Patent ID: 8857867

Claim:
An outside handle device for a vehicle door, the outside handle device comprising a handle main body having a grip portion including a first end part and a second end part, disposed outside an outer panel of a vehicle door, and a base plate having a first end part and a second end part, fixed to an inner face of the outer panel, the handle main body engaging the base plate, characterized in that the outer panel is provided with a latching hole and an insertion hole, the latching hole comprising an insertion hole portion and a latching slit portion having inserted therethrough and engaged therewith a first bolt or a second bolt, the first bolt having an enlarged diameter head portion and being screwed into one of the first end part and the second end part of the grip portion, the second bolt having a base thereof implanted in said one of the first end part and the second end part of the grip portion and having a nut screwed around a tip side thereof, and the insertion hole having inserted therethrough a penetrating portion that is provided on the other one of the first end part and the second end part of the grip portion, penetrates into the outer panel, and has a latching groove provided on the outer periphery of the penetrating portion, the handle main body being provisionally assembled onto the outer panel so that the penetrating portion is inserted through the insertion hole while engaging the first bolt or the second bolt with the latching hole, and the base plate is provided with a first engagement recess having an opening and a second engagement recess so as to open on a side edge of the base plate, the first engagement recess housing the first bolt or the second bolt so that one of the first end part and the second end part of the base plate engages with the enlarged diameter head portion or the nut, and the second engagement recess housing the penetrating portion so that the other one of the first end part and the second end part of the base plate engages with the latching groove of the penetrating portion by pivoting the base plate having the first bolt or the second bolt housed in the first engagement recess around an axis of the first bolt or the second bolt.