CA2619843A1 - Automotive floor mat and automotive floor mat fastener - Google Patents

Abstract

To provide a quite novel automotive vehicle floor mat and an automotive vehicle floor mat retainer unit, in which retainer pins and retainer holes are provided at two positions to make it possible to positively perform the positioning upon laying the mat, and in addition, the positions and the arrangement interval of these retainer pins and the retainer holes are suitably selected to thereby dispense with using a structure for adjusting the interval between the retainer pins, also to cope with change of the hole positions due to the aging change, to make it possible to use the mat for a long period of time without a fear that the retainer pins could not be fitted into the retainer holes, to narrow the interval not too much to thereby make it possible to perform the positive positioning upon laying the mat, i.e., to make it possible to lay and set the mat even if the mat is used for a long period of time due to the rattling displacement of the retainer pins and the retainer holes, to make it possible to cause the positional displacement upon laying and setting the mat to fall within a range where no substantially problem is raised in both in the back-and-forth direction and the right and left rotational direction, and furthermore to keep not only the right foot but also the left foot of the driver to hardly come into contact with the retainer pins to thereby bring about almost no fear that the shoe is damaged. This is attained by an automotive vehicle floor mat M to be laid on a foot space of a driver's seat, characterized in that retainer holes 2 to be retained at retainer pins 1 implanted on a vehicle floor side, respectively, are provided at two positions at a predetermined interval in the vicinity of a rear edge portion of the mat M, a first retainer hole 2A of the two position retainer holes 2 is provided on a right rear side of the mat M and in the vicinity of a rear extension portion of an accelerator pedal 3, a second retainer hole 2B is provided on a rear extension portion of a brake pedal 4 and rather on a center side of the mat M than the first retainer hole 2A, a retainer member 5 having a rigidity and made of metal or non-metal is provided on an inner edge of each retainer hole 2, and a thickness of the retainer member 5 is set to be smaller than a height of the retainer pins 1.

Claims (12)

1. An automotive vehicle floor mat retainer unit for an automotive floor mat adapted to be located on the floor in front of a driver's seat and beneath an accelerator pedal and a brake pedal, said floor mat having a front and a rear edge wherein said edges are defined when said floor mat is on the floor space as said front edge being closest to the accelerator pedal and the brake pedal, and said rear edge being the edge farthest from the accelerator pedal and the brake pedal, said floor mat retainer unit characterized in that first and second retainer pins are implanted in a substrate under the floor mat, said retainer pins being engagable with two position retainer holes provided at predetermined positions of the floor mat, the first retainer pin being provided in the vicinity of a rear extension portion of the accelerator pedal and on a right rear side of the mat with the first retainer pin being positioned on the right side of a left edge extension line of the accelerator pedal or a right edge extension line of the accelerator pedal, and the second retainer pin being provided closer to a center side of the mat than said first retainer pin and in the vicinity of a rear extension portion of a brake pedal with the second retainer pin being positioned on the right side of a left extension line of the brake pedal or a center extension line of the brake pedal.

2. The automotive vehicle floor mat retainer unit according to claim 1, further characterized in that the two retainer pins are in a juxtaposed condition in a right and left direction at an interval that is the same as the interval between said two position retainer holes, in a single substrate portion covered by a portion of said automotive vehicle floor mat, said substrate portion being provided with a fixture portion for fixture to the vehicle body.

3. The automotive vehicle floor mat retainer unit according to claim 2, comprising the fixture portion for fixture to the vehicle body and the substrate portion in which said two retainer pins are implanted and further comprising a rotation preventing portion retained to the vehicle body for preventing said substrate portion from rotating, wherein a single metal plate is bent and formed to establish an L-shaped relation among the respective portions with each other.

4. The automotive vehicle floor mat retainer unit according to claim 1, comprising the fixture portion for fixture to the vehicle body and two substrate portions each of which has the single retainer pin implanted, under the condition that each substrate plate portion is fixed to the vehicle body by each fixture portion, the two retainer pins are arranged at the positions where the pins are inserted into the retainer holes of said automotive vehicle floor mat.

5. The automotive vehicle floor mat retainer unit according to claim 4, characterized in that a head portion of said retainer pin is expanded and formed to have at least a greater width in a forward and backward direction than a shaft portion and slanted and raised upwardly on the rear side.

6. The automotive vehicle floor mat retainer unit according to claim 5, characterized in that a cap made of hard rubber is fitted at a tip end of the retainer pin to form a head portion of said retainer pin.

7. The automotive vehicle floor mat retainer unit according to claim 6, characterized in that said retainer pin is cut, raised and formed from said substrate portion.

8. An automotive vehicle floor mat retainer unit for retaining the automotive vehicle floor mat according to claim 1, characterized in that said retainer pins are implanted at positions where said retainer pins are inserted into the two position holes provided at said predetermined positions of said automotive vehicle floor mat, in a substrate portion for fixture to a vehicle body.

9. The automotive vehicle floor mat retainer unit according to claim 1, characterized in that the retainer pins are implanted in positions where the retainer pins are inserted into the two position retainer holes provided at predetermined positions of an automotive vehicle floor mat, in a substrate portion for fixture to a vehicle body, and under the condition of fixture to the vehicle body, said two retainer pins are positioned in the vicinity of a rear edge portion on a door side of the mat having a shape in which a rear portion on a center side of a vehicle is cut away and a rear portion on the vehicle door side projects most backwardly.

10. The automotive vehicle floor mat retainer unit according to claim 9, further characterized in that the two retainer pins are in a juxtaposed condition in a right and left direction at an interval that is identified with an interval of said two position retainer holes, in a single substrate portion covered by a portion of said automotive vehicle floor mat and provided with a fixture portion for fixing said substrate portion to the vehicle body.

11. The automotive vehicle floor mat retainer unit according to claim 10, characterized in that a laterally extending substrate portion is provided on a front side of a fixture portion for fixture to the vehicle body to form a T-shape, and the fixture portion is fixed to the said seat rail to thereby be fixed to the vehicle body.

12. The automotive vehicle floor mat retainer unit according to claim 10, comprising two substrate portions each of which has the single retainer pin implanted, and each substrate portion is fixed to the vehicle body by a fixture portion.