US 11,859,419 B2
Handle system for a vehicle and control method thereof
Bin Chen, Shanghai (CN); and Wenquan Sha, Shanghai (CN)
Assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc., Glenview, IL (US)
Filed by Illinois Tool Works Inc., Glenview, IL (US)
Filed on Sep. 18, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/575,024.
Claims priority of application No. 201811094976.4 (CN), filed on Sep. 19, 2018; and application No. 201910848844.4 (CN), filed on Sep. 9, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0087955 A1, Mar. 19, 2020
Int. Cl. E05B 85/10 (2014.01); E05B 81/76 (2014.01)
CPC E05B 85/107 (2013.01) [E05B 81/76 (2013.01); E05B 85/103 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A handle system for a vehicle, comprising:
a handle body with an outer-side surface and an inner-side surface that is configured to be oriented into a deployed position and a retracted position;
a handle driving device configured to move the handle body from the deployed position to the retracted position and from the retracted position to the deployed position, and
a touch sensing device having a controller, connected to the handle body, configured to produce a first control signal or a second control signal, and being capable of generating a first sensing signal in response to a touch on the outer-side surface, and a second sensing signal in response to a touch on the inner-side surface,
wherein when the handle body is in the retracted position and the first sensing signal is generated, the controller produces the first control signal and the handle driving device moves the handle body from the retracted position to the deployed position, and
when the first sensing signal and the second sensing signal are both generated and then cease, the controller produces the second control signal and the handle driving device moves the handle body to the retracted position.