Nissan Motor Company Limited

Toru Aizawa

Yoshimitsu Takeda

An outer door handle structure is operated as a directly operating system wherein an engaging piece of an unlocking lever for unlocking a door is directly depressed by the tip portion of an operating lever mounted on an outer door handle via an arm portion, so that any transmission mechanisms such as a rod can be omitted unlike conventional indirect operating systems. The arm portion has an inclined portion on which the engaging piece of the unlocking lever can slide up when a load is applied to the outer door handle from the outside. The outer door handle may have a pair of arm portions spaced at an interval in a horizontal direction. One of the arm portions has a preset quantity of rotational stroke necessary to unlock the door, and the other arm portion has a greater quantity of rotational stroke than that of the one arm portion by forming a recessed portion in the other arm portion or the like.

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Tokyo, Japan

Toru Aizawa