JP2012206568A - Vehicle mirror - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle mirror that allows a shaft part to be attached to a mirror base extremely easily.SOLUTION: The vehicle mirror includes a mirror base 11 attached to the body of a vehicle, and a mirror body 20 attached via a shaft part 30 and allowed to turn around. In the shaft part 30, a harness 40 routed from the vehicle body to the mirror body 20 is inserted into a through-hole 33 composed of a shaft holder 31 fixed to the mirror base 11 and a shaft 32 to be implanted and arranged along a center axis of the shaft 32. The shaft holder 31 and the mirror base 11 are fixed by locking an insertion pawl 35 formed in one of the shaft holder 31 and the mirror base 11 to an insertion hole 14 formed in the other, and by threading a screw 50 through a screw insertion hole 16 formed in one of the shaft holder 31 and the mirror base 11 into a threading hole 34 formed in the other.

Description

  The present invention relates to a vehicle mirror, and more particularly, to an improvement in a shaft portion for rotatably attaching a mirror body to a mirror base of a vehicle body.

  A vehicle mirror such as a door mirror is configured such that, when the vehicle is stopped, for example, a mirror body can be turned to the vehicle side so that a pedestrian does not hit the door mirror.

  That is, the mirror base of the vehicle body is provided with a shaft portion, and the mirror body is attached to the mirror base via the shaft portion, and can be rotated around the shaft portion within a certain angular range.

  The shaft portion includes a shaft holder that is fixed to the mirror base using screws and the like, and a shaft that is formed by being implanted in the shaft holder.

  In this case, the shaft portion is provided with a through hole along the central axis of the shaft, and a harness routed from the vehicle side to the mirror body is inserted into the through hole.

  When the harness incorporates an electric drive mechanism for rotating the mirror body or a turn lamp, a foot lamp, a heater, etc. in the mirror body, a wiring bundle for supplying drive signals, power, etc. to these electric drive mechanisms, etc. It has become.

  A vehicle mirror having such a configuration is disclosed in, for example, Patent Document 1 below.

JP 2005-254969 A

  However, in the vehicle mirror shown in Patent Document 1 below, the shaft portion is attached to the mirror base by fixing the shaft holder of the shaft portion to the mirror base using only a plurality of screws.

  FIGS. 10A and 10B are diagrams showing the configuration of such a shaft portion, where FIG. 10A is a top view, FIG. 10B is a side view, and FIG. 10C is a bottom view. In FIG. 10, for example, three screw screw holes 34 are formed on the back surface of the shaft holder 31 of the shaft portion 30, and screws inserted from screw screw holes formed in a mirror base (not shown) are screw screw holes 34. The shaft holder 31 and the mirror base are fixed to each other by being screwed into the shaft. FIG. 10 is a view drawn corresponding to FIG. 1 which is an embodiment of the present invention, and for the description other than the configuration described above, refer to the description in FIG.

  For this reason, when the attachment of the shaft portion 30 to the mirror base is to be strengthened, the number of screws must be increased, and accordingly, the attachment of the shaft portion 30 to the mirror base becomes complicated. Was.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 10, the harness 40 inserted into the through hole 33 of the shaft portion 30 passes through the vicinity of the fixing portion by the screw of the shaft holder 31 with respect to the mirror base and is drawn to the vehicle side. It is arranged. For this reason, when the shaft part 30 is attached to the mirror base, the harness 40 is often pinched by the screw and causes damage.

  The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and an object thereof is to provide a vehicle mirror that can very easily attach a shaft portion to a mirror base.

  Another object of the present invention is to provide a vehicle mirror that does not damage the harness when the shaft portion is attached to the mirror base.

  In order to achieve such an object, the present invention is based on fixing the shaft portion to the mirror base by fixing with screws and engaging the insertion claw provided on the shaft holder into the insertion hole provided on the mirror base, for example. It is designed to be performed in combination with fixation. In the present invention, the portion where the mirror base and the shaft portion are engaged is positioned on the side where the harness is introduced from the mirror base to the shaft portion.

The present invention is grasped by the following composition.
(1) A vehicle mirror according to the present invention includes a mirror base attached to a vehicle, and a mirror body attached to the mirror base via a shaft portion and rotatable around the shaft portion. Is a vehicle mirror composed of a shaft holder fixed to the mirror base and a shaft implanted in the shaft holder,
The shaft holder and the mirror base are fixed by engaging with an insertion hole provided on the other of the insertion claws provided on one of the shaft holder and the mirror base, and the shaft holder of the screw and the mirror. It is characterized by being fixed by screwing into a screw insertion hole provided in the other through a screw insertion hole provided in one of the bases.
(2) In the vehicle mirror of the present invention, in the configuration of (1), the shaft portion is inserted into a through hole provided along the central axis of the shaft together with the shaft holder from the vehicle side to the mirror body. The harness to be routed is inserted and configured,
When the regions of the shaft holder that face each other with the shaft therebetween are defined as a first region and a second region, the first region is a side where the harness is introduced from the mirror base to the shaft portion. In the first area, the insertion claw or insertion hole is formed, and in the second area, the screw insertion hole or screw screw hole is formed.
(3) In the vehicle mirror of the present invention, in the configuration of (1), a fitting recess for embedding the shaft holder in the mirror base is formed, and the insertion hole or the insertion claw is a wall surface of the fitting recess. It is formed in the part.

  According to the vehicle mirror configured as described above, the shaft portion can be extremely easily attached to the mirror base. In addition, the harness is not damaged when the shaft portion is attached to the mirror base.

It is a figure which shows the structure of the shaft part comprised by the mirror for vehicles of this invention, (a) is a top view, (b) is a side view, (c) is a bottom view. It is the schematic block diagram which showed the vehicle mirror of this invention, for example with the door mirror. It is sectional drawing in the III-III line of Fig.1 (a). It is the perspective view which showed the state before this by which a shaft part is fixed to a mirror base. It is the side view which showed the state by which the shaft part was being fixed to the mirror base (a part is shown with the cross section). It is sectional drawing which showed an example of the fixation by the screw of a shaft part and a mirror base. It is sectional drawing which showed the other example of the fixation by the screw of a shaft part and a mirror base. It is the side view which showed the state in which the shaft part was being fixed to the mirror base (the one part is shown with the cross section). It is sectional drawing which shows the other example of engagement of a shaft part and a mirror base. It is a figure which shows the structure of the shaft part comprised by the conventional mirror for vehicles, (a) is a top view, (b) is a side view, (c) is a bottom view.

  DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, embodiments for carrying out the present invention (hereinafter referred to as embodiments) will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Note that the same number is assigned to the same element throughout the description of the embodiment.

(Embodiment 1)
FIG. 2 is a schematic configuration diagram showing the vehicle mirror of the present invention, for example, a door mirror. The door mirror shown in FIG. 2 is attached to a door on the driver side (traveling direction right side), for example, and the door mirror is partially cut away.

  In FIG. 2, first, there is a mirror base 11 attached to the vehicle 10. The mirror base 11 is formed so as to protrude outward from the vehicle 10, and a mirror body 20 is attached to the mirror base 11. The mirror body 20 includes a mirror 21 and a mirror housing 22 that holds the mirror 21.

  The mirror main body 20 is attached to the mirror base 11 by inserting the shaft 32 of the shaft portion 30 fixed to the mirror base 11 into a bearing 23 formed in the mirror housing 22. Thereby, the mirror body 20 can be rotated around the shaft portion 30 in the arrow direction A in the figure within a certain angle range. The mirror body 20 is rotated around the shaft portion 30 by, for example, an electric drive mechanism (not shown) built in the mirror housing 22.

  The shaft portion 30 includes a shaft holder 31 that is directly fixed to the mirror base 11 and a shaft 32 that is formed by being implanted in the shaft holder 31. The fixing of the shaft holder 31 to the mirror base 11 will be described in detail later. The shaft portion 30 is formed with a through hole 33 provided along the central axis of the shaft 32 together with the shaft holder 31. A harness 40 is disposed in the through hole 33 of the shaft portion 30. The harness 40 is inserted into the through hole 33 of the shaft portion 30 from the vehicle 10 side and is routed into the mirror housing 22. The harness 40 is electrically connected to the electric drive mechanism (not shown) in the mirror housing 22, and the electric drive mechanism can be driven from the vehicle 10 side via the harness 40, and the mirror body 20 becomes the mirror base 11. It can rotate with respect to it.

  FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of the shaft portion 30. 1A is a top view, FIG. 1B is a side view, and FIG. 1C is a bottom view.

  In FIG. 1, as described above, the shaft portion 30 includes the shaft holder 31 and the shaft 32, and the shaft holder 31 and the shaft 32 are configured by forming a through hole 33 along the central axis of the shaft 32. ing.

  The shaft holder 31 is formed with a fixing portion that is fixed to the mirror base 11. This fixing part is constituted by a fixing part for fixing to the mirror base 11 by one screw, for example, and a fixing part for fixing to the mirror base 11 by, for example, two engaging means.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 (b) and 1 (c), the fixing portion by the screw is configured by a screw screw hole 34 formed on the back surface of the shaft holder 31. Further, as shown in FIGS. 1A, 1 </ b> B, and 1 </ b> C, the fixing portion by the engaging means is configured by an insertion claw 35 that is formed to protrude outward at the periphery of the shaft holder 31. . As shown in FIG. 3, which is a cross section taken along the line III-III in FIG. 1A, the insertion claw 35 is formed thinner than the thickness of the shaft holder 31, and the surface of the insertion claw 35 is in relation to the surface of the shaft holder 31. And has a step (indicated by E in the figure). Thereby, the insertion claw 35 is not loosely inserted in a later-described insertion hole 14 formed in the mirror base 11, and the shaft portion 30 can be inserted into the mirror base 11 without floating.

  Here, when the regions facing each other with the shaft 32 of the shaft holder 31 in between are defined as a P region (first region) and a Q region (second region), the region where the insertion claws 35 are formed is the P region. The region where the screw screw hole 34 is formed is Q. The P region is a region on the side where the harness 40 is introduced from the mirror base 11 to the shaft portion 30, and in this P region, a fixing means by the engaging means is formed, and a fixing means by screws is avoided. It is like that. As a result, when the shaft portion 30 is attached to the mirror base 11, it is possible to avoid the inconvenience that the harness 40 is pinched by the screw and causes damage.

  FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing a state before the shaft portion 30 described above is fixed to the mirror base 11.

  A fitting recess 13 is formed in the mirror base 11 in a region where the shaft portion 30 is fixed. The shaft holder 31 of the shaft portion 30 is embedded in the fitting recess 13 so that the positioning of the shaft portion 30 with respect to the mirror base 11 can be easily performed. The fitting recess 13 of the mirror base 11 has a side wall surface 13A at least on the side where the insertion claw 35 of the shaft portion 30 is formed, and the insertion hole 14 into which the insertion claw 35 is inserted into the side wall surface 13A. Is formed. As a result, the shaft portion 30 allows the shaft holder 31 to be embedded in the fitting recess 13 while the insertion claw 35 formed in the shaft holder 31 is inserted into the insertion hole 14 formed in the fitting recess 13 of the mirror base 11. Can be arranged.

  In FIG. 4, a harness insertion hole 15 is formed on the side wall surface 13 </ b> A of the fitting recess 13, for example, between two insertion holes 14. The harness 40 (see FIG. 1) drawn from the vehicle 10 side is introduced into the through hole 33 of the shaft portion 30 through the harness insertion hole 15. By forming the harness insertion hole 15 in the side wall surface 13A of the fitting recess 13 in this way, the harness 40 from the vehicle 10 side is not from the fixing means side consisting of the screw between the shaft portion 30 and the mirror base 11, but There exists an effect which can be made to introduce reliably from the fixing means side which consists of the insertion nail | claw 35 and the insertion hole 14. FIG. In FIG. 4, the insertion hole 14 and the harness insertion port 15 are configured as separate holes. However, for example, a harness insertion port composed of a long long hole may be formed, and the insertion claw 35 of the shaft holder 31 may be inserted into the harness insertion port. That is, in the long hole, the harness insertion port 15 and the insertion hole 14 may be combined.

  FIG. 5 is a side view showing a state in which the shaft portion 30 is fixed to the mirror base 11. FIG. 5 shows the mirror base 11 as a cross-sectional view so that the fixation of the shaft portion 30 to the mirror base 11 can be easily understood.

  As shown in FIG. 5, the shaft portion 30 is fitted with the shaft holder 31 in a state where the insertion claws 35 formed in the shaft holder 31 are inserted into the insertion holes 14 formed in the fitting recess 13 of the mirror base 11. It is arranged in the joint recess 13. Note that the shape of the insertion hole 14 is formed to be slightly larger than the shape of the cross section of the insertion claw 35, whereby the shaft portion 30 eliminates play with respect to the mirror base 11 and floats of the shaft portion 30 with respect to the mirror base 11. Can be lost.

  Then, at a position indicated by α in the figure, as shown in FIG. 6, the shaft holder 31 of the shaft portion 30 is fixed to the mirror base 11 by a screw 50. That is, the screw 50 is inserted into the screw insertion hole 16 formed in the mirror base 11 and screwed into the screw screw hole 34 formed in the shaft holder 31, whereby the shaft holder 31 and the mirror base 11 are Is fixed. Note that the fixing of the screw to the mirror base 11 of the shaft holder 31 is not necessarily limited to the case shown in FIG. 6, but is performed by a screw 51 inserted from the side of the shaft holder 31 as shown in FIG. May be. That is, in FIG. 7, the screw 51 is inserted into the screw insertion hole 37 formed in the shaft holder 31 and is screwed into the screw screw hole 18 formed in the mirror base 11. The base 11 is fixed.

  The shaft portion 30 configured in this manner is fixed to the mirror base 11 by the screws 50, and is also performed by the engaging means (inserting claws 35 and insertion holes 14), so that the number of screws can be reduced. The shaft part 30 can be attached to the mirror base 11 very easily.

  Further, the side on which the engaging means for the mirror base 11 of the shaft portion 30 is provided is the side where the harness 40 is introduced from the mirror base 11 to the shaft portion 30, so that the shaft portion 30 is attached to the mirror base 11. In this case, it is possible to avoid the inconvenience that the harness 40 is pinched by the screw 50 and causes damage.

(Embodiment 2)
In Embodiment 1, the harness 40 routed from the vehicle 10 side is introduced to the shaft portion 30 side through the harness insertion hole 15 formed in the side wall surface 13A of the fitting recess 13 of the mirror base 11 in which the shaft holder 31 is embedded. It is comprised as follows. However, the harness insertion hole 15 is not formed in the side wall surface 13A of the fitting recess 13, but may be formed in the bottom surface of the fitting recess 13 as shown in FIG.

  FIG. 8 is a diagram drawn in association with FIG. In FIG. 8, the mirror base 11 has a different configuration compared to the case of FIG. 5, and a harness insertion hole 15 is provided on the bottom surface 13 </ b> B of the fitting recess 13 of the mirror base 11. The harness 40 from the vehicle 10 side is introduced to the shaft portion 30 side.

(Embodiment 3)
In Embodiment 1, the shaft portion 30 is engaged with the mirror base 11 by inserting the insertion claw 35 formed in the shaft holder 31 into the insertion hole 14 formed in the fitting recess 13 of the mirror base 11. Is. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and as shown in FIG. 9, the insertion claw formed in the fitting recess 13 of the mirror base 11 may be inserted into the insertion hole formed in the shaft holder 31. .

  FIG. 9 shows the fitting recess 13 of the mirror base 11 and the shaft holder 31 embedded in the fitting recess 13. In FIG. 9, an insertion claw 19 that protrudes toward the fitting recess 13 is formed on the side wall surface 13 </ b> A of the fitting recess 13. Further, a bent portion 38 facing the side wall surface 13A of the fitting recess 13 is formed on the periphery of the shaft holder 31, and an insertion hole 39 into which the insertion claw 19 is inserted is formed in the bent portion 38.

  The harness 40 described above is described as a wiring bundle for electrically rotating the mirror body 20 with respect to the mirror base 11. However, it is not limited to this. For example, the mirror main body 20 is configured to incorporate a lamp such as a turn lamp or a foot lamp, or a heater for preventing dew condensation. In this case, the harness 40 is a bundle of wires for driving the lamp or the heater. You may make it use as.

  Further, in the above-described embodiment, the shaft portion 30 is fixed to the mirror base 11 with, for example, one screw and two engaging means (insertion claw, insertion hole), but the number is not limited thereto. Needless to say. This is because the number of screws corresponding to the engagement means (insertion claw, insertion hole) can be reduced.

  As mentioned above, although this invention was demonstrated using embodiment, it cannot be overemphasized that the technical scope of this invention is not limited to the range as described in the said embodiment. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications or improvements can be added to the above-described embodiments. Further, it is apparent from the scope of the claims that the embodiments added with such changes or improvements can be included in the technical scope of the present invention.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 ... Vehicle, 11 ... Mirror base, 13 ... Fitting recessed part, 13A ... Side wall surface, 13B ... Bottom surface, 14 ... Insertion hole, 15 ... Harness insertion hole, 16 ... Screw insertion hole, 18 ...... Screw hole, 19 ...... Insertion claw, 20 ...... Mirror body, 21 ...... Mirror, 22 ...... Mirror housing, 23 …… Bearing, 30 …… Shaft section, 31 …… Shaft holder, 32… ... shaft, 33 ... through hole, 34 ... screw screw hole, 35 ... insertion claw, 37 ... screw insertion hole, 38 ... bent portion, 39 ... insertion hole, 40 ... harness, 50, 51 ……screw.

Claims (3)

A mirror base attached to a vehicle, and a mirror body attached to the mirror base via a shaft portion and rotatable around the shaft portion, wherein the shaft portion is fixed to the mirror base. And a vehicle mirror composed of a shaft installed in the shaft holder,
The shaft holder and the mirror base are fixed by engaging with an insertion hole provided on the other of the insertion claws provided on one of the shaft holder and the mirror base, and the shaft holder of the screw and the mirror. A vehicle mirror characterized by being fixed by screwing into a screw screw hole provided on the other through a screw insertion hole provided on one of the bases. The shaft portion is configured by inserting a harness routed from the vehicle side to the mirror main body into a through hole provided along the central axis of the shaft together with the shaft holder,
When the regions of the shaft holder that face each other with the shaft therebetween are defined as a first region and a second region, the first region is a side where the harness is introduced from the mirror base to the shaft portion. 2. The insertion claw or insertion hole is formed in the first area, and the screw insertion hole or screw insertion hole is formed in the second area. Vehicle mirrors.   2. The vehicle mirror according to claim 1, wherein a fitting recess for embedding the shaft holder is formed in the mirror base, and the insertion hole is formed in a wall surface of the fitting recess.

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