HANDLE WITH LIGHTING

• US 20150251590A1
• Filed: 03/09/2015
• Published: 09/10/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/10/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Oechsler AG
• Original Assignee: Oechsler AG
• Inventors: SCHMIDT, Winfried, WEISSKOPF, Matthias, MEIERLE, Robert
• Application Number:
  US14/642,046
• Publication Number:
  US 20150251590A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 1/2669 on door or boot handles lighting devices for vehicle interior on door handles B60Q3/267
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 3/267 Door handles; Hand grips

Abstract

A handle with haptically high-quality surfaces has decorative and functional symbols above, in or beneath a disc, with a corona-like emission being brought about by the end region of a light-conducting hollow cylinder along the peripheral region of said disc, continuously or intermittently circumferentially, which hollow cylinder is fed from a lighting distribution board parallel to the disc. At the same time, the hollow cylinder radiates centripetally into the peripheral region in so far as it comprises light-conducting material. Apertures representing symbols in the disc can contain fibre optic conductors, which are likewise connected to the lighting distribution board.

Claims

1. Handle comprising:

a lighting distribution board;

a disc bearing symbols; and

an approximately axially parallel light-conducting structure which extends between the lighting distribution board and a peripheral region of the disc bearing symbols, said light-conducting structure having a discontinuous or circumferential wall in the manner of a segmented or solid-wall hollow cylinder, which irradiates or transluminates at least the peripheral region.

2. Handle according to claim 1, comprising a multi-ply functional layer positioned behind the disc and having compensating and adhesive layers and at least one film bearing symbols.

3. Handle according to claim 1, wherein a light-scattering structure, in the form of a scattering film, is arranged in front of the symbols or between incoming light radiation and the lighting distribution board, on the visible side.

4. Handle according to claim 1, wherein the hollow cylinder is arranged in light-conducting fashion on the lighting distribution board in the peripheral region thereof.

5. Handle according to claim 4, wherein the lighting distribution board and the wall of the hollow cylinder are divided into individually irradiatable or emitting sectors.

6. Handle according to claim 1, wherein a preassembled unit comprising the disc with the multi-ply functional layer positioned behind said disc, hollow cylinder and lighting distribution board is inserted into a frame on the side remote from the visible side.

7. Handle according to claim 1, wherein a bent-back portion which protrudes centripetally from the hollow cylinder protrudes beyond the peripheral region of the disc.

8. Handle according to claim 1, wherein the hollow cylinder, passing through between the frame and the disc, protrudes beyond said frame and disc axially.

9. Handle according to claim 8, wherein an end support which is circumferential in the form of a ring is arranged on the rim of the disc beneath a centripetal tapering of the hollow cylinder.

10. Handle according to claim 1, wherein a disc consisting of injection-moulded clear ceramic or glass ceramic or consisting of plastic with a laminated-on film, is arranged within a frame consisting of injection-moulded ceramic, and in that symbols connected to the lighting distribution board are arranged in apertures in the disc.