DEVICE WITH A HANDLE SHELL AND WITH AN ILLUMINATION MEANS FOR THE HANDLE SHELL, AND A METHOD FOR MOUNTING THE DEVICE

摘要

The invention relates to a device (1) assigned to an interior door moulding (2) of a motor vehicle, comprising a handle shell (3) fixed on an interior door moulding (2), and an illuminating means (5), and also a mounting method therefor. The illuminating means (5) here comprises, in addition to the light source (4), an optical waveguide (6) with a directed light outlet surface (7) for the light. The light coupled into the optical waveguide (6), before being decoupled, impinges against a reflection element (8) which is arranged on the end side at an inclination in relation to the cross-sectional plane of the optical waveguide (6) and serves at the same time for shaping the emerging light beam. In particular, an undesirable scattering of the light in the region of the free distance (9) between the light outlet surface (7) and the handle shell (3) is thereby substantially reduced. The concave handle shell (3) which is intended for receiving a pivotable actuating element (10) has, for the coupling-in of light, a transmissive region (11), the light outlet surface (13) of which is designed as a diffusion lens. According to the invention, a separation of functions is achieved, making it possible, for the first time, to mount the illumination means (5) and the handle shell (3) as separate functional units and independently of each other.