JP2605804Y2 - Roof rack mounting device - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a roof rack mounting apparatus for mounting a carrier on a roof of a vehicle such as an automobile to form a roof rack.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional roof rack provided on a vehicle roof is configured such that at least two sets of carriers are hooked to hooks attached to both sides of a vehicle roof with hooks formed at both ends. However, such a device is not good-looking because the latch is left even after the carrier is removed. In addition, there is a device in which a carrier mounting device having a long boat bottom shape in cross section is fixed in parallel in the longitudinal direction on both sides of the roof, and the carrier is mounted on the device. However, there is the same disadvantage as the former.

As a solution to such a disadvantage, as shown in FIG. 6, a carrier C is formed by utilizing a concave portion M provided on both sides of a roof R of a vehicle or an upper edge of a door D. , C is fixed, but this type does not impair the aesthetics when the carrier C, C is not used, so even if it is convenient, the roof may be damaged when the carrier is attached or detached. There is a fear that it may cause rust.

[0004]

The problem to be solved by the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned inconveniences, to make it possible to easily attach and detach the carrier, and to hide the aesthetic appearance when the carrier is not used by hiding the latch. An object of the present invention is to provide a roof rack mounting device that can be secured.

[0005]

A roof rack mounting apparatus according to the present invention which solves the above-mentioned problems mounts at least two sets of carriers on both sides of a vehicle roof with hooks formed at both ends thereof. In the roof rack mounting device configured to be hung on the provided latch, in the roof rack and the vehicle body frame such that each latch faces the opening provided in the roof plate on both sides of the roof. A roof rack mounting device which is mounted on the vehicle body frame in the space of the vehicle and wherein the opening can be opened and closed by a lid.
The metal fittings are injection molded onto the bolt shaft.
The mounting member on which the water leakage prevention ring made of a grease material is fitted.
Therefore, a front plate with bolt insertion holes and a
Attached to the body frame consisting of a back plate with a diameter insertion hole
The water leakage prevention ring has a bolt shaft fitted therein.
An annular seat and an inverted umbrella claw-shaped locking part at the middle and lower end of the cylindrical part
This seat part is assuming that
There is an inverted umbrella claw-shaped locking part in the large-diameter insertion hole
And then screwed into the bolt
It is characterized in that in that the are kicked tightening a nut.

[0006]

In such a roof rack mounting apparatus, the latches mounted on both sides of the vehicle roof for locking the hooks formed at both ends of the carrier have openings formed in the roof plate. It is located in the space between the roof plate and the body frame through the part and attached to the body frame, so when the carrier is removed, the lid of the opening is closed to hide the latch. The appearance is not impaired. Also, when the carrier is to be mounted, the lid is opened and the hook-shaped hooks at both ends of the carrier are opened through the openings, and the hook hooks of the hooks located in the space between the roof plate and the vehicle body frame. The carrier can be accurately and easily fixed on the roof of the vehicle body.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 1 is a rectangular opening provided at least two pairs of left and right two pairs in front and behind a sloped roof plate 1a formed on both sides of a vehicle roof R,
Each opening 1 can be opened and closed by a lid 2 that can be opened and closed. In the illustrated embodiment, two pairs of the openings 1 are provided at the front and rear, and a total of four openings 1 are provided.
The opening 1 at the front indicated by indicates a state in which the lid 2 is closed, and the opening 1 at the rear indicated by the symbol (b) indicates the lid 2
Is open.

[0008] The lid 2 is made of XX of the above-mentioned part (a).
As is apparent from FIG. 2 which is an enlarged sectional view in the direction of the arrow, a rectangular slide lid is slidably opened and closed in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle body along the inside of the roof plate 1a. Is not different from a known slide lid in which various openings can be freely opened and closed by the slide lid, and therefore, the description is omitted. And a roof slab 1a provided with the opening 1;
A body frame 3 including a front plate 3a and a back plate 3b inside the body frame 3
Is formed in a space, and at a position where the opening 1 faces the space, a latch 4 is inserted through the opening 1 and attached to the vehicle body frame 3 by bolts 5. I have. The hook 4 has a cross-sectional shape in which the center of the main body is a strip-shaped hook-hook 4a, with round plate terminal-shaped fixing pieces 4b and 4b extending outward from both ends of the channel-shaped main body. It is like a cross section of a hat.

Further, each fixing piece 4b has a bolt insertion hole 4c.
Bolts 5 and 5 are inserted through the bolt insertion holes 4c, and are fixed to the fixing pieces 4b by welding at an annular welded portion formed on the back surface of the circular head. And
The latch 4 in which the bolt 5 is inserted and fixed to both fixing pieces 4b is inserted through insertion holes 3c and 3d formed in the front plate 3a and the back plate 3b of the vehicle body frame 3 and has a flange. The nuts 6, 6 are screwed. The insertion hole 3d is formed so as to have a larger diameter than the insertion hole 3c. The details of the fixing portion of the bolt 5 are as shown in FIG. 3, and a water leakage prevention ring 7 made of a synthetic resin material molded by an injection molding method is fitted to a shaft portion of the bolt 5. As shown in FIG. 4, the water leakage prevention ring 7 has a thin cylindrical connecting portion 7d connected to a lower end of an upper water leakage preventing portion 7a having a thin cylindrical shape via an annular seat portion 7c, and a lower end thereof. An inverted claw-shaped locking portion 7b is continuously provided, and is fitted to the bolt 5 by, for example, a method described below.

That is, the water leakage prevention ring 7 is formed by injection molding the bolt 5 with the bolt 5 inserted through the fixing hole 4c of the fixing piece 4b. In this state, the neck of the bolt 5 is fixed to the fixing piece 4b. Fixed in parts. Then, in order to attach the latch 4 to the vehicle body frame 3, the tip of a bolt 5 fixed to each fixing piece 4 b of the latch 4 is inserted into the insertion hole 3 c so that the locking portion 7 b of the waterproof ring 7 is inserted. Is forcibly inserted into the insertion hole 3d and locked, and the locking portion 7b is formed in the shape of an inverted umbrella claw, so that the latch 4 is securely locked without rising to the vehicle body frame 3. Next, bolts 5, 5
When the nuts 6, 6 are screwed into the seal, the sealing and the mounting work are completed at the same time, and the workability is extremely good. In addition, the latch 4 attached to the vehicle body frame 3 in this manner is effectively prevented from leaking water by the water leakage preventing portion 7a sandwiched between the bolt neck and the fixing piece 4b and the seat 7c subsequent thereto. Further, by compressing the seat portion 7c following the water leakage prevention portion 7a, the space between the fixing piece 4b and the vehicle body frame 3 is sealed, and the water leakage prevention effect is extremely high.

In this way, the front and rear sides of the roof R are
When the latch 4 is attached to the vehicle body frame 3 through all of the openings 1 provided, the openings 1 are
The carrier C, C is mounted on the roof R of the vehicle when the carriers C, C are to be mounted. 1 and the hooks 4 of the hooks 4 attached to the body frame 3 in the space between the roof panel 1a and the body frame 3 so as to face the opening 1 as described above. As shown in FIG. 5, a hook-shaped hook H which is a hook provided on both ends of the carrier C is provided on the stopper 4a.
, The hook H can be easily hooked on the hook hooking portion 4a corresponding to the top piece of the channel-shaped main portion of the hook metal fitting 4 having a hat-shaped cross section. In the above-described embodiment, the slide lid that allows the lid 2 that opens and closes the opening 1 to be slidable in the longitudinal direction is adopted. However, the lid 2 that is provided in the opening 1 is provided at the edge of the opening 1. An opening / closing lid pivotally attached to a hinge can also be used.

[0012]

As is clear from the above description, when the carrier is not used, the present invention does not impair the aesthetics by closing the lid of the opening, since the latch is concealed. When mounting a carrier on the roof of a vehicle,
Opening the lid of the opening, the hooks at both ends of the carrier can be easily hooked to the internal latch through the opening, and there is no displacement of the carrier due to vibration and impact, thus ensuring safety. Will also be extremely high. Further, when a water leakage prevention ring made of a synthetic resin material obtained by injection molding is fitted to a bolt for fixing the bracket, water leakage into the vehicle body frame when the carrier is used is effectively prevented.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a partial perspective view showing a state where a roof rack mounting device of the present invention is mounted on a vehicle.

FIG. 2 is a partially enlarged sectional view taken along the line XX of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a partially enlarged cross section showing a fixing portion of the latch.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a water leakage prevention ring.

FIG. 5 is a partially enlarged sectional view taken along the arrow ZZ of FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is a partial perspective view showing a state in which a carrier is mounted on a roof of a vehicle in a conventional example.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Opening 1a Roof 2 Lid 3 Body frame 3a Front plate 3b Back plate 3c Insertion hole 3d Insertion hole 4 Hook 4a Hook latch 4b Fixing piece 4c Bolt insertion hole 5 Bolt 6 Nut 7 Water leakage prevention ring 7b Reverse Umbrella claw-shaped locking part 7c annular seat

Continued on the front page (72) Inventor Masaaki Ide 1-8-1, Takahashi, Oguchi-machi, Niwa-gun, Aichi Prefecture Inside the Oguchi Plant of Aoyama Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (72) Hiromichi Mizuno 1-8-8, Takahashi, Oguchi-machi, Niwa-gun, Aichi Prefecture Aoyama Corporation Inside the Oguchi Plant of the Works (72) Inventor Hideki Kakagami 1-8-8 Takahashi, Oguchi-machi, Niwa-gun, Aichi Prefecture Inside the Oguchi Plant of the Aoyama Works Co., Ltd. (56) References Shokai 62-18229 (JP, U) Shokai Sho63- 176842 (JP, U) Hikaru 2-125485 (JP, U) (58) Fields surveyed (Int. Cl. ⁷ , DB name) B60R 9/04

Claims (3)

(57) [Scope of request for utility model registration] 1. A roof rack mounting device wherein at least two sets of carriers are hooked on hooks mounted on both sides of a vehicle roof with hooks formed at both ends thereof. In the space between the roof plate (1a) and the vehicle body frame (3), the metal frame (4) faces the opening (1) provided in the roof plate (1a) on both sides of the roof. is attached to (3), and the opening (1) is a roof rack mounting instrumentation that as openably by the lid (2)
The latch (4) is attached to the shaft of a bolt (5).
Water leakage prevention ring (7) made of injection-molded synthetic resin material fits
Depending on the attached mounting member, the bolt insertion hole (3c)
Provided front plate (3a) and insertion hole (3d) larger in diameter than this insertion hole (3c)
Attached to the body frame (3) consisting of a back plate (3b) with
The water leakage prevention ring (7) is fitted with the shaft of a bolt (5).
An annular seat (7c) and an inverted umbrella claw at the middle and lower end of the cylindrical part
This seat (7c) is assumed to be
Between the hook (4) and the front plate (3c)
Make sure that the stop (7b) is inside the large-diameter insertion hole (3d).
Inserted through the insertion holes (3c) and (3d) and screwed into the bolt (5)
Roof rack mounting apparatus characterized by being kicked tightening with combined nut (6). 2. A lid (2) for opening and closing the opening (1).
The roof rack mounting device according to claim 1, wherein is a slide lid. 3. A lid (2) for opening and closing the opening (1).
The roof rack mounting device according to claim 1, wherein the opening and closing lid is pivotally mounted on a hinge as a fulcrum.