CN105514888A - Wire duct installation seat for modularization wiring of passenger car electric wiring - Google Patents

Wire duct installation seat for modularization wiring of passenger car electric wiring Download PDF

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CN105514888A
CN105514888A CN201610069478.9A CN201610069478A CN105514888A CN 105514888 A CN105514888 A CN 105514888A CN 201610069478 A CN201610069478 A CN 201610069478A CN 105514888 A CN105514888 A CN 105514888A
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黄强
马辉
杨靖
李伟
温瑶
黄杨漾
乔龙生
张耀奇
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廖丽
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The invention provides a wire duct installation seat for modularization wiring of passenger car electric wiring. The wire duct installation seat comprises an installation support (7) and a sealing plate (9), wherein the installation support (7) and the sealing plate (9) are fixedly connected, a strengthening nut (8) is fixedly connected to the sealing plate (9), and a thorough hole communicated with the strengthening nut (8) is formed in the sealing plate (9). Preferably, the wire duct installation seat further comprises a grounding seat (10) fixedly connected with the sealing plate (9). In the modularization wiring process of passenger car electric wiring, the wire duct installation seat simply needs to be fixedly installed at a designated spot on a side camber beam in a steel structure space of a passenger car body, installation is easy, the operation efficiency of passenger car electric wiring is improved, and the wiring cycle is shortened; the strengthening nut can enhance the local rigidity of the sealing plate and can also improve the assembling efficiency of the wire duct installation seat; the wire duct installation seat has the advantages of being simple in structure, low in implementation cost and the like.

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A kind of wire casing mount pad for passenger vehicle electric wiring Modular wiring
Technical field
The present invention relates to passenger vehicle electric wiring wiring technique field, especially relate to a kind of wire casing mount pad for passenger vehicle electric wiring Modular wiring.
Background technology
At present, the wiring operations of electric wiring on passenger train, all adopts and is first fixed on car body by wire casing box, then directly completes wiring operation by the wire casing of operating personnel on passenger car body.This existing car wiring operation mode is three-dimensional wiring operating type, in wiring operation process, mainly there is following defect:
The first, all wiring operation of operating personnel all complete on staircase, and this job safety for operating personnel exists certain potential safety hazard.
The second, passenger car body environment is badly more outdoor, and especially during operation in summer, due to the instrument that do not dispel the heat in car body, the operational environment of operating personnel is more severe, have impact on the healthy of operating personnel, also reduces wiring operation efficiency simultaneously.
3rd, when carrying out the wiring of existing car in passenger car body, be not easy to the wiring quality examination of passenger vehicle electric wiring, also easily cause the damage of electric wiring, therefore, the cloth line mass of passenger vehicle electric wiring can not be ensured; And, because operating personnel also not easily find the damage of electric wiring, thus the potential safety hazard of passenger vehicle can be buried, cause passenger vehicle electric wiring to be not easy very much after failure to find fault point, cause the time between overhauls(TBO) correspondingly to extend.
4th, when carrying out the wiring of existing car in passenger car body, the randomness of operation and uncertainty are comparatively large, and operation is also more loaded down with trivial details, causes the Wiring technique cycle on car longer, is unfavorable for the streamlined operation that vehicle is assembled.
5th, existing existing car wiring operation mode just must can carry out wiring operations after Wire casing boxes installation fixedly completes, and causes the wiring date of passenger vehicle electric wiring not shift to an earlier date, thus extends the wiring cycle of passenger vehicle electric wiring.
Summary of the invention
The technical problem to be solved in the present invention is: for prior art Problems existing, the wire casing mount pad for passenger vehicle electric wiring Modular wiring that a kind of structure is simple, with low cost is provided, improve the operating efficiency of passenger vehicle electric wiring Modular wiring, shorten the wiring cycle of passenger vehicle electric wiring.
The technical problem to be solved in the present invention realizes by the following technical solutions: a kind of wire casing mount pad for passenger vehicle electric wiring Modular wiring, comprise mounting bracket and shrouding, described mounting bracket is fixedly connected with between shrouding, described shrouding is fixedly connected with reinforcing nut, shrouding is offered and the through hole reinforced nut and communicate.
Preferably, also comprise grounding base, described grounding base is fixedly connected with shrouding.
Preferably, described grounding base is blind nut, and shrouding is offered the installation through hole of blind nut.
Preferably, the through hole described shrouding communicated with reinforcing nut is screwed hole.
Preferably, described shrouding is be welded and fixed with reinforcing nut.
Preferably, be welded and fixed between described mounting bracket and shrouding.
Preferably, described mounting bracket is " L " shape support.
Preferably, described mounting bracket surface-coated zinc coat.
Preferably, described shrouding surface-coated zinc coat.
Compared with prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects as follows: in passenger vehicle electric wiring Modular wiring process, this wire casing mount pad is fixedly mounted on the assigned address on the side bent beams in passenger car body steel construction space, install easily, its main and wire casing with the use of, to realize the Modular wiring operation of passenger vehicle electric wiring, improve the operating efficiency of passenger vehicle electric wiring, shorten the wiring cycle of passenger vehicle electric wiring; And because building block is few, structure is also simple, therefore, implement easily, and implementation cost is also cheap; Reinforcing nut wherein both can strengthen the local stiffness of shrouding, can improve again the efficiency of assembling of wire casing mount pad, enhanced the connection reliability of wire casing mount pad.
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Fig. 1 is the front view of a kind of wire casing mount pad for passenger vehicle electric wiring Modular wiring of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is the end view of a kind of wire casing mount pad for passenger vehicle electric wiring Modular wiring of the present invention.
Fig. 3 is the structural map of passenger vehicle electric wiring mounting structure.
Fig. 4 is the A direction view in Fig. 3.
Fig. 5 is the partial enlarged drawing at the B place in Fig. 3.
Fig. 6 is the C direction view in Fig. 5.
Fig. 7 is the partial enlarged drawing at the D place in Fig. 5.
Fig. 8 is the front view of the slot cover plate in Fig. 5.
Mark in figure: 1-wire casing mount pad, 2-side bent beams, 3-wire casing, 4-earth connection, 5-slot cover plate, 6-connecting bolt, 7-mounting bracket, 8-reinforces nut, 9-shrouding, 10-grounding base, 11-packing ring.
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In order to make object of the present invention, technical scheme and advantage clearly understand, below in conjunction with the drawings and specific embodiments, the present invention is described in detail.Should be appreciated that specific embodiment described herein only in order to explain the present invention, be not intended to limit the present invention.
As Fig. 1, a kind of wire casing mount pad 1 for passenger vehicle electric wiring Modular wiring shown in Fig. 2, comprise mounting bracket 7, reinforce nut 8 and shrouding 9 and grounding base 10, described mounting bracket 7 adopts hot rolling equal angle steel to make usually, its cross sectional shape is L-shaped, its one end and side bent beams 2 are welded and fixed, the other end and shrouding 9 are welded and fixed, when welding, preferably after being spliced with mounting bracket 7 by shrouding 9, weld medial surface again, be conducive to the soldering reliability and the bonding strength that ensure welding position like this, improve strengths in tension and compression and the aesthetics of wire casing mount pad 1.Shrouding 9 is also welded and fixed and reinforces nut 8, simultaneously, shrouding 9 is also offered two through holes, one of them through hole communicates with reinforcing nut 8, another through hole is fixed for the grounding base 10 that earth connection 4 is installed, described grounding base 10 adopts blind nut usually, not only installs easily, and with low cost.Become blanking plate component after described reinforcing nut 8 is connected and fixed with shrouding 9, both can strengthen the local stiffness of shrouding 9, the efficiency of assembling of wire casing mount pad 1 can be improved again; Wherein, being positioned at through hole that is on shrouding 9 and that communicate with reinforcing nut 8 can be screwed hole, can increase the effective thread connecting length of shrouding 9 like this, improve the connection reliability of wire casing mount pad 1.
In the Modular wiring process of passenger vehicle electric wiring, as shown in Fig. 3, Fig. 4, Fig. 5, above-mentioned wire casing mount pad 1 mainly with wire casing 3 with the use of, to realize the Modular wiring operation of passenger vehicle electric wiring.Consider passenger car body normally steel construction, therefore, wire casing mount pad 1 directly can be weldingly fixed on the assigned address on the side bent beams 2 in passenger car body steel construction space.In the weld job process of wire casing mount pad 1, if produce when interfering mutually anti-between wire casing mount pad 1 with passenger car body steel construction, the mutually anti-position of wire casing mount pad 1 can be excised.After wire casing mount pad 1 weld job completes, remove splashing welding slag, overlap, then at welding position brushing bi-component epoxy anti-corrosive primer, to strengthen the resistance to corrosion of welding position, improve the soldering reliability of wire casing mount pad 1.For wire casing mount pad 1 itself, mainly mounting bracket 7 and shrouding 9, plating zinc on surface process is carried out after it makes, by at wire casing mount pad 1 surface-coated zinc coat, anti-oxidant, the resistance to corrosion of wire casing mount pad 1 can be strengthened on the one hand, also effectively can improve the mechanical performance of wire casing mount pad 1 simultaneously, strengthen its toughness, thus ensure its weight capacity, and make its surface more bright attractive in appearance.
When utilizing wire casing mount pad 1 of the present invention to carry out the Modular wiring operation of passenger vehicle electric wiring, first, according to passenger vehicle electric wiring demand, such as, the isoparametric restriction of the quantity of passenger vehicle electric wiring, length, wire diameter, weight, carrys out selected suitable wire casing 3; Then, according to the dimensions of selected wire casing 3, at passenger car body space internal fixtion, wire casing mount pad 1 is installed.Because wire casing mount pad 1 needs load-bearing wire casing 3, therefore, described wire casing mount pad 1 is mounted in pairing mode, and two wire casing mount pads 1 that mutually pairing uses are to determine corresponding installation site according to the gauge of the wire casing 3 of its load-bearing and width dimensions.Next, be installed to by the wire casing 3 completing wiring on the wire casing mount pad 1 in passenger car body space, described wire casing 3 is positioned at the installing space formed by wire casing mount pad 1 and side bent beams 2.Finally, slot cover plate 5 is fixedly connected with between adjacent two wire casing mount pads 1, wire casing 3 is limited in the space that jointly formed by slot cover plate 5, wire casing mount pad 1, side bent beams 2 by described slot cover plate 5, as shown in Figure 5, Figure 7, completes the Modular wiring operation of passenger vehicle electric wiring.
Described slot cover plate 5 is rectangular flat as shown in Figure 8, through hole is offered at its two ends, brushing two component epoxy anti-corrosive primer after slot cover plate 5 makes, can strengthen anti-oxidant, the stainless property of slot cover plate 5 on the one hand, also makes its surface more attractive in appearance simultaneously.The installation of described slot cover plate 5 is as shown in Fig. 5, Fig. 6, Fig. 7, its two ends are connected and fixed by connecting bolt 6 with the shrouding 9 on relative two wire casing mount pads 1 respectively, described connecting bolt 6 forms screw thread with reinforcing nut 8 and is flexibly connected, to facilitate the dismounting of slot cover plate 5.Packing ring 11 is set between connecting bolt 6 and slot cover plate 5, to strengthen the connection reliability between slot cover plate 5 and wire casing mount pad 1, improves the anti-seismic performance of wire casing 3, make the installation of wire casing 3 safer, reliable.
When carrying out the installation exercise of wire casing mount pad 1, can carry out the wiring operation of passenger vehicle electric wiring in wire casing 3, also, installation exercise and the wiring operation of passenger vehicle electric wiring in wire casing 3 of described wire casing mount pad 1 are concurrent jobs simultaneously.Usually, described wire casing 3 is fixed on and is positioned on the installation work platform of passenger car body outside, completes the wiring operation of passenger vehicle electric wiring in wire casing 3 by operating personnel on installation work platform.Owing to being provided with passenger vehicle electric wiring in wire casing 3, security incident is caused because there is electric leakage in order to prevent passenger vehicle electric wiring, earth connection 4 can be fixedly connected with, as shown in Figure 4, to improve the security reliability of passenger vehicle electric wiring between wire casing 3 and the wire casing mount pad 1 in passenger car body space.
The Modular wiring operating type of above-mentioned passenger vehicle electric wiring is a kind of plane routing operating type, revolutionize the solid wiring operating type of original existing car wiring, original part-serial operation can be made to change concurrent job into, passenger vehicle electric wiring wiring operation can be simplified, decrease randomness and the uncertainty of existing car wiring operation, specification car body wiring operation, improves wiring operation efficiency, for the streamlined operation of vehicle assembling creates condition; Simultaneously, this passenger car counterdie blocking wiring operation mode need not wait for that wire casing 3 installation just can carry out corresponding wiring operations after fixedly completing, namely operating personnel can start to carry out wiring operation before wire casing mount pad 1 has welded, thus can realize connecting up the date in advance, the Wiring technique cycle of passenger vehicle electric wiring is shortened.
In addition, because operating personnel can complete the wiring operation of passenger vehicle electric wiring on the installation work platform of passenger car body space outerpace, and do not need the staircase in passenger car body inner space completes wiring operation, thus significantly improve the operational environment of operating personnel, operating personnel can be allowed in more comfortable operational environment to complete wiring operation, be conducive to improving wiring operation efficiency, make the operational security of operating personnel and healthyly all effectively to be ensured.Because wiring operation is all carry out under passenger car, effectively can reduce the distribution damage of passenger vehicle electric wiring in wiring process, also the wiring quality examination of passenger vehicle electric wiring and the investigation of passenger vehicle electric wiring hidden danger is more convenient to, thus avoid potential safety hazard, shorten the time between overhauls(TBO), improve the cloth line mass of car body distribution.
The building block of wire casing mount pad 1 of the present invention is few, structure is also simple, in the Modular wiring operation process of passenger vehicle electric wiring, only need mounting bracket 7 to be fixedly mounted on the assigned address on the side bent beams 2 in passenger car body steel construction space, install easily, implementation cost is also cheap, improves the operating efficiency of passenger vehicle electric wiring, and the wiring cycle of passenger vehicle electric wiring is shortened.
The foregoing is only preferred embodiment of the present invention, not in order to limit the present invention, it should be pointed out that all any amendments done within the spirit and principles in the present invention, equivalent replacement and improvement etc., all should be included within protection scope of the present invention.

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1. the wire casing mount pad for passenger vehicle electric wiring Modular wiring, it is characterized in that: comprise mounting bracket (7) and shrouding (9), be fixedly connected with between described mounting bracket (7) with shrouding (9), described shrouding (9) is fixedly connected with and reinforces nut (8), shrouding (9) is offered and the through hole reinforced nut (8) and communicate.
2. the wire casing mount pad for passenger vehicle electric wiring Modular wiring according to claim 1, it is characterized in that: also comprise grounding base (10), described grounding base (10) is fixedly connected with shrouding (9).
3. the wire casing mount pad for passenger vehicle electric wiring Modular wiring according to claim 2, is characterized in that: described grounding base (10) is blind nut, shrouding (9) is offered the installation through hole of blind nut.
4. the wire casing mount pad for passenger vehicle electric wiring Modular wiring according to claim 1, is characterized in that: the upper through hole communicated with reinforcing nut (8) of described shrouding (9) is screwed hole.
5. the wire casing mount pad for passenger vehicle electric wiring Modular wiring according to claim 4, is characterized in that: described shrouding (9) is be welded and fixed with reinforcing nut (8).
6. the wire casing mount pad for passenger vehicle electric wiring Modular wiring according to any one of claim 1-5, is characterized in that: be welded and fixed between described mounting bracket (7) and shrouding (9).
7. the wire casing mount pad for passenger vehicle electric wiring Modular wiring according to claim 6, is characterized in that: described mounting bracket (7) is " L " shape support.
8. the wire casing mount pad for passenger vehicle electric wiring Modular wiring according to any one of claim 1-5, is characterized in that: described mounting bracket (7) surface-coated zinc coat.
9. the wire casing mount pad for passenger vehicle electric wiring Modular wiring according to any one of claim 1-5, is characterized in that: described shrouding (9) surface-coated zinc coat.
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