US 12,326,031 B2
Actuating device with cover element, vehicle, and method
Igor Alexander Gorenzweig, Wuppertal (DE); Steffen Leib, Ratingen (DE); Sven Hild, Hagen (DE); Yevgen Dementyev, Wuppertal (DE); and Andreas Gornik, Gevelsberg (DE)
Assigned to Huf Hülsbeck & Fürst GmbH & Co. KG, Velbert (DE)
Appl. No. 17/794,531
Filed by Huf Hülsbeck & Fürst GmbH & Co. KG, Velbert (DE)
PCT Filed Feb. 1, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/052274
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 21, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/156186, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 12, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 102 887.3 (DE), filed on Feb. 5, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0144235 A1, May 11, 2023
Int. Cl. E05F 15/75 (2015.01); E05B 81/64 (2014.01); E05F 15/73 (2015.01)
CPC E05F 15/75 (2015.01) [E05B 81/64 (2013.01); E05F 2015/765 (2015.01); E05Y 2400/86 (2013.01); E05Y 2600/60 (2013.01); E05Y 2900/531 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An actuating device for triggering a function of a vehicle by a user, comprising
a planar cover element configured to cover a B-pillar of the vehicle, the cover element having a cover inner side and a cover outer side,
an electronics unit having a sensor unit for detecting an actuation action of the user for triggering the function of the vehicle, an electronics outer side and an electronics inner side which is opposite the electronics outer side, and
a first sleeve section for protecting the electronics inner side, the first sleeve section comprising a casting compound,
wherein the electronics unit is oriented with the electronics outer side towards the cover inner side and is arranged on the cover element in order to detect the actuation action on the cover outer side,
wherein the casting compound is arrested to the cover element by a material bond, so that the cover element and the casting compound form a closed sleeve for protecting the electronics unit.