JP2012218625A - Fitting for vehicle and method for attaching the same - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To attach a molding using a normal clip for general purpose even if the directions of a first surface part and the second surface part of the upper part of a door outer panel are largely different from each other by solving the following problem of the molding: the attaching cost is increased since the directions of the first surface part and the second surface part are different from each other, and a clip with special shape bent on the insertion tip end side must be used when the molding is attached across the first surface part and the second surface part.SOLUTION: This molding 10 is formed in an assembly so that the mounting position of a clip 20 on the lower side of the molding can be moved from the inside of a temporary mounting hole 12b into a normal mounting hole 12d by inserting the clip into a locking hole 4. Consequently, the difference between the directions of the first surface part A and the second surface part B, i.e., the difference between clip inserting directions JA, JB can be eliminated.

Description

  The present invention relates to an outfitting component such as a side protection molding attached to an outer surface of a vehicle, such as a front door, and an assembling method thereof.

  For example, an outer surface (outer panel) such as a front door of a vehicle is not a flat surface in many cases, but has a gently curved shape slightly bulging outward. A vehicle called, for example, a side protection molding (hereinafter simply referred to as a molding) straddling a portion where the surface direction of the upper first surface portion and the lower second surface portion of the door outer panel having the curved shape changes. In some cases, a belt-shaped outfitting part that is long in the front-rear direction is assembled by clip fastening. In the case of this mall, a plurality of clips are provided in advance along the upper side and the lower side before assembling, but assembling across the first surface and the second surface with different surface directions. Therefore, the orientation direction (assembly direction) of the clip on the upper side portion and the clip on the lower side portion side is provided in a different state according to the curved shape of the door. For this reason, at the stage of assembling to the door, the clip on the upper side of the molding is pushed into the locking hole provided on the first surface portion on the upper side of the door to temporarily fix it, and then moved so as to turn the lower side of the molding. Then, the work of pressing the lower side clip into the locking hole provided in the second surface part on the lower side of the door is assembled.

JP 2010-83250 A JP 2003-276499 A

However, in the above conventional assembly structure, when the curvature of the outer surface of the door is large and the surface directions of the first surface portion and the second surface portion are greatly different, the direction of the clip on the upper side of the molding and the direction of the clip on the lower side Therefore, it is not possible to push the clip on the lower side into the locking hole simply by temporarily moving the clip on the upper side of the mall at the stage of assembling and then moving the lower side to pivot. There was a problem. Conventionally, for this problem, for example, the clip on the lower side portion has been provided with a bent tip portion to alleviate the difference in the directivity direction, but has a special shape without this versatility. Since the clip is used, there has been a problem of increasing the cost.
Therefore, the present invention is to enable a fitting component such as a mall to be assembled using a general-purpose general-purpose clip or the like for a portion having a large curvature difference without using the conventional special-shaped clip. Objective.

The above problem is solved by the following invention.
1st invention is the outfitting component assembled ranging over the 1st surface part and 2nd surface part from which a surface direction differs mutually, Comprising: With respect to the locking hole provided in the 1st surface part in the width direction one side The first surface portion fixing tool is inserted, and the second surface portion fixing tool is inserted into the locking hole provided in the second surface portion on the other side in the width direction. It is an outfitting component provided with at least one of the tools so that it can be displaced in a direction approaching or separating from the other.
According to 1st invention, the insertion direction of the 1st surface part fixing tool inserted in the locking hole of a 1st surface part and the 2nd surface part fixing tool inserted in the locking hole of a 2nd surface part differs mutually. However, since at least one of the fixtures is assembled in a state in which the fixture can be displaced in a direction approaching or separating from the other, the mounting position of the at least one fixture in the fitting component changes at the stage of assembly. Differences in the insertion direction of both fixtures can be absorbed. For this reason, in the assembled state, it is possible to mount the insertion tip portions of both fixtures at a position aligned with both the locking hole of the first surface portion and the locking hole of the second surface portion.
As described above, according to the first aspect, at least one of the first surface portion fixing tool and the second surface portion fixing device is mounted so as to be displaceable in a direction approaching or separating from the other, whereby the first surface portion Because the difference in the surface direction between the second surface portion and the second surface portion is absorbed, a normal general purpose clip or the like is used as the first surface portion fixing tool or the second surface portion fixing tool instead of the conventional special shape and non-universal clip. This enables reliable and efficient assembly of outfitting parts.
As a 1st surface part fixing tool and a 2nd surface part fixing tool, a resin-made general purpose clip, a fixing screw, a rivet, etc. can be used, for example.
In addition, by appropriately setting the displaceable distance of at least one of the first surface portion fixture or the second surface portion fixture, the present invention can also be applied when the surface directions of the first surface portion and the second surface portion are greatly different. .
According to a second invention, in the first invention, the first surface portion and the second surface portion are connected in a mountain shape and the surface directions thereof are different from each other, and one of the first surface portion fixing tool and the second surface portion fixing tool is It is the outfitting component provided so that the displacement to the direction approaching with respect to the other was possible.
According to the second invention, when the surface direction of the upper first surface portion and the lower second surface portion are different from each other in a mountain shape outwardly in the vehicle width direction, for example, like an outer panel of a vehicle door, both surfaces are different. It is possible to reliably and efficiently assemble outfitting parts such as side protection moldings across the sections using ordinary general-purpose clips or the like.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the first or second aspect of the present invention, one of the first surface portion fixing tool and the second surface portion fixing device has a temporary mounting position in which the insertion tip portion is aligned with the locking hole, and the insertion base. It is the outfitting component provided with the end part so that it can move between the regular mounting positions aligned with the locking holes.
According to the third invention, in the stage before assembling the outfitting component to the first surface portion and the second surface portion, the outfitting is performed in a state where one of the first surface portion fixing tool or the second surface portion fixing device is mounted at the temporary mounting position. Parts are assembled. In this state, since the insertion tip portions of both the first surface portion fixing tool and the second surface portion fixing device are aligned with the respective locking holes, all the fixing tools can be easily attached to the respective locking holes at the assembly stage. Insertion can be started. When each fixing tool is inserted into the locking hole, the mounting position of one fixing tool in the fitting component is relatively moved from the temporary mounting position to the normal mounting position, so that the surface direction of the first surface portion and the surface direction of the second surface portion The difference (the difference in the insertion direction of the fixture) is absorbed, and the fitting component is securely attached in a state of straddling both side portions.
4th invention is a clip which has an engaging part pushed in with respect to a locking hole as 1st surface part fixing tool and 2nd surface part fixing tool in any one invention of 1st-3rd invention. It is the outfitting part provided with.
According to the fourth aspect of the invention, an inexpensive general-purpose clip can be used as a fixture for the outfitting component, and the cost of the outfitting component can be reduced in this respect.
A fifth invention is a method of assembling the outfitting component according to the first invention straddling between a first surface portion and a second surface portion having different surface directions from each other, and the first surface portion fixture or second At least one of the surface fixtures is changed in the mounting position on the fitting part to absorb the difference in the surface direction between the first surface portion and the second surface portion, and the first surface portion fixture and the second surface portion fixture are locked. This is a method of assembling the fitting part by inserting it into
According to the fifth invention, the difference in the surface direction between the first surface portion and the second surface portion is absorbed, and each fixing device can be reliably and quickly inserted into the locking hole. An inexpensive general-purpose clip or the like can be used without using a dedicated clip having a special shape as in the prior art, thereby reducing the cost of the outfitting parts.

1 is an overall side view of a vehicle equipped with a side protection molding as an outfitting component according to the present embodiment. FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line (II)-(II) in FIG. This figure has shown the assembly completion state. It is a longitudinal cross-sectional view of the outfitting component in the stage just before assembling to an outer panel. In this figure, the clip at the temporary mounting position is indicated by a solid line since it is immediately before assembly, and the clip at the regular mounting position is indicated by a two-dot chain line. It is the rear view which looked at the outfitting component from the arrow (IV) direction in FIG. In this figure, the lower clip is shown in a state of being located at the temporary mounting position. FIG. 5 is an enlarged view of a portion (V) in FIG. 4, and is a view of a clip mounting edge viewed from the back side. This figure shows a state in which the neck of one clip is relatively displaced in the clip mounting hole. FIG. 6 is a sectional view taken along line (VI)-(VI) in FIG. 5. This figure shows a state in which the clip is mounted at the temporary mounting position. It is a figure which shows 2nd Embodiment of this invention, Comprising: It is the figure which looked at the clip mounting edge part from the back side. In this figure, the position of the regular mounting hole of the clip mounting hole is upside down from the first embodiment shown in FIG.

Next, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 shows a vehicle 1 including a side protection mall (hereinafter simply referred to as a mall) 10 assembled by the assembly structure of the present embodiment. In the present embodiment, as an example of a vehicle outfitting component, a molding 10 assembled to the front door 2 on the left side of the vehicle 1 and an assembly structure thereof are illustrated. The molding 10 is assembled along the outer surface of the outer panel 2 a of the front door 2.
As shown in FIG. 2, the front door 2 has a closed cross-sectional structure in which the peripheral edges of the outer panel 2a and the inner panel 2b are coupled to each other by hemming. The outer panel 2a has a vertical cross-sectional mountain shape that gently curves in a direction that swells to the side of the vehicle. For this reason, the outer panel 2a has a curved shape in which the surface directions of the first surface portion A on the upper side and the second surface portion B on the lower side of the boundary indicated by C in FIG.
The molding 10 is assembled across the boundary C between the first surface portion A and the second surface portion B where the surface direction changes greatly. The mall 10 has a belt shape that is long in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, and is along the boundary C on the outer surface of the outer panel 2a by a plurality of clips 20 to 20 and 21 to 21 mounted in advance along the upper and lower sides. It is assembled. For this reason, in the outer panel 2a, locking holes 3 to 3 and 4 to 4 for clip fastening are fixed along the boundary C on the upper side (first surface portion A) and the lower side (second surface portion B) of the boundary C, respectively. Are provided at a plurality of positions at intervals of.
Since the surface directions of the first surface portion A and the second surface portion B are greatly different from each other, the axis JA of the locking holes 3 to 3 on the first surface portion A side and the relationship on the second surface portion B side as shown in the figure. The axis lines JB of the stop holes 4 to 4 cross rather than parallel. The upper side clip 20 is inserted and locked in the axis JA direction with respect to each locking hole 3 on the first surface portion A side. Further, the clip 21 on the lower side is inserted and locked in the axis JB direction with respect to each locking hole 4 on the second surface portion B side. For this reason, the insertion direction (axial line JA direction) of the upper side clips 20 to 20 and the insertion direction (axial line JB direction) of the lower side clips 21 to 21 are not parallel but different. The clips 20 to 20 on the upper side of the molding 10 correspond to the first surface fixture, and the clips 21 to 21 on the lower side correspond to the second surface fixture.
As described above, the clips 20 to 20 on the upper side (first surface portion A side) and the clips 21 to 21 on the lower side (second surface portion B side) have different insertion directions with respect to the locking holes 3 and 4. As shown in FIG. 3, when the molding 10 is assembled to the outer panel 2a, the insertion tip of each clip 20 on the upper side faces the locking hole 3 and is temporarily held (the molding 10 is lifted from the outer panel 2a). In the state in which each clip 21 on the lower side is mounted from the beginning in the normal mounting position after assembly shown by a two-dot chain line in FIG. It will be in the state which shifted | deviated and cannot be inserted in this state. Therefore, in the present embodiment, the position of each clip 21 on the lower side is configured to be held at the temporary mounting position indicated by the solid line in FIG. 3 at the stage before assembly (assembled state).

As shown in FIG. 4, clip mounting edge portions 13 to 13 for mounting upper side clips 20 to 20 to be inserted into the locking holes 3 to 3 of the first surface portion A are provided on the upper side rear surface of the molding 10. Is provided. Each clip mounting edge 13 is provided with a keyhole-shaped clip mounting hole 14. The clips 10 are mounted one by one in the clip mounting holes 14 and the molding 10 is assembled.
Further, on the lower side side rear surface of the molding 10, clip mounting edge portions 11 to 11 for mounting the lower side clips 21 to 21 to be inserted into the locking holes 4 to 4 of the second surface portion B are provided. Each clip mounting edge 11 is provided with a clip mounting hole 12 described below. One clip 21 is mounted in each clip mounting hole 12 and the molding 10 is assembled.
As shown in FIG. 6, the lower side clip 21 is a resin clip having a flange-shaped head portion 21a, a neck portion 21b, and an engaging portion 21c, and a conventionally known general-purpose clip is used as it is. A flange-shaped elastic edge portion 21d is integrally provided between the neck portion 21b and the engaging portion 21c. The engaging part 21c has moderate elasticity in the diameter increasing direction. Moreover, the same general-purpose clip as the clip 21 on the lower side is also used for the clip 20 on the upper side, and includes the same head portion 20a, neck portion 20b, engaging portion 20c, and elastic edge portion 20d.
The engaging portion 20c of the clip 20 on the upper side is thus inserted by being pushed into the locking hole 3 of the first surface portion A, and the engaging portion 21c of the clip 21 on the lower side is against the elasticity. It is inserted by being pushed into the locking hole 4 of the two-surface portion B, and once inserted, it is expanded in diameter by its elasticity and engaged in the removal direction. The distal end portions of the engaging portions 20a and 21a are insertion distal end portions, and the end portions on the elastic edge portions 20d and 21d side correspond to insertion proximal end portions. The molding 10 is attached to the outer surface of the outer panel 2a by engaging the insertion base end portions of the engaging portions 20c, 21c of the clips 20, 21 on the upper side and the lower side with the locking holes 3, 4. In this embodiment, the lower clip mounting hole 12 has a great feature. Details of each clip mounting hole 12 are shown in FIG. As shown in the drawing, the clip mounting hole 12 has a guide portion 12a formed in a V-shaped cut from one end of the clip mounting edge portion 11, a temporary mounting hole 12b, a passage portion 12c, and a regular mounting hole 12d. . The clip 21 on the lower side is attached to the temporary attachment position by causing the neck portion 21b to enter the temporary attachment hole 12b through the guide portion 12a. The minimum width of the guide portion 12a and the passage portion 12c is set to a width dimension that can pass through the neck portion 21b with an appropriate resistance.
Thus, the molding 10 is assembled by mounting the clips 20 and 21 one by one on the upper clip mounting edges 13 to 13 and the lower clip mounting edges 11 to 11, and the molding 10 is assembled in an assembled state. It is assembled to the outer panel 2.

As shown in FIG. 3, at the stage of assembling the molding 10 to the outer panel 2 a, the molding 10 is temporarily held with the locking portions 20 c (insertion tip portions) of the clips 20 on the upper side facing the locking holes 3. State. Further, the locking portions 21 c of the clips 21 on the lower side are made to face the locking holes 4. As shown in the drawing, at this stage, the molding 10 is in a state of being lifted from the outer panel 2a. The positions of the temporary mounting holes 12b of the lower clip mounting holes 12 are appropriately set so as to be positioned on the axis line JB and aligned substantially coaxially with the locking holes 4 at this stage.
As described above, the locking portions 20c of the clips 20 on the upper side and the clips 21 on the lower side are locked with the locking holes 3 of the first surface portion A and the locking holes 4 of the second surface portion B. After aligning the portion 21c, the operator pushes each of the clips 20 and 21 in the directions indicated by the white arrows in the figure (the axis JA direction and the axis JB direction).
Here, the clips 20 to 20 on the upper side are mounted in the keyhole-shaped clip mounting hole 14 and cannot move in the surface direction. Further, as a result of the surface direction of the first surface portion A and the second surface portion B being greatly different, the insertion direction of the clips 20-20 on the upper side (axis JA direction) and the insertion direction of the clips 21-21 on the lower side (axis JB direction). Is a direction in which the upper side clips 20 to 20 and the lower side clips 21 to 21 approach each other as they are inserted into the locking holes 3 and 4, respectively. Will be displaced. For this reason, in order to push the clips 21 to 21 on the lower side into the locking holes 4 to 4 after the clips 20 to 20 on the upper side are pushed into the locking holes 3 to 3, the clips 21 on the lower side are inserted. It is necessary to displace the mounting position with respect to the clip attachment edge 11 upward (in a direction approaching the clip 20 on the upper side) indicated by an arrow (U) in FIG. In the present embodiment, the mounting position of the clip 21 on the lower side with respect to the clip mounting edge 11 is changed from the temporary mounting position to the normal mounting position (in the arrow (U) direction) by the passage portion 12c of the clip mounting hole 12 and the regular mounting hole 12d. It is allowed to be displaced.
When each clip 21 on the lower side is pushed in the axis JB direction, each clip 21 relatively displaces the neck portion 21b from the temporary mounting hole 12b through the passage portion 12c into the regular mounting hole 12d. As shown by (), it is displaced relative to the clip mounting edge 11 upward and in parallel.
In this way, each clip 21 on the lower side is displaced in the direction of the arrow (U) relative to the clip mounting edge 11, whereby each clip 21 on the lower side is engaged with the locking hole 4. The molding 10 is assembled in a state straddling the first surface portion A and the second surface portion B by locking the clips 20 and 21 on the upper side and the lower side in the locking holes 3 and 4 of the outer panel 2a.
The regular mounting hole 12d of the clip mounting hole 12 is formed in the shape of a long groove having a D dimension that is long in the width direction (vehicle longitudinal direction) of the clip mounting edge 11. Thereby, after the assembly, the thermal contraction in the front-rear direction of the molding 10 is absorbed and the good assembly state is maintained.

According to the molding 10 of the present embodiment configured as described above and the assembling method thereof, the clips 20 to 20 on the upper side as first surface portion fixing tools inserted into the locking holes 3 to 3 of the first surface portion A, and The insertion directions JA and JB of the clips 21 to 21 on the lower side as the second surface portion fixtures inserted into the locking holes 4 to 4 of the second surface portion B are different from each other with a certain angle. Since the mounting positions of the lower side clips 21 to 21 with respect to the clip mounting edge 11 are displaceable in a direction approaching the upper side clips 20 to 20, the lower side clips are assembled at the stage of assembly. Clips on the upper side and the lower side are changed by changing the mounting positions of the clip mounting edges 11 to 11 of 21 to 21 from the temporary mounting position (in the temporary mounting hole 12b) to the regular mounting position (in the regular mounting hole 12d). 1 in the insertion direction JA, it is possible to absorb the difference in the surface direction of the difference thus first face A and the second face B of the JB. Therefore, in the assembled state, the insertion tips of the upper side clips 20 to 20 and the lower side clips 21 to 21 are respectively connected to the locking holes 3 to 3 of the first surface portion A and the locking holes 4 to 4 of the second surface portion B. 4 can be mounted at a position aligned with both.
Thus, since the mounting position in the molding 10 of the clips 21 to 21 on the lower side changes at the stage of assembly and the difference in the surface direction between the first surface portion A and the second surface portion B is absorbed, the upper side and the lower side For all of the clips 20 to 20 and 21 to 21, normal general-purpose clips can be used instead of conventional non-universal clips having a special shape, thereby assembling the outfitting part (mall 10) reliably and efficiently. In addition, the cost can be reduced.
Further, according to the illustrated embodiment, the distance (relative movement distance) from the temporary mounting position of the clips 21 to 21 on the lower side to the normal mounting position according to the difference in the surface direction between the first surface portion A and the second surface portion B. ) Is set appropriately, even when the surface directions of the first surface portion A and the second surface portion B are greatly different, it can be applied without causing an increase in cost.

Various modifications can be made to the first embodiment described above. FIG. 7 shows a clip mounting hole 15 according to the second embodiment. The same members and configurations as those in the first embodiment are denoted by the same reference numerals, and the description thereof is omitted. The clip mounting hole 15 of the second embodiment is different from the first embodiment in that the position of the regular mounting hole 15d with respect to the temporary mounting hole 15b is arranged upside down from the clip mounting hole 12 of the first embodiment. ing. According to the clip mounting hole 15, the lower side clip 21 temporarily mounted in the temporary mounting hole 15 b through the guide portion 15 a can move into the lower regular mounting hole 15 d, and thus the first surface portion and The same effect can be obtained by applying the molding to the outer panel in which the second surface portion is recessed in the valley shape. Also, in the case of this clip mounting hole 15, the regular mounting hole 15 d is formed in the shape of a long groove with a long D dimension in the front and rear, so that even when heat shrinkage or the like of the molding 10 occurs after assembly, A good assembled state can be maintained.
As described above, the present invention can be applied not only to the case where the surface direction is different due to swelling in a mountain shape, but also to the case where the surface direction is different due to being recessed in a valley shape. In addition, the present invention is not limited to the case where the surface direction is different between the upper and lower sides, and can also be applied to the case where the fitting component is assembled across two surfaces having different surface directions on the front and rear sides or the left and right sides.
Moreover, although the structure which provided the mounting position so that relative movement was possible between the temporary mounting position and the regular mounting position was illustrated about the clips 21-21 of the lower side of the mall 10, the clip 20-20 of the upper side was provided with the same structure. And may be applied to all the clips 20 to 20 and 21 to 21 on the upper side and the lower side.
In addition, the regular mounting hole 12d (15d) is illustrated as a long groove hole shape that is long in the vehicle front-rear direction, and the configuration corresponding to heat shrinkage after assembly is illustrated. It is good also as a structure.
Furthermore, although the side protection molding 10 attached to the door outer panel 2a as an outfitting part is illustrated, the assembly of the garnish to the back door, the assembly of the molding to the hood panel, the installation of the molding to the rocker at the lower part of the door opening, the trim of the front door, etc. The present invention can be widely applied to assembling structures for various vehicle outfitting parts such as assembling, trimming of a roof panel and assembling of a liner.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Vehicle 2 ... Front door, 2a ... Outer panel, 2b ... Inner panel A ... 1st surface part, B ... 2nd surface part, C ... Boundary 3 ... Locking hole (1st surface part side), JA ... Axis line of locking hole (Clip insertion direction)
4 ... locking hole (second surface side), JB ... axis of locking hole (clip insertion direction)
10 ... Side protection mall (fitting parts)
11 ... Clip mounting edge (second surface side)
12 ... Clip mounting hole (2nd surface side)
12a ... Guide portion, 12b ... Temporary mounting hole, 12c ... Passing portion, 12d ... Regular mounting hole 13 ... Clip mounting edge (first surface side)
14 ... Clip mounting hole (first surface side)
15. Clip mounting hole (second embodiment)
20 ... Clip on the upper side (first surface fixture)
20a ... Head, 20b ... Neck, 20c ... Engagement part, 20d ... Elastic edge 21 ... Lower side clip (second surface part fixture)
21a ... head, 21b ... neck, 21c ... engagement part, 21d ... elastic edge

Claims (5)

A fitting component that is assembled across a first surface portion and a second surface portion, which have different surface directions from each other, and is inserted into a locking hole provided in the first surface portion on one side in the width direction. A second surface portion fixing tool that is inserted into a locking hole provided in the second surface portion on the other side in the width direction;
An outfitting component comprising at least one of the first surface portion fixing tool and the second surface portion fixing tool that is displaceable in a direction approaching or separating from the other. 2. The outfitting component according to claim 1, wherein the first surface portion and the second surface portion are connected in a mountain shape and the surface directions thereof are different from each other, and the first surface portion fixing tool or the second surface portion fixing tool is provided. An outfitting component that is displaceable in a direction approaching the other. 3. The outfitting component according to claim 1, wherein one of the first surface portion fixing tool and the second surface portion fixing tool has a temporary mounting position in which the insertion tip portion is aligned with the locking hole, and the insertion thereof. An outfitting component that is movable between a normal position in which a base end portion is aligned with the locking hole. The engagement part according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the engaging part is engaged by being pushed into the locking hole as the first surface part fixing tool and the second surface part fixing tool. Outfitting part comprising a clip having A method for assembling the outfitting component according to claim 1 between a first surface portion and a second surface portion having different surface directions of the vehicle, wherein the first surface portion fixing tool or the second surface portion fixing tool At least one of the mounting parts in the fitting part is changed, and the first surface part fixing tool and the second surface part fixing tool are absorbed while absorbing the difference in the surface direction between the first surface part and the second surface part. A method of assembling the outfitting component by inserting into the locking hole.

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