JP2561757Y2 - Stud clip - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a clip for a stud for attaching a decorative member such as a roof molding, a garnish, and an interior trim of an automobile to a body-side mounted member.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Some conventional stud clips are shown, for example, in a sectional view in use in FIG.
FIG. 11 is a plan view of the clip, and FIG. 12 is a perspective view of the clip. This clip 1
Reference numeral 00 denotes a stud engaging portion 101 for assembling the roof molding 2 to the roof 3 of the automobile, and engaging with the T-shaped stud 4 on the bottom surface of the groove 33 formed in the roof 3.
And a mounting section 102 for mounting the molding 2. The molding 2 is attached to the roof 3 using the clip 100.
When the molding 2 is mounted on the mounting portion 102 and assembled, the molding 2 is pressed into the groove 33 of the roof 3 so that the stud engaging portion 1
01 is locked to the stud 4 by utilizing its elasticity, whereby the assembly of the molding 2 to the roof 3 is completed. Conventional stud clips include the above-mentioned clips,
For example, there is one disclosed in Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open Publication No. 3-10945.

[0003]

However, according to the above-mentioned conventional clip 100, when the assembly of the molding 2 is completed, the short direction of the groove 33 (the horizontal direction in FIG. 10).
Is not taken, and it is easy to wobble in the short direction of the groove portion 33 (see the arrow direction in FIG. 10) with the locking portion for the stud 4 as a fulcrum, and the appearance of assembling the molding 2 may be impaired. is there. In addition, when the molding 2 is mounted on the roof 3, no measures are taken to form the centering of the stud engaging portion 101 with respect to the stud 4, so that, for example, as shown in FIG. The unit 101 interferes to cause an assembly failure, and the assembly is impaired.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and an object of the present invention is to stably maintain the appearance of the decorative member for a long period of time and to improve the assemblability of the decorative member. The present invention provides a stud clip that can be used.

[0005]

According to the stud clip of the present invention which solves the above-mentioned problems, a groove is formed on a member to be provided with a decorative member, and a T-shaped stud is provided on the bottom surface of the groove. A stud clip for attaching the decorative member to the stud, wherein the stud engaging portion to be engaged with the stud, the attaching portion to which the decorative member is attached, and both side walls of the groove are elastically contacted. And a contacting elastic guide piece.

[0006]

According to the above means, when the decorative member is assembled to the mounted member, the decorative member is mounted on the mounting portion to assemble, and then the decorative member is pressed against the groove of the mounted member. The stud engaging portion is engaged with the stud by utilizing its elasticity, whereby the assembly of the decorative member is completed. In the assembly completed state of the decorative member, the elastic guide pieces elastically abut against the side walls of the groove, respectively, to regulate the position of the clip. The wobble is prevented. When the decorative member is attached to the member to be mounted, the elastic guide piece performs a centering function of the stud engaging portion with respect to the stud, so that the stud engaging portion is smoothly engaged with the stud.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. The stud clip of this example is for attaching the left and right roof moldings 2 to the roof 3 of the automobile as shown in a perspective view in FIG.
Corresponds to the decorative member according to the present invention, and the roof 3 corresponds to the attached member according to the present invention. The roof 3 is shown in FIG.
As shown in a perspective view, a roof side panel 32 is joined to a lower surface of a side edge portion of a roof panel 31 constituting the main body by welding or the like. The roof panel 31 is formed with a gutter-shaped small groove 33 having left and right side walls 33a and 33b at its edge. Further, a gutter-shaped large groove portion 34 including the small groove portion 33 is formed by joining the two panels 31 and 32 together. On the bottom surface of the small groove 33, the T-shaped studs 4 are provided at predetermined intervals along the longitudinal direction of the groove 33 by welding or the like.
The stud 4 has a disk-shaped head 42 at the upper end of the shaft 41.
It has.

As shown in a perspective view in FIG. 5, the roof molding 2 has a synthetic resin covering material 2 having elasticity.
b is a long material coated with a metal core material 2a and has a substantially channel-shaped cross section. The core material 2a has flange edges 21 on both side edges thereof to form left and right flange grooves 22,
The covering material 2b has elastic tongue pieces 23 on both side edges.

Next, the clip will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 1 showing a sectional view of the clip in use, FIG. 2 showing a plan view of the clip, and FIG. 3 showing a perspective view of the clip.
The clips 1 are arranged at predetermined intervals substantially corresponding to the studs 4 of the roof 3, and are formed of a thermoplastic synthetic resin material having appropriate elasticity such as polyacetal resin.

The base 11 of the clip 1 is formed in a substantially rectangular cylindrical shape by vertically long front and rear walls 11a and 11b and horizontally long left and right side walls 11c and 11d. The left side wall 11
The upper half portion of the molding engaging groove 1 is opened at the left edge of the front and rear walls 11a and 11b exposed thereby.
2 are formed. Upper left corners of the front and rear walls 11a and 11b are chamfered to form guide slopes 13, respectively. In addition, a pair of front and rear molding locking wings 14 are protruded from the upper portion of the right side wall 11d in an inclined manner with the front end expanded. The molding engaging groove 12 and the molding engaging wing 14 correspond to the mounting portion in the present invention.

On the lower edges of the left and right side walls 11c and 11d, stud engaging portions 15 each having a hook-shaped cross section are formed to face each other. An inclined surface 15a is formed on an opposing surface of the locking portions 15 so as to form a widened end. On the lower edges of the front and rear walls 11a and 11b, elastic pieces 16 each having a downwardly inclined shape are formed. Further, elastic guide pieces 17 projecting radially outward are formed on the respective side edges of the corners of the base 11.

Next, a case where the roof molding 2 is assembled to the roof 3 using the clip 1 will be described. First, the clip 1 is connected to the molding 2 as described below.
Is assembled. That is, the tip end of the molding locking wing 14 is engaged with the flange groove 22 on one side (the right side in FIG. 1) of the molding 2. Subsequently, after the guide slope 13 is brought into contact with the flange edge 21 on the other side (left side in FIG. 1) of the molding 2, the clip 1 is pushed into the molding 2. At this time, the leading end of the molding locking wing 14 is expanded while sliding in the flange groove 22, and the molding locking wing 14 is elastically restored when the left flange edge 21 gets over the guide slope 13, The flange edge 21 is engaged with the molding engagement groove 12. In this manner, the clip 1 is assembled into the molding 2 in a state where the clip 1 is retained.

Then, the assembled clip 1 is assembled to the roof 3 as described below.
That is, the roof molding 2 is pressed against the large groove 34 of the roof 3. As the inclined surface 15a of the stud engaging portion 15 slides on the outer end of the head portion 42 of the stud 4 with the pressing of the molding 2, the stud engaging portion 15 moves together with the side walls 11c and 11d of the base 11. The stud 4 is expanded in a curved shape, and the inclined surface 15 a of the stud engagement portion 15 is
When the stud locking portion 15
Is elastically restored together with the side walls 11c and 11d, so that the stud locking portion 15 is locked to the stud 4. Thus, the assembly of the roof molding 2 is completed.
The elastic piece 16 abuts on the bottom surface of the small groove 33 with its elasticity. The two elastic tongue pieces 23 of the molding 2 abut on the corresponding portions of the roof panel 31 and the roof side panel 32 with their elasticity.

According to the stud clip 1 described above,
When assembling the roof molding 2 to the roof 3,
By the time the stud engaging portion 15 is engaged with the head portion 42 of the stud 4, the elastic guide piece 17 is fixed to both side walls 33 of the small groove portion 33.
a and 33b, respectively, thereby stud 4
The centering function of the stud engaging portion 15 is performed with respect to. For example, as shown in FIG.
Even if clip 1 is in the offset state,
As the molding 2 is pushed in, as shown in FIG. 7, the elastic guide piece 17 on the offset side pushes the clip 1 so as to correspond to the stud 4 until the clip 1 hits the stud 4, thereby performing centering. For this reason, the stud engaging portion 15 can be smoothly engaged with the stud 4, and the assemblability of the molding 2 is improved.

Further, as shown in FIG.
In the assembled state of (1), the elastic guide pieces 17 elastically abut against both side walls 33a and 33b of the small groove portion 33 to regulate the position of the clip 1 and thereby the clip 1 with the locking portion to the stud 4 as a fulcrum. Of the small groove 33 in the short direction is prevented. Therefore, the assembled appearance of the roof molding 2 can be stably maintained over a long period of time. In the above embodiment, the roof panel 31 has the side wall 33b.
In the case of the roof 3 having no roof, the elastic guide piece 17 is connected to the side wall 34b of the roof side panel 32 as shown in FIG.
Should be brought into contact with. Further, when the positions of the left and right side walls 33a and 34b with respect to the stud 4 are unbalanced, the thickness, the amount of protrusion and the width of the protrusion of the elastic guide piece 17 are designed in accordance with the unbalanced position. It is possible to ensure the same function as the example. It should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, and can be changed without departing from the gist of the present invention.

[0016]

According to the present invention, the appearance of the decorative member can be stably maintained over a long period of time by regulating the position of the clip by making the elastic guide pieces elastically abut against the side walls of the groove. When the decorative member is assembled to the member to be mounted, the elastic guide piece performs the centering function of the stud engaging portion with respect to the stud, so that the assemblability of the decorative member can be improved.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view of a used state of a clip.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of a clip.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the same.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view around a stud portion of a roof.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a roof molding.

FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view showing a state in which clip assembly is started.

FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view showing a centering state of the clip.

FIG. 8 is a sectional view of a modified example of a clip.

FIG. 9 is a rear perspective view of the automobile.

FIG. 10 is a sectional view of a conventional clip.

FIG. 11 is a plan view of the clip.

FIG. 12 is a perspective view of the same.

FIG. 13 is a cross-sectional view showing an assembly failure state of the clip.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Clip 2 Roof molding (decorative member) 3 Roof (attached member) 4 Stud 15 Stud engaging part 17 Elastic guide piece 33, 34 Groove part

Claims (1)

(57) [Scope of request for utility model registration] A groove is formed in an attached member on which a decorative member is provided, and a T-shaped stud is provided on a bottom surface of the groove.
A stud clip for assembling the decorative member to the stud, wherein a stud engaging portion to be engaged with the stud, an attaching portion to which the decorative member is attached, and both side walls of the groove have elasticity. A stud clip comprising: an abutting elastic guide piece.