Patent ID: 7019233

Claim:
Closing device for doors, hoods, or hatches, especially of motor vehicles, with a grip flap ( 12 ), pivotably supported ( 11 ) in a grip housing ( 10 ), which flap is held by a restoring force ( 38 ) in a rest position ( 12 . 1 ) in the housing ( 10 ) and is manually actuated ( 37 ) to move it into its working position ( 12 . 2 ), and with an electric switch ( 20 ), which has a contact actuator and a switch spring ( 27 ), the contact actuator ( 24 ) is held by the spring-loading ( 28 ) of the switch spring in a starting position ( 24 . 1 ), in which the switch ( 20 ) is in a first contact position; and upon actuation ( 37 ) of the flap ( 12 ), the contact actuator ( 24 ) is moved against the spring-loading ( 28 ) of its switch spring ( 27 ) into an actuating position ( 24 . 2 ), in which the switch ( 20 ) is in its second contact position, wherein the restoring force ( 38 ) for the grip flap ( 12 ) is produced by the switch spring ( 27 ) of the electric switch; in that a stop ( 43 ), which limits the actuating travel ( 37 ) of the grip flap ( 12 ) in the direction toward its working position ( 12 . 2 ), is provided on the grip housing ( 10 ); in that an elastic element ( 48 ) is provided between the contact actuator ( 24 ) and the grip flap ( 12 ); and in that when the actuated grip flap ( 12 ) is in contact with the stop ( 30 ), the elastic element ( 48 ) is elastically deformed to such an extent, and thus the actuating force ( 45 ) of the grip flap ( 12 ) arriving at the electric switch ( 20 ) is reduced to such an extent, that the maximum force allowed for actuating the switch ( 12 ) is not exceeded.