Patent ID: 6768413
Filing Date: 2004-07-27
Classification: E05B,G07C,Y10T

Abstract:
Closing device for a vehicle (10), with a lock (14) arranged at least at one door (11) or a hatch of the vehicle (10), that is actuatable (21) by a vehicle-correlated hand lever (12) of a door handle (15), which hand lever (12) is gripped by a hand of a user for actuating the lock (14),wherein the lock (14) can be switched between a secured position in which the hand lever (12) is inoperative and an operative position in which the hand lever (12) is made operative, in which the lock (14) can be opened by actuating (21) the hand lever (12), with an electric control device (30) arranged within the vehicle (10) that effects via an antenna (33) of a vehicle-correlated transmission and reception unit (32) a data request (37) directed to a data carrier (20) external to the vehicle (10) in the possession of the vehicle user (40), wherein the user-correlated data carrier (20) itself has a transmission and reception unit (32) which transmits a data reply (47) via the antenna (33) of the vehicle-correlated transmission and reception unit (32) to the control device (30), and wherein, in the case of positive identification of the user-correlated data carrier (20), the vehicle-correlated control device (30) triggers (16) securing or release of securing of the lock(s) (14) on at least one door (11) of the vehicle (10), wherein a hollow space forming a receiving unit (43) is arranged in an interior of the hand lever (12), wherein the antenna (33) of the vehicle-correlated transmission and reception unit (32) is arranged in the hollow space in the hand lever (12) of the door handle (15); wherein, in addition to the complete antenna (33), also at least some further components of the vehicle-correlated transmission and reception unit (32) are arranged in the interior of the hand lever (12) of the door handle (15), the door handle (15) has a hand lever depression (13) and the hand lever (12) extends through the hand lever depression (13) and wherein the antenna (33) and the further components of the vehicle-correlated transmission and reception unit (32) are located outside of the hand lever depression (13) of the door handle (15).