Patent ID: 8025321

Claim:
An assembly comprised of a device arranged on a door or a hatch of a motor vehicle for actuating a lock installed in the door or the hatch, the device comprising a manually actuatable handle ( 20 ) on an exterior ( 34 ) of the door, the handle having a bearing extension ( 21 ) with bearing points ( 23 ) at one end thereof; a bracket ( 10 ) mounted in the interior ( 33 ) of the door, the bracket being provided with mating bearing points ( 13 ) for the bearing points ( 23 ) of the handle ( 20 ); a two-part electrical control unit ( 41 , 42 ), having one control unit and an other control unit, for the lock, the one control unit ( 42 ) being integrated into the handle ( 20 ) and connected to the other control unit ( 41 ) located in the vehicle by means of electrical wiring ( 61 , 62 ); a two-part electrical coupling ( 50 ) located between two sections ( 61 , 62 ) of the electrical wiring, the coupling consisting of a coupling part ( 52 ) connected to the control unit ( 42 ) on a handle side and a mating coupling part ( 51 ) assigned to the other control unit ( 41 ) on a vehicle side; wherein the bearing extension ( 21 ) of the handle ( 20 ) is insertable from the exterior ( 34 ) of the door through an opening ( 31 ) in an exterior panel ( 30 ) of the door and the bearing points ( 23 ) mounted ( 25 , 26 ) in mating bearing points ( 31 ) of the bracket ( 10 ); as a result of which the bearing points ( 23 ) and the mating bearing points ( 13 ) define a pivot axis ( 40 ) in the bracket ( 10 ) for actuation ( 27 ) of the handle ( 20 ), wherein, prior to coupling ( 15 ), the coupling part ( 52 ) is immovably fixed in a receptacle ( 28 ) of the bearing extension ( 21 ) of the handle ( 20 ), and the mating coupling part ( 51 ) together with the section ( 61 ) of wiring freely hangs out of an opening ( 31 ) in an exterior surface of the exterior panel ( 30 ) of the door wherein, prior to the mounting of the handle ( 20 ),the mating coupling part ( 51 ) is configured to be manually connectable into the coupling part ( 52 ) from the exterior ( 34 ) of the exterior panel ( 30 ) and outside the door, and, still prior to mounting the handle, the electrically connected coupling part ( 52 ) and the mating coupling part ( 51 ) form a solid structural unit ( 60 ) with the handle ( 20 ) as well as a continuous electrical wiring of the two sections ( 61 , 62 ); and wherein the entire structural unit ( 60 ) is movable through the opening ( 31 ) from the exterior ( 34 ) to the interior ( 33 ) of the door so as to mount ( 25 , 26 ) the handle ( 20 of the structural unit ( 60 ) in the bracket ( 10 ).