Patent ID: 8636309

Claim:
Outer grip at doors or hatches of vehicles, with a two-part casing ( 10 , 20 ) comprising a grip body ( 10 ) and a grip cover ( 20 ), which is solidly connectable ( 22 ) to the grip body ( 10 ), wherein the grip body ( 10 ) is pressed against the grip cover ( 20 ), wherein side walls ( 18 ) of the grip body ( 10 ) and side walls ( 28 ) of the grip cover ( 20 ) are driven into each other up to making a connection ( 22 ) and wherein a container ( 30 ) is disposed in between, wherein a hollow chamber ( 21 ) for the container ( 30 ) is generated between the grip body ( 10 ), the grip cover ( 20 ), and their side walls, wherein the container ( 30 ) comprises an elastically yielding mass ( 35 ), wherein a sensor ( 31 , 32 ) or at least some of electrical or electronic device components serving for sensor operation are embedded in the elastically yielding mass ( 35 ), wherein the sensor ( 31 , 32 ) is capacitively effective in case of use and generates an electrical field, wherein the elastic casting mold mass ( 35 ) of the container ( 30 ) forms the dielectric for the electrical field, wherein the elastically yielding mass ( 35 ) of the container ( 30 ) has at least an elastical end piece ( 40 ), wherein the elastical end piece ( 40 ) is free from sensors ( 31 , 32 ) and device components of the container ( 30 ), wherein the container ( 30 ) has prior to assembly a total height ( 50 a) in the region of this end piece, which total height is larger than the height of the hollow chamber ( 21 ) receiving the container ( 30 ), whereby the container ( 30 ) exhibits an over-height relative to the hollow chamber ( 21 ), wherein a deformation ( 40 ′) of the end piece ( 40 ) occurs during assembly because of this over-height of the container ( 30 ), wherein the deformation ( 40 ′) presses at least one outwardly directed surface ( 36 ) of the container ( 30 ) against an inner face ( 29 ) of the grip casing ( 10 , 20 ) whereby a press on zone ( 47 ) is generated, wherein the electrical field extends through the press on zone ( 47 ), wherein the press on zone ( 47 ) renders the container ( 30 ) to be a sealing agent relative to the grip casing ( 10 , 20 ), and that a liquid penetrating into the hollow chamber ( 21 ) of the door outer grip does not pass into the press on zone ( 47 ) of the container end piece ( 40 ) and does not falsify the properties of the dielectric.