CN104960420A - Control pedal for vehicle and manufacturing method thereof - Google Patents
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Abstract
The present invention provides a control pedal for vehicle and a manufacturing method thereof. The pedal (10) comprises a pedal arm (12) of plastic material having a tubular structure, with a first arm part (18) having an open cross-section and a second arm part (20) having an open cross-section, which arm parts (18, 20) are produced by moulding separately from each other and are joined to each other by welded joint so as to define the closed cross-section of the pedal arm (12). The pedal (10) further comprises a foot pad (14) that is wholly formed by the first arm part (18).
Description
Technical field
Present invention relates in general to the control pedal for vehicle, such as brake pedal or pedal of clutch, and relate more specifically to comprise the pedal of the plastic material pedal arm with tubular structure.According to another aspect, the present invention relates to the method for the manufacture of the control pedal for vehicle as defined above.
Background technology
Several solutions with the pedal of vehicles of plastic material pedal arm are known.
According to the first known solution, pedal arm obtains by being molded, and comprises multiple rib, and described rib has the rotor inertia thus the function increasing its rigidity that increase pedal arm.This solution offers the advantage that cost is low, be easy to manufacture and expendable weight.On the other hand, it needs the suitable layout of rib, the power acted on wherein on pedal arm have different apply those situations in direction under, the suitable layout of rib is always not attainable or at least always can easily not realize.
Another known solution comprises adds metal insert (being generally steel or aluminum inserts) to be provided with strengthening rib plastic material pedal arm, to increase the rigidity of pedal further by insert-molded (insert moulding).But this solution is subject to high cost and the large defective effect of weight, high cost due to it need for molded metal inserts mould and for by the parts of plastics insert-molded of pedal to the mould on metal insert, and weight is greatly the existence due to metal insert.
According to the 3rd known solution, the required rigidity of pedal arm is by making tubular body to obtain by pedal arm.In this case, by material being made pedal arm from the removal of this body interior from solid body and by the molding technique that gas or water are assisted.Thus the pedal arm in rigidity and mechanical strength with superperformance can be obtained.But this solution has several defect, particularly it is only applicable to the pedal of geometry in particular and profile, and it relates to and is guaranteeing the difficulty in uniform wall thickness, and the even meeting of wall unevenness causes the total weight increasing pedal.
Known from WO2014/019793 according to independent claims 1 control pedal for vehicle as described in the preamble.
Summary of the invention
The object of the present invention is to provide a kind of control pedal for vehicle of improvement, it relative to above-mentioned prior art, be particularly improved in intensity, weight, safety and manufacturability.
According to the present invention, this and other object by means of as in independent claims 1 the control pedal for vehicle that proposes and by means of as in independent claims 7 the method for the manufacture of the control pedal for vehicle that proposes and realizing completely.
Advantageous embodiments of the present invention limits in the dependent claims, and its theme is regarded as the overall an integral part of following explanation.
In brief, the present invention is based on the design of the control pedal being provided for vehicle, wherein pedal arm assigns to obtain by combining two arms with open cross-sectional plane, and the whole foot pad of a formation pedal in wherein said arm section, and preferably also form the whole hinge bush of pedal.Therefore molded acquisition two arm section first are independently of one another provided as according to the manufacture method of the control pedal for vehicle of the present invention, one of them arm section forms the whole foot pad of pedal, and preferably also form the whole hinge bush of pedal, then two arm section are attached to each other, preferably by solder bond to each other.
This solution allows the advantage of high rigidity and the mechanical strength given by the tubular structure by pedal arm and is easy to manufacture and the advantage of high dimensional accuracy combines, particularly in wall thickness, there is high dimensional accuracy, result makes the total weight of pedal be able to optimization, and above-mentioned advantage is obtained by this fact of molded acquisition by two arm section.In addition, because one of them of described two arm section forms the whole foot pad of pedal, the welded joint even between two arm section breaks down and result causes these parts to disconnect, also guarantee the possibility of driver's operation pedal.
Accompanying drawing explanation
Further feature and advantage of the present invention are drawn significantly by from the following detailed description purely provided by non-limiting example mode with reference to accompanying drawing, wherein:
Fig. 1 is according to the preferred embodiment of the invention for the transparent view of the control pedal of vehicle;
Fig. 2 is the decomposition view being suitable for the control pedal for vehicle shown in Fig. 1; And
Fig. 3 be by and two arm section of pedal between the transparent view that the details of pedal shown in Fig. 1 is shown of the vertical plane cutting of composition surface.
Detailed description of the invention
With reference to accompanying drawing, the control pedal for vehicle according to the embodiment of the present invention indicates with 10 generally, and consist essentially of pedal arm 12, be attached to the foot pad 14 of pedal arm 12 one end (bottom) and be attached to the hinge bush 16 of pedal arm 12 opposite end (top), by pedal 10, the rotation axis x be mounted to around basic horizontal rotates the permission of this hinge bush.The said modules of pedal 10, namely pedal arm 12, foot pad 14 and hinge bush 16 are all made up of plastic material, and are more specifically made up of identical plastic material, such as with up to the polypropylene of 50% glass fiber reinforcement or polyamide.
According to a first aspect of the invention, pedal arm 12 has tubular structure, and that is, it has the inner chamber extended on the substantially whole longitudinal extent of arm, to benefit from the advantage of weight reduction and high rigidity and the mechanical strength given by this structure.More specifically, according to the present invention by by respectively with two of 18 and 20 instructions independently arm section combine, obtain the tubular structure of pedal arm 12 preferably by solder bond.Embodiment with reference to the accompanying drawings, arm section 18 has the cross-sectional plane of roughly C shape, and its preferred orientation becomes namely open on the direction of rotation axis x in side direction.Embodiment with reference to the accompanying drawings, arm section 20 is elements of roughly tabular, and it preferably in the plane perpendicular to rotation axis x, namely extend in vertical plane surface, and be used as the capping of closure arm part 18 open sides.Alternatively, two arm section 18 and 20 all can have the cross-sectional plane of roughly C shape.One or two arm section with roughly C shape cross-sectional plane can be provided with strengthening rib (not shown).By described two arm section 18 and 20, namely one of them formed by arm section 18 foot pad 14 completely, is preferably formed to single-piece.In proposed embodiment, hinge bush 16 also complete by described two arm section 18 and 20 one of them, specifically by arm section 18, namely formed by the identical arms part forming foot pad 14, be preferably formed to single-piece.
By means of the cross-sectional plane that it is open, two arm section 18 and 20 are by molded manufacture, and this allows to obtain high dimensional accuracy, particularly in the thickness of these parts.Thus likely at the thickness of these two arm section 18 and 20 of design phase optimization thus its weight of optimization.
Method for the manufacture of the control pedal for vehicle according to the present invention roughly provides following steps:
A) manufacture two arm section 18 and 20 independently of one another, preferably by molded manufacture, one of them of wherein two arm section forms whole foot pad 14, and preferably also forms whole hinge bush 16; And
B) two arm section 18 and 20 so obtained are combined, preferably by solder bond, to form the pedal arm 12 with tubular structure.
As from description above by clear drawing, the high rigidity of tubular structure and the advantage of mechanical strength are combined with the high dimensional accuracy of the pedal arm given by molding technique and the advantage of the thickness optimization possibility caused and thus obtained weight optimization possibility by control pedal according to the present invention.In addition, control pedal according to the present invention is easy to manufacture by simple molded acquisition with welding step due to it.Thus obtain not only solid, weight but also gently and not expensive control pedal.
Certainly; when the principle of the invention remains unchanged; embodiment and structure detail can relative to described by the pure mode by non-limiting example and shown those carry out remarkable modification, and therefore do not depart from as in the appended claims the protection domain that limits.
Claims (9)
1. for the control pedal (10) of vehicle, it comprises pedal arm (12), be arranged in the foot pad (14) at pedal arm (12) one end place, with be arranged in pedal arm (12) opposite end place and limit the hinge bush (16) of the rotation axis (x) of pedal arm (12), wherein pedal arm (12), foot pad (14) and hinge bush (16) are made up of plastic material, wherein pedal arm (12) has the tubular structure for closed cross-section and comprises first arm section (18) with open cross-sectional plane and second arm section (20) with open cross-sectional plane, described first arm section (18) and the second arm section (20) are bonded to each other to limit the closed cross-section of described pedal arm (12),
It is characterized in that, described foot pad (14) is formed by described first arm section (18) completely.
2. control pedal according to claim 1, is characterized in that, described hinge bush (16) is also complete to be formed by the first arm section (18).
3. control pedal according to claim 1, is characterized in that, described first arm section and the second arm section (18,20) are joined to each other by welded joint.
4. control pedal according to claim 1, it is characterized in that, described first arm section (18) has C shape cross-sectional plane, and wherein said second arm section (20) is made for fuel plate, is used as the capping closing the first arm section (18) open sides.
5. control pedal according to claim 4, is characterized in that, described second arm section (20) extends in the plane vertical with the rotation axis (x) of pedal arm (12).
6. control pedal according to claim 4, is characterized in that, described first arm section (18) is provided with strengthening rib.
7. control pedal according to claim 5, is characterized in that, described first arm section (18) is provided with strengthening rib.
8., for the manufacture of the method according to the control pedal for vehicle in any one of the preceding claims wherein (10), comprise the following steps:
-manufacture the first arm section and the second arm section (18,20) by molding process; And
-the first arm section so obtained and the second arm section (18,20) are attached to each other.
9. method according to claim 8, is characterized in that, the step that the first arm section and the second arm section (18,20) are attached to each other is undertaken by welding.
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