JP2009173197A - Mounting structure for clip seat, and mounting structure for door trim - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mounting structure for a clip seat capable of efficiently absorbing impact from the outside by deforming a peripheral part of the clip seat in side collision. <P>SOLUTION: In the mounting structure for the clip seat 4 for retaining a clip 3 for mounting a door trim 1 of the vehicle to an inner panel 2, the door trim 1 is provided with a flat surface part 11A; a standing wall part 11B standing up from an outer peripheral edge of the flat surface part 11A; and a flange part 11C projected from a distal end edge of the standing wall part 11B to an opposite side to the flat surface part 11A. The clip seat 4 is provided at a position where they are laid on the standing wall part 11B and the flange part 11C and does not reach to the flat surface part 11A. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a mounting structure for a clip seat and a mounting structure for a door trim that absorbs an external impact during a side collision.

In general, a door trim of a vehicle has a shape in which a design surface side protrudes toward a vehicle interior side from an outer peripheral portion thereof (see, for example, Patent Document 1 below), and a mounting structure for a door panel is described with reference to FIGS. 5 and 6. explain. The door trim 100 includes a flat surface portion 111 that constitutes a design surface, a standing wall portion 112 that rises from the outer peripheral edge of the flat surface portion 111, and a flange portion 113 that projects from the leading edge of the standing wall portion 112 to the opposite side of the flat surface portion 111. It has. On the other hand, a door panel 200 is disposed opposite the vehicle interior of the door trim 100, and a mounting hole 201 is formed in the door panel 200. A clip seat 101 that can hold the clip 300 is provided at a position corresponding to the mounting hole 201 in the door trim 100. Thereby, the door trim 100 is attached to the door panel 200 by inserting and fixing the clip 300 held by the clip seat 101 into the attachment hole 201.
JP 2000-85355 A

  However, since the clip seat 101 is located on the flat surface portion 111, the standing wall portion 112, and the flange portion 113 and has a high rigidity structure, the peripheral portion of the clip seat cannot be deformed at the time of a side collision. Can not absorb external shocks.

  The present invention has been completed based on the above circumstances, and has a clip seat mounting structure that can efficiently absorb external impacts by deforming the peripheral portion of the clip seat at the time of a side collision. The purpose is to provide.

  The present invention relates to a clip seat mounting structure for holding a clip for mounting a vehicle door trim to a door panel. The door trim includes a flat portion, a standing wall portion rising from an outer peripheral edge of the flat portion, and a leading edge of the standing wall portion. The clip seat has a feature that it is provided at a position that does not reach the plane portion across the standing wall portion and the flange portion.

  Further, the present invention provides a door trim mounting structure in which a clip seat is provided on a door trim of a vehicle, and the door trim is attached to the door panel by a clip held by the clip seat. Equipped with a standing wall that rises from the periphery and a flange that protrudes from the tip edge of the standing wall to the opposite side of the flat surface, and the clip seat is provided at a position that does not reach the flat surface across the vertical wall and the flange. It is good also as a structure currently provided.

  According to such a configuration, the rigidity of the region extending from the standing wall portion to the flat surface portion can be reduced, and the region extending from the standing wall portion to the flat surface portion can be easily deformed during a side collision to efficiently absorb an external impact. can do.

The following configuration may be adopted as an embodiment of the present invention.
The clip seat may include a seat surface on which the clip is held, and a leg portion extending from the seat surface to the standing wall portion and the flange portion, and a part of the seat surface may be arranged to face the flange portion. Good.

  According to such a configuration, a part of the seating surface can be directly supported by the flange portion, the seating surface can be firmly attached to the flange portion, and the plane portion can be manually attached when attaching the door trim to the door panel. When it is pushed in, it can be transmitted to the clip seat without missing the force, and the door trim can be easily attached to the door panel.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, in the door trim provided with the plane part, the standing wall part, and the flange part, the area | region from a standing wall part to a plane part can be easily deformed at the time of a side collision, and the impact from the outside can be absorbed efficiently. .

<Embodiment 1>
Embodiment 1 of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings of FIGS. FIG. 1 is a front view of the door trim 1. The door trim 1 is disposed opposite to the vehicle interior side of a metal inner panel (an example of the “door panel” of the present invention) 2 constituting an exterior member of a vehicle door. The door trim 1 is attached to the inner side of the inner panel 2 with a clip 3 made of synthetic resin. The door trim 1 includes an upper base 10, a lower board 11, and the like, each of which is made of a synthetic resin material such as polypropylene, a wood material, and the like, and is formed by connecting each with a coupling member. In addition, an outer skin (not shown) is attached to a part or the whole of the door trim 1 on the vehicle interior side, and a design surface facing the vehicle interior space is formed by the vehicle interior side surface of the door trim 1.

  As shown in FIG. 1, a door pocket 12 having an opening that opens upward is provided at a lower portion of the lower board 11 on the vehicle interior side. At the center of the lower board 11 on the vehicle interior side, an armrest 13 for an occupant sitting on the seat to put an elbow is attached. A door grip 14 is integrally provided in front of the armrest 13, and the door grip 14 is attached to the vehicle interior side of the lower board 11. In the lower board 11, a handle attachment hole 15 to which an inside handle (not shown) is attached is opened above the door grip 14.

  FIG. 2 is an enlarged view of a part of the outer peripheral edge of the lower board 11 cut out. Specifically, the lower board 11 is substantially flat and has a flat surface portion 11A on which an armrest 13 and the like are attached, a standing wall portion 11B that rises outward from the outer periphery of the flat surface portion 11A, and a vehicle exterior side of the standing wall portion 11B. A flange portion 11C that projects from the end edge to the outer peripheral side (the side opposite to the flat surface portion 11A) is provided. The planar portion 11A and the flange portion 11C are disposed substantially in parallel.

  A plurality of clip seats 4 are formed on the outer side surface of the lower board 11 so as to rise toward the outer side of the passenger compartment. Among these clip seats 4, the clip seat 4 disposed near the rear lower portion of the armrest 13 (a position corresponding to the vicinity of the waist of the occupant seated on the seat) easily deforms the peripheral portion of the clip seat 4 in a side collision. Thus, it is possible to absorb external impacts efficiently. Hereinafter, the detailed structure of the clip seat 4 will be described.

  The clip seat 4 includes a seat surface 40 disposed substantially parallel to the flange portion 11 </ b> C and a leg portion 41 that supports the seat surface 40. The leg portion 41 extends from the outer peripheral edge of the seating surface 40 toward the vehicle interior side, and is integrally formed with the lower board 11 across the standing wall portion 11B and the flange portion 11C. A part of the seating surface 40 is disposed so as to face the flange portion 11C. As a result, a part of the seating surface 40 can be directly supported by the flange portion 11C, the attachment strength of the seating surface 40 to the flange portion 11C can be increased, and the flat portion when the door trim 1 is attached to the inner panel 2. When 11A is pushed by hand, the force can be transmitted to the clip seat 4 without losing the force, and the door trim 1 can be easily attached to the inner panel 2.

  The lower end portion (the end portion on the flat surface portion 11A side) of the leg portion 41 is located substantially in the middle of the standing wall portion 11B. Thereby, in the standing wall part 11B, the rigidity below the lower end part of the leg part 41 (the part on the plane part 11A side) can be reduced, and can be easily deformed at the time of a side collision. Moreover, the lower end part of the leg part 41 has the inclined surface which goes to an inner peripheral side, so that it goes upwards (seat surface 40 side) by notching the inner peripheral side of the door trim 1 partially. Thereby, it is possible to reduce the rigidity of the leg 41 toward the lower side while securing the joint area between the leg 41 and the standing wall 11B.

  The seat surface 40 of the clip seat 4 is provided with a holding hole 42 into which the clip 3 can be mounted, and an entry hole 43 for allowing the clip 3 to enter the holding hole 42 by cutting out a part of the peripheral edge of the holding hole 42. Is formed. The clip 3 mounted in the holding hole 42 is held in the vertical direction (direction intersecting with the seat surface 40) by engaging with the upper and lower surfaces of the seat surface 40. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 3, the clip 3 has a pair of holding pieces 31 that sandwich the seating surface 40 from above and below, and the holding holes 42 that are larger than the interval between the entry holes 43 between the holding pieces 31. A shaft portion 32 having substantially the same diameter as that of the shaft portion 32 is formed. As a result, in a state where the clip 3 is mounted in the holding hole 42, the shaft portion 32 is accommodated substantially inside the holding hole 42, and the both holding pieces 31 are disposed on both upper and lower surfaces of the seating surface 40. Is done. As a result, the clip 3 is held in a state in which the movement of the clip 3 is restricted by the clip seat 4 in the vertical direction.

  The clip 3 has a deformable portion 30 that is elastically deformable. The deformable portion 30 is inserted into the mounting hole 20 formed in the inner panel 2 while reducing the diameter, and is elastically restored in a state of passing through the mounting hole 20 and locked to the opening edge of the mounting hole 20. It is attached to the mounting hole 20. Thereby, the lower board 11 is fixed to the inner panel 2 by the clip 3 held by the clip seat 4. A blocking piece 33 is provided between the deformable portion 30 mounted in the mounting hole 20 and the holding piece 31 to block a gap formed between the inner peripheral surface of the mounting hole 20 and the deformable portion 30. It has been.

  The present embodiment has the above-described structure, and the operation thereof will be described subsequently. First, the clip 3 is attached to the plurality of clip seats 4 arranged on the outer side surface of the door trim 1. The shaft portion 32 of the clip 3 is accommodated in the holding hole 42 from the entry hole 43 of the seat surface 40 and the clip surface 3 is vertically moved with respect to the clip seat 4 by sandwiching the seat surface 40 from both the upper and lower sides by both holding pieces 31. Hold immovable in the direction. Then, the door trim 1 can be attached to the inner panel 2 by pushing the door trim 1 toward the inner panel 2 and inserting and fixing the deformable portion 30 of the clip 3 into the mounting hole 20.

  Next, the action of the door trim 1 at the time of a side collision (impact absorption action when an impact is applied to the door trim 1 from the outside) will be described. As shown in FIG. 3, the clip seat 4 is located across the flange portion 11C from the intermediate position of the standing wall portion 11B, and has relatively low rigidity in a region extending from the intermediate position of the standing wall portion 11B to the flat surface portion 11A. It has become. Thereby, at the time of a side collision, as shown in FIG. 4, the region from the intermediate position to the lower end of the standing wall portion 11B is buckled, and the flat surface portion 11A is slightly bent and deformed to the outside of the passenger compartment, so that the impact from the outside is reduced. It can be absorbed efficiently.

  As described above, in the present embodiment, in the lower board 11 including the flat surface portion 11A, the standing wall portion 11B, and the flange portion 11C, the region extending from the standing wall portion 11B to the flat surface portion 11A of the lower board 11 can be easily deformed during a side collision. As a result, the impact from the outside can be absorbed efficiently. Further, since a part of the seating surface 40 is disposed so as to face the flange portion 11C, the seating surface 40 can be firmly attached to the flange portion 11C, and a flat surface is provided when the door trim 1 is attached to the inner panel 2. When the portion 11A is pushed by hand, the force can be transmitted to the clip seat 4 without losing the force, and the door trim 1 can be easily attached to the inner panel 2. Therefore, it becomes easy to push the deformable portion 30 of the clip 3 held in the holding hole 42 of the seating surface 40 into the mounting hole 20 of the inner panel 2.

<Other embodiments>
The present invention is not limited to the embodiments described with reference to the above description and drawings. For example, the following embodiments are also included in the technical scope of the present invention.
(1) Although the lower end portion of the leg portion 41 of the clip seat 4 is located near the middle of the standing wall portion 11B in this embodiment, according to the present invention, the lower end portion of the leg portion 41 is located at the standing wall portion 11B. For example, it may be located near the upper portion of the standing wall portion 11B.

  (2) Although the present embodiment is buckled in the region below the lower end of the leg portion 41 of the clip seat 4 in FIG. 4, FIG. 4 only shows one mode of deformation of the door trim 1. According to the invention, the lower end portion of the leg portion 41 may buckle in the lower region from the middle of the inclined surface, and the standing wall portion 11 </ b> B may buckle toward the inner peripheral side of the door trim 1.

  (3) Although the clip seat 4 is integrally formed with the door trim 1 in the present embodiment, the clip seat 4 may be fixed to the door trim 1 with an adhesive or the like according to the present invention.

  (4) In this embodiment, although a part of the seating surface 40 of the clip seat 4 is arranged so as to face the flange portion 11C, according to the present invention, the seating surface 40 is arranged on the inner periphery of the door trim 1 from the flange portion 11C. You may arrange | position so that it may arrange | position and the flange part 11C may not be faced.

  (5) In the present embodiment, the leg portion 41 of the clip seat 4 is continuously joined from the standing wall portion 11B to the flange portion 11C. However, according to the present invention, the leg portion 41 is connected to the standing wall portion 11B and the flange portion 11C. Alternatively, they may be joined individually.

Front view of door trim Perspective view of clip seat Sectional view showing the mounting structure of the door trim to the inner panel Sectional view showing the door trim deformed during a side impact A perspective view of a conventional clip seat Sectional view showing the conventional mounting structure of the door trim to the inner panel

Explanation of symbols

1 ... Door trim 2 ... Inner panel (door panel)
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 3 ... Clip 4 ... Clip seat 11A ... Plane part 11B ... Standing wall part 11C ... Flange part 40 ... Seat surface 41 ... Leg part

Claims (3)

A clip seat mounting structure for holding a clip for mounting a vehicle door trim to a door panel,
The door trim includes a flat portion, a standing wall portion that rises from the outer peripheral edge of the flat portion, and a flange portion that projects from the tip edge of the standing wall portion to the opposite side of the flat portion,
The clip seat mounting structure, wherein the clip seat is provided at a position that does not reach the planar portion across the standing wall portion and the flange portion. A door trim of a vehicle is provided with a clip seat, and the door trim is attached to the door panel by a clip held by the clip seat,
The door trim includes a flat portion, a standing wall portion that rises from the outer peripheral edge of the flat portion, and a flange portion that projects from the tip edge of the standing wall portion to the opposite side of the flat portion,
The mounting structure for a door trim, wherein the clip seat is provided at a position that does not reach the planar portion across the standing wall portion and the flange portion. The clip seat mounting structure according to claim 1 or the door trim mounting structure according to claim 2, wherein the clip seat includes a seat surface on which the clip is held, and the standing wall portion and the flange portion from the seat surface. And a portion of the seating surface is arranged so as to face the flange portion.

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