US 12,352,081 B2
Exterior door handle system for a passenger car, and passenger car equipped therewith
Steve Breuninger, Gauting (DE); and Michael Gegenbauer, Munich (DE)
Assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 18/035,166
Filed by Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Jan. 13, 2022, PCT No. PCT/EP2022/050595
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 3, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/161774, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 4, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2021 101 741.6 (DE), filed on Jan. 27, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0407686 A1, Dec. 21, 2023
Int. Cl. E05B 85/06 (2014.01); E05B 17/04 (2006.01); E05B 53/00 (2006.01); E05B 79/20 (2014.01); E05B 85/10 (2014.01)
CPC E05B 85/06 (2013.01) [E05B 17/042 (2013.01); E05B 53/005 (2013.01); E05B 79/20 (2013.01); E05B 85/10 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An outside-door-handle system which is configured to be attached to a door of a passenger motor vehicle, comprising:
a holder which is configured to be fastened to the door;
a lock cylinder which is operatively connected to the holder;
a Bowden cable which has a core and which is operatively connected at one end thereof to the lock cylinder and at the other end thereof to a door lock situated in the door,
wherein, at a portion that is adjacent to the lock cylinder, the core of the Bowden cable is operatively connected to a toothed rack which is operatively connected to the lock cylinder.