JP2019151302A - Vehicle instrument panel - Google Patents

Abstract

To avoid use of a temporary placement jig and reduce work related to temporary placement in arrangement of a wire harness at a vehicle instrument panel.SOLUTION: An instrument panel 10 includes: a panel body 20 having multiple arrangement parts for attachment and arrangement of an on-vehicle device; and an air conditioning duct 40 having a duct attachment part 50 for fixture to the panel body 20. The duct attachment part 50 includes: a fixing part 52 provided with a fixture hole for inserting a fixture 70 which fixes the panel body 20 to the air conditioning duct 40 thereinto; and a temporary placement part 60. The temporary placement part 60 is integrated with the fixing part 52 and is provided with a holding slit 62 in which an antenna cable 30 to be connected to the on-vehicle device is temporarily placed.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

Description

  The present disclosure relates to an instrument panel for a vehicle, and more particularly to an instrument panel for a vehicle in which an in-vehicle device to which a wire harness is connected is arranged.

  An instrument panel is installed in front of the front windshield and in front of the front seat of the vehicle, and instruments that indicate the information necessary for driving the vehicle are arranged. In addition, speakers for audio devices, heaters, air outlets for indoor air conditioning, etc. Is done.

  In Patent Document 1, when an upper panel is assembled to a lower panel of an instrument panel and the other end of a cable having one end attached to the upper panel is connected to the lower panel, the upper panel is assembled to the lower panel. Point out that the cable gets in the way. Here, when the upper panel is assembled to the lower panel, the other end of the cable is temporarily placed on the upper panel so that it can be attached to and detached from the upper panel and can be fitted into a mounting hole provided in the lower panel. An attachment jig fixed with a tape or the like is disclosed.

JP 2012-66364 A

  Since multiple in-vehicle devices are arranged on the instrument panel, multiple wire harnesses are routed for electrical connection between them or between in-vehicle devices outside the instrument panel. Be placed. When arranging a plurality of in-vehicle devices on the instrument panel and connecting the wire harness to the in-vehicle device, if there is a wire harness whose arrangement position has not yet been determined, the operation is obstructed. Therefore, using a special temporary fixture or temporarily fixing the wire harness with tape, etc., requires a cost to create a temporary fixture with a shape that matches the instrument panel, and the man-hours for installation and removal. It takes. Therefore, there is a demand for an instrument panel for a vehicle that can reduce work related to temporary placement without using a temporary placement jig for the arrangement of the wire harness.

  An instrument panel for a vehicle according to the present disclosure includes a panel body having a plurality of placement portions for mounting placement of on-vehicle equipment, and an air conditioning duct having a duct mounting portion for fixing to the panel body. The mounting part is provided with a fixing part provided with a fixing hole through which a fixing tool for fixing the panel body and the air conditioning duct, and a wire harness that is integrated with the fixing part and is not connected to the in-vehicle device. And a temporary placement portion provided with a holding slit to be placed.

  According to the said structure, a duct attaching part contains the temporary placement part integrated with the fixing | fixed part already provided in order to fix a panel main body and an air conditioning duct. Thereby, it is not necessary to use a temporary placing jig. In addition, since the temporary placement portion is provided with a holding slit for temporarily placing the wire harness, the temporary placement work of the wire harness only needs to be temporarily placed in the holding slit and then removed from the holding slit. Work can be reduced.

  According to the instrument panel for a vehicle having the above configuration, the temporary placement work can be reduced without using the temporary placement jig with respect to the arrangement of the wire harness.

It is a figure which shows the instrument panel for vehicles which concerns on embodiment. (A) is the figure seen from the back side, (b) is the figure seen from the lower surface side. It is a perspective view of the II section in Drawing 1 (b). In FIG. 2, it is the figure which removed the cable for antennas which is a wire harness. It is a figure which shows the relationship between the fixing | fixed part which is a duct attachment part in a prior art, and a wire harness. In embodiment, it is a figure which shows providing the temporary mounting part integrally with the fixing | fixed part of FIG. 4, and making this into a duct attachment part.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. In the following, an antenna cable is described as a wire harness, but this is an example for explanation, and any wire harness may be used as long as one end is connected to an in-vehicle device attached to the instrument panel.

  The shapes, dimensions, and the like described below are illustrative examples, and can be appropriately changed depending on the specifications of the instrument panel for the vehicle. In the following description, the same elements are denoted by the same reference symbols in all the drawings, and redundant description is omitted.

  FIG. 1 is a view showing an instrument panel 10 for a vehicle. The instrument panel 10 is an instrument panel that is provided in front of the front seat under the front windshield in the vehicle, and has a plurality of in-vehicle devices attached and arranged as a collection of instruments and switches necessary for operation of the vehicle. . The in-vehicle devices include instruments that indicate information necessary for vehicle travel, such as a speedometer, a tachometer, a fuel meter, a water temperature meter, and a distance meter. Furthermore, a navigation device, an audio device, a heater, a duct for indoor air conditioning, and the like necessary for operation of the vehicle are also provided on the instrument panel 10.

  FIG. 1 shows a longitudinal direction, a lateral direction, and a height direction as three directions orthogonal to the instrument panel 10. The longitudinal direction corresponds to the width direction of the instrument panel 10, and the short direction corresponds to the depth direction of the instrument panel 10. When distinguishing two short directions, when a plurality of in-vehicle devices are mounted on the instrument panel 10, the direction of the display surface of the in-vehicle devices is the front side, and the opposite side is the back side. . When distinguishing the two longitudinal directions, the right direction is the right side and the left direction is the left side when facing from the front side to the back side in the short direction. In the vertical direction, the upper side is the upper surface side and the lower side is the lower surface side when the instrument panel 10 is arranged in a direction in which the display of the in-vehicle device can be read correctly.

  When the instrument panel 10 is mounted on a vehicle, the front side of the instrument panel 10 corresponds to the vehicle rear side, and the back side corresponds to the vehicle front side. The left side of the instrument panel 10 corresponds to the left side of the vehicle, the right side corresponds to the right side of the vehicle, the upper side of the instrument panel 10 corresponds to the upper side of the vehicle, and the lower side corresponds to the lower side of the vehicle.

  Fig.1 (a) is the figure which looked at the instrument panel 10 of the state by which the vehicle mounting apparatus etc. are not yet mounted and arrange | positioned from the back side. Hereinafter, unless otherwise specified, as the instrument panel 10, a vehicle-mounted device or the like is not yet mounted and arranged. (B) is the figure which looked at the instrument panel 10 from the lower surface side. In FIG. 1, the instrument panel 10 includes a panel main body 20, an air conditioning duct 40, and a duct mounting portion 50. FIGS. 1A and 1B show an antenna cable 30. The antenna cable is a component of the instrument panel 10 in a completed state in which a vehicle-mounted device or the like is attached and arranged.

  The panel body 20 is a panel plate that has a plurality of placement portions for mounting placement of in-vehicle devices and is molded into a predetermined shape using a resin material. FIG. 1A shows a plurality of openings 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, and 26 into which a display surface of an in-vehicle device is fitted.

  The antenna cable 30 is a wire harness drawn from an antenna 32 disposed outside or inside the instrument panel 10 and is connected to a transmitting / receiving device (not shown) having one end 34 attached to the panel body 20. . Like the wire harness 28 shown to Fig.1 (a), although the several wire harness is arrange | positioned at the instrument panel 10, the antenna cable 30 is the example.

  The air conditioning duct 40 is a duct in which one end is connected to a cabin air conditioner (not shown) and the other end is connected to an air conditioning outlet of the instrument panel 10 and air for air conditioning flows. The air conditioning duct 40 includes a duct mounting portion 50 for fixing to the panel body 20. Here, the duct mounting portion 50 will be described with reference to FIGS.

  2 is a perspective view of a portion II in FIG. 1B, and FIG. 3 is a diagram excluding the antenna cable 30 in FIG.

  The duct attaching part 50 is a member in which the fixing part 52 and the temporary placement part 60 are integrated. The duct mounting part 50 is integrally formed with the air conditioning duct 40. Alternatively, it may be molded as a separate part and integrated with the air conditioning duct 40 and the fastening member. The fixing portion 52 and the temporary placement portion 60 are integrally molded with the same material. For example, when the exterior portion of the air conditioning duct 40 is made of resin, the exterior portion of the air conditioning duct 40 and the duct mounting portion 50 are integrated by resin molding.

  The fixing portion 52 is a plate-like member provided with fixing tool holes 54 (see FIGS. 4 and 5) through which the fixing tool 70 for fixing the panel body 20 and the air conditioning duct 40 passes. As the fixture 70, a fixing screw or bolt is used.

  The temporary placement section 60 temporarily places the one end 34 side of the antenna cable 30 temporarily so that the antenna cable 30 does not interfere with the work when the transmitting / receiving device is attached to the panel body 20. This is a plate-like member provided for this purpose. The holding slit 62 is a stepped slit provided in the temporary placement portion 60 for temporarily placing the antenna cable 30. FIG. 3 is a view in which the antenna cable 30 is not shown in FIG. 2, and a stepped structure of the holding slit 62 is shown. The holding slit 62 includes two partial slits 64 and 66 that are substantially orthogonal to each other. One partial slit 64 is an elongated cut having an opening end at the left end portion of the temporary placement portion 60 and extending along a direction substantially parallel to the longitudinal direction of the instrument panel 10. The width of the cut is set to be the same as or slightly larger than that of the antenna cable 30. Another partial slit 66 is an elongated notch that connects to the partial slit 64 and extends along a direction substantially parallel to the height direction of the instrument panel 10. The width of the cut is set to be the same as or slightly larger than that of the antenna cable 30.

  When the antenna cable 30 is temporarily placed in the holding slit 62 of the temporary placement portion 60, the antenna cable 30 is inserted from the opening end of the holding slit 62 toward the right side in the longitudinal direction of the instrument panel 10 along the partial slit 64. After being inserted to the rightmost side of the partial slit 64, it is then inserted along the partial slit 66 toward the upper surface side of the instrument panel 10. Thus, the temporary placement position of the antenna cable 30 is stably determined by the two-stage insertion. FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a state where the antenna cable 30 is temporarily placed. The temporarily placed antenna cable 30 may be removed from the holding slit 62 by moving it in the direction opposite to the insertion.

  FIGS. 4 and 5 are diagrams for explaining the setting of the position of the temporary placement portion 60 when the temporary placement portion 60 is provided as the duct mounting portion 50 by using the fixing portion already used in the prior art. It is.

  Since one end 34 of the antenna cable 30 is connected to a connection terminal of a transmission / reception device mounted and arranged on the panel body 20, the antenna cable 30 is temporarily placed on the panel body 20 with the direction of the connection terminal of the transmission / reception device as a target direction T. Is preferred. Since the target direction T is often not the same height as the lower surface of the panel body 20, in order to match the target direction T, a temporary placement jig having that height is obtained. Even when the temporary placement jig is used, as shown in FIGS. 1A and 1B, the lower surface of the panel body 20 has a complicated shape due to the arrangement of a plurality of in-vehicle devices. There are many restrictions on the location of temporary placement jigs.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a duct mounting portion 51 provided in the air conditioning duct 40 in the prior art. The duct mounting portion 51 of the prior art is provided with a fixture hole 54 through which a fixture 70 for fixing the panel body 20 and the air conditioning duct 40 is passed. In FIG. 4, a state where the antenna cable 30 is not temporarily placed but is hung on the lower surface side by its own weight or the like is indicated by a solid line, and the antenna cable 30 is also directed toward the target direction T including the height position. Is indicated by a two-dot chain line.

  FIG. 5 is a diagram showing that the duct mounting portion 51 of the prior art is expanded, and a holding slit 62 is provided in the expanded portion in accordance with the target direction T regarding the temporary placement of the antenna cable 30 to form the temporary placement portion 60. It is. The temporary placement portion 60 is an extended portion that is integrated with the duct attachment portion 51. In this way, the duct mounting portion 51 of the prior art is used as the fixing portion 52, and the temporary mounting portion 60 having the holding slit 62 that is aligned with the target direction T related to the temporary placement of the antenna cable 30 is provided. Thus, the duct mounting portion 50 shown in FIGS. 1 to 3 is obtained.

  In the above description, the fixing portion 52 is extended to the lower surface side in the height direction to form the temporary placement portion 60. This is an illustrative example, and may extend to the upper surface side in the height direction. Depending on the target direction T, the fixing portion 52 may extend to the right or left in the longitudinal direction. You may extend in the direction which combined the height direction and the length direction. In the above description, the air conditioning duct 40 is disposed on the right side of the instrument panel 10. However, the air conditioning duct 40 may be provided on the left side of the instrument panel 10. Furthermore, the air-conditioning ducts 40 may be arranged on both the right and left sides of the instrument panel 10, respectively. Even in these cases, the temporary placement unit 60 suitable for the target direction T can be provided.

  In the above, the holding slit 62 has the left end portion of the temporary placement portion 60 as an open end, but this is an example for explanation, and the position of the opening end may be the right end portion of the temporary placement portion 60, and the upper end. Or lower end. The two-stage structure of the holding slit 62 may be appropriately changed depending on the position of the opening end.

  According to the vehicle instrument panel 10 having the above-described configuration, the temporary mounting portion 60 is provided in the duct mounting portion 50 of the air conditioning duct 40. Therefore, the panel main body 20 is provided with a mounting jig for temporarily placing the wire harness. However, the degree of freedom for the temporary target direction T can be increased. Thereby, regarding the arrangement of the wire harness, it is possible to reduce the work related to temporary placement without using the temporary placement jig.

  10 (vehicle) instrument panel, 20 panel body, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 opening, 28 wire harness, 30 antenna cable (wire harness), 32 antenna, 34 one end, 40 air conditioning Duct, 50, 51 Duct mounting part, 52 fixing part, 54 fixing tool hole, 60 temporary holding part, 62 holding slit, 64, 66 partial slit, 70 fixing tool.

Claims (1)

A panel body having a plurality of placement portions for mounting placement of in-vehicle devices;
An air conditioning duct having a duct mounting portion for fixing to the panel body;
With
The duct mounting part is
A fixing portion provided with a fixture hole for passing a fixture for fixing the panel body and the air conditioning duct;
A temporary placement portion provided with a holding slit that is integrated with the fixed portion and temporarily places the wire harness before being connected to the in-vehicle device;
Instrument panel for vehicles, including

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