US 12,331,567 B2
Vehicular flush door handle assembly with variable speed actuator
Justin E. Sobecki, Rockford, MI (US); and Connor G. Cervone, Byron Center, MI (US)
Assigned to Magna Mirrors of America, Inc., Holland, MI (US)
Filed by Magna Mirrors of America, Inc., Holland, MI (US)
Filed on Jul. 26, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/359,114.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/369,781, filed on Jul. 29, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0035318 A1, Feb. 1, 2024
Int. Cl. E05B 85/10 (2014.01); E05B 85/16 (2014.01)
CPC E05B 85/107 (2013.01) [E05B 85/16 (2013.01)] 35 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicular exterior door handle assembly, the vehicular exterior door handle assembly comprising:
a base portion configured to mount at a door of a vehicle equipped with the vehicular exterior door handle assembly;
a handle portion including a grasping portion;
wherein the base portion has (i) a longitudinal axis that extends along a length dimension of the base portion and (ii) a lateral axis that, with the base portion mounted at the door of the vehicle, extends laterally across the vehicle;
wherein the handle portion is movable along the lateral axis relative to the base portion between (i) a recessed position, where the grasping portion of the handle portion is recessed at the base portion and not graspable by a user, and (ii) a deployed position, where the grasping portion of the handle portion protrudes outward from the base portion and is graspable by the user;
an actuator, wherein the actuator comprises an electrically operable motor;
wherein the actuator is operable to move the handle portion between the recessed position and the deployed position;
wherein the actuator, when the electrically operable motor is electrically operated, imparts translational movement of a sliding element along the longitudinal axis relative to the base portion; and
wherein, as the sliding element moves along the longitudinal axis relative to the base portion, the sliding element imparts movement of the handle portion along the lateral axis between the recessed position and the deployed position according to movement of the sliding element along the longitudinal axis.