Patent ID: 8459706

Claim:
A door handle apparatus for a vehicle, comprising: a frame adapted to be fixed at a door panel of a vehicle door; a handle adapted so as to be supported by the frame while being freely rotatable relative to the frame, to serve as a holding portion when the vehicle door is operated to open, and so as to transmit an operation force for canceling a retention of the vehicle door to a door lock mechanism, which retains the vehicle door at a fully-closed state, in response to a rotational operation of the handle; a rotational movement connecting portion integrally formed at the handle and having a center line extending along a rotational axis of the handle; a contact wall portion integrally formed at the frame and restricting a displacement of the handle towards one end portion thereof in a longitudinal direction thereof in a manner where the contact wall portion contacts the rotational movement connecting portion in response to a slide movement of the handle towards the one end portion thereof in the longitudinal direction; and a protruding portion integrally formed at the frame, being elastically deformable when the protruding portion press-contacts the rotational movement connecting portion in response to the slide movement of the handle towards the one end portion thereof in the longitudinal direction so as to allow the handle to be slidably displaced towards the one end portion thereof in the longitudinal direction, elastically returning to an initial position so as to restrict the slide displacement of the handle towards the other end portion thereof in the longitudinal direction when a press-contact against the rotational movement connecting portion is cancelled while the rotational movement connecting portion is positioned at a movement restriction position for restricting the displacement of the handle towards the one end portion thereof in the longitudinal direction by means of the contact wall portion, and supporting the rotational movement connecting portion in conjunction with the contact wall portion while allowing the rotational movement connecting portion to be freely rotatable relative to the contact wall portion and the protruding portion; and an operation input portion integrally formed at the frame and transmitting the operation force for canceling a slide movement restriction of the handle towards the other end portion thereof in the longitudinal direction to the protruding portion in response to a press operation inputted to the operation input portion.