JP2020111976A - Vehicle door handle device - Google Patents

Abstract

To prevent a door handle member assembled to a base member from falling off in a vehicle door handle device.SOLUTION: A vehicle door handle device 1 includes a door handle member 2 and a base member 3 which are attached so as to sandwich the outer panel 11A. The door handle member 2 has a first arm 2A on the first side in the longitudinal direction of the handle and a second arm 2B on the opposite second side, and the base member 3 has a rotation support portion 3A and a rotation guide portion 3B which form a hole portion into which the arms are inserted. The entire door handle member 2 is moved to the first side in the handle longitudinal direction X from the predetermined insertion state in which the arms 2A and 2B are inserted into the rotation support portion 3A and the rotation guide portion 3B, so that the door handle member 2 is temporarily attached to the base member 3. The door handle member 2 is prevented from falling off by inserting a lock member 10 into the space S2 in the rotation guide portion 3B formed by the movement.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 8

Description

The present invention relates to a vehicle door handle device.

Some vehicle door handle devices include a base member that is assembled to the outer panel of the vehicle door from the inside of the vehicle, and a door handle member that is assembled to the base member from the outside of the vehicle while sandwiching the outer panel. .. The door handle member is a member that can be operated so that the first side in the longitudinal direction of the handle is a fulcrum and the opposite second side is outwardly directed toward the vehicle. A first arm that extends and a second arm that extends toward the inside of the vehicle on a second side opposite to the first side in the longitudinal direction of the handle are provided. The first arm is rotatably assembled to the base member, while the second arm is arranged so as to be guided so as to reciprocate in and out of the vehicle with respect to the base member.

In such a vehicle door handle device, when the door handle member is assembled to the base member, the first arm of the door handle member is provided with a predetermined first mounting hole portion provided on the first side in the handle longitudinal direction of the base member. Then, the second arm is inserted into a predetermined position of a second mounting hole provided on the second side of the base member in the longitudinal direction of the handle. Then, the entire door handle member is moved to the first side in the handle longitudinal direction from the inserted state on both sides. As a result, the first arm is rotatably assembled to the base member, the second arm is arranged so as to be reciprocally movable in and out of the vehicle in the second assembly hole, and the door handle member is assembled to the base member. It will be attached. However, if the door handle member is left as it is, the door handle member may fall off from the base member due to a force acting to move the entire door handle member to the opposite side (second side in the handle longitudinal direction). For this reason, as shown in Patent Document 1, for example, a fall prevention member may be provided to prevent the first arm from dropping from the above-mentioned rotatable assembly position.

Patent No. 6399291

However, since the fall prevention member in Patent Document 1 is provided on the rotation support side, the fall prevention member itself may be damaged. If the fall prevention member is made of a highly rigid material in order to prevent this, a cost problem remains.

An object of the present invention is to reliably prevent the door handle member assembled to the base member from falling off in the vehicle door handle device.

Means for Solving the Problems and Effects of the Invention

In order to solve the above problems, the vehicle door handle device of the present invention is
A base member that is assembled to the outer panel of the vehicle door from the inside of the vehicle, and a base member that is assembled to the base member from the outside of the vehicle with the outer panel sandwiched therebetween, with the first side in the longitudinal direction of the handle as a fulcrum, and the opposite second A door handle member capable of being operated to bring the side outward of the vehicle,
The door handle member,
The door extends from the first side in the handle longitudinal direction toward the inside of the vehicle and is inserted into a predetermined position of a first mounting hole portion provided on the first side in the handle longitudinal direction of the base member, and then the door is opened. A first arm rotatably assembled to the base member by the assembling operation of moving the entire handle member to the first side in the handle longitudinal direction;
The second side opposite to the first side in the longitudinal direction of the handle extends toward the inside of the vehicle and is inserted into a predetermined position of a second mounting hole portion provided on the second side in the longitudinal direction of the handle of the base member. A second arm arranged so as to be capable of reciprocating in the inside and outside of the vehicle in the second mounting hole portion by the mounting operation,
In a vehicle door handle device having:
The second arm is arranged on the inner side of the vehicle with respect to the outer panel, and moves into the space formed on the second side in the handle longitudinal direction of the second mounting hole by the movement of the second arm by the assembling operation. It is characterized by comprising a lock member for preventing the arm from reversely moving to the second side.

According to the above invention, after the door handle member is assembled to the base member, the entire door handle member is moved to the first side in the longitudinal direction of the handle, and after the movement, behind the second arm, that is, The lock member enters the space formed on the second side in the longitudinal direction of the handle of the second arm, and restricts the movement of the second arm to the second side. As a result, the entire door handle member cannot return to the second side in the handle longitudinal direction, so that the door handle member assembled to the base member can be reliably prevented from falling off.

Further, in some conventional vehicle door handle devices, a separate cap member is arranged outside the outer panel on the second side in the handle longitudinal direction of the door handle member. In this case, the cap member could prevent the entire door handle member from returning to the second side in the longitudinal direction of the handle. However, in recent years, a door handle device for a vehicle is provided with a cap member on a door handle member because a boundary line (a parting line) formed between the cap member and the door handle member is a negative factor in design. There is an integrated door handle member. In this case, since the cap member is integrated, it is not possible to prevent the entire door handle member from returning to the second side in the handle longitudinal direction by the separate cap member. Further, since the boundary line (parting line) becomes a minus element in terms of design, a structure for preventing the entire door handle member from returning to the second side in the longitudinal direction of the handle should be additionally provided on the vehicle outer side than the outer panel. Is also difficult. According to the present invention, the structure that prevents the entire door handle member from returning to the second side in the handle longitudinal direction is provided and hidden inside the vehicle with respect to the outer panel, so that there is no problem of designability.

The lock member according to the present invention can be assembled to the base member. Accordingly, if a base member to which the lock member is attached is prepared in advance, the work of attaching the lock member to the outer panel becomes easy.

The longitudinal direction of the handle in the present invention is the front-back direction of the vehicle, and the lock member may be configured to enter the gap from the upper side or the lower side of the vehicle. Since various mechanisms exist inside the vehicle of the base member, it is not desirable to increase the thickness in the vehicle inward/outward direction by providing the lock member. With the above configuration, since the lock member enters the gap from the upper side to the lower side or from the lower side to the upper side, the lock member is not on the vehicle inner side with respect to the base member but on the vehicle upper side or vehicle lower side. It can be shaped to be located on the side.

The lock member in the present invention is a lever member whose inner end in the lengthwise direction is rotatably assembled to the base member, and by rotating the lever member in the middle section in the lengthwise direction. A lock portion that enters the gap may be provided, and an outer end portion in the length direction may be provided as a lock operation portion that rotates the lock member. According to this configuration, since the lock member is configured as a lever member, the lock operation portion for the assembly operator to operate can be arranged at a position apart from the lock portion that enters the gap. Therefore, it is easy to arrange the lock operation portion at a position where the operation is easy.

1 is a side view showing an example of a vehicle including a vehicle door handle device that is an embodiment of the present invention. The side view which showed the side surface of the vehicle door handle apparatus of FIG. Sectional drawing which showed the assembly procedure of the vehicle door handle apparatus of FIG. The perspective view which showed the door handle member of the vehicle door handle apparatus of FIG. The perspective view which showed the base member of the vehicle door handle apparatus of FIG. The bottom view of the vehicle door handle apparatus of FIG. VII-VII sectional drawing of FIG. The perspective view which expanded and showed the 2nd side of the handle longitudinal direction in the base member of FIG. The perspective view of a lock member. XX sectional drawing of FIG. XI-XI sectional drawing of FIG.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

As shown in FIG. 1, the vehicle door handle device 1 according to the present embodiment includes a door handle member 2 that is attached to left and right side surfaces and a rear door 11 of a vehicle 100 (an automobile in this case). As shown in FIG. 2, the door handle member 2 is a member that causes a door outward direction P as an opening operation for opening the door 11, and by the raising operation, the first side in the handle longitudinal direction X (the left side in FIG. 2). ) Is used as a rotation fulcrum (reference symbol R), and the second side (the right side in FIG. 2) opposite to the rotation fulcrum is raised outward P of the door. Then, it is returned to the original position as the triggering operation is released. The door handle member 2 has a grip portion 2G on the center side in the handle longitudinal direction X that is gripped by the user at the time of the above-mentioned raising operation, and between the grip portion 2G and the outer panel 11A of the door 11, the grip portion 2G is gripped. A gap 2Z is formed so that the user can put his/her hand when gripping the portion 2G.

In this embodiment, the front side of the vehicle is the first side in the longitudinal direction X of the steering wheel, and the opposite side is the second side in the longitudinal direction of the steering wheel.

As shown in FIG. 2, the door handle member 2 is assembled to the base member 3 fixed to the outer panel 11A of the door 11 so that the above-mentioned raising operation can be performed. As shown in FIG. 4, the door handle member 2 here has a first arm 2A on the first side in the handle longitudinal direction X (lower left side in FIG. 4), and the second side opposite thereto (upper right side in FIG. 4). ) Has a second arm 2B. As shown in FIG. 3, the arms 2A and 2B are guided from the outer side of the vehicle to the inner side of the vehicle through openings 11H and 11I respectively formed in the outer panel 11A, and are fixed to the back surface 11b of the outer panel 11A. Attached to the base member 3.

As shown in FIG. 4, the first arm 2A extends from the first side in the handle longitudinal direction X of the door handle member 2 toward the inside of the vehicle, and the tip 2AR at the tip thereof extends toward the first side in the handle longitudinal direction X ( It extends to the lower left side of FIG. 4). As shown in the lower diagram of FIG. 3, the first arm 2A is supported by the rotation support portion 3A of the base member 3 so that the tip portion 2AR thereof can rotate about a predetermined rotation axis R within a predetermined angle range. And functions as a fulcrum arm.

As shown in FIG. 4, the second arm 2B extends from the second side of the door handle member 2 in the handle longitudinal direction X toward the inside of the vehicle, and the tip 2BK at the tip thereof extends toward the first side in the handle longitudinal direction X ( It projects to the lower left side in FIG. As shown in the lower diagram of FIG. 3, the second arm 2B is provided with respect to the rotation guide portion 3B of the base member 3 which serves as a guide portion for guiding the movement of the door handle member 2 in the inward and outward directions of the vehicle. It is fitted and functions as a guide arm.

Further, as shown in FIGS. 6 and 8, the second arm 2B is engaged with the bell crank portion 4 at its tip portion 2BK, and the closed state holding mechanism (shown in the drawing) of the door 11 is provided via the bell crank portion 4. None). When the door handle member 2 is lifted and operated, its operation is transmitted to the closed state holding mechanism through the second arm 2B and the bell crank portion 4, whereby the holding state for holding the door 11 in the closed state is obtained. Will be released. On the contrary, when the raising operation of the door handle member 2 is released, the operation is transmitted to the closed state holding mechanism via the second arm 2B and the bell crank portion 4 to hold the door 11 in the closed state. Return to the holding state.

The bell crank portion 4 is rotatably attached to the base member 3. The bell crank portion 4 is provided with a spring member 6 on its rotating shaft portion, and is urged so that the door handle member 2 is always kept in a closed state.

The base member 3 is assembled to the outer panel 11A from the inside of the vehicle by bolt fastening or the like. As shown in FIGS. 3 and 5, the base member 3 includes a rotation support portion 3A (first mounting hole) for connecting the first arm 2A of the door handle member 2 to the first side in the handle longitudinal direction X. And a rotation guide portion 3B (second assembly hole portion) for connecting the second arm 2B of the door handle member 2 is formed on the second side in the handle longitudinal direction X. As shown in FIG. 5, the rotation support portion 3A has a first side opening 3AH that is open toward the outside of the vehicle for inserting the first arm 2A. On the other hand, the rotation guide portion 3B has a second side opening 3BH that is opened outward of the vehicle for inserting the second arm 2B.

Here, the attachment direction for attaching the door handle member 2 to the outer panel 11A of the door 11 will be described.

First, as shown in the upper diagram of FIG. 3, the first arm 2A of the door handle member 2 is connected to the opening 11H on the first side of the outer panel 11A and the first arm 2A of the base member 3 assembled inside the vehicle of the outer panel 11A. It is inserted into the vehicle inward (downward in FIG. 3) with respect to the one side opening 3AH, and is in an insertion arrangement state (see the central view in FIG. 3) arranged at a predetermined position of the rotation support portion 3A. On the other hand, the second arm 2B of the door handle member 2 is inserted toward the vehicle inward with respect to the second side opening 11I of the outer panel 11A and the second side opening 3BH of the base member 3 to rotate in the vehicle. The insertion placement state is shown in FIG. 3B (see the center view of FIG. 3).

Then, the door handle member 2 as a whole is moved to the first side in the handle longitudinal direction X from a state immediately before assembling in which both the first side arm 2A and the second side arm 2B are both inserted and arranged at predetermined positions. Slide it to the left in FIG. 3) to perform the assembling operation. By this assembling operation, as shown in FIG. 7, in the first arm 2A of the door handle member 2, the locking portion 2AK provided on the tip portion 2AR is locked by the rotation support portion 3A of the base member 3. It engages with the portion 3AK and is in a retaining state. Due to the retaining state, the front end portion 2AR of the first arm 2A of the door handle member 2 is rotatably supported by the rotation supporting portion 3A of the base member 3.

On the other hand, when the second arm 2B moves in the rotation guide portion 3B to the first side in the handle longitudinal direction X, as shown in FIG. 10, the tip portion 2BK of the second arm 2B is locked by the locking portion 3BK of the base member 3. The vehicle is locked in a state where the vehicle is prevented from slipping inward and outward, and the assembled state is maintained so that the vehicle can be reciprocally moved inward and outward within a predetermined range. The locking portion 3BK of the base member 3 prevents the second arm 2B from coming out of the vehicle, but the second arm 2B is placed inside the door handle member 2 in the vehicle. The door handle member 2 comes into contact with the outer panel 11A and is blocked. In this way, the door handle member is in a state in which the first arm 2A is rotatable with respect to the base member 3 and the second arm 2B is prevented from slipping inward and outward (see the lower diagram of FIG. 3). 2 is a state in which the base member 3 is temporarily assembled.

However, in this temporarily assembled state, the door handle member 2 may move in the opposite direction to the above-described assembling operation. This is because the second arm 2B is moved to the first side in the handle longitudinal direction X by the above-described assembling operation, as shown in FIG. 8 and FIG. This is because the void S2 is formed in the. For this reason, in the vehicle door handle device 1 of the present embodiment, the second arm 2B is prevented from moving backward to the second side in the handle longitudinal direction X by entering the space S2 formed after the above-described assembling operation. The lock member 10 of FIG. 9 is provided, and it is possible to prevent the entire door handle member 2 from moving backward to the second side and prevent the door handle member 2 from falling off the base member 3.

As shown in FIGS. 10 and 11, the rotation guide portion 3B of the base member 3 has a space S2 on the second side in the handle longitudinal direction X into which the second arm 2B is inserted, and a subsequent assembling operation (door handle member). (The movement of the entire 2 toward the first side in the handle longitudinal direction X) forms a cylindrical shape that surrounds an internal space S that is continuous with the void S1 on the first side in the handle longitudinal direction X into which the second arm 2B enters. As shown in FIG. 11, in the vertical direction of the rotation guide portion 3B (vertical direction in FIG. 11), the guide wall portions 3G, 3G extending inward and outward of the vehicle with the second arm 2B located in the space S1 being sandwiched therebetween. Is provided, and the movement of the second arm 2B in the vehicle inward/outward direction is guided.

As shown in FIG. 11, the lock member 10 is rotatably attached to the base member 3. The lock member 10 here is a lever member extending from the rotation shaft portion 10A, and a lock portion 10B that enters the space S2 is provided in an intermediate section in the length direction thereof, and an outer end portion in the length direction thereof. Is the lock operation unit 10C. Specifically, the lock member 10 includes a rotating shaft portion 10A, a rotating portion 10D extending from the rotating shaft portion 10A in an outward direction orthogonal to the axial direction, and a rotating direction from the rotating portion 10D. It has a lock portion 10B that protrudes and enters the space S2, and a lock operation portion 10C that extends outward from the rotation portion 10D in the rotation radius direction. Further, the lock member 10 here is provided on the side opposite to the bell crank portion 4 with respect to the space S2, specifically, on the lower side of the vehicle, and the lock portion 10B enters upward from the lower side of the vehicle. Is formed. In the rotation guide portion 3B, an entry hole 3BS into which the lock portion 10B enters is formed in the lower side wall portion of the rotation guide portion 3B forming the guide wall portions 3G and 3G.

Further, as shown in FIGS. 4 and 10, the door handle member 2 of the present embodiment extends from the formation position of the second arm 2B to the second side in the handle longitudinal direction X outside the outer panel 11A. It has the 2nd side extension part 2X. Similarly to the end of the door handle member 2 in the handle longitudinal direction X, the second side extending portion 2X is closer to the outer panel 11A in the inner/outer direction of the vehicle as the second end of the handle longitudinal direction X is closer to the end. It forms a gentle curved surface. In some conventional vehicle door handle devices, a cap member that is separate from the door handle member is disposed at the position of the second side extending portion 2X. In this case, by disposing the cap member, it is possible to prevent the entire door handle member from returning to the second side in the handle longitudinal direction. However, in the vehicle door handle device 1 of the present embodiment, the door handle member 2 is provided with the reason that the boundary line (partition) formed between the cap member and the door handle member is a negative element in design. A portion (second side extending portion 2X) corresponding to the cap member is integrated. Therefore, it is not possible to prevent the entire door handle member 2 from returning to the second side in the handle longitudinal direction X by using a separate cap member, but by using the lock member 10, the entire door handle member 2 is It is prevented from returning to the second side in the longitudinal direction X of the handle.

Although one embodiment of the present invention has been described above, this is merely an example, and the present invention is not limited to this. For example, various modifications can be made based on the knowledge of those skilled in the art, such as omitting some of the requirements in the above embodiment and adding other requirements.

Hereinafter, other embodiments and modifications of the present invention will be described. Detailed description of the functional units common to the above-described embodiments and similar functional units will be omitted. In addition, the above-described embodiment and the following modified examples can be appropriately combined and implemented within a range not causing a technical contradiction.

The lock member 10 in the above-described embodiment may be configured such that the lock portion 10B enters the space S2 from above the vehicle. This makes it difficult for the lock portion 10B to come off the space S2 due to the weight of the lock member 10. Further, the lock member 10 may be configured to enter the space S2 from the front side or the rear side of the vehicle.

The lock member 10 in the above-described embodiment is not limited to being assembled to the base member 3, but may be formed as a separate member. For example, the lock member 10 may be an insertion member that is inserted into the entry hole 3BS provided in the wall portion that forms the rotation guide portion 3B, and may be engaged and fixed by the insertion.

1 Vehicle Door Handle Device 2 Door Handle Member 2A First Arm 2B Second Arm 3 Base Member 3A Rotation Support Part (First Assembly Hole)
3B Rotation guide part (second mounting hole)
10 Lock Member 11 Vehicle Door 11A Outer Panel S2 Gap

Claims (4)

A base member that is assembled to the outer panel of the vehicle door from the inside of the vehicle, and a base member that is assembled to the base member from the outside of the vehicle while sandwiching the outer panel, with the first side in the longitudinal direction of the handle as a fulcrum, and the opposite second A door handle member capable of being operated to bring the side outward of the vehicle,
The door handle member,
The door extends from the first side in the longitudinal direction of the handle to the inside of the vehicle and is inserted into a predetermined position of a first mounting hole provided on the first side in the longitudinal direction of the handle of the base member, and then the door is opened. A first arm rotatably assembled to the base member by the assembling operation of moving the entire handle member to the first side in the handle longitudinal direction;
The second side opposite to the first side in the longitudinal direction of the handle extends toward the inside of the vehicle and is inserted into a predetermined position of a second assembly hole portion provided on the second side in the longitudinal direction of the handle of the base member. A second arm disposed so as to be capable of reciprocating in the second assembling hole in the vehicle inward and outward directions by the assembling operation,
In a vehicle door handle device having:
The second panel is disposed on the inner side of the vehicle with respect to the outer panel and moves into the space formed on the second side in the handle longitudinal direction of the second mounting hole by the movement of the second arm by the mounting operation. A door handle device for a vehicle, comprising a lock member for preventing reverse movement of the arm to the second side. The vehicle door handle device according to claim 1, wherein the lock member is assembled to the base member. The handle longitudinal direction is the front-back direction of the vehicle,
The vehicle door handle device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the lock member enters the space from above or below the vehicle. The lock member is a lever member whose inner end in the length direction is rotatably assembled to the base member, and a lock portion that enters the gap is provided in an intermediate section in the length direction. The vehicle door handle device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein an outer end portion in the lengthwise direction is a lock operation portion.

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