US 12,146,352 B2
Interior door handle arrangement of a vehicle, and method for producing an interior door handle arrangement
Zsolt Wilke, Bad Mergentheim (DE); Elmar Fries, Buchenweg (DE); and Anna Lisa Contini, Würzburg (DE)
Assigned to ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC., Glenview, IL (US)
Filed by ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC., Glenview, IL (US)
Filed on Apr. 9, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/378,750.
Claims priority of application No. 102018108614.8 (DE), filed on Apr. 11, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2019/0316390 A1, Oct. 17, 2019
Int. Cl. B29C 45/00 (2006.01); B29C 45/02 (2006.01); E05B 85/12 (2014.01); E05B 85/16 (2014.01); B29K 505/00 (2006.01); B29L 31/46 (2006.01); B60R 11/00 (2006.01); B60R 11/02 (2006.01)
CPC E05B 85/12 (2013.01) [B29C 45/0001 (2013.01); B29C 45/02 (2013.01); E05B 85/16 (2013.01); B29K 2505/00 (2013.01); B29K 2995/0008 (2013.01); B29L 2031/463 (2013.01); B60R 2011/0021 (2013.01); B60R 2011/0045 (2013.01); B60R 11/0217 (2013.01); E05Y 2900/531 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An interior door handle arrangement of a vehicle, comprising: a housing and an actuating section which is movably arranged on the housing, wherein the actuating section has a carrier section made from a first plastic and a decoration section made from a second plastic which is connected to the carrier section in an integrally joined manner, wherein the actuating section is configured with the decoration section and the carrier section molded together as a monolithic unit;
wherein the actuating section includes a rear side configured for facing toward a door in an installed state and a front side that is viewable from an interior of the vehicle in the installed state, wherein the decoration section forms the front side, and at least portions of the rear side are formed by the carrier section;
wherein the second plastic forms at least one convex edge or at least one convex arcuate portion of an external surface of the actuating section so that the second plastic extends around an in continuous bonded contact with a corner portion of the carrier section to the rear side of the actuating section such that a borderline region between the first plastic and the second plastic at the convex edge or convex arcuate portion is visible from the rear side of the actuating section, wherein the corner portion is formed by intersecting regions of a front facing surface portion of the carrier section and a side facing surface portion of the carrier section.