Illinois Tool Works Inc.

Matthias Seubert

Zsolt Wilke

Roland Och

Andreas Rudolf

Joachim Oberst

Johannes Karlein

Brian Svec

Wilke Zsolt

A door handle arrangement for a vehicle includes a housing which is fastenable to a body part of a vehicle body, and a handle lever which is mounted in a handle cutout of the housing so as to be movable between an inoperative position and an actuating position in order to unlock and/or open a vehicle door. The handle lever is mounted with play in the housing. At least one compensating element is provided which is designed to be fastened to at least one fastening portion of the body part. The compensating element forms at least one contact portion for the handle lever. The handle lever is pretensioned into its inoperative position against the at least one contact portion.

Door handle arrangement for a vehicle

Door handle assembly for a vehicle has a handle () mounted on a handle support () and one or more rest positions and at least one release position. The assembly has at least three different positions, &#x2014;a flush or retracted position, in which the handle () is flush or retracted with respect to an outer door surface, &#x2014;a deployed position, in which the handle () protrudes or protrudes to a greater extent than in the retracted position, &#x2014;and the at least one release position. The handle () is connected to the handle support () via two links () and rotational joints wherein one joint () also has a translational degree of freedom wherein a movement of the joint () along the translational degree of freedom is configured to mechanically actuate the door lock () or door lock () function.

Door handle for vehicle

A tolerance compensation fastening apparatus () for fastening a first vehicle component () to a second vehicle component () by way of a bolt (), the fastening apparatus being set up to compensate for a tolerance within a tolerance compensation range. A fastening system including such a fastening apparatus, as well as to a method for fastening a first vehicle component to a second vehicle component by way of a bolt.

Tolerance compensation fastening apparatuses with extended tolerance compensation and simpler and quicker fastening

An actuating device, for a motor vehicle door lock, having a handle part grippable by one hand and being movable by a mechanism from a rest position into a standby position, and being movable manually into an actuating position starting from the standby position, the actuating device configured to actuate the door lock if the handle part reaches the actuating position, the actuating device having a device for reducing a transverse play of the handle parts such that the transverse play in the standby position is reduced with respect to the transverse play in a position between the rest position and the standby position, the device for reducing the transverse play configured to completely or partially cancel again the reduction of the transverse play in the standby position if the handle part is moved from the standby position into the actuating position.

Actuating device for a motor vehicle door with means for reducing the transverse play of a flush door handle having expanded use possibilities

A switch actuating device () for a vehicle door includes an actuating element () with an actuating surface (), a mechanical switch () and a mechanism (). The switch is secured on a first component/component group (). A lever () is mounted for pivot in relation to the first component/component group (). A first region () of the lever is connected to a first part of the actuating element () via a first articulation (). A second part of the actuating element () is mounted on the first component/component group () via a second articulation (). The actuating element () bends when the actuating surface () is subjected to manual pressure causing the distance between the first articulation () and the second articulation () to shorten, which causes the lever () to pivot toward the switch such that the switch is switched.

Simplified vehicle door switch device with a large actuating surface

A side door of a motor vehicle has a door lock actuator for a door lock, and a pivoting lever pivotable about a rotational axis of a joint. The pivoting lever has a coupling section coupled to a mechanical actuating member of the door lock in the installed state. An interior door pull handle has one or more fastening regions and at least one handle region having an axial extent. The pivoting lever is integrated into the handle region of the interior door pull handle. The rotational axis is oriented substantially transversely with respect to the axial extent.

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Giebelstadt, Germany

Matthias Seubert