CN100413732C

CN100413732C - Vehicular glove box

Info

Publication number: CN100413732C
Application number: CNB2006100583941A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 神谷卓; 宫川卓也
Original assignee: Honda Motor Co Ltd; Honda Lock Manufacturing Co Ltd
Current assignee: Honda Motor Co Ltd; Minebea AccessSolutions Inc
Priority date: 2005-03-15
Filing date: 2006-03-03
Publication date: 2008-08-27
Anticipated expiration: 2026-03-03
Also published as: JP4398891B2; JP2006256378A; CN1833916A

Abstract

The invention relates to a vehicle glove case (1), which comprises: an opening at the panel element (2) that limiting the storage space; a cover (3) mounted on the panel element via hinge to selectively close said opening; a locker (5) used to keep said cover at the position that closing the opening; and a sheet spring (20) mounted on the cover to be flexibly bended around one axle that vertical to the hinge axes of hinge, while said sheet spring can flexibly contact the transverse rod of the impact (18) of panel when the cover closes the opening, to push the cover along open direction; therefore, therefore, even there is position error when in production and installment, the distance between the basic end and the free end of sheet spring can be fixed to fix its counterforce; and the invention can simplify the process that controlling the quality.

Description

Vehicular glove box

Technical field

The present invention relates to a kind of Vehicular glove box, it is located in the Vehicular instrument panel and comprises and be used to the closing appliance that keeps this glove box lid to close.

Background technology

The occupant side of Vehicular instrument panel generally is provided with glove box, and this glove box comprises lid and be used for this lid is remained on the closing appliance of closed condition that described lid has hinge axis along its lower end.The closing appliance that is used for this glove box generally comprises: ram (striker), and it comprises the rod member that curves rectangle letter C shape, this rod member is installed on the part of close glove box opening of instrument carrier panel; Be suitable for the closed block that engages with ram; Be used to keep the slidably lockplate of the closed block that engages with ram; And be used for to the lockplate application of force to discharge the button that engages between closed block and the ram.This device is disclosed real the opening among the flat 7-16877 of Japanese Utility Model.

In this closing appliance, a certain amount of play is set in the bonding part between closed block and ram to guarantee block action level and smooth between them.Yet when because the Vehicular vibration that causes of road bump is delivered to when cover, and this play may cause noise, this is to collide and produce irksome noise mutually because of closed block and ram.

Eliminate this problem by the resilient snubber of being made by rubber usually is set between the main portion of lid and glove box, but be difficult to control the antagonistic force of damper element, and known elastomeric material will be degenerated through after the several years.

Also can eliminate this problem like this, promptly, sheet spring (sheetspring) is set on the sidepiece of cover, and the free end of sheet spring is placed as against ram and the gap that reduces between closed block and ram minimizes making it, as disclosed in Japanese patent laid-open 8-189237.The sheet spring is the more durable and more accurate antagonistic force control of permission than rubber damper element.

Yet according to this aforementioned suggestion, axis and hinge axes that the bending of sheet spring is centered on are extended abreast.Therefore, the elastic force that produces of sheet spring may change according to the variation of the position of the ram point of sheet spring contact.This has caused the variation of the required power of complete closing cap, thereby may damage the commercial acceptable of glove box, and must make overwork in the quality control of manufacturing line.

Summary of the invention

In view of the problems referred to above of prior art, main purpose of the present invention provides a kind of like this Vehicular glove box, its by eliminate to make and assembly error even to the spring load that the influence of spring load makes the sheet spring act on the glove box lid.

Second purpose of the present invention provides a kind of like this Vehicular glove box, and it has very high durability and permission is carried out accuracy control to acting on the antagonistic force that covers that is in buttoned-up status.

According to the present invention, by being provided, a kind of like this Vehicular glove box realizes these and other objects, this glove box comprises: be located at the opening in the panel component that limits storage space, be installed on the described panel component with cover of selectively closing described opening and the closing appliance that is used for described cover is remained on the position of closing described opening by hinge, it is characterized in that, this glove box also comprises: be located at the sheet spring on one of them of described panel component and described cover, with when described cover is closed described opening, another Elastic Contact in the direction of opening described cover and described panel component and the described cover, this sheet spring are suitable for around an axis elastic bending vertical with the hinge axes of described hinge.

Thereby even when location error in manufacturing or fitting process, the cardinal extremity and the distance between the free end of sheet spring also can be maintained fixed, thereby the antagonistic force of sheet spring can be maintained fixed.Therefore, the commercial acceptable of glove box can be guaranteed, and the quality control of manufacturing process can be simplified.

According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, described closing appliance comprises ram that is located on the described panel component and the rotating closed block that is located on the described cover, and described spring has cardinal extremity that is installed on the described cover and the free end that contacts with described ram when closing described cover.Preferably, described ram comprises the rod member that is parallel to described hinge axes extension, and described closed block is provided with the pivot axis that is parallel to described hinge axes extension and is suitable for holding the groove of the rod member of described ram, and the free end of described spring contacts with the rod member of described ram when closing described cover.Preferably, the free end of described spring is provided with the mating surfaces that the groove with described closed block extends in parallel.

Description of drawings

The present invention is described with reference to the accompanying drawings, in the accompanying drawings:

Fig. 1 is the block diagram that expression is combined with the front panel of the automobile of implementing glove box of the present invention;

Fig. 2 is the partial plan layout of the closing appliance of biopsy cavity marker devices;

Fig. 3 is the cutaway view along the line III-III intercepting of Fig. 2; And

Fig. 4 is the partial perspective view of the closing appliance seen from direction shown in the arrow IV.

The specific embodiment

Fig. 1 is the block diagram that expression is combined with the front panel of the automobile of implementing glove box of the present invention.Glove box 1 is located at the bottom relative with the occupant side seat of instrument carrier panel 2.Glove box 1 comprises the opening that is limited in the instrument carrier panel panel and is installed in lid 3 on the instrument carrier panel panel by hinge (not illustrating in the drawings), and this hinge is along the lower edge setting of opening and have horizontally extending hinge axes.Therefore covering 3 can open and close opening on demand, and is provided with the handle 4 with vertical pivots in the upper right portion of lid 3, is used to keep covering 3 closing appliances of closing (will be described below) with release.

Fig. 2 is the planar view that comprises the closing appliance 5 of handle 4, and Fig. 3 is the cutaway view along the line III-III intercepting of Fig. 2.Fig. 4 is the partial perspective view of the main portion of the closing appliance 5 that direction is seen shown in the arrow IV from Fig. 2.Closing appliance 5 comprises latching cam 8 and sliding part 11, this latching cam is supported rotationally by horizontal shaft 7, this horizontal shaft 7 is built in the substrate parts 6 that covers in 3 the hollow inside again and supports, described sliding part also laterally is slidably received within and is covered in 3 the hollow inside, thereby the recess 10 that is located in latching cam 8 bottoms is engaged with retainer 9 on being located at sliding part 11 1 ends.

Handle 4 is parallel to the first type surface extension of lid and forms the part of actuator lever 12, and this actuator lever also comprises the actuator arm 12a that extends from the vertically inside one of the right-hand member of handle 4.Therefore, actuator lever 12 is L shaped in planar view, and is provided with a pair of shank, and a shank horizontal expansion (handle 4) is and the other end extends internally (actuator arm 12a).The other end of sliding part 11 engages with this actuator arm 12a of actuator lever 12.Sliding part 11 by torsion-coil spring 13 along making sliding part 11 be resisted against the direction resiliency urged on the actuator arm 12a.

Actuator lever 12 is supported by vertical pivots pivotally at its place, bight, thereby when the free end of the shank (handle 4) of horizontal expansion is pulled outwardly (shown in arrow A among Fig. 2) when moving, the free end left-handed turning (as shown in Figure 2) of the shank that extends internally (actuator arm 12a) is to promote sliding part 11 (shown in arrow B among Fig. 2) left.The pivot torsion-coil spring 14 on every side that is wrapped in actuator lever 12 promotes handle 4 usually towards its horizontal position, this horizontal position makes closing appliance by locking.Be used for sliding part 11 and actuator lever 12 the torsion-coil spring that separates 13 and 14 by such use towards their stop position (rest position) bias voltages separately, any play that may be present between sliding part 11 and the actuator lever 12 all can be filled, and the responsibility of mechanism may improve by the hysteresis phenomenon of eliminating in actuator lever 12 actions.

The part that is positioned on its pivot center of latching cam 8 is provided with vertically extending U-lag 17 (see from the side and take the shape of the letter U), and its front protrusion 15 and rearward projection 16 by latching cam 8 limits.When closing cap 3, U-lag 17 is suitable for holding the middle body of ram 18.Ram 18 forms by curved bar, and is arranged on the top of the instrument carrier panel that limits the glove box opening.Latching cam 8 usually by the torsion-coil spring 19 that twines around its pivot 7 along the direction bias voltage (anticlockwise direction among Fig. 3) that makes that latching cam 8 and ram 18 break away from.

Closing appliance 5 also comprises sheet spring 20, and this sheet spring has bottom and free end, and described bottom is fixedly secured on the substrate parts 6, and this substrate parts is supporting latching cam 8 again, and described free end is suitable for contacting with ram 18 or its transverse bar when closing cap.Therefore, when ram 18 is engaged by latching cam 8 sheet spring 20 by ram 18 bendings.Particularly, 20 horizontal expansions of sheet spring, thus sheet spring 20 can center on and the vertical axis bending of pivot axis that covers 3.The free end of sheet spring 20 is positioned adjacent to a side of latching cam 8, and is provided with ram mating surfaces 20a, and this ram mating surfaces extends abreast with the ram engaging groove 17 of latching cam 8 under the complete atresia state.Therefore, even when manufacturing errors that has the upright position deviation that causes ram 18 or assembly error,, can not change so sheet spring 20 is applied to the restoring force of ram 18 because constant along the contact point of sheet spring 20 length.Even when the position of ram produces lateral deviation, also constant along the contact point of sheet spring 20 length, thus restoring force also remains unchanged.

The operation mode of closing appliance 5 will be described below.

When opening when covering 3, the elastic force of latching cam 8 by torsion-coil spring 19 be by bias voltage angularly, and be in by the position shown in the imaginary line among Fig. 3.At this moment, because the right-hand member surface of the retainer 9 of sliding part 11 is against the lower-left side of latching cam 8, so although there is the elastic force of torsion-coil spring 13, sliding part 11 still remains on stop position or left-hand side position.

When from this position closing cap 3, latching cam 8 moves along arrow C indicated direction among Fig. 3, and ram 18 contacts with the front surface of the rearward projection 16 of latching cam 8, thereby the elastic force of latching cam 8 opposing torsion-coil springs 19 clockwise direction in Fig. 3 rotates.As a result, ram 18 is accommodated in the front protrusion 15 and the ram engaging groove 17 between the rearward projection 16 that is defined in latching cam 8.At this moment, the rotation of latching cam 8 makes sliding part 11 (it is engaged by the downside surface of latching cam 8 at retainer 9 places of sliding part 11) move right under the resilient force of torsion-coil spring 13, is engaged by the recess 10 of latching cam 8 up to the retainer 9 of sliding part 11.As a result, latching cam 8 is maintained at locked position of coupler by the ram 18 that is contained in the ram engaging groove 17, or covers 3 and keep closing.

At this moment, because ram 18 bendings that sheet spring 20 contact with the free end of sheet spring 20, so the reaction force acts of sheet spring 20 generations is at ram 18 with cover between 3.Thus, the play that may be present between ram engaging groove 17 and the ram 18 is filled, thereby has avoided lid 3 to send the sound.

Can an end of actuator lever 12 be opened towards user's pulling by the elastic force of opposing torsion-coil spring 14 and cover 3.The motion that actuator lever 12 produces makes sliding part 11 to left movement, breaks away from up to the recess 10 of retainer 9 from latching cam 8.Thus, latching cam 8 rotates along unlocking direction under the effect of the elastic force of torsion-coil spring 19, and ram 18 breaks away from from ram engaging groove 17.As a result, make that covering 3 edges opens the direction rotation.

Although described the present invention according to the preferred embodiments of the present invention, it will be apparent to one skilled in the art that under the situation that does not break away from the scope of the invention of setting forth by claims, can carry out various substitutions and modifications.The content of the original Japanese patent application of the Paris Convention priority request of making for the application is by reference in conjunction with in this application.

Claims

1. Vehicular glove box, comprise: be located at opening in the panel component that limits storage space, be installed on the described panel component with cover of selectively closing described opening and the closing appliance that is used for described cover is remained on the position of closing described opening by hinge, it is characterized in that this glove box also comprises:

The sheet spring, it is located on one of them of described panel component and described cover, with when described cover is closed described opening, another Elastic Contact in the direction of opening described cover and described panel component and the described cover, this sheet spring are suitable for around an axis elastic bending vertical with the hinge axes of described hinge.

2. Vehicular glove box as claimed in claim 1, it is characterized in that, described closing appliance comprises ram that is located on the described panel component and the rotating closed block that is located on the described cover, and described spring has cardinal extremity that is installed on the described cover and the free end that contacts with described ram when closing described cover.

3. Vehicular glove box as claimed in claim 2, it is characterized in that, described ram comprises the rod member that is parallel to described hinge axes extension, and described closed block is provided with the pivot axis that is parallel to described hinge axes extension and is suitable for holding the groove of the rod member of described ram, when closing described cover, the free end of described spring contacts with the rod member of described ram.

4. Vehicular glove box as claimed in claim 3 is characterized in that, the free end of described spring is provided with the mating surfaces that the groove with described closed block extends in parallel.