Door configurations having integrated mechanisms for opening and releasing for closure, with elements of these mechanisms located on or largely on the body of the door itself. In some embodiments of the disclosure, a door has a handle and two release mechanisms coupled thereto, one of which releases a lock and allows the door to open, and the other of which releases a catch and allows the door to close. The two release mechanisms are coupled to the handle such that manipulating the handle in one direction actuates one of the release mechanisms but not the other, and manipulating the handle in the other direction actuates the other release mechanism. In this manner, manipulating the handle in one direction opens the door, and manipulating the handle in the other direction closes the door.

A door handle assembly for a vehicle may include a door handle, a handle housing configured to provide an accommodation space for the door handle, a drive lever rotatably coupled to the handle housing and rotatably coupled to the door handle, and an actuator configured to transmit a driving force to the drive lever to deploy the door handle from the handle housing. In particular, the door handle is deployed from the handle housing as the drive lever is rotated with respect to the handle housing by the driving force of the actuator, and the door handle is rotated with respect to the drive lever.

The opening control includes a handle pivotally mounted on a support prone to adopt a pushed position, an intermediate rest position and an ejected position as well as electrical and mechanical means for driving in movement the handle and coupled with the handle of the vehicle such that the application of a predefined force on the handle causes the mechanical or electrical activation. It includes a hard point crossing means configured to define a pattern of evolution of a value of a force applied on the handle as a function of a push-in stroke of the handle between its rest position and the pushed position, including a crossing of a hard point separating first and second portions of the stroke.

An opening control device including a case, a handle movably mounted between at least a flush position in which the handle is entirely or partially housed within the case and an ejected position in which the handle is at least partially emerged from the case. The opening control device includes a mechanism configured to be mechanically triggered in response to a push-in action into the case of the handle, the completion of the push-in action being adapted to cause the triggering of the mechanism. Furthermore, the mechanism is configured to automatically drive in movement the handle over all or part of a stroke starting from a pushed position of the handle to the flush position through the ejected position.

An exterior door handle assembly for a vehicle door includes a base portion disposed at a door handle region and a handle portion including a base end, a swing end, and a grasping portion disposed between the base end and the swing end. A connector has a first end pivotally connected to the base end of the handle portion and a second end movably coupled with the swing end of the handle portion. The first and second ends of the connector are pivotally attached at respective connecting links that are pivotally attached at the base portion. An actuator operates to engage a portion of a first connecting link to impart pivotal movement of the first connecting link to move the handle portion between a recessed position and a deployed position. When the handle portion is deployed, the handle portion is manually movable to actuate or release a door latch.

A vehicle door may have a handle arrangement, where the door may also have a door support structure. The door may also have a shaft strip which is arranged on the upper side of the door support structure. The handle arrangement may be arranged movably, in particular pivotably, at the shaft strip. The handle arrangement may have a handle element which can be gripped on an exterior of the vehicle door. The handle element may be designed as a device which can be actuated in at least one direction for actively actuating at least two switching functions.

A vehicle having a door operation assembly having an internal door handle assembly, an outside door handle assembly, and an arrester component. The arrester component includes a housing, a barrier, and an activator/deactivator. When the vehicle door is in a locked state and the outside door handle is in a flush position, the activator/deactivator causes the barrier to engage with an outside door handle of the door handle assembly to arrest the movement of the door handle from the flush position to a deployed position. When the vehicle door is in the locked state and the door handle is in the deployed position, the activator/deactivator causes the barrier to disengage from the door handle to allow the movement of the outside door handle from the deployed position to the flush position.

In a door handle device for a vehicle, an elastic stopper includes: a stopper main body having a receiving surface that can be brought into contact with and separated from one of case and handle members, and being attached to the other member; and a lip part formed integrally with the stopper main body. The stopper main body is formed into a shape capable of alleviating impact by bringing the receiving surface into contact with the one member when the handle member swinging in a closing direction reaches a closed position. The lip part is formed to protrude further toward the one member side than the receiving surface in a free state of the lip part, and can exert a resilient force in a direction where the receiving surface and the one member are separated from each other when the handle member starts open-swing thereof from the closed position.

A vehicle side part structure includes: a side door having a window frame; an outside door handle which is arranged above a lower end rim of the window frame and which is manipulated when the side door is being opened and closed from outside the vehicle; a release switch provided on a press surface of the outside door handle, which is a surface pressed by a user with a finger during an operation of opening the side door, the release switch outputting a release signal upon being manipulated; and a latch actuator which releases latching of the side door by a latch mechanism when the release signal is output.

Actuating handle (100) for a motor vehicle for opening and/or closing a door or a flap, comprising a grip element (101) which is designed for movement between an actuating position, in which the grip element (101) is arranged that can be actuated for manually opening a door or a flap (103), and a locking position, in which the grip element (101) is accommodated in a recess (105), wherein the grip element (101) comprises surrounding grip element delimiting sections (107) and the recess (105) has recess delimiting sections (109), wherein the actuating handle (100) is designed such that in the locking position of the grip element (101) each of the grip element delimiting sections (107) is arranged opposite a corresponding recess delimiting section (109), and wherein lighting means (201) are arranged at least in some regions on the grip element delimiting sections (107).