Movable or removable closures – Handle or protector
Patent
1998-12-28
2000-04-25
Stodola, Daniel P.
Movable or removable closures
Handle or protector
49506, E05B 106
Patent
active
060529482
ABSTRACT:
A method of attaching a vehicle door handle to the a vehicle door, and a door handle assembly to facilitate such attachment. The door skin includes a plurality of individual, spaced apertures. The door handle assembly includes a handle member, a base plate pivotally mounting the handle member and defining a planar surface, a plurality of lugs on the base plate each sized to pass through a respective aperture and each defining a web portion extending outwardly from the planar surface, and a flange portion rigid with the web portion and a spring clip device on the base plate biased outwardly from the planar surface and including a latching free edge. With each lug positioned in alignment with a respective aperture the spring clip is offset with respect to its associated aperture so that the door assembly may be mounted on the skin by placing the door handle assembly on the skin with the planar surface of the base plate juxtaposed to an outer surface of the skin, the lugs passing through a respective apertures, and the spring clip biased against a portion of the skin outer surface adjacent its associated aperture and thereafter moving the door handle assembly relative to the skin to move the web portion of each lug into engagement with an edge portion of a respective aperture, move the flange portion of each web beneath an inner surface of the skin and snap the clip free edge into engagement with the latching edge of the associated aperture.
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Adac Plastics Inc.
Cohen Curtis A.
Stodola Daniel P.
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