Patent ID: 8366159

Claim:
An inertia blocking mechanism operably connected to a door handle on a vehicle, comprising: a handle chassis; a counterweight operably connected to the handle chassis and pivotally rotatable about a first pivot axis between a non-actuated position and an actuated position; stanchions extending from the handle chassis; a spring-biased primary inertia lever operably connected with the stanchions and pivotally rotatable about a second pivot axis between an interference position and a non-interference position, the spring-biased primary inertia lever being biased to the non-interference position out of rotational alignment with the counterweight; and an auxiliary inertia lever adjacent to the primary inertia lever and operably connected with the stanchions, wherein the auxiliary inertia lever is pivotally rotatable about the second pivot axis while the primary inertia lever maintains the interference position, and is adapted to move the primary inertia lever into the second position in rotational alignment with the counterweight, which prevents the counterweight from rotating downward into the actuated position, thereby preventing actuation of the exterior door handle.