JP2020163871A - Attachment device which attaches by replacing car navigation with small screen attached to motor vehicle to car navigation with large screen - Google Patents

Abstract

To attach by replacing a car navigation with a large screen to a vehicle attaching a car navigation with a small screen simply and rapidly.SOLUTION: An attachment device peripherally furnishes a taper shaped projection piece 10 which is formed as an opening with diameter getting smaller gradually as going to other side to the other side opening of an extension panel 3 which installs and fixes a car navigation 1 with a large screen and at the same time unites and fixes the expansion panel 3, connecting a fitting projection piece 11 with width capable of fitting into a front side outer end part 6a of an existing hood cover 6 to the other side of the taper shaped projection piece 10, to the other part of a decorative panel 5 integrally. It further fits the fitting projection piece 11 into the front side outer end part 6a of the existing hood cover 6 and at the same time press-fits and fixes a fitting projection 14 projected to the extension panel 3 into a fitting hole 15 installed to the existing hood cover 6.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

Description

The genuine car navigation system, which is pre-installed on the instrument panel of an automobile, has recently adopted a large-screen car navigation system with a width of about 230 mm in order to make it easy to see and luxurious. On the other hand, the car before installing the large screen car navigation was equipped with a small screen car navigation having a width of about 190 mm. Then, the present invention can be removed after removing the small screen car navigation from the instrument panel to which the small screen car navigation is attached at the request of the owner of the car to which the small screen car navigation is attached. A large-screen car navigation system can be easily and quickly replaced and attached to the existing hood cover for car navigation covering, which is installed as it is, without any expansion work such as cutting. It is related to the mounting device.

Conventionally, there is a mounting device that allows the owner of a car to easily replace the small-screen car navigation system that is pre-installed on the instrument panel at the time of purchase of the car with a large-screen car navigation system. Since this was not done, the owner of the car had to put up with the small screen car navigation that was pre-installed in the car once purchased, which was extremely inconvenient. On the other hand, the present inventor has retroactively searched past patent documents regarding a mounting device that can be easily replaced with a large screen car navigation instead of a small screen car navigation, but also finds one patent document. I couldn't.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and at the request of the owner of the car equipped with the small screen car navigation system, the small screen car navigation system is installed from the instrument panel. After removing the car navigation system on the screen, the car navigation system on the large screen can be easily and quickly replaced and attached to the existing hood cover that has been installed as it is without any expansion work such as cutting. It relates to a mounting device that can be used.

INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY According to the present invention, a taper is formed in a front-side opening of an expansion panel having a wide frame-shaped opening that can be mounted and fixed to a large-screen car navigation system so that the opening gradually becomes smaller in diameter toward the front side. An expansion panel formed by circling the shaped projecting pieces and connecting the tapered projecting pieces with fitting projecting pieces having a width that can be fitted to the front side outer end face portion of the existing hood cover. The front side of an existing hood cover that is integrally joined and fixed to the front end of a decorative panel having a wide frame-shaped opening similar to the expansion panel and has an opening having a diameter smaller than the opening of the expansion panel. A means of fitting the fitting projecting piece to the outer end surface portion and press-fitting and fixing a plurality of fitting protrusions projecting from the expansion panel into the fitting holes installed in the existing hood cover. The above problem was solved by adopting.

According to the present invention having the above configuration, after removing the small screen car navigation from the instrument panel to which the small screen car navigation is attached at the request of the owner of the car equipped with the small screen car navigation. , Easy and quick replacement and installation of a large-screen car navigation system on the existing hood cover for car navigation covering, which is installed as it is without removal, without any expansion work such as cutting. Can be done.

It is the schematic perspective view of the instrument panel part which attached the car navigation of a large screen by the apparatus of this invention. It is an assembly disassembled perspective view of the apparatus of this invention. It is a front view of the expansion panel in the apparatus of this invention. It is a rear view of the expansion panel in the apparatus of this invention. It is a rear view of the decorative panel in the apparatus of this invention. It is a perspective view which looked at the state which attached the mounting plate to the expansion panel in the apparatus of this invention from the back side. It is a side view which shows the state which installed the car navigation system on the expansion panel in the apparatus of this invention. It is the schematic perspective view of the instrument panel part which attached the car navigation of a small screen by the conventional apparatus. It is an assembly disassembled perspective view of the conventional device which attaches a car navigation with a small screen.

According to the present invention, at the request of the owner of a car equipped with a small-screen car navigation system having a width of about 190 mm, which has been conventionally used, the small-screen car navigation system can be changed from an instrument panel to which the small-screen car navigation system is installed. It is possible to replace and attach a large-screen car navigation system with a width of about 230 mm to the existing car navigation covering hood cover that is installed as it is without being removed in the car navigation installation opening after the navigation is removed. As for the mounting device as described above, the instrument panel portion to which the conventionally used small screen car navigation system is mounted is configured as shown in FIGS. 8 to 9.

That is, FIG. 8 is a schematic perspective view of an instrument panel portion equipped with a conventionally used small screen car navigation system, and FIG. 9 is an assembled disassembled perspective view of the instrument panel portion. As shown in FIGS. 8 and 9, the conventionally used small screen car navigation 21 is installed in the car navigation mounting opening 23 opened in the instrument panel 22. The car navigation mounting opening 23 is provided with an insertion opening 24 for inserting the car navigation 21 in the center, and the car navigation mounting opening 23 is covered from both side surfaces in the upper and lower directions and the car. A hood cover 25 that covers and neatly attaches the navigation 21 is installed and fixed to the instrument panel 22.

On the other hand, the car navigation 21 installed in the hood cover 25 is provided with a square opening 27 so that the screen 26 of the car navigation 21 can be visually recognized, and can be fitted to the front side outer end surface portion 25a of the hood cover 25. A substantially concave mounting plate 30 for holding and fixing the car navigation 21 is provided on both sides and the lower end of the decorative panel 29 formed by bending the outer end portion to the front side to form the bent piece 28. The decorative panel 29 and the car navigation 21 are integrally fixed to the mounting plate 30 by fixing both side walls and the bottom surface of the car navigation 21 to the mounting plate 30 by screwing or the like.

Then, the car navigation 21 integrally fixed to the decorative panel 29 is inserted into the insertion opening 24 of the hood cover 25 fixed to the instrument panel 22 and pressed and moved toward the other side. The curved piece 28 is fitted to the front side outer end surface portion 25a of the hood cover 25, and a plurality of curved pieces 28 are projected at intervals on both sides of the opening portion of the front portion of the decorative panel 29, and the front portion is a thin triangular shape. The fitting protrusion 31 of the hood cover 25 is integrally fixed to the decorative panel 28 by press-fitting and fixing the fitting protrusion 31 into the fitting holes 32 provided at intervals on the inner side surface of the opening on the front surface of the hood cover 25. The car navigation system 21 is integrally fixed and attached to the hood cover 25.

In the present invention, the hood cover is left without being removed from the instrument panel equipped with the conventionally used small screen car navigation system having a width of about 190 mm, and after the small screen car navigation system is removed, the hood cover is removed. The present invention relates to an attachment device capable of being attached to the existing hood cover by replacing a large-screen car navigation system having a width of about 230 mm. That is, in the present invention, the large screen car navigation 1 is mounted and fixed to the expansion panel 3 provided with the wide rectangular opening 2 to which the large screen car navigation 1 can be mounted, and the large screen car navigation 1 is mounted and fixed. A decorative panel 5 having a wide square opening 4 similar to the expansion panel 3 is integrally joined and fixed to the front surface of the expansion panel 3 to which the car navigation 1 is mounted and fixed, and a large screen is further attached to the decorative panel 5. The expansion panel 3 to which the car navigation system 1 is mounted and fixed can be mounted and fixed to the existing hood cover 6.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in more detail. After removing the conventionally used small screen car navigation, the car navigation mounting opening 8 of the instrument panel 7 has an existing hood cover that covers the conventionally used small screen car navigation. 6 is installed and fixed as it is without being removed.

On the other hand, a substantially concave mounting plate 9 for holding and fixing the car navigation 1 is fixed to both sides and the lower end of the expansion panel 3 provided with the wide square opening 2, and the mounting plate is fixed. By fixing both side walls and the bottom surface of the car navigation 1 to 9 with screws or the like, the car navigation 1 is integrally fixed to the expansion panel 3.

Further, as described above, in the present invention, since the existing hood cover 6 that has been used for the small screen car navigation system that has been conventionally used is used as it is, the expansion panel 3 to which the large screen car navigation system 1 is mounted and fixed is used. If you use it as it is, the size will not match and you will not be able to install it. Therefore, in the present invention, a tapered projecting piece 10 is formed in the opening on the front side of the expansion panel 3 so as to gradually become an opening having a smaller diameter toward the front side so that the opening can be mounted and fixed to the hood cover 7. Along with the protrusion, a fitting protrusion 11 that fits into the front side outer end surface portion 6a of the existing hood cover 6 is further provided at the tip of the tapered protrusion 10.

On the other hand, the means for integrally joining and fixing the decorative panel 5 having the above configuration to the expansion panel 3 employs the same means as the means for joining and fixing the conventional decorative panel to the hood cover. That is, a plurality of triangular fitting projections 12 having a narrow front portion, which are provided at intervals on both sides of the opening of the front portion of the decorative panel 5, are provided on the inner surface of the opening of the front portion of the expansion panel 3. By press-fitting and fixing the car navigation 1 through the fitting holes 13 provided at intervals, the expansion panel 3 integrally fixing the car navigation 1 is joined and fixed to the decorative panel 5 and attached.

Further, the means for integrally joining and fixing the expansion panel 3 having the above configuration to the existing hood cover 6 also adopts the same means as the means for joining and fixing the conventional decorative panel to the hood cover. That is, a plurality of triangular fitting projections 14 having a narrow front portion, which are projected on both sides of the opening of the front portion of the expansion panel 3 at intervals, are inside the opening of the front portion of the existing hood cover 6. The expansion panel 3 fixing the car navigation 1 to the front portion of the decorative panel 5 is attached to the existing hood cover 6 by press-fitting and fixing the fitting holes 15 which are attached at intervals on the side surfaces. It is fixed integrally with.

Then, the operation of the apparatus of the present invention configured as described above will be described. After fixing the car navigation 1 of the large screen to the expansion panel 3 and integrally joining and fixing the decorative panel 5 to the front surface of the expansion panel 3, the fitting projection piece 11 of the expansion panel 3 is attached to the existing hood cover 6. The car navigation 1 of the large screen is fitted by fitting the fitting protrusion 14 into the fitting hole 15 installed in the existing hood cover 6 while fitting the outer end face portion 6a on the front surface side. Can be replaced with the existing hood cover 6 and attached.

In particular, in the present invention, a tapered projecting piece 10 formed so as to gradually become an opening having a smaller diameter toward the front side is provided at the opening on the front side of the expansion panel 3, and the tapered projecting is projected. Since a fitting projecting piece 11 that fits into the front side outer portion of the existing hood cover 7 is further provided around the tip of the piece 10, the dimensions of the outer diameters of the expansion panel 3 and the existing hood cover 7 are measured. Since the tapered projecting piece 10 can absorb the difference, it can be used without removing the hood cover that has been conventionally attached, and as a result, a car navigation system having a large size can also be attached to the hood cover 7. It is possible to easily and quickly replace and install a large-screen car navigation system without performing expansion work such as cutting.

1 Large screen car navigation 2 Square opening 3 Expansion panel 4 Square opening 5 Decorative panel 6 Hood cover 6a Front side outer end face of hood cover 7 Instrument panel 8 Car navigation mounting opening 9 Mounting plate 10 Tapered Shaped protrusion 11 Fitting protrusion 12 Fitting protrusion 13 Fitting hole 14 Fitting protrusion 15 Fitting hole

Claims (1)

A tapered projecting piece formed so as to gradually become a smaller diameter opening toward the front side of an expansion panel having a wide frame-shaped opening that can be mounted and fixed to a large-screen car navigation system. Similar to the expansion panel, the expansion panel formed by circling the taper-shaped projecting pieces and connecting the fitting projecting pieces having a width that can be fitted to the front side outer surface portion of the existing hood cover is continuously provided. On the front outer end face of an existing hood cover having an opening smaller in diameter than the opening of the expansion panel, which is integrally joined and fixed to the front portion of the decorative panel having a wide frame-shaped opening. It is attached to an automobile characterized by fitting the fitting projecting piece and press-fitting and fixing the fitting protrusion projecting from the expansion panel into a fitting hole installed in the existing hood cover. A mounting device that replaces a small-screen car navigation system with a large-screen car navigation system.

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