CN218489773U - Automobile tail fin drainage structures and car - Google Patents

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CN218489773U
CN218489773U CN202221918676.5U CN202221918676U CN218489773U CN 218489773 U CN218489773 U CN 218489773U CN 202221918676 U CN202221918676 U CN 202221918676U CN 218489773 U CN218489773 U CN 218489773U
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李开超
徐明园
辛宏达
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孙铭杰
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The utility model provides a car fin drainage structures and car, the utility model discloses a car fin drainage structures is equipped with the wash port that communicates in with the water drainage tank including the structure body that is equipped with water drainage tank on this structure body to be equipped with a plurality of pieces that stop in water drainage tank. And the plurality of blocking pieces are sequentially arranged along the direction close to the drainage hole, a channel for water to pass through is formed between each blocking piece and the inner wall of the drainage groove, and the channels formed at the adjacent blocking pieces are arranged in a staggered manner. Automobile fin drainage structure, through setting up a plurality of piece that block that arrange in proper order along the direction that is close to the wash port to make the passageway that adjacent piece department formed stagger and arrange, can slow down the velocity of flow of rivers, thereby can make to block the piece and block debris in the rivers in one side of blocking the piece, and then can prevent that debris from flowing drain port department and stopping up the wash port.

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Automobile tail fin drainage structures and car
Technical Field
The utility model relates to the field of automotive technology, in particular to car fin drainage structures, simultaneously, the utility model discloses still relate to a car with this car fin drainage structures.
Background
In order to effectively reduce and overcome the influence of air resistance when the automobile runs at high speed, the empennages are arranged at the positions of part of automobile types, and meanwhile, the appearance of the automobile is more attractive, and a certain decorative effect is achieved. The fin passes through link mechanism and realizes opening and closing, because fin link mechanism needs to occupy great space, link mechanism relative position is lower, need discharge the outer to the ponding discharge car of link mechanism position through the water drainage tank when carwash or rainy, during debris may fall into the water drainage tank when the fin expandes for a long time, also has more silt to enter into the water drainage tank when rainy day or carwash. Due to structural design defects, a drain hole of the existing drain tank is easy to block, so that drainage is influenced.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
In view of this, the present invention is directed to a car tail fin drainage structure, which can effectively prevent the drainage hole from being blocked.
In order to achieve the above purpose, the technical scheme of the utility model is realized like this:
a drainage structure of an automobile empennage comprises a structure body provided with a drainage groove, wherein the structure body is provided with a drainage hole communicated with the inside of the drainage groove, and a plurality of blocking pieces are arranged in the drainage groove;
the blocking pieces are sequentially arranged along the direction close to the drainage hole, a channel for water to pass through is formed between each blocking piece and the inner wall of the drainage groove, and the channels formed at the adjacent blocking pieces are arranged in a staggered mode.
Furthermore, a filter screen is arranged at the notch of the drainage groove.
Furthermore, the filter network card is connected to the notch of the drainage groove.
Furthermore, the inner wall of the water drainage groove is provided with support ribs, the notch of the water drainage groove is provided with a fixture block, and the filter screen is clamped between the fixture block and the support ribs.
Furthermore, the structure body with be equipped with the limited between the filter screen mistake proofing structure of filter screen installation direction.
Furthermore, the mistake proofing structure is including locating mistake proofing piece on the water drainage tank inner wall, and locate mistake proofing arch on the filter screen, the mistake proofing arch with mistake proofing piece mutual disposition.
Furthermore, the lateral part of the structure body is provided with a water inlet communicated with the drainage groove.
Further, be equipped with on the structure body with the installation department on the automobile body is installed to the structure body, just be equipped with the butt on the structure body and the sealing strip between the automobile body.
Further, the sealing strip is formed on the structure body through a double-material injection molding process.
Compared with the prior art, the utility model discloses following advantage has:
automobile fin drainage structure, through setting up a plurality of piece that block that arrange in proper order along the direction that is close to the wash port to make the passageway that adjacent piece department formed stagger and arrange, can slow down the velocity of flow of rivers, thereby can make to block the piece and block debris in the rivers in one side of blocking the piece, and then can prevent that debris from flowing drain port department and stopping up the wash port.
In addition, through set up the filter screen in the notch department of water drainage tank, can prevent effectively that debris from dropping into water drainage tank in, can further prevent that debris from blockking up the wash port. With the notch department of filter screen joint at water drainage tank, but convenient to detach filter screen to debris on the clearance filter screen. The filter screen is clamped between the clamping blocks and the supporting ribs, so that the clamping stability of the filter screen is improved. Through setting up the mistake proofing structure, can improve the installation effectiveness of filter screen. The mistake proofing structure comprises mistake proofing blocks and mistake proofing bulges which are oppositely arranged, and the mistake proofing structure is simple in structure and convenient to design and implement.
In addition, through set up the sealing strip of butt between structure body and automobile body on structure body, can effectively prevent that rivers from flowing out from the gap between structure body and the automobile body. The sealing strip is formed on the structure body through a double-material injection molding process, so that the sealing strip and the structure body have good adhesion and good sealing performance.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a car, wherein the car is provided with the car tail fin drainage structure.
Car, through setting up as above car fin drainage structures, can prevent effectively that debris from blockking up the wash port of water drainage tank to can make the rivers of fin department discharge smoothly.
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The accompanying drawings, which form a part hereof, are included to provide a further understanding of the invention, and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments of the invention and together with the description serve to explain the invention without undue limitation. In the drawings:
fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of a drainage structure of an automobile tail fin according to an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 2 is a schematic structural view of the car tail drainage structure according to the embodiment of the present invention at another viewing angle;
fig. 3 is an assembly state diagram of the electric rear wing according to the embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 4 is an assembly view of the drainage structure of the rear wing of the vehicle according to the embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 5 isbase:Sub>A cross-sectional view taken along line A-A of FIG. 4;
FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view taken along line B-B of FIG. 4;
FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view taken along line C-C of FIG. 4;
fig. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of a structural body according to an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 9 is a schematic structural view of a structural body according to an embodiment of the present invention at another viewing angle;
fig. 10 is a schematic structural view of a structural body according to an embodiment of the present invention at another viewing angle;
fig. 11 is a schematic structural view of a structural body according to an embodiment of the present invention at another viewing angle;
fig. 12 is a schematic structural diagram of a filter screen according to an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 13 is a schematic structural view of the filter screen according to the embodiment of the present invention at another viewing angle.
Description of reference numerals:
1. a structural body;
101. a sealing strip; 102. clamping a head; 103. a water inlet hole; 104. a joint; 105. a clamping block; 106. supporting ribs; 107. a guide projection; 108. an error-proofing block; 109. a stopper; 1010. a channel;
2. a filter screen;
201. mesh; 202. error proofing bulges are arranged; 203. a guide groove; 204. an avoidance groove;
3. a spoiler; 4. a link mechanism; 5. a bottom support; 6. and a water discharge pipe.
Detailed Description
It should be noted that, in the present invention, the embodiments and features of the embodiments may be combined with each other without conflict.
In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that the terms "upper", "lower", "inner", "back", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings, which are only for convenience of description and simplification of the description, but do not indicate or imply that the device or element referred to must have a specific orientation, be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention. Furthermore, the terms "first" and "second" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance.
Furthermore, in the description of the present invention, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "connecting" are to be construed broadly unless expressly limited otherwise. For example, the connection can be fixed, detachable or integrated; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be connected directly or indirectly through intervening media, or they may be interconnected between two elements. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention can be understood in conjunction with the specific situation for a person of ordinary skill in the art.
The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings in conjunction with embodiments.
The embodiment relates to an automobile tail fin drainage structure, which comprises a structure body 1 provided with a drainage groove, wherein the drainage groove is communicated with the inside of the drainage groove and is provided with a plurality of blocking pieces 109. And, a plurality of stoppers 109 are arranged in sequence along the direction close to the drain hole, a channel 1010 for water to pass is formed between each stopper 109 and the inner wall of the drain groove, and the channels 1010 formed at the adjacent stoppers 109 are arranged in a staggered manner.
The automobile tail fin drainage structure of the embodiment is provided with the plurality of blocking pieces 109 which are sequentially arranged along the direction close to the drainage hole, and the channels 1010 formed at the adjacent blocking pieces 109 are arranged in a staggered mode, so that the flow speed of water flow can be reduced, sundries in the water flow can be blocked on one side of the blocking pieces 109 by the blocking pieces 109, and the drainage hole can be prevented from being blocked due to the fact that the sundries flow to the drainage hole.
Based on the above general description, an exemplary structure of the drainage structure of the tail wing of the vehicle of the present embodiment is shown in fig. 1 and 2, and in order to further improve the use effect, in the present embodiment, a filter screen 2 is provided at the notch of the drainage channel. In addition, in order to facilitate the assembly and disassembly of the filter screen 2, as a preferred embodiment, the filter screen 2 of the present embodiment is clamped at the notch of the drainage groove.
For the convenience of understanding the present embodiment, the following description will also be made in conjunction with the assembled state views of the present drainage structure shown in fig. 3 to 7. Here, first, a brief description will be made of the electric tail fin, which is installed at the rear of the vehicle and mainly includes the spoiler 3, the link mechanism 4, the bottom bracket 5, the drain pipe 6, and the drain structure to be described in this embodiment, as shown in fig. 3 and 4.
In addition, as in the conventional structure, a mounting groove for mounting the link mechanism 4 is provided in the shoe 5, and a mounting opening is provided in the bottom of the mounting groove. The drain structure according to this embodiment is installed in the installation opening, and the drain pipe 6 is connected to a drain hole of the drain structure to drain water in the drain tank. Wherein, this embodiment gives emphasis to the car fin drainage structures, and the structure of collet 5, link mechanism 4, spoiler 3 refers to prior art can.
Specifically, the structure body 1 of the present embodiment is as shown in fig. 8 to 11, and has a long shape as a whole, and the bottom thereof is a slope, and in order to improve the drainage effect, the drainage hole is located at the lowest point of the slope, that is, on the side wall of the right end 3 in the state of fig. 8. The shape of the structural body 1 is not limited to the structure shown in fig. 8, and can be adjusted according to design requirements. In addition, in order to facilitate the connection between the drain hole and the drain pipe 6, a joint 104 communicating with the drain hole is provided outside the structural body 1, and a plurality of protrusions are provided at intervals on an outer wall of the joint 104, and the joint 104 can be inserted into the drain pipe 6 in an interference manner.
As a specific embodiment, as shown in fig. 11, the blocking member 109 of the present embodiment is specifically a plate-like structure, and is four which are sequentially arranged along the length direction of the structure body 1, and of course, the blocking member 109 may be provided in other numbers such as three, five, etc. in addition to four. In addition, for convenience of manufacture, as a preferred embodiment, the channels 1010 of the present embodiment are formed by each blocking member 109 and the side wall of the drain channel, that is, one end of each blocking member 109 is connected to the side wall of the drain channel, and the other end is spaced from the inner wall of the drain channel, so as to form the channels 1010.
It is worth mentioning here that instead of having each passage 1010 formed by each barrier member 109 and the periphery of the side wall of the drainage channel, it is also possible to have some or all of the passages 1010 formed by the barrier member 109 and the periphery of the bottom wall of the drainage channel. At this time, the bottom of the blocking member 109 is provided with a notch, and both ends of the blocking member 109 are connected to the inner walls of both sides of the drain groove, respectively, so that the passage 1010 can be formed at the notch by abutting the bottom of the blocking member 109 against the bottom wall of the drain groove. Further, it is also to be noted that, in addition to providing one passage 1010 at each of the stoppers 109 as shown in fig. 11, a plurality of passages 1010 may be provided at each of the stoppers 109, and each of the passages 1010 may be formed using any one of the above-described structures.
In addition, an installation part for installing the structural body 1 on a vehicle body is arranged on the structural body 1, and a sealing strip 101 abutting between the structural body 1 and the bottom support 5 is arranged on the structural body 1. In this embodiment, in order to facilitate the detachment and installation of the structural body 1, as a preferred embodiment, the installation portion of this embodiment includes a chuck 102 disposed on the structural body 1, as shown in fig. 5, the structural body 1 is clamped on the bottom support 5 by the chuck 102. In the present embodiment, the specific number of the chuck heads 102 is not particularly limited, and for example, as shown in fig. 8, two chuck heads 102 are respectively provided on both sides of the structural body 1. Of course, besides the structure body 1 being connected to the bottom support 5, it can also be connected to the bottom support 5 by a screw.
In addition, in order to facilitate the clamping operation, as shown in fig. 8, the structure body 1 is provided with an opening corresponding to each chuck 102, and each chuck 102 is arranged in the opening in a cantilever manner, so that the design can make the chuck 102 have better elasticity. In this embodiment, as shown in fig. 8 and 9, an annular protrusion below the opening is further provided on the structural body 1, and the sealing strip 101 is provided on the annular protrusion. In addition, in order to improve the sealing effect, the sealing strip 101 of the present embodiment is formed on the structural body 1 by a two-material injection molding process, which refers to the prior art. By the design, the sealing strip 101 and the structural body 1 have good adhesion and sealing performance.
As shown in fig. 5, the present drainage structure can be snapped into the mounting opening from the bottom of the mounting shoe 5 by the arrangement of the clip 102 and the sealing strip 101, and the clip 102 and the sealing strip 101 can abut on both sides of the mounting shoe 5, respectively. At this time, in order to accelerate the flow of water into the drain tank, a water inlet hole 103 communicating with the drain tank is further provided in the side portion of the structure body 1. As shown in fig. 8 and 9, the water hole 103 of the present embodiment is located above the annular projection, and is plural in number at intervals in the circumferential direction of the structural body 1. As shown in FIG. 5, the water flow on the inner wall of the bottom support 5 can enter the drainage groove and then be drained through the drainage hole by arranging the water inlet hole 103.
In this embodiment, in order to improve the clamping effect of the filter screen 2 on the structure body 1, as shown in fig. 9 and 10, a support rib 106 is disposed on the inner wall of the drainage groove, a clamping block 105 is disposed at the notch of the drainage groove, the filter screen 2 is clamped between the clamping block 105 and the support rib 106, and a guide inclined surface for guiding the filter screen 2 to be clamped is disposed on the clamping block 105. By such a design, the clamping blocks 105 and the supporting ribs 106 can be respectively abutted against two sides of the filter screen 2, and the setting stability of the filter screen 2 can be improved. Moreover, the fixture blocks 105 and the support ribs 106 of the present embodiment are both a plurality of blocks arranged at intervals along the circumferential direction of the structural body 1, and the fixture blocks 105 and the support ribs 106 may be arranged correspondingly or not.
In order to improve the installation efficiency of the filter screen 2, a mistake-proofing structure for limiting the installation direction of the filter screen 2 is arranged between the structure body 1 and the filter screen 2. As a specific implementation manner, referring to fig. 10 and fig. 2, the error-proofing structure of this embodiment includes an error-proofing block 108 disposed on the inner wall of the drainage channel, and an error-proofing protrusion 202 disposed on the filter screen 2, and the error-proofing protrusion 202 is disposed opposite to the error-proofing block 108, that is, as shown in the state of fig. 2, the error-proofing protrusion 202 is located at the lower part, and the error-proofing block 108 is located at the upper part. So set up, when assembling the filter screen 2 according to the wrong direction, can make mistake proofing protruding 202 and mistake proofing piece 108 take place to interfere, and can't pack into the water drainage tank.
In addition, to further improve the mounting efficiency of the filter net 2, as shown in fig. 10 and 11, guide protrusions 107 protruding into the drain grooves are provided on both sides of the structural body 1, respectively, to cooperate with guide grooves 203 described below to guide the filter net 2 into the drain grooves, while also being able to restrict the displacement of the filter net 2 in the width direction of the structural body 1. In the structure of the filter screen 2 of the present embodiment, as shown in fig. 12 and 13, both ends in the length direction are configured to follow the cross section of the drainage channel, so that the displacement of the filter screen 2 in the length direction of the structure body 1 can be limited.
In addition, the plurality of meshes 201 for water to flow into the drainage channel are provided on the filter net 2, so that the drainage structure has a large drainage amount. The size and shape of the mesh 201 may be determined according to design requirements, and is not particularly limited herein, and for example, the maximum gap of the mesh 201 may be set to be between 3mm and 7 mm. In this embodiment, for being convenient for clear up the debris on the filter screen 2, one side that filter screen 2 is close to the water drainage tank notch is set up to the plane. In addition, as shown in fig. 13 and 2, the filter screen 2 is provided with the avoidance grooves 204 provided in one-to-one correspondence with the respective chucks 102, whereby it is possible to provide an avoidance space for the chucks 102 to retract into the drainage groove when the present drainage structure is installed.
The automobile tail fin drainage structure of this embodiment through adopting above structure, not only can effectively prevent debris jam wash port, also can be convenient for clear up the debris on the filter screen 2 simultaneously.
In addition, the embodiment also relates to an automobile, and the automobile is provided with the automobile tail fin drainage structure.
The automobile of this embodiment through set up as above car fin drainage structures, can prevent effectively that debris from blockking up the wash port of water drainage tank to can make the rivers of fin department discharge smoothly.
The above description is only for the preferred embodiment of the present invention, and should not be taken as limiting the invention, and any modifications, equivalent replacements, improvements, etc. made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.

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1. The utility model provides an automobile tail fin drainage structures which characterized in that:
the structure comprises a structure body (1) provided with a drainage groove, wherein the structure body (1) is provided with a drainage hole communicated with the inside of the drainage groove, and a plurality of blocking pieces (109) are arranged in the drainage groove;
the plurality of blocking pieces (109) are sequentially arranged along the direction close to the drainage hole, a channel (1010) for water to pass through is formed between each blocking piece (109) and the inner wall of the drainage groove, and the channels (1010) formed at the positions adjacent to the blocking pieces (109) are arranged in a staggered mode.
2. The automobile rear wing drainage structure as set forth in claim 1, wherein:
and a filter screen (2) is arranged at the notch of the drainage groove.
3. The automobile tail fin drainage structure of claim 2, wherein:
the filter screen (2) is clamped at the notch of the drainage groove.
4. The automobile tail fin drainage structure of claim 3, wherein:
the inner wall of the drainage groove is provided with support ribs (106), a clamping block (105) is arranged at the position of the notch of the drainage groove, and the filter screen (2) is clamped between the clamping block (105) and the support ribs (106).
5. The automobile rear wing drainage structure of claim 2, wherein:
a mistake-proofing structure for limiting the installation direction of the filter screen (2) is arranged between the structure body (1) and the filter screen (2).
6. The automobile rear wing drainage structure of claim 5, wherein:
the mistake proofing structure is including locating mistake proofing piece (108) on the water drainage tank inner wall, and locate mistake proofing arch (202) on filter screen (2), mistake proofing arch (202) with mistake proofing piece (108) mutual disposition.
7. The automobile rear wing drainage structure as set forth in claim 1, wherein:
the side part of the structure body (1) is provided with a water inlet hole (103) communicated with the drainage groove.
8. The automobile tail fin drainage structure according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein:
be equipped with on structure body (1) with structure body (1) installs the installation department to on the automobile body, just be equipped with the butt on structure body (1) and be in structure body (1) with sealing strip (101) between the automobile body.
9. The automobile rear wing drainage structure of claim 8, wherein:
the sealing strip (101) is formed on the structure body (1) through a double-material injection molding process.
10. An automobile, characterized in that:
the automobile is provided with the automobile tail fin drainage structure as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 9.
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