CN115257359A

CN115257359A - Initiative air-inlet grille and car

Info

Publication number: CN115257359A
Application number: CN202210561819.XA
Authority: CN
Inventors: 曹晓鹏; 何竺遠; 李越; 胡静婷
Original assignee: Ningbo Shuaitelong Group Co Ltd
Current assignee: Ningbo Shuaitelong Group Co Ltd
Priority date: 2022-05-23
Filing date: 2022-05-23
Publication date: 2022-11-01

Abstract

The invention provides an active air inlet grille, belonging to the technical field of automobile parts, comprising: the grating body is of a cambered surface structure; the whole or part of the flexible shaft is bent according to the arc shape of the grating body, and the flexible shaft is rotatably arranged on the grating body; the blade assembly comprises at least two grating blades, each grating blade is arranged according to the arc shape of the grating body, each grating blade is connected with the flexible shaft, and the flexible shaft can drive each grating blade to rotate when rotating; also relates to an automobile comprising the active air inlet grille. The invention has the beneficial effects that: on the basis of setting the grid body into a cambered surface structure, the flexible shaft can synchronously drive all grid blades arranged on the grid body in an arc plane to rotate, so that the aim of nonlinear transmission is fulfilled.

Description

Initiative air-inlet grille and car

Technical Field

The invention belongs to the technical field of automobile parts, relates to an active air inlet grille and further relates to an automobile with the active air inlet grille.

Background

The air inlet grille is an important component of the front face of an automobile, the air inlet grille mainly has the function of providing air inlet and heat dissipation for an engine, and a common air inlet grille is always in a normally open state, which is good in hot summer, but is relatively troublesome in winter.

The active air inlet grille is an air inlet grille capable of actively adjusting the opening degree of grille blades, which means that the active air inlet grille can control air inlet and heat dissipation, and the air inlet grille can be closed when an automobile runs and is started in a cold state, so that cold air does not directly impact a radiator to dissipate heat forcibly, the water temperature of an engine is rapidly increased, and fuel oil is saved.

For example, a chinese patent application No. CN201611208923.1 discloses an air intake grille for a vehicle, which includes a bracket and a plurality of connecting shafts sequentially mounted on the bracket, wherein two ends of the connecting shafts are hinged to the bracket, each connecting shaft is connected with a soft grille piece, and the soft grille pieces can be wound around the connecting shafts when the connecting shafts rotate in the forward direction.

The air inlet grille drives the grille pieces to rotate through the connecting shaft (hard shaft), but the air inlet grille is only suitable for non-arc-surface air inlet grilles, and at present, many air inlet grilles are specially designed into arc-surface structures in order to reduce wind resistance, so that grille blades arranged transversely are also arranged in an arc shape, and the connecting shaft and connecting rod structures can only be suitable for linear transmission, so that the existing connecting shaft or connecting rod structures are not suitable for the arc-shaped air inlet grilles.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to solve the problems in the prior art, and provides an active air inlet grille and an automobile.

The purpose of the invention can be realized by the following technical scheme: an active grille shutter comprising:

the grating body is of a cambered surface structure;

the whole or part of the flexible shaft is bent according to the arc shape of the grating body, and the flexible shaft is rotatably arranged on the grating body;

the blade assembly comprises at least two grid blades, each grid blade is arranged according to the arc shape of the grid body, each grid blade is connected with the flexible shaft, and the flexible shaft can drive each grid blade to rotate when rotating.

Preferably, the grid body is provided with a driving motor, the flexible shaft is connected with the driving motor, and the driving motor can drive the flexible shaft to rotate forward and backward so as to adjust the angle of the grid blade.

Preferably, the grating body is of an arc surface structure in the length direction, and the flexible shaft is arranged along the length direction of the grating body.

Preferably, the grille body is provided with air inlets, the grille blades are rotatably arranged at the air inlets, the number of the air inlets is equal to that of the grille blades, the air inlets are arranged in a one-to-one correspondence manner, and the air inlets are arranged along the length direction of the flexible shaft.

Preferably, the grid body is connected with a plurality of mounting brackets arranged at intervals, each mounting bracket is arranged along the length direction of the flexible shaft, and the flexible shaft sequentially penetrates through each mounting bracket.

Preferably, the flexible axle is including being located adjacent two the drive section between the mounting bracket, the quantity of drive section with the same and the one-to-one setting of quantity of grid body, the grid body is located adjacent two between the mounting bracket and with the drive section is connected.

Preferably, the grille blade is provided with a connecting pipe, and the driving section penetrates through the connecting pipe and is fixedly connected with the connecting pipe.

Preferably, the edge of the grille blade has a limiting portion for abutting against the grille body, and the limiting portion abuts against and is connected to the grille body when the grille blade is closed.

Preferably, the grating body is of an inclined plane or arc surface structure in the height direction, the number of the flexible shafts is two, the two flexible shafts are arranged in a vertically corresponding manner in the height direction of the grating body, the number of the blade assemblies is two, the two blade assemblies are arranged according to the inclined plane or arc surface in the height direction of the grating body, and the grating blades of the two blade assemblies are respectively connected with the two flexible shafts.

Secondly, an automobile is disclosed, comprising: an active intake grille.

Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that:

1. on the basis of setting the grid body into a cambered surface structure, the flexible shaft can synchronously drive all grid blades arranged on the grid body in an arc plane to rotate, so that the aim of nonlinear transmission is fulfilled.

2. The driving motor is installed to the grid body, and driving motor can drive the flexible axle and just reverse to adjust the angle of flexible axle in order to control the air input of air-inlet grille.

3. The grid blade is installed in the air inlet, and can rotate and then adjust the opening size of air inlet, because the flexible axle can drive every grid blade rotation on the cambered surface through the transmission shaft of arc form, and then the air input of control air inlet.

4. The flexible shaft is not suspended, but is kept on the back of the grating body through the mounting rack, and the flexible shaft can be kept in a curved state of the cambered surface through each mounting retainer, and the rotation of the flexible shaft cannot be hindered.

5. The grid body is on length direction is ARC structure's basis, can also be the inclined plane structure with the grid body at the direction of height, based on the special shape of above-mentioned grid body, single group blade subassembly can't hide the air inlet completely, so need set up two sets of blade subassemblies that distribute from top to bottom, based on the inclined plane shape of grid body on the direction of height, two sets of flexible axles are arranged along the inclined plane that is on a parallel with the grid body, utilize two sets of flexible axles to drive two sets of blade subassemblies of arranging along the inclined plane respectively.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of an active grille shutter according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the connection relationship between the flexible shaft and the blade assembly according to the present invention.

Fig. 3 is a schematic view of the state of the flexible shaft of the present invention.

Fig. 4 is a top view of the active grille shutter of the present invention.

Fig. 5 is a side view of the active grille shutter of the present invention.

Fig. 6 is a schematic diagram illustrating the opening of the vane assembly on the active grille shutter according to the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of a blade assembly on an active grille shutter according to the present invention closed.

FIG. 8 is a schematic view of the flexible shaft driving each grid blade to rotate.

In the figure, 100, the grid body; 110. an air inlet; 120. a mounting frame; 200. a flexible shaft; 210. a drive section; 300. a blade assembly; 310. a grille blade; 320. a connecting pipe; 330. a limiting part; 400. the motor is driven.

Detailed Description

The following are specific embodiments of the present invention and are further described with reference to the drawings, but the present invention is not limited to these embodiments.

As shown in fig. 1-8, an active grille shutter comprising: the active air intake grille comprises a grille body 100, a flexible shaft 200 and a blade assembly 300, wherein in an actual structure, the problem of blade transmission of the air intake grille with an arc surface shape in the length direction is solved through the flexible shaft 200, and on the basis, the problem of transmission of a plurality of groups of blades with inclined planes or arc surface shapes in the height direction can be solved through arranging at least two flexible shafts 200.

The grating body 100 is of an arc structure, the flexible shaft 200 is wholly or partially curved according to the arc shape of the grating body 100, the flexible shaft 200 is rotatably mounted on the grating body 100, the blade assembly 300 includes at least two grating blades 310, the grating blades 310 are arranged according to the arc shape of the grating body 100, the grating blades 310 are connected to the flexible shaft 200, and the flexible shaft 200 can drive the grating blades 310 to rotate when rotating.

Preferably, the grid body 100 is of an arc structure, so that the wind resistance can be effectively reduced, and the air inlet grid is smoother in appearance, on the basis, each grid blade 310 of the blade assembly 300 is arranged in an arc shape, and the arc surface shape of the grid body 100 is attached, because each grid blade 310 is arranged according to the arc surface, the conventional straight shaft cannot synchronously drive each grid blade 310 to rotate, however, the flexible shaft 200 which can be bent at will can drive each grid blade 310 arranged in the arc surface to move, and the opening and closing angle of each grid blade 310 can be synchronously adjusted through the rotation of the flexible shaft 200.

On the basis of setting the grid body 100 into an arc-shaped structure, the flexible shaft 200 can synchronously drive each grid blade 310 arranged on the grid body 100 in an arc plane to rotate, so that the purpose of nonlinear transmission is realized.

It should be noted that, the length of the flexible shaft 200 is relatively long, in order to drive the grid blades 310 arranged according to the arc surface to rotate, the portion of the flexible shaft 200 connected with each grid blade 310 is necessarily bent according to the arc surface shape of the grid body 100, and the portion of the flexible shaft 200 also refers to the portion of the flexible shaft 200 connected with each grid blade 310, on the basis, the whole flexible shaft 200 can also be bent according to the arc surface shape of the grid body 100.

The length direction of the grating body 100 is the direction from the left end to the right end of the grating body 100, preferably, the grating body 100 is of an arc structure in the length direction, and the flexible shaft 200 is arranged along the length direction of the grating body 100.

As shown in fig. 1 to 8, the flexible shaft 200 needs to be driven by a power source to be able to drive the grid blades 310 to rotate, in order to drive the flexible shaft 200 to rotate, the grid body 100 is mounted with a driving motor 400, the flexible shaft 200 is connected with the driving motor 400, and the driving motor 400 can drive the flexible shaft 200 to rotate forward and backward so as to adjust the angle of the grid blades 310.

As shown in fig. 1, 2 and 6, the grille body 100 is provided with air inlets 110, the grille blades 310 are rotatably located at the air inlets 110, the number of the air inlets 110 is the same as that of the grille blades 310, and the air inlets 110 are arranged in a one-to-one correspondence manner, and the air inlets 110 are arranged along the length direction of the flexible shaft 200.

Preferably, each air inlet 110 is arranged along the length direction of the grill body 100, so each air inlet 110 is arranged in an arc surface, the grill blades 310 are installed in the air inlet 110 and can rotate to adjust the opening size of the air inlet 110, and the flexible shaft 200 can drive each grill blade 310 on the arc surface to rotate through the arc-shaped transmission shaft, so as to control the air inflow of the air inlet 110.

As shown in fig. 1 to 3, the grating body 100 is connected with a plurality of mounting brackets 120 arranged at intervals, each of the mounting brackets 120 is arranged along the length direction of the flexible shaft 200, and the flexible shaft 200 sequentially penetrates through each of the mounting brackets 120.

The flexible shaft 200 is not suspended, but is kept on the back of the grid body 100 through the mounting rack 120, and the flexible shaft 200 can be kept in a cambered surface bending state through each mounting retainer, and the rotation of the flexible shaft 200 cannot be hindered.

Preferably, the flexible shaft 200 includes driving sections 210 located between two adjacent mounting brackets 120, the number of the driving sections 210 is the same as that of the grid bodies 100, and the driving sections 210 are arranged in a one-to-one correspondence manner, and the grid bodies 100 are located between two adjacent mounting brackets 120 and are connected to the driving sections 210.

The driving section 210 is actually the portion of the flexible shaft 200 located between two adjacent mounting brackets 120, and since the two ends of the driving section 210 are limited by the two mounting brackets 120, the driving section 210 can be kept stable and can drive the grid body 100 connected thereto to rotate.

The grille blade 310 and the flexible shaft 200 can be connected in various ways, as long as the flexible shaft 200 and the grille blade 310 can be fixed, preferably, the grille blade 310 is provided with a connecting pipe 320, and the driving section 210 penetrates through the connecting pipe 320 and is fixedly connected with the connecting pipe 320.

As shown in fig. 6 and 7, the edge of the grille blade 310 has a stopper 330 for abutting against the grille body 100, and the stopper 330 abuts against the grille body 100 when the grille blade 310 is closed.

The limiting part 330 plays a role in closing and limiting, when the air inlet grille is closed, each grille blade 310 rotates and seals the air inlet 110, and meanwhile, the limiting part 330 on the edge of each grille blade 310 is in interference connection with the grille body 100, so that the closing sealing performance is ensured.

As shown in fig. 1 to 8, the grating body 100 is of an inclined plane or arc structure in the height direction thereof, the number of the flexible shafts 200 is two, and the two flexible shafts 200 are correspondingly arranged up and down in the height direction of the grating body 100, the number of the blade assemblies 300 is two, the two blade assemblies 300 are arranged according to the inclined plane or arc surface in the height direction of the grating body 100, and the grating blades 310 of the two blade assemblies 300 are respectively connected to the two flexible shafts 200.

In order to further optimize the shape of the grid body 100, on the basis that the grid body 100 is of an arc-shaped structure in the length direction, the grid body 100 can also be of an inclined plane or an arc-shaped structure in the height direction; taking an inclined plane as an example, based on the above-mentioned special shape of the grill body 100, a single group of blade assemblies 300 cannot completely cover the air inlet 110, so two groups of blade assemblies 300 distributed up and down need to be provided, based on the shape of the inclined plane of the grill body 100 in the height direction, two groups of flexible shafts 200 are arranged along the inclined plane parallel to the grill body 100, and two groups of blade assemblies 300 arranged along the inclined plane are respectively driven by the two groups of flexible shafts 200.

As shown in fig. 1, 6, and 7, an automobile includes: the active air inlet grille is arranged at the front face position of the automobile.

It should be noted that all directional indicators (such as up, down, left, right, front, back \8230;) in the embodiments of the present invention are only used to explain the relative positional relationship between the components, the motion situation, etc. in a specific posture (as shown in the attached drawings), and if the specific posture is changed, the directional indicator is changed accordingly.

Furthermore, descriptions of the present invention as related to "first," "second," "a," etc. are for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or to imply that the number of technical features indicated is indicative. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include at least one such feature.

In the present invention, unless otherwise expressly stated or limited, the terms "connected," "secured," and the like are to be construed broadly, and for example, "secured" may be a fixed connection, a removable connection, or an integral part; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be directly connected or indirectly connected through intervening media, or they may be connected internally or in any other suitable relationship, unless expressly stated otherwise.

In addition, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention may be combined with each other, but it must be based on the realization of the technical solutions by those skilled in the art, and when the technical solutions are contradictory to each other or cannot be realized, such a combination of the technical solutions should not be considered to exist, and is not within the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. An active grille shutter, comprising:

the grating body is of a cambered surface structure;

the blade assembly comprises at least two grid blades, each grid blade is arranged according to the arc-shaped shape of the grid body, each grid blade is connected with the flexible shaft, and the flexible shaft can drive each grid blade to rotate when rotating.

2. The active grille shutter of claim 1 wherein: the grid body is provided with a driving motor, the flexible shaft is connected with the driving motor, and the driving motor can drive the flexible shaft to rotate positively and negatively so as to adjust the angle of the grid blades.

3. The active grille shutter of claim 1 wherein: the grating body is of a cambered surface structure in the length direction, and the flexible shaft is arranged along the length direction of the grating body.

4. The active grille shutter as recited in claim 3 wherein: the grating comprises a grating body, wherein air inlets are formed in the grating body, grating blades are rotatably arranged at the air inlets, the number of the air inlets is equal to that of the grating blades, the grating blades are arranged in a one-to-one correspondence mode, and the air inlets are arranged in the length direction of the flexible shaft.

5. The active grille shutter as recited in claim 4 wherein: the grid body is connected with the mounting bracket that a plurality of intervals set up, each the mounting bracket is followed the length direction of flexible axle is arranged, the flexible axle passes each in proper order the mounting bracket.

6. The active grille shutter of claim 5 wherein: the flexible axle is including being located adjacent two drive section between the mounting bracket, the quantity of drive section with the same and the one-to-one setting of quantity of grid body, the grid body is located adjacent two between the mounting bracket and with the drive section is connected.

7. The active grille shutter as recited in claim 6 wherein: the grid blade is provided with the connecting pipe, the drive section wear to locate in the connecting pipe and with connecting pipe fixed connection.

8. The active grille shutter as recited in claim 4 wherein: the edge of grid blade has and is used for with the spacing portion of grid body conflict, when the grid blade is closed spacing portion with the grid body is contradicted and is connected.

9. An active grille shutter as claimed in claim 1 or 8 wherein: the grating body is of an inclined plane or cambered surface structure in the height direction, the number of the flexible shafts is two, the two flexible shafts are arranged in a vertically corresponding mode along the height direction of the grating body, the number of the blade assemblies is two, the two blade assemblies are arranged according to the inclined plane or the cambered surface of the height direction of the grating body, and the grating blades of the two blade assemblies are respectively connected with the two flexible shafts.

10. An automobile, comprising: the active grille shutter of any one of claims 1 to 9.