Patent ID: 6648382
Filing Date: 2003-11-18
Classification: E05B,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
An outer door handle for vehicles, comprising:a housing (10) stationarily arranged in a door; a bearing (14) for supporting a manually actuatable folding handle (20) on the housing (10), wherein the handle (20) is foldable about a hinge axis (13) horizontally arranged or slantedly arranged relative to the horizontal; wherein the handle (20) has a handle arm (21) and, upon handle actuation (26), acts on a lock arranged within the door; a pivotable (38) latching member (30) arranged on the stationary housing and serving as a mass latching mechanism active only in a crash situation, wherein the latching member, when inactive, has an ineffective release position (30) relative to a support surface (19) provided on the housing (11), wherein the handle (20) is not blocked and is actuatable (26) when the latching member (30) is in the ineffective release position; wherein the latching member (30) in a crash situation, as a result of an inertia of masses of the latching member (30), moves from the ineffective release position into an active support position (30â€²) on the support location (19) and blocks the handle (20); wherein the latching member (30) has a pivot bearing (31) located on the stationary housing (11); wherein the movable handle arm (21) has a shoulder (24) and the latching member (30) has a counter shoulder (34); wherein in a crash situation a folding movement path (28) of the shoulder (24) arranged on the handle arm (21) is intersected (29) by a pivot movement path (38) of the counter shoulder (34) on the latching member (30) so that in the crash situation the shoulder (24) comes to rest against the counter shoulder (34); wherein in the ineffective release position of the latching member, the shoulder (24) on the handle arm passes the counter shoulder (34) of the latching member (30) when the handle (20) is actuated.