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  • B60K—ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OF TRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS IN VEHICLES; AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GAS EXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY OF PROPULSION UNITS IN VEHICLES
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• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
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  • B60Q1/56—Arrangement of optical signalling or lighting devices, the mounting or supporting thereof or circuits therefor the devices being primarily intended to indicate the vehicle, or parts thereof, or to give signals, to other traffic for illuminating registrations or the like, e.g. for licence plates
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
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• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
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  • B60Q3/80—Circuits; Control arrangements
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Definitions

• the present invention relates to an equipment module of a motor vehicle.
• the invention relates more particularly to an external module for equipping a motor vehicle of the type which comprises means for controlling the locking of the closed position of a movable part, such as a tailgate, relative to a fixed part. of the vehicle structure.
• the rear transverse part of the vehicle is constituted by a movable part or opening element, in particular a tailgate, which is mounted articulated relative to the body of the vehicle, more generally around an upper horizontal transverse axis of articulation, or around a vertical lateral axis.
• the tailgate can support, in addition to its closing and locking system, a license plate and its lighting systems, but also possibly the third regulatory "stop" light, or even all or part of the rear blocks of signaling lights, as well as the rear window which is, where appropriate, itself hinged with respect to the tailgate. All the components, which are of course produced independently of the bodywork part which constitutes the tailgate, must therefore be mounted on this tailgate during assembly of the vehicle or prior to mounting of the tailgate on the vehicle body. However, the multiplication of components leads to an increase in assembly time and leads to multiplied risks of assembly faults.
• the equipment module or an equivalent sub-assembly comprising in particular means for controlling the locking of the closed position of the opening, is in the form of a relatively bulky sub-assembly which is mounted on the rear element of the vehicle from inside it using different fixing means which make the mounting and fixing operations long and complex.
• it is more particularly difficult to mount the equipment module when the rear element is a fixed element belonging to the vehicle body, or to mount the equipment module inside the tailgate when this the latter is already mounted articulated on the vehicle body.
• electrical components require electrical connections both for their power supply, for their control and for their monitoring.
• moisture can be deposited on the conductive elements of electrical connections thus creating a premature oxidation of the elements which can cause malfunctions of the electrical components.
• an external module for equipping a motor vehicle of the type which comprises means for controlling the locking of the closed position of a movable part, such as a tailgate, relative to a fixed part of the vehicle structure, characterized in that it comprises a sealed external body which is received at least partially in a housing complementary to the movable part in which it is mounted from outside the vehicle.
• the movable part has a load-bearing interior structure and an exterior body panel, and the external body is of profile and shape complementary to those of the housing which receives it and which, in the mounted position, constitutes an attached part of the exterior panel. dressing;
• the external body is a molded plastic part;
• the external body consists of a rear shell closed in a sealed manner by a front cover in the general form of a plate;
• a seal is interposed between the contacting faces of the front cover and the closed rear shell so as to seal the body;
• the cover and the closed rear shell are crimped and / or are fitted elastically together so as to seal the external body;
• the external body carries fixing elements of the equipment module comprising fixing rods which extend parallel to the mounting direction of the equipment module;
• the means for controlling the locking of the closed position of the mobile part comprise a mobile control element between an unlocking position and a locking position;
• the movable element is a flexible and deformable membrane which extends opposite an orifice of the body and whose inner wall is conductive so that, when the membrane is deformed towards the interior of the body, the interior wall comes into contact with an electrically conductive element, so as to modify the electrical state of an electrical circuit and to control the locking of the movable part;
• the means for controlling the locking of the closed position, the movable part comprises a receiving element, such as an antenna, intended to receive information representative of the locking command sent by external remote control means;
• the external equipment module comprises means forming an opening handle of the mobile part;
• the external equipment module comprises at least one other component
• one of the components includes a light source;
• the light source comprises a lighting unit from inside the passenger compartment and / or from the trunk of the vehicle;
• the lighting unit is separable from the external body so as to form a mobile lighting source
• the light source comprises a rear signaling light, in particular a brake signaling light, a change of direction, reversing light, or a fog light, or a part of such a light;
• the light source comprises a lighting unit from the outside of the vehicle, such as a lighting unit from the license plate;
• a component is a burglar-proof device of the external housing
• a component comprises an electronic vision system, in particular a camera, which is oriented towards the outside of the vehicle and which provides information representative of the external environment located opposite the electronic vision system;
• a component comprises a proximity detection system, in particular for assistance in parking the vehicle;
• - a component includes a light sensor;
• a component comprises prepositioning means which make it possible to hold the module in position relative to the load-bearing interior structure before they are fixed;
• the locking means and / or at least one of the components are electrically connected to a circuit board;
• the body is made of an electrically insulating material and is overmolded around at least one track or cable made of electrically conductive material for the power supply, locking means and / or at least one component, or for the exchange of signals with this element.
• - Figure 3a is an exploded longitudinal sectional view along line 3-3 shown in Figure 1, of the module produced in accordance with the teachings of the invention and of a part of the tailgate;
• - Figure 3b is a longitudinal sectional view assembled along line 3-3 shown in Figure 1, of the module produced in accordance with the teachings of the invention and part of the tailgate;
• - Figure 4 shows in perspective the interior of the closed rear shell of the external body of the equipment module produced in accordance with the teachings of the invention;
• FIG. 5 shows in perspective the front cover for closing the rear shell of the external body of the equipment module produced in accordance with the teachings of the invention
• FIG. 6 is a view, on a large scale, in perspective with a partial cutaway of material, of the external body of the equipment module produced in accordance with the teachings of the invention.
• transverse, longitudinal and vertical will be used, without limitation, with reference to the three corresponding axes "T", “L” and “V” indicated in FIGS. 1 and 2.
• FIG. 1 shows a motor vehicle 10 which in particular consists of a movable part or tailgate 12 which comprises a solid lower part and an open upper part constituting a frame intended to receive, in a known manner, rear glazed panel 14 which can be a fixed rear window or a rear window hinged on the tailgate 12.
• a motor vehicle 10 which in particular consists of a movable part or tailgate 12 which comprises a solid lower part and an open upper part constituting a frame intended to receive, in a known manner, rear glazed panel 14 which can be a fixed rear window or a rear window hinged on the tailgate 12.
• the solid lower part here in particular comprises a license or police plate 16 as well as a rear external module 18.
• the tailgate 12 is mounted articulated with respect to the structure of the vehicle about an axis A of transverse orientation.
• the opening of the tailgate consists of pivoting it upwards from its closed position shown in FIG. 1 to an open position not shown.
• the tailgate can be mounted hinged to the structure of the vehicle around a vertical orientation axis. In this case, the tailgate is opened laterally.
• the external module 18 comprises a sealed external body 20 which is received in a complementary housing 22 of the tailgate 12 in which it is mounted from outside the vehicle 10.
• the tailgate 12 is constituted by an internal load-bearing structure 24, made of stamped sheet metal folded and welded, and by an external covering panel 26 which is for example an external body skin fixed to the load-bearing structure 24.
• the general profile and the external shape of the external body 20 are complementary to those of the housing 22, as well as of the other surrounding elements, so as to allow the mounting of the equipment module 18 in the housing 22 of the tailgate 10, from rear to front, in the mounting direction D indicated in Figure 3a.
• the external body 20 constitutes an attached part of the external covering panel 26.
• the external body 20 is sealed from the equipment module 18 in this way on the tailgate. 12 from the outside, that is to say that such mounting is particularly easy and can be carried out on the rear part of the vehicle, in particular on its tailgate 12, without having to access the interior of the passenger compartment.
• the external body 20 is advantageously a molded plastic part.
• the body 20 here consists of a rear shell 40 of transversely elongated shape and of substantially triangular longitudinal section.
• the rear shell 40 has a rear face 54 which is open and which, in the assembled position of the body external 20, is closed in a sealed manner by a front cover 42 in the general form of a plate.
• the rear shell 40 delimits an interior cavity 44 which is intended to receive components of the module 18.
• the body 20 can be sealed in several ways.
• One of them consists in interposing a seal 50 between the front face 52 of the rear shell 40 and the rear face 54 of the front cover 42.
• the seal 50 is received in a groove 56 made on the periphery of the front face 52 of the rear shell 40.
• the sealing of the external body 20 can also consist of crimping, welding, gluing or elastically fitting the rear shell 40 and the front cover 42.
• the two elements may include complementary elastic interlocking means, not shown.
• the rear shell 40 may comprise a tubular element in the orifice of which penetrates and elastically deforms a complementary element which extends from the rear face 54 of the cover 42 in the axial direction of the orifice of the tubular element.
• the mounting of the external body 20 on the tailgate 12 is obtained by two fixing elements 60 which here comprise fixing rods 62 which extend from the inside of the rear shell 40 towards the front in a parallel direction to the direction D of mounting the external module 18 on the vehicle 10.
• the fastening elements 60 pass through the cover 42 through two orifices 64.
• the fixing rods 62 are carried by a cylindrical foot 66 on the floor.
• the front stage 68 has a diameter corresponding substantially to the diameter of the corresponding orifice 64.
• the rear face 54 of the cover 42 coming to bear against the radial shoulder 69 which connects the front stage 68 to a rear stage 70 of larger diameter.
• the radial shoulder 69 extends in the transverse plane which corresponds to the front face 52 of the rear shell 40.
• the sealing of the external body 20 at the orifices 64 can be obtained by O-rings 72 which are arranged in annular grooves 74 of the radial shoulders 69.
• the external body 20 When the external body 20 is closed, its mounting with the tailgate 12 can consist of inserting the fixing rods 62 into holes 75 and 76 of the external covering panel 26 and of the internal carrying structure 24 respectively, then locking their movements by nuts 78 from the internal front face of the tailgate 12.
• the external body 20 may include prepositioning and holding means which make it possible to hold it in position, relative to the internal load-bearing structure 24 when the fixing rods 62 are inserted into the holes 76.
• These prepositioning and holding means may consist of elastically deformable elements, such as hooks 80, shown in FIGS. 3 and 5, which extend from the front face 58 of the cover 42 in the assembly direction D.
• the holes 76 of the supporting structure 24 are provided with hooking and automatic fixing means, not shown, such as claw systems or any other equivalent system, so as to allow mounting and fixing according to the direction D without having to intervene subsequently, that is to say without having to intervene from inside the vehicle to ensure final fixing, this fixing being obtained, in direction D, in an "automatic" manner when the external body 20 in place in the housing 22.
• hooking and automatic fixing means such as claw systems or any other equivalent system
• the external body 20 comprises means for controlling the locking of the closed position of the tailgate 12.
• the locking control means can, without departing from the scope of the invention, lock the other moving parts of the vehicle such as the doors. They can also inhibit the vehicle engine starting circuits.
• the control means can comprise a movable control element between an unlocking position and a locking position, in known manner they can consist of a barrel which cooperates with a key so to block the movement of the tailgate opening lock.
• the tailgate opening lock can be a button which the user presses to cause the tailgate to open 12.
• the mobile control element can also comprise, in accordance with FIG. 4, a flexible and deformable membrane 82 which extends opposite an orifice 84 of the external body 20, here more particularly of the shell 40, and the wall of which inner 86 is conductive so that, when the membrane 82 is deformed towards the inside of the body 20, the inner wall 86 comes into contact with an electrically conductive element 88, and modifies the electrical state of an electrical circuit for controlling the locking of the movable tailgate 12.
• the locking of the movable tailgate consists in immobilizing the movable part or bolt of the electric lock 90.
• the locking control means comprise a capacitive type element.
• the membrane 82 advantageously comprises at its periphery an extra thickness 92 which is pinched between the internal face of the rear shell 40 and a holding element which is advantageously the electrically conductive element 88 itself.
• the electrically conductive element 88 can be fixed to the shell 40 by elastic deformation of fastening means, such as fingers 93 which extend from the internal face of the rear shell 40.
• control means can allow the locking and unlocking of the closed position of the tailgate 12.
• the control means of this type only allow locking.
• the means for controlling the locking of the closed position, the movable part may also include a receiving element, such as an antenna 94, intended to receive information representative of the locking command sent by external remote control means, such as '' a badge or electronic key.
• the rear shell 40 can be molded onto the receiving element.
• the receiving element can also be attached to the interior of the rear shell 40.
• the electric lock 90 operates here in a similar fashion to the means for controlling the locking of the closed position of the mobile part 12, that is to say that it comprises a flexible membrane 91 which closes an orifice 93 in the shell 40 and the face of which inner 95 is electrically conductive so that when it is deformed inward it comes into contact with a conductive element 97 of the electric lock 90 to allow the opening of the tailgate 12.
• the orifice 93 can also be sealed in a similar manner to that of the orifice 84.
• the external body 20 here comprises means 96 forming a handle for opening the tailgate 12.
• the means 96 consist of a rim which extends from the rear edge 98 of the orifice 93 allowing access to the electric lock 90.
• the user can, in a single movement, release the lock 90 and easily open the tailgate by a simple movement generally oriented upwards, the end of his fingers pressing against the rim 96.
• the external module 18 may include other components. One of them may be a light source.
• the light source may include a lighting unit, not shown, from inside the passenger compartment and / or the trunk of the vehicle 10.
• the lighting unit is received inside the cavity of the rear shell 40.
• the lighting unit is attached in a separable manner to the front face of the cover 42. They thus form a mobile lighting source that the user can separate from the external body 20 to orient the beam precisely. 'lighting.
• the lighting unit can be powered by a flexible electric wire, the length of which determines the maximum handling area of the unit.
• the block can also include a storage battery. The lighting unit is then autonomous and can serve as a lamp called flashlight or flashlight.
• the lighting unit When the lighting unit is attached to the external module 18, its storage battery is electrically connected to an electrical power source so as to recharge it electrically.
• the light source may also include a rear signaling light, not shown, in particular a brake, direction change, reversing signaling light, or a fog light, or a part of such a light.
• the light source may also include a lighting unit from the outside of the vehicle, such as a lighting unit 102 from the license plate 16.
• a lighting unit from the license plate is formed two lighting elements 104 which emit light beams through recessed areas 106 of the shell 40 which are opposite, here above, the license plate 16 and which are closed by transparent elements 107 which may have specific optical properties.
• the hollow areas 106 are sealed in known manner, for example by O-rings, not shown, arranged between their internal peripheries and the external periphery of the transparent elements 107.
• the means for controlling the locking of the closed position of the tailgate 12 comprise the flexible membrane 91
• the latter may extend transversely inside the shell cavity 40 beyond the recessed areas 106 so as to seal them.
• Another component may consist of an anti-intrusion device for the external body 20.
• Such a device can be produced in several ways.
• One of them consists in electrically connecting a conductive area of the module 18 to a conductive area facing the structure of the vehicle 10.
• an electric current flows between the vehicle itself and the equipment module 18 through said conductive areas.
• a device anti-intrusion such as an audible alarm and / or inhibiting the vehicle engine starting circuits.
• Another component may include an electronic vision system 120, in particular a camera, which is oriented towards the outside of the vehicle 10 and which provides information representative of the external environment located opposite the electronic vision system.
• an electronic vision system 120 in particular a camera, which is oriented towards the outside of the vehicle 10 and which provides information representative of the external environment located opposite the electronic vision system.
• the shell 40 has an opening 122 which allows the electronic optical vision system 120 to open towards the outside of the vehicle.
• the electronic optical vision system 120 is oriented towards the rear of the vehicle. It provides information representative of the external environment located opposite.
• a transparent protective cover is arranged between the exterior of the vehicle and the electronic vision system 120.
• a shock-absorbing element can be interposed between the electronic vision system 36 and the shell 40 to absorb the vibrations of the rear window so that the electronic vision system 120 is as stable as possible and provides the user with information. accurate.
• the seal at the corresponding opening 122 is obtained by the arrangement of a seal 124 of generally circular shape in a groove 126 provided for this purpose in an external cylindrical wall of the electronic vision system 120.
• a skirt 128 extends inwards from the internal face of the shell 40. It allows the free rear end 130 of the camera to be received 120.
• Electrical connections make it possible to supply it electrically but also to transmit the information representative of the external environment to a processing system, which then transmits the processed information to a display device on board the vehicle.
• the display device provides a representative image of the external environment vis-à-vis the electronic vision system 120.
• the display device such as a control screen provides the driver with a view of the environment located at the rear of the vehicle.
• Such an electronic optical vision system 120 associated with the display device makes it possible, for example, to replace the interior rear view mirror of the vehicle.
• the processing system can also determine a parameter relating to an object in the external environment.
• the object may be another stationary or moving vehicle.
• the parameter can be the relative speed or the distance between the object and the vehicle.
• the electronic vision system 36 then makes it possible to assist the driver during a maneuver, in particular during a slot, by indicating to him the distance which separates the rear of his vehicle and the object situated at the rear.
• Another component may also include a proximity detection system, not shown, in particular for assistance in parking the vehicle.
• Another component may also include a brightness sensor, not shown.
• the vehicle comprises a wiping device, not shown, of the rear glazed panel by means of a wiper blade driven in alternating wiping
• the external body 20 can also carry, on the external face of the hull 40, a element 139 forming a ramp, of known general design, which makes it possible to position the wiper arm in the parking position without the wiper squeegee carried by the blade being in abutment against a surface of the vehicle.
• the ramp 139 can be attached to the shell 40, partially embedded in it, or else made integrally by molding with the shell 40.
• a component may consist of a lock for locking its closed position.
• the locking means and / or at least one of the components which require it are connected to a source of electrical energy, not shown, which can be the storage battery or the alternator of the vehicle. Electrical connections can be made by wires
• the external body 20 When the external body 20 is made of an electrically insulating material, it can be molded around at least one track or cable made of electrically conductive material.
• the wires or the tracks can be electrically connected to a circuit-carrying plate 142 on which their free ends are electrically connected.
• the circuit-carrying plate 142 includes traces 144 of conductive materials which converge towards an area of reduced size allowing 146, so as to concern the connection areas 148.
• the circuit board 142 may also include electronic components, such as components 143 for controlling the antenna 94.
• the circuit-carrying plate 142 is made of flexible material which allows it to deform, in particular to bend it, so as to occupy free areas of the cavity 44 of the shell 40 and to minimize its size as well as the dimensions of the module. 18.
• all the power connection 144 or control connection zones are concentrated in the zone 146 so that the module 18 is connected to a single connector.
• the anti-intrusion device of the external body 24 may comprise the single connector.
• the single connector When the single connector is disconnected, it triggers the burglar-resistant device.
• the same wire can connect several components together, in particular to supply them electrically and / or control them.

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