GB2550872A - Lamp fitting device - Google Patents
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- B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
- B60Q—ARRANGEMENT OF SIGNALLING OR LIGHTING DEVICES, THE MOUNTING OR SUPPORTING THEREOF OR CIRCUITS THEREFOR, FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL
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- B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
- B60Q—ARRANGEMENT OF SIGNALLING OR LIGHTING DEVICES, THE MOUNTING OR SUPPORTING THEREOF OR CIRCUITS THEREFOR, FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL
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- B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
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Abstract
The invention relates to a lamp fitting device 1 for aligning a lamp assembly (3, see fig 8) with a panel 5 of a vehicle. It includes a lamp aligning means for aligning the lamp fitting device with the lamp assembly and a panel aligning means for aligning the lamp fitting device with the panel. The lamp fitting device may thus be aligned with and attached to the lamp assembly, offered up and aligned with panel, so as to align the lamp assembly with an aperture (4, see fig 4) in the panel. Consequently the lamp assembly can be installed, then the lamp fitting device can be removed leaving the lamp assembly aligned with the panel. Additionally, the lamp fitting device may be made of a resilient material, an elastomer or a high friction surface. Finally, the device may have a removal means such as removable tabs.
Description
Lamp fitting device
Technical Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a lamp fitting device and a method of fitting a lamp using such a device. In particular, the invention relates to lamp fitting devices for fitting lamp assemblies / lamp clusters to automobiles and especially, but not exclusively, to fitting lamps to curved surfaces at the comer of automobiles.
Background to the Invention
The size and uniformity of panel gaps, the gaps between panels of automobiles (and other vehicles) and between panels and other components, such as lamps, are considered by many to be an indicator of quality. Customers desire small and uniform panel gaps and, especially in luxury cars, a perfect alignment of the surface and edges of one panel with each of its neighbours, or with the surface and edges of any other component that it is adjacent to.
Misalignment of some panels/components is easier to see than others. A non-uniform gap around the edge of a lamp can be easily noticed because the component is relatively small and the size of gaps all around the component (as well as the alignment of its front surface with adjacent panels) can sometimes be seen from one position; owing to the close proximity of one side of the lamp to another, they can be compared easily.
In certain circumstances, the lamp may be a feature intended to drawthe eye. The Bentley Bentayga launched at the 2015 Frankfurt Motor Show, for example, has LED daylight running lamps formed as an annulus surrounding washers, which are provided behind a circular cover, intended to appear as a floating part of the outer surface of the automobile, flush with the panel in which the lamp is mounted. These lamps are also provided on a curved surface at the front comers of the bonnet, where they are highly visible from a number of angles. Consequently, especially for this particular lamp, ensuring excellent alignment and uniformity of the panel gap is important. It will be understood, however, that good alignment in terms of panel gap and alignment of the surface of a lamp, with the surface of the panel(s) to which it is attached is desirable generally.
Summary of the Invention
According to a first aspect of the invention, there is provided a lamp fitting device for aligning a lamp assembly with a panel of a vehicle; the lamp fitting device comprising lamp aligning means for aligning the lamp fitting device with the lamp assembly and panel aligning means for aligning the lamp fitting device with the panel, whereby the lamp fitting device may be aligned with and attached to the lamp assembly, offered up and aligned with panel, so as to align the lamp assembly with an aperture in the panel such that the lamp assembly can be installed, then the lamp fitting device can be removed leaving the lamp assembly aligned with the panel.
The lamp fitting device is therefore capable of aligning a lamp assembly centrally in an aperture in a panel, before being removed, so as to leave a uniform panel gap between the lamp and the panel. This has the further benefit of turning a two-man assembly job into a job that can be carried out by one person, since no longer does one person have to align the lamp (or check its alignment from the outside of the vehicle) and hold the lamp assembly in position as another person fastens it into position (from behind the panel), because the lamp fitting device automatically aligns the lamp assembly.
The lamp fitting device may be formed of a resilient material. For example, the lamp fitting device may be formed of an elastomer, e g. synthetic rubber. Use of a resilient material such as an elastomer provides for the device to be self-aligning. Also, a resilient material may reduce in size allowing aligning features to be pulled out through a small gap between the lamp assembly and the panel. Moreover resilient materials such as elastomers typically have a tacky or high-friction surface allowing them to grip a lamp assembly and the panel and not slip off during installation.
The lamp fitting device may comprise removal means. For example, the lamp fitting device may comprise removal tabs. These can be easily gripped to pull the device out once the lamp assembly has been installed. The removal means may extend forwardly. That is to say, in use, the removal means may be provided on a forward surface and may extend through the aperture in the panel so as to be accessible from outside the vehicle.
The panel aligning means may be provided at a peripheral edge of the device.
The panel aligning means may comprise a plurality of ears arranged at the periphery of the device. The ears may extend rearwardly. The ears may be provided with lamp centralising means, such as ridges arranged to provide a resilient bias between the lamp assembly and the panel. The centralising ridges on the ears may face radially inwardly. Of course, alternative centralising formations could be used, and the ears can provide a centralising function without special centralising means.
The panel aligning means may be spaced around the peripheral edge of the device. They may be equally (i.e. substantially equally) spaced and/or each panel aligning means, e.g. each ear, may be provided opposite another panel aligning means. This leads to equal forces being provided on the device allowing a centralising effect.
The lamp aligning means may comprise one or more recesses arranged to mate with projections on the lamp assembly or vice versa. A plurality of recesses (or projections) may be provided and the recesses (or projections) may be differently shaped, asymmetric and/or asymmetrically arranged on the lamp fitting device. Indeed, the device may be asymmetrical. Provision of differing shapes and/or lack of symmetry avoid the lamp aligning device being misaligned on the lamp assembly.
The device may be generally circular, ovular, or annular. Lamp aligning means may be provided on a rearwardly extending frustoconical surface.
The device may comprise gripping means for gripping the lamp assembly. For example, one or more gripping formation, such as a gripping ridge may be provided on the device, for example, a series of gripping ridges may be provided on a rearwardly extending gripping portion, such as a tubular gripping portion.
The tubular gripping portion may be arranged radially inwardly so as to extend rearwardly into a bore (e.g. a central bore) in the lamp assembly, in which case it may be provided with radially outwardly extending gripping formations.
The lamp fitting device may be shaped to fit to an aperture in a panel at the comer of a vehicle, in particular the aperture may be in a curved surface at a corner. To this end, the panel aligning means and/or lamp aligning means may be arranged at acute and/or obtuse angles to a front surface of the lamp fitting device.
The lamp fitting device may be for fitting a headlight assembly or a daylight running lamp assembly.
According to a second aspect of the invention there is provided a method of fitting a lamp assembly to a vehicle comprising attaching a lamp fitting device to the lamp assembly offering up the lamp fitting device to a panel, so as to align the lamp assembly with an aperture in the panel, installing the lamp, and then removing the lamp fitting device.
The lamp fitting device may be a lamp fitting device according to the first aspect of the invention and may include any of the optional features.
The method may comprise offering up the lamp fitting device to the rear of a panel. The method may comprise removing the lamp fitting device by pulling it through the front of the aperture.
The method may comprise fitting a lamp assembly in a panel at a (dihedral or trihedral) corner of the vehicle. The method may comprise fitting a lamp assembly in an aperture on a panel at the front of a vehicle in a region that is curved.
The method may comprise fitting an embellisher in the aperture in the panel prior to, or after, aligning the lamp assembly with the aperture in the panel and installing the lamp.
The lamp assembly may be a headlight assembly or may be a daylight running lamp assembly.
The vehicle may be an automobile and a third aspect of the invention extends to a vehicle manufactured using the method of the second aspect of the invention, including any optional features.
Detailed Description of the Invention
In order that the invention may be more clearly understood an embodiment thereof will now be described, by way of example only, with reference to the accompanying drawings, of which:
Figure 1 shows a front view of a lamp fitting device;
Figure 2 shows a side view of the lamp fitting device of figure 1,
Figure 3 shows an isometric view of the lamp fitting device of figure 1;
Figure 4 shows a front view of a lamp assembly fitted to an automobile with the fitting device of figure 1;
Figure 5 shows a side view of a lamp assembly fitted to an automobile with the fitting device of figure 1;
Figure 6 shows a cross sectional view taken along line B-B in figure 4;
Figure 7 shows a cross sectional view taken along line C-C in figure 5;
Figure 8 shows an isometric view of the lamp fitting device of figure 1 fitted to a lamp assembly;
Figure 9 shows a rear view of part of a panel of an automobile in which the lamp assembly of figure 8 is to be fitted; and
Figure 10 shows a rear isometric view of the lamp assembly of figure 9 fitted to the panel of figure 9.
Referring to the drawings, a lamp fitting device 1 is a single component integrally formed of an elastomer, such as synthetic rubber, for example EPDM 65 Shore A which is resilient and has a high friction, grippy surface. The lamp fitting device 1 may be formed by moulding in a suitably shaped mould. The lamp fitting device 1 is intended to aid in fitting a lamp assembly 3 shown in figures 8 and 10, which comprises a lamp having a lens 2 (shown in figures 4 to 8) in an aperture 4 in the panel 5 of a vehicle, in this case an automobile 6 (best shown in figures 4 and 5). In the present embodiment an embellisher 7, in the form of a chrome ring is provided immediately adjacent the edge of the aperture 4 in the panel 5.
Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the size, and precise shape of the lamp fitting device 1 will be driven by the size and shape of the lamp assembly 3 and the aperture 4 into which it is to be fitted, but the principles can be applied to many different lamps.
The lamp assembly 3 of the present embodiment comprises a generally annular lens 2 having a radially outer side 8 and a radially inner side 9, as such, the lamp fitting device 1 is formed to fit to this shape. The lens 2 extends from the body 22 of the lamp assembly 3, which, as shown in figure 8 comprises three longitudinal positioning points 23, arranged to abut the panel 5 to ensure an accurate longitudinal position and a flush surface where the front of the panel and the lamp meet. A bracket 24 (shown in figure 9) is provided on the rear of the panel 5, to which the lamp assembly 3 may be attached. The bracket 24 has an opening 29 larger than the aperture 4 in the panel 5 and cutouts around that opening in the region where the longitudinal positioning points 23 meet the panel and is provided with fastening portions, in the form of three lugs 25 with apertures 26, through which adjustable fasteners 27 (shown in figure 10) attach the lamp assembly 3 to the vehicle, via corresponding lugs 28.
The annular lens 2 has a forward facing surface 10, which appears circular from the front, but, as it is intended to fit to a rearwardly curved panel, so in fact has an ovular shape. A generally frustoconical portion 11 of the lens 2 extends rearwardly from the inboard edge of the forward facing surface 10, to the generally cylindrical radially inner side 9 of the lens 2.
The lamp fitting device is designed to fit to the precise shape of the annular lens 2, since it is intended to ensure that with the front face 10 of the lens 2 flush with the front surface of the panel 4, the gap around the lens 2 (in which the embellisher 7 is provided) is uniform.
Consequently, in this embodiment, the lamp fitting device 1 is provided with various lamp aligning means and lamp gripping means provided to hold the lamp fitting device 1 on the lamp assembly 3. In particular, since the lens 2 is annular, the lamp fitting device is provided with lamp aligning/lamp gripping means in the form of a central cylindrical portion 12, provided with radially outwardly extending circumferential ridges 13, arranged to grip the inner side 9 of the lens 2.
Likewise, the lamp fitting device 1 has a generally frustoconical portion 14, the rear face of which is sized and shaped to fit snugly onto the generally frustoconical portion 11 of the lens 2. Moreover, the generally frustoconical portion 11 of the lens 2 is provided with projections (not shown) on its surface, which mate with recesses (not shown) on the rear surface of the frustoconical portion 14 of the lamp fitting device. Two generally c-shaped asymmetrical and different sized bumps 15 can be seen (best in figures 1-6) on the front surface of the generally frustoconical portion 14, which correspond to the recesses in the rear surface and the projections on the lens 2. These lamp aligning means are asymmetrical and different shapes, in order to avoid the possibility of incorrectly aligning the lamp fitting device 1 with the lamp assembly 3; this makes the mechanism “poka-yoke”. A generally ovular annular front face 16 is provided radially outwardly of the frustoconical portion 14 of the lamp fitting device. This front face 16 is scalloped, with six spaced, semi-circular cutouts 17 provided around its edge. At distal ends, between the cutouts 17, panel aligning means in the form of six spaced rearwardly extending ears 18 are provided. The spacing of the ears 18 and the cutouts 17 is such that looking face on (such that the annular front face 16 appears circular) they are equal - of course, since the front face is in fact ovular, the spacing is greater on the long sides than the short sides. The ears 18 are formed slightly thinner than the remainder of the device, for example, they can have a thickness of 1mm compared to a typical thickness of about 2mm in other areas (such as the central cylindrical portion 12). This renders the ears 18 more easily stretched and floppier.
Each ear 18 is provided with a radially outwardly extending bulge 19 and, as shown in figures 2 and 7, each outwardly extending bulge is provided with two longitudinally extending ridges 20 extending rearwardly along its radially inner surface. These ridges 20 provide an outwardly biasing (centralising) force, when the bulge is squeezed.
On the generally ovular annular front face 16, removal means 21 are provided. The removal means 21 are in the form of a plurality of (in this case 6) pull tabs, each arranged between the semi-circular cutouts 17 and extending away from the front face parallel to the rearwardly extending ears 18.
Referring to figures 4 to 10, in use, the lamp fitting device 1 is placed over the lens 2 of a lamp assembly as shown in figure 8, such that the central cylindrical portion 12, fits into the central aperture of the generally annular lens, and the radially outwardly extending circumferential ridges 13, grip the inner side 9 of the lens 2, as shown in figure 6. The lamp fitting device is oriented such that the projections (not shown) on the surface of the frustoconical portion 11 of the lens 2 mate with recesses (not shown) on the rear surface of the frustoconical portion 14 of the lamp fitting device 1. This aligns the lamp fitting device with the lamp assembly and results in the ears 18 extending rearwardly, aligned with and adjacent to the outer side 8 of the lens, as shown in figure 8 and with the bulge 19, as shown in solid lines in figure 6, spaced from the outer side 8 of the lens 2 by the ridges 20.
The lamp assembly 3, with the lamp fitting device (temporarily) attached thereto is then offered up to the rear of the panel 5 such that the lugs 28 of the assembly align with the lugs 25 of the bracket 24. As with the aligning recesses discussed above, the sets of three lugs 25, 28 are asymmetrically disposed, so that the lamp assembly is offered up in the correct orientation. The lamp assembly 3 is then presented to the aperture 4, such that the positioning points 23 abut the rear of the panel 5 ensuring that the front surface where the panel 5 meets the lens 2 is flush. This forces the ears, in particular the bulges 19 between the outside surface of the outer side 8 of the lens 2 and the inside edge of the embellisher 7, as shown in dotted lines in figure 6.
As the embellisher 7 is adj acent to, and concentric with, the aperture 4, each bulge 19, and in particular the ridges 20 are compressed between the lens 2 and the embellisher 7, each of the spaced bulges 19 has an opposite spaced bulge 19 and consequently, the compressive force is split equally between opposite bulges 19, centrally aligning the lamp assembly 3, and in particular the lens 2, in the aperture 4. The high friction of the lamp fitting device 1 holds the lamp assembly 3 in its centrally aligned position, whilst the user connects the lugs 28 of the lamp assembly 3 to respective lugs 26 of the bracket 24 via adjustable fasteners 27, and tightens the adjustable fasteners so as to hold the lamp assembly in the aligned position.
With the lamp assembly 3 centrally aligned in the aperture 4 of the panel 5 of the vehicle, as shown in figures 4 and 5, the lamp fitting device is pulled out of the aperture 4(through the front), by grasping the pull tabs 21 and pulling them forward, pulling the device 1 out of the aperture 4 and leaving the perfectly aligned lamp assembly 3 in position.
The above embodiment is described by way of example only. Many variations are possible without departing from the scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.
Claims (27)
1. A lamp fitting device for aligning a lamp assembly with a panel of a vehicle; the lamp fitting device comprising lamp aligning means for aligning the lamp fitting device with the lamp assembly and panel aligning means for aligning the lamp fitting device with the panel, whereby the lamp fitting device may be aligned with and attached to the lamp assembly, offered up and aligned with panel, so as to align the lamp assembly with an aperture in the panel such that the lamp assembly can be installed, then the lamp fitting device can be removed leaving the lamp assembly aligned with the panel.
2. A lamp fitting device according to claim 1 which is formed of a resilient material.
3. A lamp fitting device according to claim 2 which is formed of an elastomer.
4. A lamp fitting device according to claim 2 or 3 having a high-friction surface
5. A lamp fitting device according to any preceding claim comprising removal means.
6. A lamp fitting device according to claim 5 wherein the removal means comprise removal tabs.
7. A lamp fitting device according to any preceding claim wherein the panel aligning means is provided at a peripheral edge of the device.
8. A lamp fitting device according to claim 7 wherein the panel aligning means comprise a plurality ofrearwardly extending ears arranged at the periphery ofthe device.
9. A lamp fitting device according to any preceding claim wherein the panel aligning means is provided with lamp centralising means.
10. A lamp fitting device according to claim 9 wherein the lamp centralising means comprise radially inwardly facing ridges arranged to provide a resilient bias between the lamp assembly and the panel.
11. A lamp fitting device according to preceding claim wherein panel aligning means are spaced around the peripheral edge of the device.
12. A lamp fitting device according to claim 11 wherein the panel aligning means are equally spaced.
13. A lamp fitting device according to any preceding claim wherein lamp aligning means comprise one or more recesses arranged to mate with projections on the lamp assembly or vice versa.
14. A lamp fitting device according to claim 13 comprising a plurality of recesses or projections which are differently shaped, asymmetric and/or asymmetrically arranged on the lamp fitting device.
15. A lamp fitting device according to any preceding claim which is generally circular, ovular, or annular and wherein lamp aligning means may be provided on a rearwardly extending frustoconical surface.
16. A lamp fitting device according to any preceding claim comprising gripping means for gripping the lamp assembly.
17. A lamp fitting device according to claim 16 wherein the gripping means comprise a series of gripping ridges provided on a rearwardly extending tubular gripping portion.
18. A lamp fitting device according to any preceding claim which is shaped to fit to an aperture in a curved surface of a panel at the comer of a vehicle.
19. A lamp fitting device according to any preceding claim for fitting a headlight assembly or a daylight running lamp assembly.
20. A method of fitting a lamp assembly to a vehicle comprising attaching a lamp fitting device to the lamp assembly, offering up the lamp fitting device to a panel, so as to align the lamp assembly with an aperture in the panel, installing the lamp, and then removing the lamp fitting device.
21. A method according to claim 20 wherein the lamp fitting device is a lamp fitting device according to any of claims 1-19.
22. A method according to claim 20 or 21 comprising offering up the lamp fitting device to the rear of a panel.
23. A method according to any of claims 20 to 22 comprising removing the lamp fitting device by pulling it through the front of the aperture.
24. A method according to any of claims 20 to 23 comprising fitting a lamp assembly in a panel at a dihedral or trihedral comer of the vehicle.
25. A method according to any of claims 20 to 24 comprising fitting a lamp assembly in an aperture on a panel at the front of a vehicle in a region that is curved.
26. A method according to any of claims 20 to 25 comprising fitting an embellisher in the aperture in the panel prior to, or after, aligning the lamp assembly with the aperture in the panel and installing the lamp.
27. A lamp fitting device or method of fitting a lamp substantially as described herein with reference to the accompanying drawings.
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