US 12,116,809 B2
Vehicular door handle device
Masayuki Kawano, Kariya (JP); Kazuyoshi Mori, Kariya (JP); and Akiyoshi Sawada, Kariya (JP)
Assigned to AISIN CORPORATION, Kariya (JP)
Filed by AISIN CORPORATION, Kariya (JP)
Filed on Jan. 26, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/584,834.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-020660 (JP), filed on Feb. 12, 2021; and application No. 2021-178614 (JP), filed on Nov. 1, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0259897 A1, Aug. 18, 2022
Int. Cl. E05B 77/34 (2014.01); E05B 81/76 (2014.01)
CPC E05B 77/34 (2013.01) [E05B 81/77 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicular door handle device comprising:
a housing that is assembled to a side surface of a door panel of a door of a vehicle outside a compartment, is gripped from an outside of the compartment when the door is opened, is hollow, and is provided with an opening;
a switch device that is fixed inside the housing, and includes a movable contact portion being disposed in such a way as to face the opening of the housing;
an operation member that fits in the opening, a first end of the operation member including a hinge portion that is supported on the housing in such a way to configure the operation member to be movable in a first direction from an inside to an outside of the housing and in a second direction being an opposite direction to the first direction, a second end of the operation member being movable relative to the housing based on the support of the hinge portion by the housing; and
a protector that includes a main body portion covering the switch device, and a first seal portion being inserted into a gap between an inner circumferential portion of the opening and an outer circumferential portion of the operation member and filling the gap, and presses the movable contact portion of the switch device by being pressed by the operation member,
wherein the hinge portion is sandwiched between a bottom wall of the housing and the protector, the hinge portion abutting the bottom wall and being bent when the operation member is moved to press the protector.