Patent ID: 7237411
Filing Date: 2007-07-03
Classification: E05B,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An operating device for a motor vehicle lock, having a door lock actuator, a grip plate, a grip with at least one bearing arm which extends through the grip plate and is swivellably linked to a rear side of the grip plate by a bearing block and a plug-type shaft, and having a securing element for the plug-type shaft which secures the plug-type shaft against sliding-out, wherein: the operating device also has a protective covering which covers a rear side of the grip plate; and the protective covering has at least one extending portion which forms the securing element, and which is situated adjacent an end of the plug-type shaft; the protective covering is formed, at least in sections, as a shell; the protective covering has an edge contour that follows an edge contour of the grip plate; the securing element has two extensions which are disposed at a distance from each other, which distance is greater than or equal to a length of the plug-type shaft; the securing element is formed in a roof shape, with the two extensions and a roof section; the securing element projects at least partially beyond an edge contour of the protective covering; and the shell which constitutes the protective covering has a shell bottom and a shell wall originating from the latter, and the at least one extending portion starts out from an edge section surrounding the shell.