JP2020119632A - Vehicular interior device - Google Patents

Abstract

To provide a vehicular interior device which further improves the design of a housing in an open state of a cover without increasing the number of components.SOLUTION: A vehicular interior device comprises a bezel 20 (housing), and a cover 30 which is supported in a rotatable with respect to the bezel 20. The cover 30 includes a cover body part 31, a shaft part 33 which is rotated between a closing position and an opening position 30b, an arm 34 which connects a rear face 31b at an opposite side of a design surface 31a with the shaft part 33, and an engaging part 35 protruding outward from a portion of the arm 34. In the bezel 20, an inner surface side opposite to a cabin inside face includes a bearing part, and an engaged part 25 in a relation that the engaging part 35 is brought into contact while overlapping a rotation trajectory of rotation around the shaft part 33. When the engaging part 35 passes the engaged part 25, the cover 30 is rotatable reciprocally between the closing position and the opening position 30b by a configuration in which at least any one of the engaging part 35 and the engaged part 25 is elastically deformed.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 8

Description

The present invention relates to a vehicle interior device.

BACKGROUND ART Conventionally, a vehicle interior device as disclosed in, for example, Patent Document 1 is known. Such a vehicle interior device includes a housing facing the interior of the vehicle and a cover rotatably supported with respect to the housing. Here, a claw portion is provided at the tip of the cover. A hole is provided in the housing at a position corresponding to the claw. As a result, the cover holds the closed state by the claw portion engaging with the hole of the housing.

Japanese Patent No. 5283540

However, in the vehicle interior device as described above, the hole of the housing is exposed when the cover is open. Therefore, it is desired to further improve the design quality of the housing in the open state of the cover without increasing the number of parts.

The present invention has been devised in view of the above point, and the problem to be solved by the present invention is to further improve the design quality of the housing in the open state of the cover without increasing the number of parts. It is to be an interior device for a vehicle.

An interior device for a vehicle that solves the above problems is an interior device for a vehicle, which includes a housing facing the interior of the vehicle and a cover rotatably supported with respect to the housing, and the cover is a cover. The main body portion and a design surface of the cover main body portion are closed between a closed position along a surface of the housing on the vehicle interior side and an open position in which the design surface of the cover rises and rotates from the closed position to the interior of the vehicle interior. In the housing, there is provided a shaft portion to be moved, an arm connecting the shaft portion with a rear surface opposite to the design surface, and an engagement portion protruding outward from a part of the arm. A bearing portion that rotatably supports the shaft portion and an engaging portion that are in contact with each other on an inner surface side that is opposite to a surface of the vehicle interior side overlap with a rotation locus that rotates around the shaft portion. The cover is elastically deformed when at least one of the engaging portion and the engaged portion is elastically deformed when the engaging portion passes through the engaged portion. With this structure, the closed position and the open position are reciprocally rotatable.

One feature and advantage of the above configuration is that the engaging portion of the cover and the engaged portion of the housing are arranged on the inner surface side of the housing opposite to the surface on the vehicle interior side.
Therefore, unlike the conventional housing, there may be no need to provide a hole with which the cover engages. Therefore, it is possible to provide an interior device for a vehicle in which the design quality of the housing is further improved in the open state of the cover without increasing the number of parts.

In the vehicle interior device, a push button switch is provided at a position facing the back surface of the cover body, and a projection protruding toward the push button switch is provided on the back surface. When a predetermined pressing force is applied to the design surface of the cover main body toward the push button switch, the posture of the cover main body is changed so that the push button switch can be pushed through the protrusion. May be

One feature and advantage of the above configuration is that the push button switch can be pressed urgently when the cover is in the closed position.

In the vehicle interior device, a weak portion that bends when the pressing force is applied may be provided in a part of the arm.

One feature and advantage of the above configuration is that a part of the arm is provided with a weakened portion that bends when a pressing force is exerted. Accordingly, the posture of the cover main body can be changed without complicating the structure of the arm.

By adopting the means of each of the above inventions, the present invention can be an interior device for a vehicle that further improves the design quality of the housing in the open state of the cover without increasing the number of parts.

It is a front view showing the outline of the interior device for vehicles concerning this embodiment. FIG. 3 is an exploded perspective view of the vehicle interior device. It is the III-III sectional view taken on the line of FIG. FIG. 4 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of the IV section of FIG. 3. FIG. 3 is an overall perspective view of a cover of the vehicle interior device. FIG. 3 is a front view showing an open state of a cover of the vehicle interior device. It is the VII-VII sectional view taken on the line of FIG. It is the VIII-VIII sectional view taken on the line of FIG. It is the IX-IX sectional view taken on the line of FIG. It is the XX sectional view taken on the line of FIG. FIG. 7 is an overall perspective view of a modified example of the cover of the vehicle interior device. FIG. 10 is a cross-sectional view corresponding to FIG. 9 when a modified example of the cover of the vehicle interior device is applied. FIG. 11 is a cross-sectional view corresponding to FIG. 10 when a modified example of the cover of the vehicle interior device is applied.

One aspect of an embodiment for carrying out the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. 1 to 13. In the present embodiment, among the vehicle interior devices, a vehicle emergency button switch device provided in an overhead console attached to the vehicle ceiling will be described as an example. It should be noted that the vertical and horizontal directionalities shown in the respective drawings are shown in a unified manner in the vertical and horizontal directions viewed from a seated person sitting on the vehicle.

First, the outline of the overall configuration of the overhead console 10 will be described. The overhead console 10 is an equipment attached to the vehicle ceiling. As shown in FIG. 1, the overhead console 10 is provided with a lighting device that illuminates the interior of the vehicle, and a vehicle emergency button switch device is provided on the design surface.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the overhead console 10 includes a box panel 11, a substrate 12, a guide panel 13 (housing), a design lens 14, a design panel 15, an emergency call button 16 (push button switch), and a switch 17. The (push button switch), the bezel 20 (housing), and the like are combined so as to overlap with each other, and are integrally assembled to the vehicle ceiling. The guide panel 13 and the bezel 20 correspond to the "housing" in the present invention.

The bezel 20 facing the vehicle interior has a cover 30 rotatably supported with respect to the bezel 20. The cover 30 includes a closed position 30a (see FIGS. 4 and 7) along the surface of the bezel 20 on the vehicle interior side, and an open position that rises from the closed position 30a to the vehicle interior side and rotates (rotates downward). It is rotatably supported between the position 30b (see FIGS. 4 and 8). As shown in FIG. 3, an emergency call button 16, a board 12, and a switch 17 are attached to the bezel 20. The emergency call button 16 is slidably attached to the bezel 20 and the guide panel 13 (housing) in the vertical direction. The emergency call button 16 is, for example, a push type button, but may be a slide type button or a seesaw type button. By operating the emergency call button 16, the switch 17 on the board 12 is pressed to be electrically turned on. The emergency call button 16 may be provided with a vehicle design on its design surface, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 6.

The bezel 20 is made of resin, for example. The bezel 20 may have a one-part configuration or a multi-part configuration. As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the bezel 20 is provided on the ceiling surface of the vehicle compartment so as to project toward the vehicle interior. Further, on the inner surface 21 side opposite to the surface of the bezel 20 on the vehicle interior side, a bearing portion 23 for rotatably supporting a shaft portion 33 of a cover 30 described later and an engagement portion 35 of the cover 30 are provided. 33, and the engaged portion 25 that is in contact with and overlaps with the rotation locus of rotation about 33. The engaged portion 25 is formed in a claw shape capable of engaging with the engaging portion 35 at a position adjacent to the bearing portion 23. In this embodiment, the bearing portion 23 is provided on the actual inner panel 13 (housing), and the engaged portion 25 is provided on the bezel 20. However, the bearing portion 23 and the engaged portion 25 may be provided on either the actual inner panel 13 which is a housing or the bezel 20.

The cover 30 is made of resin, for example, as shown in FIGS. The cover 30 is a lid provided to prevent the user from accidentally operating the emergency notification button 16. The cover 30 may have a one-part configuration or a multi-part configuration. In this embodiment, the cover 30 has a single component structure and is made of a transparent resin material. The cover 30 mainly includes a cover body portion 31, a shaft portion 33, an arm 34, and an engaging portion 35.

The cover body portion 31 is a flat plate-shaped portion that covers the emergency notification button 16. The cover main body 31 is configured such that the emergency notification button 16 is arranged at a position facing the back surface 31b of the cover main body 31. The back surface 31b of the cover body 31 is provided with a protrusion 32 protruding toward the emergency notification button 16.

The shaft portion 33 has a closed position 30a along which the design surface 31a of the cover body 31 extends along the surface of the bezel 20 on the vehicle interior side, and an open position 30b that rises from the closed position 30a toward the vehicle interior and rotates. It is a shaft-shaped portion that rotates between the two. The arm 34 is an arm-shaped portion that connects the back surface 31 b on the side opposite to the design surface 31 a and the shaft portion 33. The engaging portion 35 is a portion that protrudes outward from a part of the arm 34 and engages with the engaged portion 25 of the bezel 20. The engagement portion 35 of the present embodiment is formed in a rectangular shape extending in a rod shape from the outer surface of the arm 34. A part of the arm 34 is provided with a fragile portion 36 that bends when a predetermined pressing force is exerted on the design surface 31 a of the cover body 31 toward the emergency notification button 16. The fragile portion 36 is configured, for example, by making the shaft of the arm 34 partly thin and constricted. As a result, when the pressing force is applied, the fragile portion 36 is deformed in advance so that the entire arm 34 can be bent.

Next, operation contents of the cover 30 of the vehicular emergency button switch device in the overhead console 10 will be described. In the normal state, the cover 30 holds the engaged portion 35 of the cover 30 and the engaged portion 25 of the bezel 20 in an engaged state so that the design surface 31 a of the cover main body portion 31 is kept. The bezel 20 is located at the closed position 30a along the surface of the bezel 20 on the vehicle interior side. Here, when the user operates the emergency notification button 16, the user applies a finger to the tip of the cover body 31 to exert an operation force downward. Then, in the cover 30, the engaging portion 35 passes through the engaged portion 25 due to elastic deformation of at least one of the engaging portion 35 and the engaged portion 25, and the cover 30 moves from the closed position 30a to the open position 30b. Rotate toward.

Further, as shown in FIGS. 9 and 10, when the cover 30 is in the closed position 30a and the user wants to press the emergency call button 16 in an emergency, the emergency call button 16 is pressed against the design surface 31a of the cover body 31. By applying a predetermined pressing force toward the fragile portion 36, the fragile portion 36 is deformed to change the posture of the cover main body portion 31 and the protrusion 32 becomes the pushing position 30c at which the emergency notification button 16 can be pushed.

As described above, according to the overhead console 10 (vehicle interior device) of the present embodiment, the engaging portion 35 of the cover 30 and the engaged portion 25 of the bezel 20 (housing) are located on the vehicle interior side of the bezel 20. It is arranged on the inner surface side opposite to the surface. Therefore, unlike the conventional bezel 20, it may have a configuration in which a hole for engaging the cover 30 does not have to be provided. Therefore, the design quality of the bezel 20 can be further improved in the closed position 30a of the cover 30 without increasing the number of parts.

Further, the configuration is such that the emergency notification button 16 (push button switch) can be pressed urgently when the cover 30 is in the closed position 30a. Further, a fragile portion 36 that bends when a pressing force is applied is provided on a part of the arm 34. Thereby, the posture of the cover main body 31 can be changed without complicating the configuration of the arm 34.

Although the embodiment of the present invention has been described above, the present invention is not limited to this embodiment and can be implemented in various other modes.

Although the engaging portion 35 of the present embodiment has been described as having a square shape extending in a rod shape from the outer surface of the arm 34, the engaging portion 35 is not limited to this. For example, like the engaging portion 135 shown in FIGS. 11 to 13, it may be a protrusion protruding from the outer surface of the arm 34.

Moreover, although the engaged portion 25 of the present embodiment has been described as being configured in the shape of a claw capable of engaging with the engaging portion 35 at a position adjacent to the bearing portion 23, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, as in the case of the engaged portion 125 shown in FIGS. 12 and 13, the engaging portion 135 may be in a relationship in which the engaging portion 135 overlaps with and is in contact with the rotation locus of rotation about the shaft portion 33, and is adjacent to the bearing portion 23. It may be arranged at a position that does not.

In the present embodiment, among the vehicle interior devices, the vehicle emergency button switch device provided on the overhead console attached to the vehicle ceiling has been described as an example. However, the invention is not limited to this, and the vehicle interior device may be a vehicle interior device such as a vehicle emergency button switch device arranged on an instrument panel, a console panel, or the like that is an interior member of the vehicle. Further, the vehicle interior device may be a heater control device, a vehicle accessory storage device, an in-vehicle audio device, a navigation system device or the like as long as it has a cover.

10 Overhead console (vehicle interior equipment)
11 Box Panel 12 Board 13 Guide Panel (Housing)
14 Design lens 15 Design panel 16 Emergency call button (push button switch)
17 switch (push button switch)
20 Bezel (housing)
21 Inner surface 23 Bearing part 25 Engaged part 30 Cover 30a Closed position 30b Opened position 30c Push-in position 31 Cover body part 31a Design surface 31b Back surface 32 Protrusion 33 Shaft part 34 Arm 35 Engagement part 36 Weak part

Claims (3)

An interior device for a vehicle,
A housing facing the vehicle interior,
A cover rotatably supported with respect to the housing,
The cover is
The cover body,
A shaft portion that rotates between a closed position where the design surface of the cover main body portion is along the surface of the housing on the vehicle interior side and an open position that rises from the closed position toward the vehicle interior and rotates. When,
An arm that connects the back surface on the side opposite to the design surface and the shaft portion,
An engaging portion protruding outward from a part of the arm,
On the inner surface side opposite to the surface of the housing in the vehicle interior,
A bearing portion that rotatably supports the shaft portion,
An engaged portion that is in contact with and overlaps with a rotation locus in which the engaging portion rotates about the shaft portion,
The cover is
When the engaging portion passes through the engaged portion, at least one of the engaging portion and the engaged portion is elastically deformed to reciprocate between the closed position and the open position. An interior device for a vehicle that can be rotated. The vehicle interior device according to claim 1,
A push button switch is provided at a position facing the back surface of the cover body,
The back surface is provided with a protrusion protruding toward the push button switch,
For a vehicle in which a predetermined push force is applied to the design surface of the cover main body toward the push button switch, the posture of the cover main body changes and the push button switch can be pushed through the protrusion. Interior equipment. The vehicle interior device according to claim 2,
An interior device for a vehicle, wherein a part of the arm is provided with a fragile portion that bends when the pressing force is applied.

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