Door handle apparatus for vehicles

摘要

A door handle assembly extends a door handle in parallel from an outer surface of a vehicle door and retracts the door handle until it is flush with the outer surface. The door handle assembly includes a door handle formed from a planar handle member and a handle base member. The planar handle member is coupled to the handle base member and a swing arm coupled to the backside of the handle base member extends and retracts the door handle. A first upper fork is rotably coupled to a backside of the handle base member near the distal portion of a first post portion and a second upper fork is rotably coupled to the backside of the handle base member near the distal portion of a second post portion. The lower dual fork portion of the swing arm pivots about a shaft mounted to an inner door surface.

主权项

1. A door handle assembly used in a vehicle door, comprising:
a door handle formed from a planar handle member having a first post portion and a second post portion fixedly coupled to a handle base member at a distal portion of the first post portion and a distal portion of the second post portion; a motor; and a swing arm having a upper dual fork portion and a lower dual fork portion with a first upper fork from the upper dual fork portion rotatably coupled to a backside of the handle base member near the distal portion of the first post portion and a second upper fork from the upper dual fork portion rotatably coupled to the backside of the handle base member near the distal portion of the second post portion, the lower dual fork portion rotatably attached to a shaft mounted to an inner door surface of the vehicle door, wherein extending the swing arm positions the door handle in an extended position from an outer door surface of the vehicle door and retracting the swing arm urges the planar handle member in the extended position to pass through a handle aperture of the vehicle door until the planar handle member is flush to the outer door surface of the vehicle door, wherein at least one of extending and retracting the swing arm is performed using the motor.