JP2891926B2 - Fuel lid - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a fuel lid in which a lid body for opening and closing a fuel injection opening of an automobile is swingably supported on a vehicle body.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, a fuel lid provided at a fuel injection working opening is, for example, as shown in Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 60-111719, a female member fixed to a vehicle body side and a mail member fixed to a lid body. When the lid body is opened, the edge of the lid body is brought into contact with a stationary member on the vehicle body side, or the outer side surface of the lid body is The opening of the fuel lid is regulated by contacting the edge of the opening edge.

[0003]

In any of the above fuel lids, when the lid body is opened, the lid body comes into contact with the vehicle-side stationary member, and in the former case, the edge of the edge of the lid body is reduced. In the latter, the outer surface of the lid body abuts against the edge of the opening edge of the fuel injection port in the latter, so that the painted surface of the lid body is easily damaged, and the painted surface of the lid body is damaged. In particular, when the lid body is closed, the damaged painted surface is exposed to the outside of the vehicle body, and the aesthetic appearance of the vehicle body is impaired.

The present invention has been developed in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a fuel lid capable of improving the accuracy of regulating the opening degree of a lid body and suppressing damage to a painted surface. It is in.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, according to the first aspect of the present invention, a mail member 7 having a lid body 5 fixed thereto is rocked on a female member 6 fixed to a stationary member on the vehicle body 2 side. The mail member 7 is fixed to the lid main body 5 in a fuel lid which is rotatably supported so that the lid main body 5 abuts on the vehicle body stationary member when the lid main body 5 is opened. Fixed wall 71,
A curved wall 72 bent in a curved shape from one side of the fixed wall 71
A flat connecting wall 73 which is bent from a free end of the curved wall 72 in a direction substantially opposite to an end of the curved wall 72 on the side of the fixed wall 71, and a shaft support 74 is formed at the free end. A fixed wall 61 for fixing the female member 6 to the side wall 10 in the fuel injection port 1, and a first wall bent from the fixed wall 61 toward the opening of the fuel injection port 1. The bent walls 62a and 62b and the first bent walls 62a and 62b are separated from the free ends of the first bent walls 62a and 62b.
Is bent in a substantially V-shape with respect to the shaft holding portion 64 at its free end.
a · 64b is formed in a flat second bent wall 63a · 6
3b, the connecting wall 73 and the second bent wall 63
a and 63b are provided as flat surfaces 8 and the other is provided with stoppers 90a and 90b having flat surfaces 9 which are in surface contact with the flat surfaces 8 so that when the lid body 5 is opened, The opening degree of the lid body 5 is regulated by the surface contact between the two flat surfaces 8 and 9 so as to prevent the lid body 5 from contacting the stationary member on the vehicle body 2 side. Is what you do.

[0006]

According to the present invention, when the lid body 5 is fully opened, the connecting wall 73 and the second bent wall 6 are opened.
A flat surface 8 formed on one of 3a and 63b;
The flat surfaces 9 of the stoppers 90a and 90b provided on the other side are in contact with each other, so that the lid body 5 is reliably prevented from contacting the vehicle body 2, and the painted surface of the lid body 5 is not damaged. Needless to say, the flat surface 8 and the stoppers 90a, 90
Since the contact between the flat surface 9b and the flat surface 9 is made, the accuracy of the opening regulation at the fully opened position of the lid body 5 is improved, and the painted surfaces of the flat surfaces 8 and 9 that come into contact with each other are hardly damaged. is there.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Referring to the drawings, reference numeral 1 denotes a fuel injection opening formed in a rear outer surface of a vehicle body 2, and the inside of the fuel injection opening 1 communicates with a fuel tank (not shown). One end of the fuel pipe 3 to be opened is opened, and the opening of the fuel pipe 3 is closed with a cap 31, while the fuel lid 4 according to the present invention is attached to the opening of the fuel injection port 1.

A fuel lid 4 shown in FIG. 1 is a lid body 5 having a substantially rectangular shape as viewed from the front, which opens and closes the fuel injection port 1.
And a hinge H for swingably supporting the lid body 5 on the vehicle body 2 side. The hinge H is provided with a female member 6 fixed to the vehicle body 2 side and a female member 6 supported by the female member 6. And a mail member 7 which is swingably supported via a shaft 60.
Is fixed.

Thus, the present invention relates to the female member 6 described above.
And the mail member 7 is provided with a flat surface 8, and the other is provided with stoppers 90 a and 90 b having flat surfaces 9 that are in surface contact with the flat surface 8, so that when the lid body 5 is opened, By the surface contact between the flat surfaces 8, 90a and 90b, the opening degree of the lid body 5 is regulated, and the lid body 5 is prevented from contacting the vehicle body side stationary member.

That is, in the embodiment shown in the figure, the mail member 7 includes a vertically-long rectangular fixed wall 71 for fixing the lid body 5, a curved wall 72 bent from one side of the fixed wall 71, A flat connecting wall 73 that is bent from a free end of the curved wall 72 in a direction substantially opposite to an end of the curved wall 72 on the side of the fixed wall 71; While the inner surface of the connecting wall 73 is fixed, a cylindrical shaft support 74 is integrally formed with the free end of the connecting wall 73 so that the side of the connecting wall 73 facing the curved wall 72 is substantially vertically oriented. The flat surface 8 extends.

On the other hand, the female member 6 comprises a vertically-long rectangular fixed wall 61 fixed to the side wall 10 in the fuel injection port 1, and the fuel injection work from one upper side and one lower side of the fixed wall 61. A pair of upper and lower first bent walls 62a and 62b bent toward the opening of the mouth 1;
The plate-shaped second bent portions 63a. Bent in a substantially V shape from the free ends of the first bent walls 62a and 62b from the free ends of 2a and 62b.
63b, wherein the fixed wall 61 is bolted to the side wall 10 in the fuel injection working port 1 and a cylindrical shaft holder extending vertically at the free ends of the second bent portions 63a and 63b. By forming the support shaft 60 between the shaft holding portions 64a and 64b, and by freely inserting the shaft support portion 74 of the mail member 7 into the support shaft 60, the mail member is formed. 7 is swingably supported by the female member 6 via the support shaft 60.

In the female member 6, the lid body 5 is provided at the lower edge of the upper bent portion 63a and the upper edge of the lower bent portion 63b of the second bent portions 63a and 63b, respectively. With the opening of the flat surface 8
Stopper 90a having a flat surface 9 which comes into surface contact with the stopper 90a
90b are provided in opposition to each other, and by the surface contact of the flat surface 8 with the flat surface 9 at the stoppers 90a and 90b, the opening degree of the lid body 5 is regulated. Avoid contact with the outside surface.

Next, the operation of the fuel lid having the above structure will be described.

FIGS. 2 and 3 show a state in which the fuel injection port 1 is closed by a lid body 5. From this state, the lid body 5 is opened by opening the lid body 5.
When it comes to the fully open position indicated by the dashed line, the flat surface 8 of the connecting wall 73 in the mail member 7 comes into contact with the flat surfaces 9 of the stoppers 90a and 90b provided on the female member 6, and the lid body 5 This reliably prevents the fixed side edge of the mail member 7 from coming into contact with the rear side outer surface of the vehicle body 2. Therefore, the painted surface of the lid body 5 is not damaged.

Further, since the position of the lid body 5 at the fully opened position is restricted by the contact between the flat surfaces 9 of the stoppers 90a and 90b and the flat surface 8 provided on the connecting wall 73 (surface contact). The accuracy of the regulation of the degree of opening at the fully opened position of the main body 5 is improved, and the painted surfaces of the flat surfaces 8 and 9 which are in contact with each other are hardly damaged.

In the above embodiment, the female member 6
In FIG. 5, the second bent walls 63a and 63b are provided with independent stoppers 90a and 90b. However, as shown in FIG. 5, the two stoppers 90a and 90b may be connected.
By such a connection, the rigidity of the female member 6 can be increased, and the flat surface 9 on the stopper 90a / 90b side with respect to the flat surface 8 on the mail member 7 side.
Can increase the contact area of the lid body 5 at the fully opened position, and further improve the accuracy of the regulation of the opening degree at the fully opened position of the lid body 5. Further, the coating surfaces of the flat surfaces 8, 9 can be further damaged. It is less.

In the above embodiment, the mail member 7 is used.
A stopper 90a, 9 having a flat surface 8 on the female member 6 and a flat surface 9 in surface contact with the flat surface 8 on the female member 6.
0b, but the female member 6 has the flat surface 8
Alternatively, the mail member 7 may be provided with stoppers 90a and 90b provided with a flat surface 9 which is in surface contact with the flat surface 8.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view of a vehicle to which a fuel lid according to the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is an enlarged sectional view taken along line XX in FIG.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged sectional view of a main part of the fuel lid according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a female member and a mail member constituting a hinge.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing another embodiment of a female member and a mail member constituting a hinge.

[Explanation of symbols]

 2 Body 5 Lid body 6 Female member 7 Male member 8 Flat surface 9 Flat surface 90a / 90b Stopper

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A mail member (7) to which a lid body (5) is fixed is pivotally supported by a female member (6) fixed to a stationary member on the vehicle body (2) side so as to swing freely. When the lid body (5) is brought into contact with the vehicle-side stationary member when the lid body (5) is opened, the mail member (7) is fixed to the fixed wall (71) for fixing the lid body (5). ), A curved wall (72) bent in a curved shape from one side of the fixed wall (71), and the curved wall (72).
From the free end of the fixed wall (7) in the curved wall (72).
1) It is bent in a direction substantially opposite to the side end, and has a flat connecting wall (73) having a shaft supporting portion (74) formed at its free end, and the female member (6). (61) for fixing the fuel injection port to the side wall (10) inside the fuel injection port (1), and a first bend from the fixed wall (61) toward the opening of the fuel injection port (1). From the free ends of the walls (62a) (62b) and the first bent walls (62a) (62b), the first bent walls (62a) (62b) are bent in a substantially V-shape with respect to the free ends thereof. And a flat plate-like second bent wall (63a) (63b) on which a shaft holding portion (64a) (64b) is formed, wherein the connecting wall (73) and the second bent wall (63a) (63b) are formed.
One of which is a flat surface (8), and the other is provided with stoppers (90a) (90b) having a flat surface (9) in surface contact with the flat surface (8). At the time of opening (5), the opening degree of the lid body (5) is regulated by the surface contact between the flat surfaces (8) and (9),
A fuel lid characterized in that the lid body (5) is prevented from contacting the stationary member on the vehicle body (2) side.