Patent ID: 8243137

Claim:
A device for opening a lock, which acts between a moving vehicle body part and a stationary part of the body, said device simultaneously obtaining images of an area outside the vehicle, the device comprising: a camera, with a support shell, which camera is located in an opening of exterior cladding of the body of the vehicle; a handle rotatably supported in the support shell on a hinge, wherein the handle is moveable between a closed position, in which the handle closes a shell opening of the support shell and leaves the lock unactuated, and an open position, in which the handle is manually swung on the hinge out of the support shell and/or into the support shell to actuate the lock, the camera being mounted on a rear wall of the support shell, wherein the rear wall of the support shell has a hole; a module housing mounted behind the hole in the rear wall; a mount for the camera rotatably supported and translationally guided in the module housing in order to swivel the camera between a retracted position and an extended position; and a drive unit and a gear unit mounted on the module housing to provide rotational-translational movement of the camera mount.