formed on an end portion of the balance weight and protrudes in a direction perpendicular to a rotation direction of the balance weight; and

a balance spring fixed to the handle base at a first end of the balance spring and fixed to the balance shaft at a second end of the balance spring in a state of being fitted to the balance shaft to impart elastic resilience to rotation of the balance weight,
wherein the shaft coupling portions are formed with shaft holes into which the balance shaft is rotatably inserted, respectively, and a substantially rectangular groove configured to determine an initial coupling position of the balance shaft is formed in a shaft hole close to the hinge hole among the shaft holes so as to be connected to the shaft holes,
wherein in the shaft coupling portion formed with the substantially rectangular groove, a substantially circular groove configured to determine an initial coupling position of the balance weight together with the substantially rectangular groove is formed,
wherein the balance shaft includes two shafts extending to both sides based on a weight portion of the balance weight, and in at least one shaft of the two shafts, a substantially rectangular protrusion fitted to the substantially rectangular groove so as to be able to determine the initial coupling position of the balance shaft is formed,
wherein when the handle hinge is inserted into the hinge hole and the handle lever is inserted into the lever hole in a state in which the substantially rectangular protrusion is fitted to the substantially rectangular groove and the substantially circular protrusion is fitted to the substantially circular groove, the assembly protrusion of the balance weight is inserted into the lever groove of the door handle, and
wherein:
when the door handle is moved toward the shaft coupling portion in which the substantially rectangular groove is not formed in a state in which the assembly protrusion is inserted into the lever groove, the balance weight moves together by contact between the lever groove and the assembly protrusion;
the substantially circular protrusion falls out of the substantially circular groove while the substantially rectangular protrusion falls out of the substantially rectangular groove by the movement of the balance weight; and
the balance weight is elastically supported by the handle lever by elastic force of the balance spring.

2. The door outside handle for vehicle of claim 1 , wherein a locking portion bent toward the handle hinge is formed at a lower end of the handle lever;
the lever groove is formed on a bottom surface of the locking portion; and
the lever groove is formed such that one side facing the handle hinge is blocked.

3. The door outside handle for vehicle of claim 1 , wherein in the balance weight, the substantially circular protrusion fitted to the substantially circular groove so as to be able to determine the initial coupling position of the balance weight is formed.

4. The door outside handle for vehicle of claim 1 , wherein the balance spring is installed so as to be fitted to the shaft of the two balance shafts in which the substantially rectangular protrusion is not formed.

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Park Hoo Sang
• Han Jung Ho

Classifications

• E05B15/0093

  Weight arrangements in locks; gravity activated lock parts (E05B65/5292, E05B77/06 take precedence) · CPC title

• Y10T16/458

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• E05B85/16 Primary

  a longitudinal grip part being pivoted at one end about an axis perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the grip part · CPC title

• B60J5/0434 Primary

  the elements being arranged at the handle area · CPC title