JP3235403U - Rain shelter for getting on and off the car - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rain shelter for getting on and off an automobile, which can be easily installed on the roof of the automobile and can exhibit a high rain shelter effect at the time of getting on and off. SOLUTION: A box-shaped or door pocket-shaped accommodating portion 20 installed on an upper surface of an automobile roof, a flat plate-shaped rain shelter panel 10 accommodated in the accommodating portion 20, and a rain shelter panel 10 for getting on and off the automobile from the accommodating portion 20. It is provided with a driving means for pulling out to the upper part of the boarding / alighting position with respect to the door and returning the rain shelter panel 10 after pulling out to the original accommodating portion 20, and an operating means 40 for pulling out and returning the rain shelter panel 10. It shall be configured. [Selection diagram] Fig. 1

Description

The present invention relates to a rain shelter installed on the roof of an automobile, and is a movable rain shelter used when getting on and off during rain.

Automobiles are widely used in various applications and situations such as commuting from home to work, transportation from home to hospitals and day services, shopping at supermarkets, etc., and have become an indispensable means of transportation in daily life. ..

However, when getting in and out of a car, if it is raining, the head, hair, and clothes get wet, which is a problem. Even if you use an umbrella, when you get in the car, you have to fold the umbrella outside the car, and in the meantime you get wet in the rain. Also, when getting out of the car, you have to open the umbrella after getting out of the car, and during that time you get wet in the rain. It is difficult to fold an umbrella after getting in the car, and it is also difficult to get out of the car after opening the umbrella.

Buildings with multi-storey car parks and buildings with parking lots at the entrance allow you to get in and out of the car without getting wet in the rain, but such buildings are limited, and there are many such as parking lots at work, supermarkets and convenience stores. In most cases, the car is parked in a parking space and gets on and off. In such a case, the reality is that the above-mentioned problems at the time of getting on and off at the time of rain are not solved.

From the above background, various proposals for rain protection measures have been made. For example, the rain shield device of Patent Document 1 has a structure in which the tip of the rain shield sheet is detachably attached to the upper part of the door of the automobile, and the base end of the rain shield sheet is urged to be windable on the upper part of the inside of the vehicle. ing. The rain shield device of Patent Document 2 supports a rain shield member that can be pulled out freely on the side visor, and pulls out the rain shield member when the driver comes out of the window when the vehicle is retracting, so that the driver or the inside of the vehicle gets wet in rainy weather. It has the effect of preventing it from being stored.

The rain shield of Patent Document 3 is a simple rain shield that can be arbitrarily attached when getting on and off, and is installed between the open door of the automobile and the roof of the vehicle body. The rain shield device of Patent Document 4 is installed on a covered loading platform of an automobile, and is devised so that the roof sheet is unwound and supported by a side pole so that the luggage does not get wet when loading and unloading the luggage.

Jikkenhei 5-68715 Gazette Jitsukaisho 59-24620 Gazette Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2010-184591 Utility Model Registration No. 3103055

The proposal of Patent Document 1 is limited to an idea and is not feasible. The proposal of Patent Document 2 is more feasible than the proposal of Patent Document 1, but the rain protection range is narrow and the rain protection effect at the time of getting on and off is low. The proposal of Patent Document 3 is inconvenient because it must be retrofitted on the door with the door open, the person gets wet at the time of installation, and it is necessary to take it into the vehicle in a wet state after use. ..

The proposal of Patent Document 4 can be installed on a covered carrier of an automobile, but it is difficult to apply it to a door for an automobile occupant, and the driver gets wet when getting on and off in rainy weather.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and is an automobile boarding / alighting rain shelter that can be easily installed on the roof of a car and can exert a high rain shelter effect when an occupant gets on and off. The purpose is to provide.

In order to solve the above problems, the rain shelter for getting on and off the automobile according to the present invention is
A box-shaped or door pocket-shaped accommodating part installed on the roof of an automobile, a flat plate-shaped rain shield panel accommodated in the accommodating portion, and the rain shelter panel from the accommodating portion to above the boarding / alighting position with respect to the door for getting on / off the car. The first feature is to include a driving means for pulling out and returning the rain shelter panel after pulling out to the original accommodating portion, and an operating means for performing the pulling out operation and the returning operation of the rain shelter panel.

The vehicle getting on and off rain shield device according to the present invention is
An opening for pulling out the rain shelter panel is provided on the side surface of the accommodating portion, and the opening is opened and closed by an opening / closing plate that opens when the rain shelter panel is pulled out and closes when the rain shelter panel returns. The second feature is that it is possible.

The vehicle getting on and off rain shield device according to the present invention is
The drive means is composed of a ball screw arranged sideways in the accommodating portion, a nut fixed to the lower surface of the rain shield panel and screwed into the ball screw, and a drive motor for rotating the ball screw in the forward and reverse directions. Is the third feature.

The vehicle getting on and off rain shield device according to the present invention is
The fourth aspect is that the rain shield panel is composed of a flat plate-shaped panel main body, a plurality of reinforcing members laterally attached to the bottom surface of the panel main body, and a sliding member attached to the bottom surface of each reinforcing member. It is a feature.

The vehicle getting on and off rain shield device according to the present invention is
The fifth feature is that the mounting feet are mounted at the four corners of the lower surface of the housing portion, and each mounting foot is mounted in a groove provided at the side end of the roof of the automobile.

As described above, according to the vehicle getting on and off rain shield device according to the present invention, it can be easily installed on the roof of a commercially available automobile, and can be easily installed on the roof portion of the vehicle body even at the manufacturing and assembling stage of the automobile. After installation, a high rain protection effect can be obtained when getting on and off the car, and the effect of getting on and off without getting wet with rain is achieved.

Further, in the rain shelter device according to the present invention, the rain shelter panel is completely housed in the box-shaped accommodating portion except when it is used, so that it does not get in the way when the car is running and the rain shelter panel is pulled out when getting on and off when it rains. Since it can be used, it has the effect of being extremely easy to use.

An exploded perspective view showing a rain shelter for getting on and off an automobile according to the present invention. A plan view showing a state in which the rain shelter shown in FIG. 1 is installed on the roof of an automobile. Enlarged side view showing the installation status of the rain shelter, Enlarged side view showing the open / close plate with the rain shield installed. Vertical section showing the inside of the rain shelter, Vertical cross-sectional view showing how the rain shield panel is pulled out from the rain shield device, (A) and (B) are plan views showing how the rain shelter panel is pulled out from the rain shelter device installed on the roof of the car above the outside of the driver's seat. (A) and (B) are plan views showing how the rain shield panel is pulled out from the rain shield device installed on the roof of the automobile to the upper part of the rear seat outside the vehicle. An exploded perspective view of a rain shelter with a structure that allows the rain shelter panels to be pulled out from both sides. It is a top view which shows the state which the rain shelter device which concerns on this invention is installed inside the roof of an automobile.

An embodiment for carrying out the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. 1 to 8 show an embodiment of a rain shelter for getting on and off an automobile according to the present invention, and in these figures, reference numeral S indicates a rain shelter.

The rain shelter S is installed on the roof of an automobile, and is a device for securing a rain shelter space on the side of the door for getting on and off the automobile when it rains. As shown in the exploded perspective view of FIG. 1, the rain shelter device S is composed of a rectangular rain shelter panel 10 and a box-shaped accommodating portion 20 for accommodating the rain shelter panel 10.

As shown in FIG. 1, the rain shelter panel 10 includes a flat plate-shaped panel main body 11 and a plurality of reinforcing materials 12 (four in the illustrated example) attached to the bottom surface of the panel main body 11 in parallel in the horizontal direction, respectively. It is composed of a tape-shaped sliding material 13 attached to the bottom surface of the reinforcing material 12 of the above. The panel body 11 differs depending on the size of the automobile, but as shown in FIG. 2, it has a size that fits in the area of the roof 2 of the automobile 1 in a plan view, and is outside the vehicle when in use (when getting on and off). It has a size that can secure a predetermined rain shelter space near the door.

In the rain shield panel 10, the panel body 11 is made of lightweight aluminum metal, FRP, or the like, and the reinforcing material 12 is made of lightweight aluminum metal or the like. The sliding material 13 is made of a synthetic resin such as polyethylene.

As shown in FIG. 1, the accommodating portion 20 includes a bottom plate 21, a front plate 22, a rear plate 23, a side plate 24, an opening / closing plate 25, and a top plate 26. A storage chamber s for accommodating the rain shield panel 10 is provided inside the accommodating portion 20, and an opening 27 opened and closed by an opening / closing plate 25 is provided on the side. Mounting feet 28 are mounted at the four corners of the bottom surface of the bottom plate 21. As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the mounting foot portion 28 is installed in a groove 3 provided in the roof 2 of the automobile 1 by bolts or the like, and stably supports the accommodating portion 20 on the roof 2 of the automobile 1. It has become like. Note that FIG. 4 shows a state in which the opening / closing plate 25 is open, and the lid member 35 is omitted so that the internal structure of the accommodating portion 20 can be easily seen.

A recess 21A extending in the lateral direction is formed substantially in the center of the inner surface of the bottom plate 21. A ball screw 29 for sliding the rain shield panel 10 in the lateral direction is arranged in the recess 21A. As shown in FIG. 5, a nut 14 is screwed onto the ball screw 29, and the nut 14 is supported by a fixture 15 fixed to the bottom surface of the panel body 11 of the rain shelter panel 10. The ball screw 29 is rotatably supported by bearings 30 at both ends, and a drive motor 31 for rotating the ball screw 29 in the forward rotation direction and the reverse rotation direction is installed in the recess 21A.

The opening / closing plate 25 is rotatably supported between the ends of the front plate 22 and the rear plate 23 by a hinge 32, and is a drive installed on the inner surface of the end of the front plate 22 and the inner surface of the end of the rear plate 23. The motor 33 and the link mechanism 34 allow it to rotate 90 degrees around the hinge 32. The link mechanism 34 is driven by the drive motor 33 to rotate the opening / closing plate 25 downward when it is reduced (folded) to close the opening 27, and to rotate the opening / closing plate 25 upward when it is expanded (when expanded). It is moved to act to open the opening 27 (see FIGS. 5 and 6). The end face opening of the recess 21A of the bottom plate 21 is closed by the lid member 35.

Inside the accommodating portion 20, a control device 36 for controlling the forward / reverse rotation of the ball screw 29 by the drive motor 31 and the opening / closing operation of the opening / closing plate 25 by the drive motor 33 is installed. The control device 36 is connected to the drive motors 31 and 33 by wiring (not shown). The control device 36 is remotely controlled by the remote controller 40, and the driver of the automobile 1 can operate the remote controller 40 to open / close the opening / closing plate 25 and slide (pull out and return) the rain shelter panel 10 in conjunction with each other. can. The ball screw 29, the nut 14, the fixture 15, and the drive motor 33 pull out the rain shield panel 10 from the accommodating portion 20 to the upper part of the boarding / alighting position with respect to the boarding / alighting door of the automobile 1, and pull out the rain shelter panel 10 to the original accommodating portion. A drive means for returning to 20 is configured.

The drive motor 31 that rotates the ball screw 29 and the drive motor 33 that opens and closes the opening / closing plate 25 are connected to the battery 4 mounted on the automobile 1 by wiring (not shown), and each operates by the power supplied from the battery 4. It has become like. Instead of the battery 4 mounted on the automobile 1, a thin solar panel is mounted on the upper surface of the top plate 26, and a small storage battery is installed inside the accommodating portion 20 (for example, the recess 21A of the bottom plate 21) to generate sunlight. The electric power from the panel may be stored in a storage battery, and the electric power may be supplied from the storage battery to the drive motors 31 and 33.

Next, a method of using the rain shelter device S configured as described above will be described below together with the operation.

First, as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, a rain shield device S is installed on the roof 2 of the automobile 1. In the rain shelter device S, the mounting feet 28 at the four corners are mounted in the grooves 3 near the side ends of the roof 2 by bolts or the like. As a result, the rain shelter device S is installed in a horizontal posture on the roof 2 and is stably and firmly supported.

Next, a driver holding an umbrella when it rains approaches the car 1 parked outdoors, operates the remote controller 40, and as shown in FIGS. 7 (A) to 7 (B), the rain shield panel of the rain shield device S. 10 is pulled out from the accommodating portion 20 by a predetermined length as shown by an arrow.

When the driver operates the remote controller 40, a signal is sent to the control device 36, and the control signal of the control device 36 activates the pair of front and rear drive motors 33, and the opening / closing plate 25 is as shown in FIGS. 5 to 6. Open upwards. Further, the drive motor 31 operates, the ball screw 29 rotates, the nut 14 screwed with the ball screw 29 moves in conjunction with the movement of the opening / closing plate 25, and the rain shield panel 10 integrated with the nut 14 is shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 6, it is pulled out from the inside of the accommodating portion 20 and stops when it is pulled out to the maximum position.

As a result, a rain shelter space is secured by the pulled out rain shelter panel 10 around the driver near the driver's door 5. As a result, the driver can fold the umbrella and at the same time open the driver's door 5 to get into the driver's seat without getting wet in the rain.

After getting into the car 1, the driver operates the remote controller 40 to pull the pulled out rain shield panel 10 into the accommodating portion 20, closes the opening / closing plate 25, and then starts the car 1 to the destination. Can be moved to.

If it is raining after arriving at the destination, the driver operates the remote controller 40 again to pull out the rain shield panel 10 from the roof 2 of the automobile 1, secure the rain shield space, and open the driver's door 5. You can get out of the car and open the umbrella without getting wet. As a result, even when the car 1 is parked in a parking lot away from the building, the driver can hold an umbrella without getting wet in the rain and can move to the target building.

7 (A) and 7 (B) show an example in which a rain shelter panel 10 is pulled out from the roof 2 of the automobile 1 to the overhead space when the driver gets on and off the driver's seat, and a rain shelter space is secured around the driver. There is. The rain shelter device S may be installed 180 degrees opposite to the passenger seat, and the rain shelter panel 10 may be pulled out when a passenger gets on and off the passenger seat to secure a rain shelter space around the passenger in the passenger seat. ..

In FIGS. 8A and 8B, when a passenger gets on and off the rear seat from the rear seat door 6, the rain shelter panel 10 is pulled out sideways from the roof 2 of the automobile 1 to secure a rain shelter space around the passenger. Here is an example of how to do it. The example of FIG. 8 is suitable when it is desired to secure a rain shelter space when passengers in the rear seats get on and off, such as a taxi or a shuttle car.

FIG. 9 shows a second embodiment of the present invention, in which opening / closing plates 25 are attached to both sides of the accommodating portion 20'so that the opening / closing plates 25 can be opened / closed by the drive motor 33 and the link mechanism 34, respectively. According to the rain shield device of FIG. 9, the rain shield panel 10 can be pulled out from the roof 2 of the automobile 1 to the left and right sides, and the driver can get on and off without getting wet from both the driver's seat side and the passenger seat side when it rains. Passengers can get on and off.

FIG. 10 shows a third embodiment of the present invention. In the rain shelter device S'of the present embodiment, the roof 2 of the automobile 1 has a double structure, and a door pocket-shaped accommodating portion 20 "is provided inside the roof 2. It is formed so that the rain shield panel 10 is accommodated inside the accommodating portion 20 ". The mechanism of the opening / closing plate 25 has the same structure as that of the above embodiment. The rain shelter panel 10 is completely accommodated inside the roof 2 except when the rain shelter panel 10 is used.

According to the rain shelter of the present invention, the following effects are obtained.

The rain shelter S can be easily installed on the roof of a commercially available automobile, and the rain shelter S'can be incorporated into the roof portion of the vehicle body at the manufacturing and assembly stage of the automobile. After installing the rain shelters S and S', a high rain shelter effect can be obtained when getting on and off the car, and it is possible to get on and off without getting wet.

Further, in the rain shelter devices S and S', the rain shelter panel 10 is completely housed in the box-shaped accommodating portions 20, 20', 20 "when not in use, so that the rain shelter panel 10 does not get in the way when the vehicle is running and it rains. Since the rain shield panel 10 can be pulled out and used when getting on and off the time, it is very easy to use.

The rain shelter devices S and S'can be installed in a wide range of automobiles such as private cars, taxis, vehicles for transportation to hospitals and day care services, minibuses, buses, and trucks with a loading platform.

The drive means for pulling out the rain shield panel is not limited to the structure of the above embodiment, but adopts a structure in which a hydraulic cylinder is arranged in a recess and the tip of the telescopic rod is supported by a mounting support member on the bottom surface of the rain shield panel. Also, this method can be used to pull out and return the rain shield panel.

Thus, according to the vehicle boarding / alighting rain shield device of the present invention, it is possible to provide a vehicle boarding / alighting rain shield device having excellent convenience and durability.

The vehicle getting on and off rain shield device according to the present invention can be easily installed on the roof of an automobile and can be widely used as an automobile getting on and off rain shield device capable of exhibiting a high rain shelter effect when getting on and off.

1 Automobile 2 Roof 3 Groove 4 Battery 5 Driver's door 6 Rear door 10 Rain shelter panel 11 Panel body 12 Reinforcing material 13 Sliding material 14 Nut 14A Screw hole 20, 20', 20 "Accommodation part 21 Bottom plate 21A Recessed 22 Front plate 23 Rear plate 24 Side plate 25 Open / close plate 26 Top plate 27 Opening 28 Mounting foot 29 Ball screw 30 Bearing 31, 33 Drive motor 32 Hinge 34 Link mechanism 35 Lid member 36 Control device 40 Remote control (operating means)
s Storage room S, S'Rain protection device

Claims (5)

A box-shaped or door pocket-shaped accommodating portion installed on the roof of an automobile, a flat plate-shaped rain shelter panel accommodated in the accommodating portion, and the rain shelter panel are pulled out from the accommodating portion to the boarding / alighting position on the side of the automobile. A rain shelter for getting on and off an automobile, which comprises a driving means for returning the rain shelter panel after withdrawal to the original accommodating portion, and an operation means for performing a withdrawal operation and a return operation of the rain shelter panel. An opening for pulling out the rain shelter panel is provided on the side surface of the accommodating portion, and the opening is opened and closed by an opening / closing plate that opens when the rain shelter panel is pulled out and closes when the rain shelter panel returns. The rain shelter for getting on and off an automobile according to claim 1, characterized in that it is possible. The drive means is composed of a ball screw arranged sideways in the accommodating portion, a nut fixed to the lower surface of the rain shield panel and screwed into the ball screw, and a drive motor for rotating the ball screw in the forward and reverse directions. The vehicle getting on and off rain shelter according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the device comprises. The rain shield panel is characterized by being composed of a flat plate-shaped panel main body, a plurality of reinforcing members laterally attached to the bottom surface of the panel main body, and a sliding member attached to the bottom surface of each reinforcing member. , The rain shelter for getting on and off the automobile according to any one of claims 1 to 3. Claims 1 to 4, wherein the mounting feet are attached to the four corners of the lower surface of the accommodating portion, and each mounting foot is attached to a groove provided at a side end portion of the roof of the automobile. The rain shelter for getting on and off the automobile according to any one of the above.

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