Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
  • B60R—VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • B60R13/00—Elements for body-finishing, identifying, or decorating; Arrangements or adaptations for advertising purposes
  • B60R13/02—Internal Trim mouldings ; Internal Ledges; Wall liners for passenger compartments; Roof liners
  • B60R13/0206—Arrangements of fasteners and clips specially adapted for attaching inner vehicle liners or mouldings
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
  • B60R—VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • B60R13/00—Elements for body-finishing, identifying, or decorating; Arrangements or adaptations for advertising purposes
  • B60R13/02—Internal Trim mouldings ; Internal Ledges; Wall liners for passenger compartments; Roof liners
  • B60R13/0237—Side or rear panels
  • B60R13/0243—Doors
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
  • E05B—LOCKS; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; HANDCUFFS
  • E05B79/00—Mounting or connecting vehicle locks or parts thereof
  • E05B79/02—Mounting of vehicle locks or parts thereof
  • E05B79/06—Mounting of handles, e.g. to the wing or to the lock
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
  • E05B—LOCKS; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; HANDCUFFS
  • E05B85/00—Details of vehicle locks not provided for in groups E05B77/00 - E05B83/00
  • E05B85/10—Handles
  • E05B85/12—Inner door handles
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
  • F16B—DEVICES FOR FASTENING OR SECURING CONSTRUCTIONAL ELEMENTS OR MACHINE PARTS TOGETHER, e.g. NAILS, BOLTS, CIRCLIPS, CLAMPS, CLIPS OR WEDGES; JOINTS OR JOINTING
  • F16B5/00—Joining sheets or plates, e.g. panels, to one another or to strips or bars parallel to them
  • F16B5/06—Joining sheets or plates, e.g. panels, to one another or to strips or bars parallel to them by means of clamps or clips
  • F16B5/0607—Joining sheets or plates, e.g. panels, to one another or to strips or bars parallel to them by means of clamps or clips joining sheets or plates to each other
  • F16B5/0621—Joining sheets or plates, e.g. panels, to one another or to strips or bars parallel to them by means of clamps or clips joining sheets or plates to each other in parallel relationship
  • F16B5/0642—Joining sheets or plates, e.g. panels, to one another or to strips or bars parallel to them by means of clamps or clips joining sheets or plates to each other in parallel relationship the plates being arranged one on top of the other and in full close contact with each other
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
  • F16B—DEVICES FOR FASTENING OR SECURING CONSTRUCTIONAL ELEMENTS OR MACHINE PARTS TOGETHER, e.g. NAILS, BOLTS, CIRCLIPS, CLAMPS, CLIPS OR WEDGES; JOINTS OR JOINTING
  • F16B5/00—Joining sheets or plates, e.g. panels, to one another or to strips or bars parallel to them
  • F16B5/06—Joining sheets or plates, e.g. panels, to one another or to strips or bars parallel to them by means of clamps or clips
  • F16B5/0607—Joining sheets or plates, e.g. panels, to one another or to strips or bars parallel to them by means of clamps or clips joining sheets or plates to each other
  • F16B5/0621—Joining sheets or plates, e.g. panels, to one another or to strips or bars parallel to them by means of clamps or clips joining sheets or plates to each other in parallel relationship
  • F16B5/0664—Joining sheets or plates, e.g. panels, to one another or to strips or bars parallel to them by means of clamps or clips joining sheets or plates to each other in parallel relationship at least one of the sheets or plates having integrally formed or integrally connected snap-in-features

Definitions

• the invention lies in the field of clipped devices on a structural element without effort recovery by screwing such as the transverse opening commands (COI) transverse door of a vehicle clipped on sheet metal.
• COI transverse opening commands
• the invention also relates to vehicles having such devices.
• the interior opening controls are clipped onto a steel or aluminum sheet by means of three hooks.
• the controls are adapted to a given sheet thickness range. For example, they are adapted to be fixed on steel sheets whose thickness is between 0.6 and 0.75 mm.
• the gap at the hooks is slightly higher (about 0.8 mm) to the maximum sheet thickness envisaged in order to leave a necessary clearance for mounting the part in good conditions.
• This game generates, especially for the weakest sheet metal thicknesses, spurious noise during the breakdown of the door or during the rolling of the vehicle.
• Another problem encountered is a limitation of the thickness of the sheet that can be used in combination with the hooks.
• a hook size is associated with a range of sheet thickness, which causes problems of standardization of parts for different vehicles whose door thickness panels are different.
• steel and aluminum sheets have different thicknesses that can vary from single to double. Aluminum sheets are generally thicker than steel sheets.
• the invention aims to meet at least one of the disadvantages encountered by the prior art.
• the invention aims to provide the skilled person with a new internal door opening control can be mounted without fixing screws and can adapt to different sheet thicknesses.
• the subject of the invention is an internal door opening control box comprising a body and at least one rigid fixing means allowing a force recovery for fixing said housing to a structural element of a remarkable vehicle in that it comprises at least one resilient means intended to be placed opposite said structural element and configured to be placed in abutment against said structural element in order to exert a thrust force to press at least fastening means or body of the housing against said structural member.
• the assembly may comprise one or more of the following characteristics, taken separately or in any technically possible combination:
• At least one resilient means extends from the body of the housing.
• the direction of the thrust force of at least one resilient means is parallel to the force recovery direction of at least one fastening means.
• the housing comprises a plurality of fixing means and at least one elastic means is associated with each fixing means.
• the housing is designed to be fixed on a structural element whose thickness is between a minimum thickness E min and a maximum thickness E max , at least one fixing means defines a gap having a spacing greater than E max and at least one elastic means at rest present with the fixing means a gap in the direction of the air gap, which is less than or equal to E min .
• the thrust force is intended to press at least one fastening means against the structural member so that at least one fastening means and at least one resilient means form a clamp for clamping the structural member.
• the elastic means and the fixing means are configured to be placed on either side of the structural element so as to be able to tighten.
• At least one resilient means is integral with the body of the housing or with a fastening means.
• the thrust force of at least one elastic means on the structural element has a main component perpendicular to said structural element.
• at least one fastening means is a hook.
• At least one elastic means is a deformable tongue or a spring.
• the invention also relates to a remarkable vehicle in that it comprises at least one housing as defined above.
• US7243971 discloses a stressing blade projecting from a fastening clip and allowing the assembly of different parts.
• the device under consideration allows locking in position.
• the invention consists, according to a first aspect, of associating rigid fixing means (for example hooks) allowing a recovery of effort to elastic means.
• rigid fixing means for example hooks
• the elastic means then oppose the appearance of vibration phenomena likely to generate noise.
• the invention has the advantage of being applicable to the known fastening means defining gaps whose spacing is standard. It also makes it possible to increase the spacing presented by these air gaps in order to widen the range of thicknesses of elements on which they can be fixed.
• the invention consists in generating an elastic constraint at a rigid fixing means.
• the implementation of a rigid attachment means for a recovery of effort imposes mounting constraints involving the presence of a game and no deformation of the fastening means.
• the invention counterbalances the rigidity of the fastening means by adding elastic means forming a constraint opposing said fastening means (or the housing) so as to create a clamp capable of compensating for the differences between the spacing shown by the gap of the fastening means and the thickness of the structural element on which it is fixed.
• the elastic means serves to contain or even absorb the effects of variations in thickness of the structural element on which the housing is mounted.
• FIGS. 1 and 2 are front and rear elevational views of a door opening control to which the invention applies;
• FIGS. 4 to 6 illustrate the mode of cooperation of the rigid fixing means and the elastic means of compensation of the clearance.
• FIG. 1 An example of an internal door opening control box (1) to which the invention applies is shown in FIG. 1 as seen from the front.
• the housing (1) has a body (3) forming a base.
• the housing (1) forms a housing (5) in which is mounted a pivoting handle (7) for opening the door.
• the housing (1) is intended to be mounted on the vehicle structure on the passenger side.
• Figure 2 shows the same housing (1) seen from the rear.
• the body (3) shows a plurality of fixing means (9), for example regularly distributed fixing hooks.
• the hook (9) is an attachment element allowing the housing (1) to catch on the structural element.
• the hook (9) is advantageously in the form of a curved rod whose foot extends from the body (3) of the housing and whose curved portion defines with said body a gap.
• the gap presented by this gap namely the spacing between the curved portion of the hook (9) and the body (3) of the housing is chosen by those skilled in the art as being greater than or equal to the maximum thickness presented by the structural element on which the housing is intended to
• these hooks (9) have the function of fixing the housing (1) on the vehicle structure and in particular on a member (13) sheet. This fixing is done without screws, by clipping on the structural element. It will be understood that the hooks (9) have both a fixing function and a force recovery function. That's why they are necessarily rigid. For example they are designed to withstand a tensile force of up to 40 N.
• the mounting of the housing (1) on the structural element (13) is as follows: the hooks (9) are placed opposite openings (15) presented by the structural element (13) and inserted into these openings (15) in a direction of penetration substantially perpendicular to the surface of the structural element (13).
• the assembler pushes the housing (1) along the structural element in a translational movement direction M, so that the edges of the openings (15) penetrate into the air gap of the hooks (9).
• the clipping of the housing (1) on the structural element (13) is facilitated by the presence of a game that is to say by an air gap greater than the thickness presented by the structural element. Now it is precisely the presence of this game that generates the parasitic noise mentioned above including a vibratory phenomenon, so it is this game that is compensated and eliminated at least in part, and preferably completely, the invention.
• the housing (1) further comprises on its rear face at least one elastic means (1 1) intended to be placed facing the structural element.
• the elastic means is designed to show a direction of deformation substantially parallel to the direction of insertion of the hooks (9) in the openings intended to receive them. So that the elastic means (1 1) will be placed in abutment against the structural element and in order to exert a thrust force to move the rear face of the housing of the structural element and thus to press the hook against the other side of said structural element.
• the hook and the elastic means cooperate to thereby form a clamp for eliminating the clearance found in the air gap and the disadvantages thereof.
• the elastic means will press the structural element in the direction of the hooks.
• the elastic means are deformable, and therefore exert a thrust force, in a direction parallel to the direction of stress recovery of the hook (9).
• the hook and the elastic means are arranged on either side of the structural element they tighten.
• the elastic means (1 1) is advantageously a deformable tongue extending substantially parallel to the structural element.
• One of its ends is connected to the body of the housing and the other end advantageously has a relief extending towards the structural element as can be seen in Figure 4.
• the spacing "e1" between the curved portion of the hook and the relief presented by the deformable tongue is less than the gap "e2" presented by the hook.
• this spacing "e1" is less than or equal to the minimum thickness E min of the structural element on which the housing can be mounted.
• E min the minimum thickness of the structural element on which the housing can be mounted.
• the elastic means can take various forms that can be envisaged by those skilled in the art in order to fulfill its function of compensating the game.
• it can be in the form of a spring tab or in the form of a spring arranged on the rear face of the housing and intended to come to exert pressure against the structural element.
• the skilled person will benefit from obtaining the elastic means by molding together with the housing.
• the elastic means is integral with the body of the case, so that the solution is economical and does not generate overhead.
• the housing as well as the elastic means and the hooks are made of polyamide.
• At least one resilient means is associated with each hook and disposed near said hook to obtain a maximum compensation effect.

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