Abstract: A door handle unit which comprises a unit body secured to a door, a lever type handle pivoted to the body by means of a main shaft mounted between upper and lower side walls of the body, a latch case fitted into the body from its rear side, a latch housed in the latch case so as to protrude and retreat from a left side wall of the body, a spring for urging the latch to slide leftward, a strike shaft mounted between the upper and lower side walls of the body, and two hook portions formed to project from the front portions of the latch case and opened rightward, in which those two right and left hook portions are engaged with the main shaft and the strike shaft respectively, and an actuating projection formed at the left end portion of the handle is brought into pressure-contact with the left side face of a receiving portion formed at the right end of the latch, thereby to urge the latch case to move rightward with respect to the body by virtue of the spring.