Vehicular flush door handle assembly with variable speed actuator

    公开(公告)号:US12258797B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-03-25

    申请号:US17660421

    申请日:2022-04-25

    Abstract: A vehicular exterior door handle assembly includes a base portion disposed at a handle region of a vehicle door, a handle, and an actuator. The actuator includes an electrically-operable motor, an output element mechanically coupled to the handle, and a variable drive element coupled to the output element. When the motor is operated, the actuator causes the drive element to move the output element and move the handle from a recessed position to a deployed position. When moving the handle from the recessed position, the drive element moves the output element at a first speed to move the handle. When the motor is operated to further move the handle, the drive element moves the output element at a second speed to more rapidly move the handle from a partially deployed position toward a deployed position.

    VEHICULAR DRIVER MONITORING SYSTEM
    72.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20250050809A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-13

    申请号:US18928336

    申请日:2024-10-28

    Abstract: A vehicular driver monitoring system includes an interior rearview mirror assembly that includes a mirror head accommodating a mirror reflective element. A megapixel camera is accommodated by the mirror head and includes a backside Illumination (BSI) imaging sensor having an at least 2.3 megapixel imaging array of photosensors. The BSI imaging sensor has a quantum efficiency of at least 22% for near-infrared light having a wavelength of 940 nm. A near-infrared illumination source is accommodated by the mirror head. The mirror reflective element and the megapixel camera and the near-infrared illumination source move in tandem with the mirror head when the mirror head is adjusted by a driver of a vehicle. The megapixel camera views at least the eyes of the driver of the vehicle. The near-infrared illumination source, when powered to emit near-infrared light, illuminates at least the eyes of the driver of the vehicle.

    VEHICULAR EXTERIOR MIRROR WITH POWERFOLD ACTUATOR

    公开(公告)号:US20240239266A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-18

    申请号:US18408889

    申请日:2024-01-10

    CPC classification number: B60R1/074 B60R1/1207

    Abstract: A vehicular exterior rearview mirror assembly includes a mirror head movable relative to a mounting base between an extended position and a folded position. An actuator is electrically operable to move the mirror head between the folded and extended positions. A pivot tube extends from the mounting base and through a base portion of the actuator. The pivot tube includes a tapered portion at least partially received at a channel of the mounting base. An inner surface of the channel includes a shape that corresponds to a shape of an outer surface of the tapered portion. A biasing element disposed between a housing of the actuator and an upper end of the pivot tube biases the tapered portion toward engagement with the inner surface of the mounting base along the channel.

    VEHICULAR EXTERIOR DOOR HANDLE ASSEMBLY
    77.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240125154A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-18

    申请号:US18389911

    申请日:2023-12-20

    CPC classification number: E05B81/77 B60Q3/267 B60R25/2045 E05B85/18

    Abstract: A vehicular exterior door handle assembly includes a base portion configured to mount at an exterior door handle region of a vehicular door, a handle portion, and a sensing device operable to sense presence of a person's fingers in a pocket region behind the lower portion of the handle. The handle portion is pivotable between a non-deployed orientation, where an outer surface of the handle portion is coplanar with an outer surface of the vehicular door at the exterior door handle region, and a deployed orientation, where the handle portion is pivoted inward into a door handle pocket within the vehicular door. With the handle in the deployed orientation and when a person's fingers are in the pocket region, the sensing device senses presence of the person's fingers at the pocket region and triggers an actuator of the vehicular exterior door handle assembly to unlatch the vehicular door.

    VEHICULAR CLOSURE OPENING DEVICE WITH PUSH TO ACTUATE FUNCTION

    公开(公告)号:US20240076915A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-07

    申请号:US18457480

    申请日:2023-08-29

    CPC classification number: E05B85/107 E05B81/04 E05B85/16 E05Y2900/531

    Abstract: A vehicular exterior door handle assembly includes a base, a handle, and a deployment mechanism operable to move the handle between a recessed position and a deployed position. The deployment mechanism includes a return cam biased in a first direction relative to the base. The deployment mechanism, with the handle in the recessed position, secures the return cam relative to the base. The handle is manually movable beyond the recessed position away from the deployed position to actuate the deployment mechanism. The deployment mechanism, responsive to being actuated, releases the return cam and the return cam moves in the first direction to move the handle toward the deployed position. The handle is manually movable beyond the deployed position away from the recessed position to actuate a latch of the door. The deployment mechanism, responsive to the handle actuating the latch, moves the handle toward the recessed position.

    FLUSH DOOR HANDLE FOR VEHICLE
    80.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230340813A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-26

    申请号:US18336078

    申请日:2023-06-16

    CPC classification number: E05B85/107 E05B85/103 E05Y2900/546 E05Y2900/531

    Abstract: A vehicular exterior door handle assembly includes a base portion and a handle portion having a base end and a swing end opposite the base end. The handle portion is movable relative to the base portion between a retracted position and a deployed position. An actuator includes a motor that is electrically operable in a deploying direction to move the handle portion toward the deployed position and is electrically operable in a retracting direction opposite the deploying direction. The motor operates in the deploying direction and imparts pivotal movement of a connecting link to move the handle portion toward the deployed position. With the handle portion at the deployed position, electrical operation of the motor of the actuator in the retracting direction imparts retracting movement of a reset element that engages a bellcrank and/or the connecting link to retract the handle portion toward the retracted position.

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