Patent ID: 6871887

Claim:
An outside door handle, comprising: a handle; and a switching component coupled to the handle and configured so that when there is an opening force that acts in a correct manner on the handle in order to open the handle, the switching component automatically responds and generates a switching signal, a response threshold of the switching component selected to be at such a low level that the switching component responds before the opening force overcomes a restoring force counteracting the opening force and prestressing the handle into an unactuated starting position; wherein the switching component includes one of a switch and button-switch which includes two elements mounted moveably one on another and are prestressed by a response force into the unactuated starting position, the switching component configured to generate the switching signal when there is a relative adjustment of the two elements counter to the response force, the two elements arranged so that, when the opening force acts in the correct manner on the handle, the elements are adjusted relative to each other counter to the response force.