CN214189541U

CN214189541U - Vehicle grid word tablet mounting structure, vehicle grid word tablet subassembly and vehicle

Info

Publication number: CN214189541U
Application number: CN202023047059.6U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 吴梦逸; 龚聚华; 赖原彪
Original assignee: SAIC General Motors Corp Ltd; Pan Asia Technical Automotive Center Co Ltd
Current assignee: SAIC General Motors Corp Ltd; Pan Asia Technical Automotive Center Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-12-17
Filing date: 2020-12-17
Publication date: 2021-09-14
Anticipated expiration: 2030-12-17

Abstract

The utility model discloses a vehicle grid word tablet mounting structure, it includes: the base comprises a front surface and a back surface, wherein the front surface is used for fixing a character plate to be installed, and the base also comprises a first side buckling part and a second side buckling part which are respectively used for buckling to the edges of two first-direction grid strips of the vehicle grid, wherein the two first-direction grid strips extend along the first direction; the support comprises a base connecting part and a second direction grid strip accommodating groove, wherein the base connecting part is used for being connected with the base, the second direction grid strip accommodating groove is used for accommodating second direction grid strips of the vehicle grid, the second direction grid strips extend along a second direction, so that the second direction grid strips are positioned between the support and the base when being accommodated in the second direction grid strip accommodating groove, and the second direction is crossed with the first direction; and a fastener for connecting the base connection part of the bracket and the base. The utility model discloses still relate to the vehicle grid word tablet subassembly including this vehicle grid word tablet mounting structure and the vehicle including this word tablet mounting structure or word tablet subassembly.

Description

Vehicle grid word tablet mounting structure, vehicle grid word tablet subassembly and vehicle

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a mounting structure for installing word tablet on vehicle grille, including this mounting structure's word tablet subassembly and including this mounting structure or this word tablet subassembly's vehicle.

Background

When an automobile is about to come into the market or the automobile model changes year after year, when a concept automobile model like 'RS', 'GS' or similar 'million commemorative edition' is required to be pushed out, word cards capable of highlighting themes are often required to be added on an air inlet grille at the front end of the automobile, generally, the grille is developed and completed, if the word cards are integrated by changing the grille, time and labor are wasted, extra cost is also increased, and therefore a mode of utilizing the existing grille structure to realize word card installation is required to be found.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

In view of this, the embodiment of the present invention provides a vehicle grille word tablet mounting structure, a vehicle grille word tablet subassembly and a vehicle including the vehicle grille word tablet mounting structure or the vehicle grille word tablet subassembly, thereby effectively solving or alleviating at least one of the problems existing at present.

An aspect of the embodiment of the utility model relates to a vehicle grid word tablet mounting structure, it includes:

the base comprises a front surface and a back surface, wherein the front surface is used for fixing a character plate to be installed, and the base also comprises a first side buckling part and a second side buckling part which are respectively used for buckling to the edges of two first-direction grid bars of the vehicle grid, wherein the two first-direction grid bars extend along the first direction;

a bracket including a base connection portion for connecting to the base and a second direction grill bar receiving groove for receiving a second direction grill bar of the vehicle grill extending in a second direction such that the second direction grill bar is positioned between the bracket and the base when received in the second direction grill bar receiving groove, the second direction grill bar intersecting the first direction; and

a fastener for connecting the base connection portion of the bracket and the base.

In the basis the utility model discloses in vehicle grid word tablet mounting structure, optionally, first direction is horizontal, the second direction is vertical, first direction grid strip does the horizontal bar of vehicle grid, second direction grid strip does the vertical retort of vehicle grid.

In the vehicle grille number plate mounting structure according to the embodiment of the present invention, optionally, the first side fastening portion is an upper side fastening portion extending rearward from the upper edge of the base, the second side fastening portion is a lower side fastening portion extending rearward from the lower edge of the base, the upper side fastening portion includes an edge of a first upper side fastening portion and a second upper side fastening portion which are laterally spaced from each other, and the lower side fastening portion includes an edge of a first lower side fastening portion and a second lower side fastening portion which are laterally spaced from each other.

In the vehicle grille word tablet mounting structure according to the embodiment of the present invention, optionally, the base is recessed on the front side to form a word tablet mounting groove corresponding to the shape of the word tablet.

In the vehicle grille word tablet mounting structure of the embodiment of the present invention, optionally, the base connecting portion of the bracket includes a flat plate-shaped structure attached to the back surface of the base, and the second direction grille strip receiving groove is a U-shaped groove formed by recessing the flat plate-shaped structure.

According to the utility model discloses in vehicle grid word tablet mounting structure, optionally, the fastener includes first self-tapping screw and second self-tapping screw, the support base connecting portion be equipped with and correspond respectively first self-tapping screw with second self-tapping screw's first screw hole and second screw hole, the base is equipped with and corresponds respectively first self-tapping screw with second self-tapping screw's third screw hole and fourth screw hole.

In the vehicle grille word tablet mounting structure of the embodiment of the present invention, optionally, the third screw hole and the fourth screw hole of the base are opened at positions that can be covered by the word tablet after assembly.

In the vehicle grille word plate mounting structure according to an embodiment of the present invention, optionally, it further includes a sticking member adhered to the front surface of the base for sticking the word plate.

Another aspect of the embodiments of the present invention relates to a vehicle grille word plate assembly, which includes a vehicle grille word plate mounting structure according to any one of the preceding embodiments and a word plate mounted in the vehicle grille word plate mounting structure.

Yet another aspect of an embodiment of the present invention relates to a vehicle including a vehicle grille word plate mounting structure or a vehicle grille word plate assembly according to any one of the preceding embodiments.

Drawings

Exemplary embodiments of the invention are illustrated in the following drawings, in which like elements are referred to by like reference numerals, and in which:

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of an exemplary vehicle grille with no installed word plate in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the vehicle grill of FIG. 1 with an "RS" shaped license plate installed;

fig. 3 is an exploded view of an exemplary vehicle grill plate assembly according to an embodiment of the present invention, showing the base, bracket, fastener, etc. forming the vehicle grill plate assembly in isolation;

FIG. 4 schematically illustrates the base of FIG. 3 snap-fitted to the cross-bars of the vehicle grille of FIG. 1; and

FIG. 5 schematically illustrates the base of FIG. 3 attached to the vehicle grille of FIG. 1 by fasteners and brackets.

Detailed Description

Some embodiments of the invention will be described in more detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. Unless clearly defined otherwise herein, the meaning of scientific and technical terms used herein is that which is commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art.

The terms upper, lower, front, rear, and the like as used herein are defined relative to the directions in the drawings, are relative terms, and thus can vary depending on the different positions in which they are located and the different practical positions. These and other directional terms should not be construed as limiting terms.

The use of "including," "comprising," or "having" and similar referents herein is to be construed to mean that the specified items are included in the range, as well as equivalents thereof. The terms "or", "or" are not meant to be exclusive, but rather denote the presence of at least one of the referenced items and include the cases where a combination of the referenced items may be present. The term "and/or" includes any and all combinations of one or more of the referenced items. References herein to "some embodiments" or the like, indicate that a particular element (e.g., feature, structure, and/or characteristic) described in connection with the invention is included in at least one embodiment described herein, and may or may not be present in other embodiments. In addition, it is to be understood that the elements of the invention may be combined in any suitable manner.

Embodiments of the present invention relate to a mounting structure for mounting a number plate on a vehicle grille (e.g., a vehicle front-end grille). The air inlet grille at the front end of the vehicle generally consists of criss-cross or reticular strip-shaped characteristics, if the word plate and the grille are synchronously designed and developed, the connection mode between the word plate and the grille can be selected in various ways, but if the grille is designed and developed, the integration or installation of the word plate is difficult to realize on the premise of keeping the characteristics of the grille unchanged. An embodiment of the utility model provides a buckle and fastening built-up connection's mode can be under the unchangeable condition of grid characteristic simple and reliable the installation that has realized the word tablet.

As shown in fig. 1, an exemplary vehicle grille 1 may include grille strips 11 (three first-

direction grille strips

111, 112, 113 are shown in fig. 1) extending in a first direction and second-direction grille strips 13 (two second-

direction strips

131, 132 are shown in fig. 1) extending in a second direction that is staggered from the first direction. In some embodiments, the first direction is substantially perpendicular to the second direction. For example, in the illustrated embodiment, the first direction is a horizontal direction, the second direction is a vertical direction perpendicular thereto, the first direction grills are

horizontal bars

111, 112, 113, and the

second direction grills

131, 132 are vertical bars.

A word card assembly including a desired word card (e.g., a word card assembly 2 including a word card "RS" as shown in fig. 2) may be installed at an appropriate position of the grid 1. Wherein the word plate in the installed word plate assembly can be a common piece as the word plate installed on the vehicle rear cover, thereby not needing to be redeveloped. In other cases, the word cards may be newly developed word cards, as desired.

As shown in connection with fig. 3-5, an exemplary vehicle grill plate assembly 2 includes a plate 29 to be mounted, and a vehicle grill plate mounting structure 20 for mounting the plate 29 to the vehicle grill 1. The vehicle grill signboard mounting structure 20 includes a base 21 that is snap-fittable to the grill 1, a bracket 23 that is attachable to the base 21, a connector 25 for connecting the base 21 and the bracket 23, and an attaching member 27 that is adhered to the base 21 for attaching a signboard 29 to be mounted.

In some embodiments, the base 21 is the same material and appearance as the body of the vehicle grille 1. The base 21 includes a front 211 and a back 212, wherein the front 211 is adapted to hold a tile 29 to be mounted and the back 212 is adapted to interface with the support 23. The base 21 further comprises first and second side catches 214, 215 (visible in fig. 4) for catching to the edges of two first direction grill bars 11 of the vehicle grill 1, respectively. The two first direction grills 11 that the first side fastening part 214 and the second side fastening part 215 are fastened to may be two adjacent first direction grills (for example, the adjacent bars 111 and 112) or two non-adjacent first direction grills (for example, the non-adjacent bars 111 and 113), depending on the size of the letter plate to be installed.

In the illustrated embodiment, the first side catch 214 is an upper side catch extending rearwardly from an upper edge of the base 21, the second side catch 215 is a lower side catch extending rearwardly from a lower edge of the base 21, the upper side catch 214 includes a first upper side catch 2141 and a second upper side catch 2142 laterally spaced from one another, and similarly, the lower side catch 215 includes a first lower side catch and a second lower side catch laterally spaced from one another. The base 21 is snapped from the front to the rear to the edges of two

adjacent bars

111 and 112 of the grille 1 by four snap-in portions extending rearwardly from its upper and lower edges. In some embodiments, the base 21 further has trims 216 and 217 extending rearward from both ends thereof in the first direction (e.g., the lateral direction), respectively, to cover and decorate both ends of the vehicle grill signboard mounting structure 20 in the first direction (e.g., the lateral direction).

The bracket 23 includes a base connection portion 231 and a second direction grill bar receiving groove 232, wherein the base connection portion 231 is configured to be connected to the base 21, and the second direction grill bar receiving groove 232 is configured to receive one second direction grill bar 132 of the vehicle grill 1, such that the second direction grill bar 132 is located between the bracket 23 and the base 21 when received in the second direction grill bar receiving groove 232. In the illustrated embodiment, the bracket 23 is shaped like an Ω, and has a main body of a base connection portion 231 of a flat plate-like structure that is attached to the back surface 212 of the base 21, and a U-shaped groove recessed rearward from the middle of the base connection portion 231 of the flat plate-like structure is a second-direction grid bar receiving groove 232. The intermediate U-shaped groove 232 is aligned with the second direction grills 132 and is shaped and/or sized to accommodate the shape and/or size of the second direction grills 132 such that the second direction grills 132 can be fittingly received in the U-shaped groove 232.

The bracket 23 is mounted to the vehicle grill 1 from the rear to the front such that the second direction grill 132 is received in the second direction grill receiving groove 232 of the bracket 23, and the base connecting portion 231 of the bracket 23 and the base 21 are connected together by the fastener 25. In the illustrated embodiment, the fastening member 25 includes first and

second tapping screws

251 and 252 for connecting the base 21, which is snap-fitted to the

first direction grill

111 and 112, to the base connection portion 231 of the bracket 23, which has the second direction grill 132 received in the second direction grill receiving groove 232, thereby completing the fastening of the base 21 to the grill 1.

The base connection portion 231 of the bracket 23 is provided with a first screw hole 2311 corresponding to the first tapping screw 251 and a second screw hole 2312 corresponding to the second tapping screw 252. The base 21 is provided with a third screw hole 218 corresponding to the first tapping screw 251 and a fourth screw hole 219 corresponding to the second tapping screw 252. The first tapping screw 251 passes through the first screw hole 2311 and the third screw hole 218, and the second tapping screw 252 passes through the second screw hole 2312 and the fourth screw hole 219, to connect the bracket 23 and the base 21 together.

In the above embodiment, the base 21 is engaged with the

first direction grills

111 and 112 to limit the movement of the vehicle grill word mounting structure 20 perpendicular to the first direction (in the illustrated embodiment, the movement along the vertical direction), and the second direction grill receiving groove 232 of the bracket 23 is engaged with the second direction grill 132 to limit the movement of the vehicle grill word mounting structure 20 perpendicular to the second direction (in the illustrated embodiment, the movement along the horizontal direction), so that the vehicle grill word mounting structure 20 is fixedly mounted.

The adhesive member 27 in the vehicle grill plate mounting structure 20 may be an adhesive tape (e.g., 3M adhesive tape). In some embodiments, the adhesive element 27 is a die cut tape, the profile for mounting the cards is die cut and may be the same as the tape used to mount the cards on the back cover. In some embodiments, the adhesive element 27 has a shape that substantially conforms to the word plate 29.

In some embodiments, the front surface 211 of the base 21 is recessed to form a word plate mounting groove 213 corresponding to the shape of the word plate 29, and the depth of the word plate mounting groove 213 may be greater than or equal to the thickness of the pasting element 27 plus the word plate 29, so that the word plate 29 does not protrude from the front surface 211 when the word plate 29 is embedded in the word plate mounting groove 213 through the pasting element 27. For example, the depth of the card mounting groove 213 may be substantially equal to the sum of the thicknesses of the pasting member 27 and the card 29, so that the outer surface of the card 29 fitted in the card mounting groove 213 by the pasting member 27 is substantially flush with the front surface 211. In other embodiments, the depth of the word plate installation groove 213 may be smaller than the sum of the thicknesses of the pasting member 27 and the word plate 29, so that the word plate 29 installed in the word plate installation groove 213 by the pasting member 27 protrudes out of the front surface 211 of the base 21.

The third screw hole 218 and the fourth screw hole 219 are opened at positions that can be covered by the medal after assembly. For example, in the illustrated embodiment, the third screw hole 218 and the fourth screw hole 219 may be opened in the signboard mounting groove 213 so that the

screws

251 and 252 installed in the third screw hole 218 and the fourth screw hole 219, respectively, may be covered by the signboard 29 after assembly.

The word tablet can support online installation and 4S shop additional installation off-line, if the installation of line, the word tablet can assemble with the grid earlier, installs on the bumper again, and the last installation of accomplishing on whole car on the production line, and this kind of mode operation is easier to carry out. And if the rear end installation is sold off the line, also need not demolish the bumper from former car, be connected to the edge of first direction grid through four buckles to the base earlier, put into the support through the breach of two first direction grid simultaneously, aim at the position of a second direction grid, go into from the back forward card to press, and use the hand to hold, fix base and support with self-tapping screw, paste the front of base with the word tablet again at last, just accomplished whole installation.

The utility model discloses a vehicle grid word tablet mounting structure or vehicle grid word tablet subassembly can be under the unchangeable circumstances of current molding of maintenance grid and structure through design word tablet base and installing support to the installation of word tablet on the grid has been accomplished to shortest development time and development cost, and the installation is simple and convenient, reliable and stable, and the flexible operation both can support online installation moreover, also can be online 4S shop terminal installation down.

Another aspect of the present invention relates to a vehicle that includes the above-mentioned vehicle grill word tablet mounting structure or vehicle grill word tablet subassembly. In light of the above disclosure, those skilled in the art will be readily able to obtain a vehicle incorporating the vehicle grid plate mounting structure or vehicle grid plate assembly of the present invention.

The foregoing specific embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will not be limited to these specific embodiments. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes, substitutions and alterations can be made herein without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Claims

1. The utility model provides a vehicle grid word tablet mounting structure which characterized in that, it includes:

2. The vehicle grille tile mounting structure of claim 1 wherein the first direction is a lateral direction and the second direction is a vertical direction, the first direction grille strips being lateral strips of the vehicle grille and the second direction grille strips being vertical strips of the vehicle grille.

3. The vehicle grille tile mounting arrangement of claim 2 wherein the first side latch portion is an upper side latch portion extending rearwardly from an upper edge of the base, the second side latch portion is a lower side latch portion extending rearwardly from a lower edge of the base, the upper side latch portion including first and second upper side latch portions spaced from one another in the transverse direction, the lower side latch portion including first and second lower side latch portions spaced from one another in the transverse direction.

4. The vehicle grill word mounting structure according to claim 1, wherein a word mounting groove corresponding to a shape of the word is formed recessed inward on the front face of the base.

5. The vehicle grill signboard mounting structure according to claim 1, wherein the base connection portion of the bracket includes a flat plate-like structure that is attached to the back surface of the base, and the second direction grill receiving groove is a U-shaped groove that is recessed rearward from the flat plate-like structure.

6. A vehicular grill signboard mounting structure according to claim 1, wherein the fastener includes a first tapping screw and a second tapping screw, the base attachment portion of the bracket is provided with a first screw hole and a second screw hole corresponding to the first tapping screw and the second tapping screw, respectively, and the base is provided with a third screw hole and a fourth screw hole corresponding to the first tapping screw and the second tapping screw, respectively.

7. The vehicle grille word plate mounting structure of claim 6 wherein the third screw hole and the fourth screw hole of the base are open to a position that can be covered by the word plate after assembly.

8. The vehicle grille word plate mounting structure of claim 1 further comprising an adhesive member adhered to the front face of the base for adhering the word plate.

9. A vehicle grillage word plate assembly comprising the vehicle grillage word plate mounting structure of any one of claims 1 to 8, and a word plate mounted to the vehicle grillage word plate mounting structure.

10. A vehicle comprising the vehicle grid card mounting structure according to any one of claims 1 to 8 or the vehicle grid card assembly according to claim 9.