Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

Algis G Augunas

Alfonsas Arlauskas

A pull out type door handle assembly includes a mounting member attached to a vehicle door and a generally U-shaped handle pivoted thereto at a first leg with a second leg extending through an aperture in the mounting member and having the shoulder thereon engaged with the peripheral flange of the aperture to limit the inward rotation of the handle and define the inoperative position thereof. The second leg includes a lateral extension spaced from the inner side of the mounting member and engageable with one arm of a bell crank lever pivoted to the inside of the mounting member. The other arm of the lever is connected to a latch release lever. A spring rotatably biases the one arm of the bell crank lever into engagement with the lateral extension to maintain the handle in inoperative position. As the handle is rotated outwardly of the mounting member, the one bell crank lever arm engages the inner side of the mounting member to define the operative position of the handle and release the vehicle latch. The spring returns the bell crank lever and handle to inoperative position upon release of the handle.

Pull out door handle assembly

A ratchet wheel carried by a rotatably mounted seat belt reel is selectively engageable by a pawl to prevent belt winding reel rotation and thereby hold the belt extended at a set slackened length about the occupant. The pawl is mounted on the housing in a manner which permits radial movement between ratchet wheel engaging and disengaging positions and for tangential shifting movement between a first limit in the winding direction and a second limit in the unwinding direction. The mounting of the pawl is effective to block radial movement to the engaging position when the pawl is tangentially positioned at the second limit in the unwinding direction. A control disc is frictionally clutched to the reel and has an abutment for shifting the pawl to the first limit upon reel winding and to the second limit upon reel unwinding. The control disc functions to engage the pawl with the ratchet wheel upon initiation of reel unwinding subsequent to a prior reel winding having shifted the pawl to the first limit to unblock the pawl for movement to the engaged position, thereby holding the belt at a slackened length with respect to the occupant. The disc is further effective to move the pawl to the disengaged position upon further reel unwinding and then shift the pawl to the second limit upon engagement by the abutment to again block the pawl in the disengaged position and thereby permit belt winding reel rotation to pull the belt taut against the occupant.

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Warren, MI, United States of America

Algis G Augunas