JP2008279907A - Fixing structure for floor carpet - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily fix a terminal end in a vehicle width direction of a floor carpet to a locker panel. <P>SOLUTION: The fixing structure for the floor carpet is provided with a protector provided with a gutter-like body inserted with a wire harness wired along an upper surface of the locker panel, and a cover for closing an upper surface opening of the body; a clamp inserted and fixed to the locker panel from a bottom wall side of the body of the protector; and an outer plate part at the outside with a clearance from the outer wall in a vehicle width direction of the body. A floor carpet engagement part is provided on the outer plate part, and an engagement hole is provided at a terminal side in the vehicle width direction of the floor carpet. The floor carpet is laid on an upper surface of the protector fixed to the locker panel through a clamp, a terminal side of the floor carpet is downwardly bent, and an engagement part of the floor carpet is inserted and engaged to/with the engagement hole to fix it. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a floor carpet fixing structure laid on a floor of an automobile.

  The floor carpet laid on the upper surface of the car floor must be fixed to the floor panel and other parts because the terminal in the vehicle width direction turns up or shifts in the front / rear / right / left direction. A fixed structure is provided.

For example, in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2003-267115 (Patent Document 1), a carpet hook that is engaged with a wire harness clamp fixed to the upper surface of a rocker is provided, and a vehicle width direction terminal of a floor carpet is sewn to the carpet hook by sewing. Or using a tacker or adhesive.
Further, in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2004-122809 (Patent Document 2), as shown in FIG. 7, a hole 1a is formed in the floor carpet 1, and the locking means 3a to the rocker panel 2 and the hole 1a are engaged. A base 3 having an engaging projection 3b to be stopped, a wire harness holding portion 4 connected to the base 3 so as to be swingable in a contact / separation direction, and a floor between the wire harness holding portion 4 and the base 3 A holding portion locking means 5 for locking the wire harness holding portion 4 to the base 3 in a state where the terminal 1b of the carpet 1 is sandwiched is provided.
That is, the engagement protrusion 3 b is engaged with the hole 1 a provided in the floor carpet 1, and the terminal 1 b of the floor carpet 1 is sandwiched and fixed between the base body 3 and the wire harness holding portion 4.

JP 2003-267115 A JP 2004-122809 A

In the floor carpet fixing structure of Patent Document 1, a carpet hook is required, and the end of the floor carpet in the vehicle width direction needs to be fixed to the carpet hook with sewing or an adhesive. There are increasing problems.
Further, in the floor carpet fixing structure of Patent Document 2, the wire harness and the floor carpet are fixed before the floor carpet in the assembling process to the vehicle, and thus are assembled on the rocker first. It is necessary to lift the wire harness and lay the floor carpet. The engagement of the engagement protrusion into the hole in the floor carpet and the work of fixing the floor carpet to hold the end of the floor carpet between the base and the wire harness holding part It will take time. In addition, since it is necessary to lift the wire harness once routed to the rocker, the wire harness holding part can be swung in and away from the base, and after the floor carpet is laid and fixed, the wire harness holding part and the base There is a problem that the holding portion locking means 5 is required to lock the structure, and the configuration becomes complicated. Furthermore, it is necessary to attach a scuff plate to conceal the hole in the floor carpet and improve the appearance.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and as in Patent Document 2, a protector that penetrates and protects a wire harness while eliminating the work of pulling up a wire harness once routed and laying a floor carpet. It is an object to make it possible to easily fix the terminal of the floor carpet in the vehicle width direction and improve the appearance without using a scuff plate.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides a protector comprising a hook-shaped main body that passes through a wire harness routed along the upper surface of the rocker panel, and a cover that closes the upper surface opening of the main body.
A clamp for inserting and fixing to the rocker panel from the bottom wall side of the body of the protector is provided, and an outer side plate portion is provided outward from the outer wall in the vehicle width direction of the main body, and a floor carpet is provided on the outer side plate portion. While having a locking part,
A locking hole is provided on the end of the floor carpet in the vehicle width direction.
The floor carpet is laid on the upper surface of a protector fixed to the rocker panel via a clamp, the end of the floor carpet is bent downward, and the floor carpet locking portion is inserted and locked into the locking hole. A floor carpet fixing structure characterized by being fixed is provided.

As described above, in the present invention, the protector having the wire harness inserted through the rocker panel is fixed to the rocker panel with the clamp, and then laid on the upper surface of the floor carpet protector, and the end of the floor carpet in the vehicle width direction is connected to the protector. The floor carpet is fixed by inserting and locking the floor carpet locking portion into a locking hole provided in the bent portion.
Therefore, when laying and fixing the floor carpet, it is not necessary to lift the protector containing the wire harness from the rocker panel, so that the work can be simplified and the working time can be shortened and the number of parts can be reduced. You can also.

  An upper end of the outer plate portion is bent to provide the floor carpet locking portion formed of a spring piece portion, and the height of the floor carpet locking portion is lower than the outer wall of the main body, and the spring piece portion and the protector are provided. It is preferable that the terminal side of the floor carpet is bent and inserted between the outer wall of the main body and the spring piece is inserted and locked in the locking hole.

  The floor harness locking portion is formed from a spring piece by bending the upper end of the outer plate portion into a "<" shape, and the spring piece is elastically contacted with the outer wall of the protector body, When the spring piece is inserted between the outer wall of the protector body and the spring piece portion, the bent portion of the spring piece portion is automatically inserted at the position of the locking hole provided in the floor carpet. be able to. In addition, the end of the floor carpet on the tip side of the locking hole can be sandwiched between the outer wall of the protector body and the outer wall of the fixing plate.

  It is preferable that a fixing plate integrally including an outer plate portion having the clamp and the floor carpet engaging portion is provided, and the fixing plate is connected and fixed to the bottom wall of the protector at intervals in the length direction. .

That is, when the fixing plate integrally formed with the clamp and the floor carpet engaging portion is provided separately from the protector and connected and fixed, the protector can be provided by extrusion molding, and the protector can be provided with an interval in the length direction of the protector. The fixing plate is connected and fixed by opening.
The main body and the cover of the protector may be separated from each other. However, if one end of the cover is attached to the upper end of one side of the side wall of the bowl-shaped main body having an open upper surface via a thin hinge, the main body and the cover The protector main body consisting of the above can be integrally extruded.
In this case, the latching portion of the cover and the latched portion of the main body are provided with a latching piece continuously provided in the length direction, which is provided with a claw that is mutually locked by extrusion molding.
Thus, when a protector is formed by extrusion molding with the main body and the cover integrated, the protector can be connected easily and inexpensively.

Instead of connecting and fixing the protector and the fixing plate as separate bodies, they may be integrally provided by injection molding.
In that case, the clamp protrudes from the bottom wall of the protector, extends outward from the bottom wall, and then the outer plate portion is erected, and the floor carpet locking portion is provided on the outer plate portion. .

The floor carpet locking portion is disposed in a gap between the outer wall of the protector body and a weather strip attached to the upward bent portion of the outer end of the rocker panel.
Thus, when the floor carpet locking portion is positioned, the weather strip can cover the locking portion of the floor carpet from the upper surface, and the locking portion can be protected and improved in appearance without using a scuff plate. it can.

The protector main body includes an inner plate portion protruding from the inner end in the vehicle width direction, and a space between the inner plate portion and the inner side wall of the main body serves as a washer force and / or an opener cable insertion portion. It is preferable.
With this configuration, a washer force and / or an opener cable insertion portion can be secured by the protector and the inner plate portion, and can be covered with a floor carpet.

As described above, according to the present invention, a floor carpet locking portion is provided on the outer plate portion standing outside the outer wall of the protector body, and the protector is fixed to the rocker panel with the clamp, and then the upper surface thereof. The floor carpet is attached to the floor carpet, the end in the vehicle width direction of the floor carpet is bent, and the floor carpet locking portion is inserted and locked in the locking hole formed in the bent portion. The terminal in the width direction can be easily fixed.
Further, the batter concealment of the fixed part of the floor carpet can be concealed with a weather strip, and a scuff plate for improving the appearance is not necessary.
Furthermore, when the floor carpet is laid and fixed as in Patent Document 2, it is not necessary to lift the protector containing the wire harness from the rocker panel, and the work can be simplified and the work time can be shortened. It is also possible to reduce the number of parts including the scuff plate.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
1 to 5 show a first embodiment of the present invention.
As shown in FIG. 1, a protector 11 through which a wire harness (floor harness) W / H is inserted is fixed to the rocker panel 10 via a fixing plate 12 on the outer side of the vehicle rocker panel 10 in the vehicle width direction. A floor carpet 15 is laid on the upper surface of the protector 11, an outer portion in the vehicle width direction of the floor carpet 15 is bent downward, and a floor carpet locking portion 31 provided on an outer plate portion 30 protruding from the fixed plate 12. It is fixed with. The fixing portion between the fixing plate 12 and the floor carpet 15 is covered with a weather strip 16 attached to the outer end of the rocker panel 10.

  In the first embodiment, as described above, the protector 11 and the fixing plate 12 provided with the lock for locking the rocker panel and the floor carpet engaging portion are separated, and a predetermined interval is provided in the length direction of the protector 11. Are connected and fixed.

The protector 11 extends in the vehicle front-rear direction and includes a bowl-shaped main body 20 and a cover 22 that can be opened and closed via a thin hinge 21 at the upper end of one side wall thereof. Become.
The main body 20 has an outer wall 20b and an inner wall 20c erected from both ends of the bottom wall 20a in the vehicle width direction, and a cover 22 is integrally provided at the upper end of the outer wall 20b via a thin hinge portion 21.
The inner wall 20c has a shape in which a cover latching portion 20d is projected on the upper portion so that the latching projection 22a projecting on the cover 22 can be latched when the cover 22 is closed.

The fixing plate 12 is connected and fixed to the bottom wall 20a of the main body 20 of the protector 11 at intervals in the length direction, and the fixing plate 12 is made of an injection molded product.
The fixing plate 12 includes a mounting plate portion 25 fixed along the lower surface of the bottom wall 20a of the main body 20, a T-shaped connecting plate portion 26 projecting from the upper surface of the mounting plate portion 25, and a mounting plate portion. 25, a clamp 27 provided with a locking blade 27b in a folded shape from the tip of a shaft portion 27a protruding from the lower surface of 25 is provided. The clamp 27 is inserted and locked in the locking hole 10 a of the rocker panel 10.
As shown in FIG. 4, the connecting plate portion 26 is inserted through the bottom wall 20a of the protector main body through a T-shaped attachment hole 20f provided at intervals in the length direction, and the horizontal plate portion 26b is slid in the direction of the arrow. The fixing plate 12 is connected to the protector 11, and the mounting plate portion 25 is fixed to the lower surface of the bottom wall 20a.

  An outer plate 30 is erected from the outer end in the vehicle width direction of the mounting plate 25. The outer plate 30 is located outside the outer wall 20b of the protector body 20. A bent portion 31a of the floor carpet locking portion 31 is provided by bending the upper end of the outer plate portion 30 toward the outer wall 20b so as to be bent in a "<" shape and forming a floor carpet locking portion 31 made of a spring piece. Is in elastic contact with the outer wall 20b. The height of the floor carpet locking portion 31 is lower than that of the outer wall 20b.

  The outer side plate portion 30 is located between the locking piece portion 16a of the weather strip 16 attached to the bent portion 10b erected from the vehicle width direction outer end of the rocker panel 10 and the outer wall 20b of the protector body 20, and The weather strip 16 is provided at a position covered by the cover portion 16c.

  In addition, an inner plate portion 32 is erected on the fixed plate 12 from the inner end in the vehicle width direction of the mounting plate portion 25, and a space S between the inner plate portion 32 and the inner side wall 20c of the protector body is provided with a washer force and / Or as an insertion portion of the opener cable 35. The height of the inner plate portion 32 is set to be less than half the height of the inner portion 20c.

  On the other hand, the floor carpet 15 is provided with locking holes 15a in advance at intervals in the longitudinal direction at the terminal portion in the vehicle width direction. The position of the locking hole 15a is made to coincide with the interval of the fixing plate 12 fixed to the protector 11.

Next, fixing of the protector 11 and the floor carpet 15 to the rocker panel 10 will be described.
First, the fixing plate 12 is connected and fixed to the main body 20 of the protector 11. Next, the wire harness W / H is inserted into the main body 20 of the protector 11, the cover 22 is closed, and the locking protrusion 22a of the cover 22 is locked to the cover locking portion 20d of the inner wall 20c.

As shown in FIG. 5A, the protector 11 through which the wire harness W / H is inserted is disposed on the upper surface of the rocker panel 10 of the automobile, and the clamp 27 of the fixing plate 12 is inserted into the locking hole 10a of the rocker panel 10. Insert and lock. In this state, the outer side plate portion 30 of the fixed plate 12 is positioned inside the outer end bent portion 10 b of the rocker panel 10.
Next, as shown in FIG. 5B, an opener cable 35 is inserted between the inner plate portion 32 of the fixed plate 12 and the inner wall 20c of the protector body 20, and between the inner wall 20c and the inner plate 32. The opener cable 35 is clamped and fixed to the.
Next, as shown in FIG. 5 (C), a floor carpet 15 is laid, the outer side in the vehicle width direction is covered on the upper surface of the protector 11, and the terminal portion provided with the locking hole 15a of the floor carpet 15 faces downward. And is pushed from above between the outer wall 20b of the protector 11 and the outer plate portion 30 of the fixed plate 12.
At that time, since the bent end 31a of the floor carpet locking portion 31 is elastically contacted with the outer wall 20b from the spring piece portion of the outer side plate portion 30, as shown in FIG. The floor carpet 15 is pushed in. When the locking hole 15a of the floor carpet 15 reaches the bent end 31a, the bent end 31a is automatically inserted and locked into the locking hole 15a as shown in FIG.
As a result, the end of the floor carpet 15 in the vehicle width direction can be fixed to the outer surface of the outer wall 20b of the protector main body 20 simply by pushing it in from above, and the floor carpet on the tip side from the locking hole 15a is outside the outer wall 20b. It is sandwiched between the plate part 30.
Thereafter, as shown in FIG. 5 (F), a weather strip 16 is attached to the bent portion 10b of the outer end of the rocker panel 10, and the fixed portion of the floor carpet 15 is covered from above by the cover portion 16b of the weather strip 16. Is done.

As described above, the floor carpet 15 is covered with the upper surface of the protector 11 fixed to the rocker panel 10, the terminal side of the floor carpet 15 is bent downward and pushed along the outer wall of the protector 11. The floor carpet locking portion 31 is automatically inserted into the locking hole 15a, and the floor carpet 15 can be fixed to the protector 11.
Therefore, it is not necessary to lift the protector 11 when laying the floor carpet 15, and the structure for attaching the protector 11 to the rocker panel 10 can be simplified. And since the fixed part of the protector 11 and the floor carpet 15 is coat | covered with the weather strip 16, it is not necessary to provide the scuff plate for appearance improvement.

FIG. 6 shows a second embodiment.
In 2nd embodiment, it is set as the structure which integrated the protector and the fixed board, and is provided by injection molding.
The difference from the first embodiment is that the clamp 27 is integrally projected from the bottom surface of the main body bottom wall 20a of the protector 11, and the main body bottom wall 20a is extended from both ends of the outer wall 20b and the inner wall 20c in the vehicle width direction. The outer plate 30 and the inner plate 32 are erected from the front end thereof, and a floor carpet locking portion 31 made of a spring piece similar to that of the first embodiment is provided at the upper end of the outer plate 30. Yes.
Other configurations are the same as those of the first embodiment, and the fixing method to the rocker panel and the fixing method of the floor carpet 15 are also the same, so the same reference numerals are given and the description is omitted.

It is sectional drawing which shows 1st embodiment of this invention. It is a perspective view of a protector equipped with a wire harness. It is sectional drawing of the state which connected and fixed the protector and the fixing plate. It is a perspective view which shows the connection fixed part of a protector main body and a fixing plate. (A)-(F) are sectional drawings which show the procedure which fixes a protector and a floor carpet to a rocker panel. It is sectional drawing which shows 2nd embodiment. It is sectional drawing which shows a prior art example.

Explanation of symbols

10 Locker Panel 11 Protector 12 Fixing Plate 15 Floor Carpet 15a Locking Hole 16 Weather Strip 20 Protector Body 20a Bottom Wall 20b Outer Side Wall 20c Inner Side Wall 22 Cover 26 Connecting Plate Part 27 Clamp 30 Outer Plate Part 31 Floor Carpet Locking Part 32 Inside Board

Claims (5)

A protector comprising a hook-shaped main body that passes through a wire harness routed along the upper surface of the rocker panel, and a cover that closes the upper surface opening of the main body;
A clamp for inserting and fixing to the rocker panel from the bottom wall side of the body of the protector is provided, and an outer side plate portion is provided outward from the outer wall in the vehicle width direction of the main body, and a floor carpet is provided on the outer side plate portion. While having a locking part,
A locking hole is provided on the end of the floor carpet in the vehicle width direction.
The floor carpet is laid on the upper surface of a protector fixed to the rocker panel via a clamp, the end of the floor carpet is bent downward, and the floor carpet locking portion is inserted and locked into the locking hole. A floor carpet fixing structure characterized by being fixed.   An upper end of the outer plate portion is bent to provide the floor carpet locking portion formed of a spring piece portion, and the height of the floor carpet locking portion is lower than the outer wall of the main body, and the spring piece portion and the protector are provided. 2. The floor carpet fixing structure according to claim 1, wherein the end side of the floor carpet is bent and inserted between the outer wall of the main body and the spring piece is inserted and locked in the locking hole.   2. A fixing plate integrally including an outer plate portion having the clamp and the floor carpet engaging portion is provided, and the fixing plate is connected and fixed to the bottom wall of the protector with a space in the length direction. Or the fixing structure of the floor carpet of Claim 2.   The said floor carpet latching | locking part is arrange | positioned in the clearance gap between the weather strip attached to the outer side wall of the said protector, and the upward bending part of the outer end of the said rocker panel. Floor carpet fixed structure.   The protector main body includes an inner plate portion protruding from the inner end in the vehicle width direction, and a space between the inner plate portion and the inner side wall of the main body serves as a washer force and / or an opener cable insertion portion. The floor carpet fixing structure according to any one of claims 1 to 4.

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