JP2006056400A - Instrument panel structure for vehicle - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an instrument panel structure for a vehicle capable of improving the flexibility of an arrangement position of a blow-off port of conditioned air. <P>SOLUTION: The instrument panel structure for the vehicle is provided with a front instrument panel 12 connected to a vehicle body frame 15, and a rear instrument panel 13 supported by the front instrument panel 12 in parallel so as to separate in a fore-and-aft direction of a vehicle. Either of the front instrument panel 12 or the rear instrument panel 13 is provided with a blow-off port 33 constituted of a hollow structure in which conditioned air can circulate and blowing off the conditioned air into a vehicular cabin. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a vehicle instrument panel structure.

With regard to the instrument panel structure for a vehicle, for example, there is a technique for reducing the number of parts and the number of assembling steps by using an internal space of a steering support member or a cross member as a ventilation passage for air conditioning air (for example, Patent Documents 1 and 2). reference).
JP 2002-172923 A Japanese Patent No. 3294659

  In any of the conventional vehicle instrument panel structures including the above-described vehicle instrument panel structure, the arrangement positions of the air-conditioning air outlets are limited to the upper, rear, and lower three directions.

  Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide an instrument panel structure for a vehicle that can increase the degree of freedom of the arrangement position of the air-conditioning air outlet.

  In order to achieve the above object, the invention according to claim 1 includes a front instrument panel (for example, the front instrument panel 12 in the embodiment) connected to a vehicle body frame (for example, the front pillar 15 in the embodiment), A vehicle instrument panel structure in which a rear instrument panel (for example, the rear instrument panel 13 in the embodiment) supported by the front instrument panel is arranged in parallel in the front-rear direction of the vehicle. One of the front instrument panel and the rear instrument panel is configured with a hollow structure through which air-conditioned air can flow, and a blow-out port that blows the air-conditioned air into the vehicle interior (for example, the blow-out port 33 in the embodiment, 34) is provided.

  The invention according to claim 2 is the invention according to claim 1, wherein the rear instrument panel is configured with a hollow structure through which air-conditioned air can flow, and the air outlet is connected to the vehicle from the rear instrument panel. It is characterized by opening toward the front.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, the front instrument panel connected to the vehicle body frame and the rear instrument panel supported by the front instrument panel are arranged side by side in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, Since either one of the front instrument panel and the rear instrument panel has a hollow structure through which air-conditioned air can flow, and a blow-out opening for blowing the air-conditioned air into the vehicle interior is provided on one of these, for example, the rear instrument panel If the air-conditioning air has a hollow structure, the air outlet can be opened forward of the vehicle or outward in the vehicle width direction. Therefore, the freedom degree of the arrangement position of the blower outlet of air-conditioning air can be raised.

  According to the invention which concerns on Claim 2, since the rear instrument panel is made into the hollow structure which can distribute | circulate air-conditioning air inside, since the blower outlet is opened toward the vehicle front from a rear instrument panel, Direct blowout toward the passenger can be prevented.

  An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In addition, before and after in the following description is before and after the vehicle.

  FIG. 1 shows a front portion of a vehicle. In this embodiment, an instrument panel 11 is divided into a front instrument panel 12 and a rear instrument panel 13 that are arranged side by side in the front-rear direction. ing. A display unit 22 for displaying vehicle information is provided on the front instrument panel 12, and a vehicle operation unit 38 is provided on the rear instrument panel 13.

  Further, in the present embodiment, the front front pillar portion in which the upper portions of the left and right front pillars 15 constituting the body frame are arranged side by side so that the upper end portions are connected to each other and the lower end portions are separated in the front-rear direction. 16 and a rear front pillar portion 17. Here, the cross section of the rear front pillar portion 17 is larger than that of the front front pillar portion 16. Thus, by reducing the cross section of the front front pillar portion 16, the front field of view is expanded to ensure visibility. It is supposed to be.

  The front instrument panel 12 is provided so as to extend in the vehicle width direction in the vicinity of the lower edge of the front windshield 20 shown in FIG. 2, and as shown in FIG. By connecting the 16, the rigidity of the front front pillar portion 16 whose cross section is reduced is compensated.

  As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the front instrument panel 12 is provided with a display unit 22 that displays vehicle information such as the vehicle speed toward the driver on the driver side in the vehicle width direction. Since the display unit 22 is provided on the front instrument panel 12 and the operation unit 38 is provided separately from the rear instrument panel 13, the display unit 22 can be reliably disposed away from the driver. The display unit 22 can be confirmed without greatly shifting the line of sight from the front window. Thereby, the visibility of the display unit 22 is improved.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 and 4, the rear portion of the center of the front instrument panel 12 in the vehicle width direction extends rearward in a state where the support portion 25 is disposed substantially horizontally. The rear instrument panel 13 is fixed to the rear end portion in a state extending in the vehicle width direction. Thus, the rear instrument panel 13 supported by the front instrument panel 12 via the support portion 25 is provided between the left and right rear front pillar portions 17 so as to be separated from the rear front pillar portions 17. . The rear instrument panel 13 does not require a particularly high rigidity, and therefore has a lower rigidity than the front instrument panel 12 that requires rigidity in order to supplement the rigidity of the front front pillar part 16 (that is, the front part). The rigidity of the instrument panel 12 is higher than the rigidity of the rear instrument panel 13).

  The rear instrument panel 13 is made of, for example, a magnesium alloy and has a hollow cylindrical main portion 30 that is fixed to the support portion 25 in a state extending in the vehicle width direction, and a cover that covers the rear side from the upper side of the main portion 30. The member 31 is composed of a knee bolster 32 on the lower side of the main portion 30 and the like.

  Here, as shown in FIG. 5, the support portion 25 also has a hollow structure having an internal space 25 </ b> A, and the internal space 25 </ b> A communicates with the internal space 30 </ b> A of the main portion 30 of the rear instrument panel 13. The internal space 25 </ b> A of the support portion 25 is a passage for air-conditioning air from an air conditioner (not shown) provided on the front instrument panel 12 side, and introduces air-conditioning air into the internal space 30 </ b> A of the main portion 30. Thereby, the main part 30 of the rear instrument panel 17 has a hollow structure through which air-conditioned air can circulate.

  The main portion 30 is opened at both sides in the vehicle width direction to serve as a blow-out port 33, and the main portion 30 is formed with a blow-out port 34 that blows air-conditioned air forward by opening forward.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 to 4, an operation unit 38 having a steering 36, a shift lever 37, and the like is provided on the driver seat side of the rear instrument panel 13. As shown in FIG. 3, the operation unit 38 is further provided with a starter switch 40, an air conditioner control switch 41, a hazard switch 42, an audio switch 43, a driver support system switch 44, an information switch 45, and the like.

  As shown in FIG. 4, a slide rail portion 49 is embedded in the vehicle body floor 48 so as to extend in the front-rear direction, and a lower leg portion 52 that supports the operation portion 38 is formed by the slide rail portion 49. It is provided so that it can slide back and forth. The leg 52 is provided with an operation pedal 53.

  A notch 51 that can receive the rear instrument panel 13 when the operation part 38 moves forward is formed in the lower front side of the operation part 38, and between the notch 51 and the main part 30 of the rear instrument panel 13. The operation unit 38 is supported so as to be slidable back and forth with respect to the rear instrument panel 13.

  Further, the leg portion 52 is provided with an adjustment portion (not shown) that enables the position adjustment of the operation pedal 53 with respect to the operation portion 38 in the front-rear direction.

  Therefore, if necessary, the leg portion 52 is guided by the slide rail portion 49 and slides forward and backward, and if necessary, the operation portion 38 is guided by the slide portion 50 and slides forward and backward with respect to the rear instrument panel 13, and is illustrated if necessary. The adjusting unit adjusts the position of the operation pedal 53 in the front-rear direction with respect to the operation unit 38, so that the operation unit 38 and the operation pedal 53 adjust the position in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle body.

  All operation inputs to the operation unit 38 are input to a control device (not shown) via an electric cable (not shown), and the electric cable also passes through the support unit 25 and is on the front instrument panel 12 side. It extends to.

  A center multi-monitor 60 for display of a car navigation system or the like is provided at the center upper portion of the main portion 30 of the rear instrument panel 13, and the front of the upper portion of the center multi-monitor 60 and the upper portion of the support portion 25 is provided. A visor 61 is installed between the front instrument panel 12 and the instrument panel 12. The support portion 25 is covered with the visor 61.

  According to this embodiment described above, the front instrument panel 12 connected to the front pillar 15 and the rear instrument panel 13 supported by the front instrument panel 12 are separated in the vehicle front-rear direction. The rear instrument panel 13 has a hollow structure through which air-conditioned air can flow and the rear instrument panel 13 is provided with outlets 33 and 34 for blowing the air-conditioned air into the passenger compartment. While being able to open toward the vehicle width direction outward, the blower outlet 34 can be opened toward the vehicle front, and direct blowing of the air-conditioned air toward the passenger can be prevented. Thus, the freedom degree of the arrangement position of the blower outlet of air-conditioning air can be raised. The front instrument panel 12 may have a hollow structure through which air-conditioned air can flow, and the front instrument panel 12 may be provided with a blow-out port that blows air-conditioned air into the vehicle interior.

1 is a perspective view showing a front portion of a vehicle to which an embodiment of the present invention is applied. It is a front view which shows the vehicle interior front part of the vehicle to which one Embodiment of this invention was applied. 1 is an enlarged front view showing a front part of a vehicle interior of a vehicle to which an embodiment of the present invention is applied. [BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS] It is a side view which shows the vehicle interior front part of the vehicle to which one Embodiment of this invention was applied. It is the figure which looked at the rear part instrument panel in the vehicle interior front part of the vehicle to which one Embodiment of this invention was applied from the vehicle body front.

Explanation of symbols

12 Front instrument panel 13 Rear instrument panel 15 Front pillar (body frame)
33, 34 outlet

Claims (2)

A vehicle instrument panel structure in which a front instrument panel connected to a vehicle body frame and a rear instrument panel supported by the front instrument panel are arranged side by side in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle,
Either one of the front instrument panel and the rear instrument panel is configured with a hollow structure through which air-conditioned air can flow and is provided with a blowout port for blowing the air-conditioned air into the vehicle interior. A characteristic instrument panel structure for vehicles. The said rear instrument panel is comprised by the hollow structure through which air-conditioning air can distribute | circulate through the inside, The said blower outlet is opened toward the vehicle front from the said rear instrument panel. The vehicle instrument panel structure described.

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