JP2000272330A - Floor console - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a structure which secures sufficient depth in a console box and which does not limit design and installation of such member as a gear shifting lever that is disposed on a console by reducing a cost of parts constituting a floor console which is configured so that air with controlled temperature from an air conditioner is discharged to rear seat side. SOLUTION: A floor console 10 is disposed on a floor between a driver's seat and a front passenger's seat in a vehicle and has, at its rear portion, an air outlet 16 with opening faces toward rear seat side. The air outlet is communicated with an air conditioning duct which is lead from an air conditioner mounted on vehicle, so that temperature-controlled air can be discharged from the air outlet to the rear seat. At least on one of side panels 12, 12 provided in right and left of the console, a duct portion 22 whose one end communicates with the air outlet is integrally formed. The other end of this duct communicates with the air conditioning duct.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an improvement in a floor console capable of blowing temperature-controlled air from an air conditioner toward a rear seat.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art For example, a floor console is generally provided on a floor between a driver's seat and a passenger seat of a passenger car.
Inside the floor console, an article storage section for storing various booths is defined, and a shift lever for floor shift is provided.

[0003] Most of recent vehicles such as passenger cars are equipped with an air conditioner (air conditioner) for adjusting the temperature inside the vehicle, and the outlet of the conditioned air (cool air / warm air) from the air conditioner is generally provided. It is attached to the dashboard on the driver's side.
Therefore, for example, in a passenger car divided into a driver's seat and a rear seat, the effect of air conditioning on the rear seat side is often not sufficient. Therefore, in order to make the air conditioning at the passenger seats effective, the air-conditioning duct derived from the air-conditioning equipment and directed to the air outlet of the dashboard is branched backward, and the branch-side duct is provided on the rear side of the floor console. A proposal to communicate with the provided air outlet has been put to practical use.

FIG. 7 is a perspective view of a floor console 10 according to the prior art having an air outlet to the rear seat side. FIG. 7 shows a cover body 24 and an article storage which are attached to a shift lever arrangement portion of the console. The lid of box 14 is shown removed. 8 is a partially cutaway front view of the floor console 10 shown in FIG. 7, and FIG.
0 is a partially cutaway plan view. As shown in FIG. 9, the floor console 10 is provided with two side plates 12, 12 facing each other with a required interval, and a separately formed article storage box 14 is incorporated inside the console 10. Air outlets 16 and 16 are provided on the right side of the floor console 10 shown in FIGS.
Are opened in parallel in the horizontal direction, and the other ends of the air conditioning ducts 18, 18 each having one end connected to an air conditioner (not shown) are connected to the air outlets 16, 16. To the rear seat side. Note that reference numeral 20 in FIG. 8 indicates a lid of the article storage box 14.

[0005]

The above-mentioned floor console 1
At 0, the air-conditioning duct 18 connecting the air-conditioning equipment and the respective air outlets 16 is generally manufactured by blow molding, but is separate from various members such as the side plate 12 constituting the floor console 10. . For this reason, the component cost required for the floor console 10 is currently inevitably increased as a whole. Further, when the air conditioning duct 18 is stored inside the floor console 10, it occupies a considerable volume in the console 10. For example, the article storage box 14 is housed in the floor console 10 as described above. As can be seen from FIG. 8, since the air conditioning duct 18 extends horizontally below the box 14, the bottom of the box 14 is Inevitably, they are subject to depth regulation. Therefore, the article storage box 14 cannot be provided with a sufficient depth, which causes a shortage of the article storage volume. The above-mentioned shift lever (not shown) is disposed on the floor console 10. However, there is also a difficulty in design and assembly due to the presence of the air conditioning duct 18 located below the console 10. be pointed out.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been proposed to solve the above-mentioned problems suitably, and is intended to provide a floor console having a structure in which temperature-controlled air from an air conditioner is blown toward a rear seat. It is possible to reduce the cost required for the components that make up the console, and to ensure that the article storage box has a sufficient depth so that the storage capacity of the articles does not become insufficient, and that the speed change provided in the console can be reduced. It is another object of the present invention to provide a structure in which members such as levers are not restricted by design and assembly.

[0007]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to overcome the above problems and achieve the intended object, the present invention is provided on a floor located between a driver's seat and a passenger seat of a vehicle, and has a rear side. An air outlet opening toward the rear seat side is provided, and by connecting an air conditioning duct derived from an air conditioner mounted on the vehicle to the air outlet, temperature-controlled air can be blown out from the air outlet to the rear seat. In the configured floor console, at least one of the left and right side plates of the floor console,
One end is formed integrally with a duct portion communicating with the air outlet, and the other end of the duct portion is configured to communicate with the air conditioning duct. In this case, it is preferable that the duct is formed inside the side console by hollowing the side console of the floor console by blow molding.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, a floor console according to the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings by way of preferred embodiments. 7 to 9, the same or equivalent members as those already described are denoted by the same reference numerals, and detailed description thereof will be omitted.

FIG. 1 shows a floor console 10 according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention in a perspective state during assembly. The two opposing side plates 12 constituting the floor console 10 shown in the drawing have a hollow duct portion 22 formed integrally inside the side plates 12 in advance in a manufacturing stage, for example, by a blow molding technique. . That is, by blow molding the side plate 12, the inside of the side plate 12 is hollowed and the duct portion 22 is formed integrally at the same time. In this case, as shown in the plan view of FIG. 3, the duct portion 22 is formed so as to be as flat and thin as possible, and its one end 22a is located on the left side (not shown in FIG. ) And open. As shown in FIGS. 1 and 4, the other end 22b of the duct portion 22 is connected to the air outlet 16 opened on the right side (the rear seat side (not shown)) of the floor console 10. I have.

In addition to the blow molding, the duct 22
Can be provided on the side plate 12 by, for example, an injection molding technique. However, as described later, injection molding has a drawback that the injection molding is considerably bulkier than the blow molding. The air outlet 16 described above is formed separately from the duct portion 22,
The side plate 12 and the duct portion 22 may be integrally molded at the same time as the molding.

As shown in FIG. 1, the side consoles 12 formed with the duct portion 22 are formed as a set, and the side panels 12, 12 are opposed to each other at a required interval as shown in FIG.
The basic set is made. The air outlet 1 is located on the right side of the floor console 10, that is, the side facing the rear seat.
Attach the air blowing plate 26 having the openings 6 and 16. At this time, the other opening 22b in each duct 22 is
The air outlet plate 26 is connected to each corresponding air outlet 16. FIG. 5 shows a connection state between the opening 22b of the duct portion 22 and the air outlet 16, and FIG. 6 shows a state in which the conditioned air is blown out from the air outlet 16.

An article storage box 14 is incorporated into the floor console 10 on the rear seat side (not shown), and a cover 2 for covering a shift lever (both not shown) is installed on the driver's seat side.
4 are deposited. The floor console 10 shown in FIG.
The one opening 22a opening to the left of the duct 22 is connected to the opening end of the air-conditioning duct 18 which is led out from an air conditioner (not shown) along the vehicle floor.
Since the duct portion 22 is formed integrally with the side plate 12, there is nothing below the article storage box 14 that regulates the depth of the box. Therefore, the article storage box 14
As can be clearly seen from FIG. 4, a sufficient depth can be ensured, so that the article storage volume is enlarged.

As described above, in the conventional console 10, the side plates 12, 12 constituting the console 10 and the air-conditioning duct 18 derived from the air-conditioning equipment are formed separately from each other. According to the console 10, since the side plate 12 and the duct portion 22 are integrally formed, the cost of parts can be reduced and the number of assembling steps can be reduced. Further, since there is no air conditioning duct below the article storage box 14, the article storage volume of the box can be made sufficient. Further, a shift lever (not shown) is provided on the floor console 10,
Since there is no duct at the location, there is no restriction on design and assembly. In the illustrated embodiment, two side plates 1 constituting the floor console 10 are provided.
Although the duct portion 22 is integrally formed on both of the members 2 and 12, it is needless to say that the duct portion 22 may be integrally formed on only one side plate 12 as necessary.

As described above, the duct 22 is connected to the side plate 1.
In the case of integrally molding into 2, the molding can be performed not only by blow molding technology but also by injection molding technology, for example. In order to perform injection molding in this case, it is necessary to increase the size of the mold and increase the rigidity in order to withstand a large pressure. Therefore, in contrast to blow molding which requires only a low pressure, a mold can be manufactured inexpensively, whereas injection molding has a disadvantage that the mold manufacturing cost increases. The side panel 12 of the floor console 10
In general, it is generally required to decorate the surface as in graining. In this case, in injection molding, it is expensive to process patterns such as grain on the mold surface, but if it is blow molding, it is only necessary to insert and mold the surface material with grain in the mold, Since a grain pattern can be formed on the side plate surface, it is advantageous in terms of cost and labor.

[0015]

As described above, the floor console according to the present invention has the following advantageous effects. (1) In a floor console having a configuration in which the conditioned air from the air conditioner is blown out to the rear seat side, since the side plate and the duct portion are integrally formed, component costs can be reduced. In addition, the storage space for parts can be reduced, and the labor required for inventory management of parts can be reduced. Further, the number of steps required for assembling parts can be reduced. (2) In the floor console, a sufficient depth of the article storage box can be ensured, so that the storage capacity of the articles does not become insufficient. (3) Design and assembly restrictions are also avoided for members such as shift levers provided on the floor console.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a floor console according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention in an exploded state during assembly.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a state in which an article storage box is incorporated in the floor console shown in FIG. 1 and a cover body is not attached to a position where a shift lever is disposed.

FIG. 3 is a plan view showing a floor console according to a preferred embodiment with a part cut away.

FIG. 4 is a front view of the floor console according to the preferred embodiment with a portion cut away.

5 is a partially cutaway right side view of the floor console shown in FIG. 4;

FIG. 6 is a partial perspective view showing a state of an air outlet opening to the rear seat side in the floor console according to the preferred embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a perspective view of a floor console according to the prior art having an air outlet to the rear seat side.

8 is a partially cutaway front view of the conventional floor console shown in FIG.

9 is a partially cutaway plan view of the conventional floor console shown in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Floor console 12 Side plate 14 Article storage box 16 Air outlet 18 Air-conditioning duct 20 Lid 22 Duct part 24 Cover 26 Air blowing plate

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. An air conditioner mounted on a vehicle, comprising an air outlet (16) disposed on a floor surface located between a driver's seat and a passenger seat of the vehicle and opening toward a rear seat side at a rear side. By connecting the air conditioning duct (18) derived from the air outlet (16) to the air outlet (16), the floor console (10) configured to be able to blow out the temperature-controlled air from the air outlet (16) to the rear seat. At least one of the left and right side plates (12, 12) of the floor console (10) is integrally formed with a duct portion (22) having one end communicating with the air outlet (16). A floor console wherein the other end is configured to communicate with the air conditioning duct (18). 2. The duct section (22) is formed inside the side panel (12) by hollowing the side panel (12) of the floor console (10) by blow molding. Floor console.