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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2012
Tesla Motors, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
David Wheeler, San Carlos, CA (US);
Adam S. Kilgore, San Francisco, CA (US);
Scott P Cromwell, Mountain View, CA (US);
Daryl J. Zalan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Robert E. Mooney, Mountain View, CA (US);
Peter Dore Rawlinson, Worcestershire, GB;
Alan Paul Clarke, Redondo Beach, CA (US);
Tesla Motors, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A door handle assembly extends a door handle in parallel from an outer surface of a vehicle door and retracts the door handle until it is flush with the outer surface. The door handle assembly includes a door handle formed from a planar handle member and a handle base member. The planar handle member is coupled to the handle base member and a swing arm coupled to the backside of the handle base member extends and retracts the door handle. A first upper fork is rotably coupled to a backside of the handle base member near the distal portion of a first post portion and a second upper fork is rotably coupled to the backside of the handle base member near the distal portion of a second post portion. The lower dual fork portion of the swing arm pivots about a shaft mounted to an inner door surface.