Door handle for motor vehicles with damping element

US5092642A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Mercedes-Benz Group AG · DE

Inventors

• Martin Lindmayer · Sulz, DE
• Klaus Claar · Sindelfingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 21, 1990
• Grant date: Mar 3, 1992
• Expiry date: Sep 21, 2010

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T292/57
• WIPO field: Civil engineering
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

Motor vehicle door handle of the type having a spring biased actuating lever for activating the closing mechanism. To reduce impact noise, the actuating lever is assigned, during its return movement until its end position is reached, a damping element which exerts on the actuating lever a braking force reduced with decreasing speed of the actuating lever, thus allowing a uniform return of the actuating lever into its end position and consequently an effective minimization of the impact noise.