JP2021000906A - Interior material for vehicle - Google Patents

Abstract

To enhance designability of an interior material for a vehicle with inexpensive simple constitution.SOLUTION: An interior material for a vehicle includes: a design panel 21 that has light transmissivity and constitutes an indoor design surface of the vehicle; and a light reflection member 22 that is arranged on the indoor side of the design panel 21 and reflects light toward the design panel 21, in which the design panel 21 has such a curve shape that a color film 25 is stuck to an indoor side face and an outdoor side face 21B is wavy, and the light reflection member 22 has a white reflection surface 22A. Such a stereoscopic design that the shape of the outdoor side face 21B of the design panel 21 that is seen through from the indoor side and the shape of the outdoor side face 21B of the design panel 21 seen by reflection of the light reflection member 22 overlap each other is achieved, and designability of the interior material for the vehicle can be enhanced.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

Description

The present invention relates to an interior material for a vehicle.

The following Patent Document 1 describes an interior material for a vehicle equipped with a lighting device. The lighting device has a configuration in which a plurality of display layers are provided behind a translucent lens. More specifically, the illuminator comprises a housing, a plurality of layers of transparent optics housed therein and each having a display, and a plurality of light sources connected to each of the layers. By selectively lighting each of the plurality of layers, it is possible to create various visual effects by combining the displays formed in each of the plurality of layers, which is suitable for vehicles. The design of the interior material is enhanced.

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In recent years, as in the case of the interior material for vehicles described in Patent Document 1, the interior material for vehicles is often decorated for the purpose of giving a high-class feeling, for example. However, the vehicle interior material described in Patent Document 1 requires a plurality of layers made of transparent optical elements and a plurality of light sources for decoration, which complicates the configuration of the vehicle interior material and costs. There is a problem that the number increases.

The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to enhance the design of an interior material for a vehicle by an inexpensive and simple configuration.

In order to solve the above problems, the vehicle interior material of the present invention is used.
A design panel that has translucency and constitutes the interior design surface of the vehicle,
A light reflecting member arranged on the outdoor side of the design panel and reflecting light toward the design panel,
With
The design panel has a curved surface shape in which a color film is attached to the indoor side surface and the outdoor outer surface is wavy.
The light reflecting member is characterized by having a white reflecting surface.

In the interior material for vehicles having this configuration, part of the light from the outside (indoor side) is reflected inside the design panel and emitted from the indoor side of the design panel to the indoor side, and the other part is the design. It passes through the panel, is reflected by the light reflecting member, and is emitted from the design panel to the indoor side. That is, the interior material for a vehicle having this configuration has a design in which the back surface (outdoor surface) shape of the design panel that can be seen through from the indoor side and the back surface shape of the design panel that can be seen by reflection by the light reflecting member are overlapped. Can be visually recognized. That is, the vehicle interior material having this configuration has a three-dimensional design and is highly designed.

In addition, the interior material for vehicles having this configuration is calm because the design panel can express a design like a water surface by the wavy curved shape of the back surface of the design panel, the white reflection of the light reflecting member, and the color film. It is possible to realize a high-class design while giving an impression. The shape of the back surface of the design panel may be, for example, formed with irregularities having no regularity in size and depth (height).

Further, according to the vehicle interior material having this configuration, it is very inexpensive and much cheaper than the case where a three-dimensional design is projected by using, for example, a display panel such as a liquid crystal panel or a projection type display device. It has a simple structure.

In the above configuration, a space is formed at a position sandwiched between the design panel and the light reflecting member, and the vehicle interior material may be configured to include a light emitting portion housed in the space. it can.

In the interior material for vehicles having this configuration, a housing for accommodating the light emitting portion is formed by a design panel and a light reflecting member, and the above design can be expressed on the design panel even by lighting from the inside. it can. In the interior material for vehicles having this configuration, the light emitting part is used not only when there is no light from the outside, but also by using the light of the light emitting part in addition to the light from the outside, a more overlapping design is realized. can do.

According to the present invention, the design of the interior material for a vehicle can be enhanced by an inexpensive and simple structure.

It is a figure which shows the vehicle which carried the vehicle interior material of the Example of this invention from the viewpoint from the vehicle interior. It is sectional drawing which shows the ornament shown in FIG. 1 from the viewpoint from the rear side of a vehicle. It is a figure which shows schematic the shape of the outdoor side of the 1st housing member as a design panel shown in FIG. It is a photograph of the ornament provided by the interior material for a vehicle which is an embodiment of the present invention taken from the indoor side.

Hereinafter, examples of the present invention will be described in detail as embodiments for carrying out the present invention with reference to the drawings. The present invention is not limited to the following examples, and can be carried out in various embodiments with various modifications and improvements based on the knowledge of those skilled in the art.

The vehicle interior material of the embodiment of the present invention is a door trim 12 constituting the vehicle interior surface of the side door 10 of the vehicle (automobile). The side doors 10 are provided on the driver's seat side (right side in the vehicle width direction) and the passenger seat side (left side in the vehicle width direction), respectively, and rotate around a rotation axis generally extending in the vertical direction on the front side of the vehicle. , It is configured to be openable and closable. Both the door trim 12 of the side door 10 on the driver's side and the side door 10 on the driver's side are used as the interior material for the vehicle of the present invention. In the following description, the door trim 12 of the side door 10 on the driver's side will be described as a representative.

The door trim 12 constitutes a portion of the side door 10 on the vehicle interior side, and is attached to the door inner panel from the vehicle interior side. As shown in FIG. 1, the door trim 12 includes a lower board 14, an upper board 15, and an ornament 16. An armrest 17 is formed at the upper end of the lower board 14, and the ornament 16 is arranged above the armrest 17.

The ornament 16 is mainly composed of a housing 20 in which a space S is formed. As shown in FIG. 1, the housing 20 has a longitudinal shape extending in the front-rear direction of the vehicle, is fixed between the lower board 14 and the upper board 15 constituting the door trim 12, and one surface of the housing 20 is the vehicle interior surface. It constitutes a part of.

As shown in FIG. 2, the housing 20 is generally box-shaped, and is composed of a first housing member 21 that constitutes a portion on the vehicle interior side and a second housing member 22 that constitutes a portion outside the vehicle interior. Therefore, the space S is formed at a position sandwiched between the first housing member 21 and the second housing member 22. More specifically, the second housing member 22 has a bottom surface portion 23 (a portion outside the vehicle interior) and a wall portion 24 erected from the peripheral edge of the bottom surface portion 23, and is generally a dish-shaped member. There is. On the other hand, the first housing member 21 is a lid-shaped member that closes the opening of the dish-shaped second housing member 22. Specifically, the first housing member 21 has the same outer shape as the second housing member 22 from the viewpoint in the vehicle interior / exterior direction, and is joined to the tip of the wall portion 24 of the second housing member 22 at the peripheral edge. ing.

The first housing member 21 is made of a highly translucent synthetic resin (for example, acrylic, PET, polycarbonate). In this embodiment, the first housing member 21 is made of a thermoplastic resin, polycarbonate. A color film 25 (blue film in this embodiment) is attached to the indoor side surface 21A of the first housing member 21. On the other hand, the outdoor surface 21B of the first housing member 21 is wavy by continuously forming a plurality of recesses having different sizes and depths, as shown in FIG. 2 and schematically shown in FIG. It is molded into a curved surface shape. That is, in this embodiment, the first housing member 21 functions as a design panel constituting the interior design surface of the vehicle.

On the other hand, in the second housing member 22, the second housing member 22 is made of ABS resin, which is a thermoplastic resin, containing a reflective material, and is a glossy white member. The second housing member 22 is capable of reflecting light that has passed through the first housing member 21 from the outside (indoor side) and entered the housing 20 with the indoor side surface 22A as a reflecting surface, that is, a second housing member 22 as a design panel. It is arranged on the outdoor side of the housing member 21 and functions as a light reflecting member that reflects toward the first housing member.

From the above configuration, in the ornament 16, a part of the light from the outside is reflected in the first housing member 21 and emitted from the indoor side surface 21A (from the color film 25 side), and the other part. Is transmitted through the first housing member 21 and reflected by the second housing member 22, is transmitted through the first housing member 21 again, and is emitted from the interior side surface 21A into the vehicle interior. That is, in the ornament 16, the shape of the outdoor surface 21B of the first housing member 21 that can be seen through from the indoor side and the shape of the outdoor surface 21B of the first housing member 21 that can be seen by the reflection of the second housing member 22 overlap. The design is projected and the occupant is made to see the design. As shown in the photograph of FIG. 4, the design expressed in the ornament 16 has a three-dimensional effect. Further, the design expressed in the ornament 16 is like a water surface by the curved surface shape in which the shape of the outdoor surface 21B of the first housing member 21 is wavy, the white reflection of the second housing member 22, and the blue color film 25. It becomes a design. Therefore, the door trim 12 provided with the ornament 16 can express a high-class design while giving a calm impression by a three-dimensional water surface-like design, and has a high degree of design. There is.

By the way, it is possible to project the above-mentioned design by using, for example, a liquid crystal panel or a transmissive display device, but compared to such a configuration, the ornament 16 having the above-mentioned configuration has a simple configuration. Yes, and it will be very cheap.

Further, the door trim 12 includes a light emitting unit 30 that can be turned on and off. As shown in FIG. 2, the light emitting unit 30 includes a longitudinal substrate 31 and a plurality of LEDs 32 arranged along the longitudinal direction on the substrate 31, and the lighting state can be controlled. There is. Specifically, the illuminance of the LED 32 can be changed within a certain range, and it is possible to switch between lighting and extinguishing. At the time of lighting, the LED 32 is stepwise in a range of relatively bright high illuminance to dark low illuminance. The illuminance can be changed.

As shown in FIG. 2, the light emitting unit 30 is housed in the housing 20. More specifically, the substrate 31 is fixed to the lower surface of the upper wall portion 24 of the second housing member 22 along the wall portion 24, in other words, in a state of extending in the front-rear direction of the vehicle, thereby emitting light. The portion 30 is housed in the housing 20.

When the light emitting unit 30 is turned on, the light of the light emitting unit 30 may be directly transmitted through the first housing member 21 or reflected by the second housing member 22 and transmitted through the first housing member 21. That is, similarly to the above-mentioned external light, the shape of the outdoor surface 21B of the first housing member 21 that can be seen through from the indoor side and the shape of the outdoor surface 21B of the first housing member 21 that can be seen by the reflection of the second housing member 22. The design that overlaps with will be projected. Therefore, the door trim 12 of the present embodiment can enhance the design even when there is no light from the outside. Further, in the door trim 12 of the present embodiment, when light is incident from the outside, the light emitting unit 30 is turned on so that the image of the light from the outside and the image of the light from the light emitting unit 30 are superimposed. Because it can be done, it is possible to express more overlapping designs.

In the above embodiment, the door trim of the side door is exemplified as the interior material for the vehicle, but the present invention is not limited to this, and the interior material for the vehicle of the present invention is also used for other interior materials of the vehicle. Can be applied. Further, in the above embodiment, an automobile is exemplified as a vehicle, but the present invention is not limited to this, such as trains and amusement vehicles as ground vehicles, airplanes and helicopters as flight vehicles, ships as marine and underwater vehicles, and the like. The vehicle interior material of the present invention can also be applied to a vehicle such as a submersible.

12 ... Door trim [Interior material for vehicles], 20 ... Housing, S ... Space, 21 ... First housing member [Design panel], 21A ... Interior side surface, 21B ... Outdoor surface, 22 ... Second housing member [Light reflecting member] , 22A ... Indoor side surface [reflection surface], 25 ... Color film, 30 ... Light emitting part

Claims (2)

A design panel that has translucency and constitutes the interior design surface of the vehicle,
A light reflecting member arranged on the outdoor side of the design panel and reflecting light toward the design panel,
With
The design panel has a curved surface shape in which a color film is attached to the indoor side surface and the outdoor outer surface is wavy.
The light-reflecting member is an interior material for a vehicle having a white reflecting surface. A space is formed at a position sandwiched between the design panel and the light reflecting member.
The vehicle interior material according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle interior material includes a light emitting unit housed in the space.

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