JP4238771B2 - Glove box for vehicle - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a glove box provided on an instrument panel in front of a passenger seat of a vehicle, and more particularly to a vehicular glove box that prevents a passenger seat occupant from moving forward in the event of a vehicle collision.

  As shown in FIG. 6, the glove box 2A conventionally installed on the passenger seat side of the instrument panel 1 of an automobile is operated in order to improve the designability by making the parting line with the instrument panel 1 inconspicuous. There is a large-sized one having a wide lateral width that is provided over almost the entire lateral width of the passenger seat side from the side edge of the center portion 10 of the instrument panel 1 that separates the seat side and the passenger seat side.

  In this type of glove box 2A, as shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, an extended storage portion 2b having a smaller depth than the main body storage portion 2a protrudes in the width direction on the side of the main body storage portion 2a on the vehicle center side. Is integrally formed in a convex shape, and a recess is provided in the rear corner at the center of the vehicle so that it does not interfere with the heater unit 3 or the like installed at the center lower part inside the instrument panel 1.

  In the glove box 2A, both the vehicle outer side and center side end portions of the surface wall 20 are opposed to both the knees N1, N2 of the occupant seated in the passenger seat in the vehicle front-rear direction, and the occupant moves forward in a vehicle collision or the like. When the knees N1 and N2 hit the surface wall 20 after moving, the knees N1 and N2 are received to prevent the occupant from moving forward.

  On the knee N1 side, as shown in FIGS. 5 and 7, it is installed in the instrument panel 1 in the vehicle width direction and is rearward along the vehicle longitudinal direction from the instrument panel reinforcement 4 positioned above the glove box 2A. A tongue-like bracket 5a is protruded, and the tip end of the bracket 5a is opposed to the inner surface of the surface wall 20 of the glove box 2A with a gap. When the knee N1 hits the front wall 20 and pushes it forward, the front wall 20 hits the bracket 5a and receives the knee N1.

  As shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, on the knee N2 side, an ETC device and operation switches E provided on the inner surface side of the surface wall 20 so as to be operable when the glove box 2A is opened so as to face the surface wall 20. May be attached to the instrument panel 1 side, and a bracket for receiving the knee similar to that on the outside of the vehicle cannot be installed. Therefore, a bracket 5b that protrudes downward from the instrument panel reinforcement 4 is extended to the back side of the extended storage portion 2b, and its lower end is coupled to the protector member 30 of the heater unit 3, and the knee N2 is on the extended storage portion 2b side. When it hits the surface wall 20, the back of the extended storage portion 2b is attached to the bracket 5b and the protector member 30 to receive the knee N2.

  However, if the collision load acting on the extended storage portion 2b from the knee N2 is large, the expansion storage portion 2b is crushed and deformed after bottoming on the bracket 5b and the protector member 30, and sufficiently prevents the knee N2 from moving forward. Can not do it. Further, the bracket 5b extending in the vertical direction toward the passenger compartment side of the heater unit 3 obstructs the maintenance work of the heater unit 3, so it is not desirable to provide it, but if the bracket 5b located on the movement line of the knee N2 is abolished There is a problem that it is impossible to abolish the movement of the knee N2 because it becomes more difficult to prevent the movement.

In addition, as described in the following patent document, the glove box is provided near the vehicle outer side of the instrument panel as a structure for preventing the occupant from moving forward in the conventional glove box with a narrow width. Side box side wall is provided at the front position of the occupant's vehicle center side knee so that the box side wall receives the knee at the vehicle center side, inside the box outside the vehicle, at the front position of the occupant's knee, There has been proposed a vertical plate-like partition plate extending in the vehicle front-rear direction and supporting the knee outside the vehicle with the partition plate as a support. In addition, the front end of the partition plate and the back wall of the glove box are separated from each other so that vehicle verification, vehicle manuals, etc. can be stored in the innermost part of the box without the partition plate. .
Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 5-67559 (FIG. 1)

  Therefore, in view of the above circumstances, the present invention provides a large glove box in which an extended storage portion shorter than the depth of the main body storage portion is continuously provided on one side of the main body storage portion. An object of the present invention is to provide a wide glove box for a large vehicle that can reliably receive the occupant's knees at the time of a vehicle collision without requiring a bracket or the like made of another member for receiving.

A glove box installed on an instrument panel of an automobile , which is made of a synthetic resin integrally molded body, and has an extended storage portion having a smaller depth dimension than the main body storage portion on one side of the main body storage portion in the width direction. A vertical wall-shaped partition wall that partitions the main body storage portion and the extended storage portion in the width direction over the entire length in the front-rear direction of the boundary portion at the boundary between the main body storage portion and the extension storage portion. And separating the bottom wall of the main body storage portion from the bottom wall of the expansion storage portion, and the bottom wall of the expansion storage portion facing the separation edge of the bottom wall of the main body storage portion with a space therebetween The partition wall is formed of vertical walls that are respectively erected from the separated end edges and whose upper edges are continuous with each other .

Since a partition wall is provided at the boundary between the main unit storage unit and the expansion storage unit, the strength of the expansion storage unit against crushing deformation in the front-rear direction is strengthened. To prevent. As described above, since the movement of the knee can be sufficiently prevented by the expansion storage portion of the glove box, a bracket for preventing the movement of the knee, which is a separate member, is not necessary. In particular, since the partition wall has a double structure, it is possible to secure a higher strength of the extended storage portion and more reliably prevent the knee from moving.

  According to the present invention, the front-rear direction partition that partitions the main body storage portion and the extended storage portion into the large glove box in which the extended storage portion shorter than the depth of the main body storage portion is connected to one side of the main body storage portion. Since the wall is provided and the strength against the deformation of the extended storage portion is reinforced, it is possible to prevent the occupant from hitting the extended storage portion from moving forward in the event of a vehicle collision. Thereby, it is not necessary to install another member for preventing the movement of the knee as in the prior art, and the cost can be reduced.

In the present embodiment, the present invention is applied to a large glove box having a wide width that is installed over almost the entire width of the front portion of the front passenger seat facing the front passenger seat of the instrument panel. As shown in FIG. 1 to FIG. 4, the glove box 2 is an integral synthetic resin provided with a rectangular container-shaped storage portion that opens upward on the back surface of the front wall 20 that is inclined downward facing the passenger compartment. A plurality of bearings 26 provided at the lower edge of the surface wall 20 are rotatably supported by a support shaft 11 provided at the lower end of the instrument panel 1 in the molded body , and the support shaft 11 is centered in the vehicle longitudinal direction. It is installed so that it can be rotated and opened.

  The surface wall 20 has a hollow two-layer structure in which the design panel 201 is attached to the passenger compartment side, and protrudes from the inner surface of the design panel 201 so that the inner surfaces of the surface wall 20 and the design panel 201 are bridged in the hollow interior. A large number of ribs 202 in the vertical direction and the horizontal direction are provided. The outer periphery of the hollow portion of the surface wall 20 and the design panel 201 is closed by the outer peripheral flange of the design panel 201. When the occupant's knees N1 and N2 hit the surface wall 20 configured in this manner due to an impact at the time of a vehicle collision or the like, the design panel 201 is pushed forward to be crushed and deformed to the knees N1 and N2. I try to reduce the impact.

The storage part of the glove box 2 is deeper than the main body storage part 2a so as not to interfere with the heater unit 3 installed at the center lower part inside the instrument panel 1 on the side of the main body storage part 2a on the vehicle center side. The small extended storage portion 2b is continuously provided so as to protrude in a convex shape from the side portion of the main body storage portion 2a to the vehicle center side. In this way, the glove box 2 is provided with the extended storage portion 2b on the side portion on the vehicle central side, and the side wall 22 on the vehicle central side of the main body storage portion 2a and the rear wall of the expansion storage portion 2b on the rear corner portion on the vehicle central side. The heater unit 3 is avoided by forming a rectangular recess surrounded by 23b.

  The main body storage portion 2a is composed of a bottom wall 21a that protrudes substantially horizontally from the lower edge of the inclined surface wall 20 to the back surface side, and a back wall 23a that rises substantially vertically upward from the rear edge, and the depth dimension of the opening is It has a substantially trapezoidal cross-sectional shape that is larger than the bottom wall 21a, and its horizontal width matches the dimensions of vehicle verification, vehicle manuals, etc., and these can be smoothly inserted and removed.

  The extended storage portion 2b has a substantially V-shaped cross section whose storage depth dimension is shallower than that of the main body storage portion 2a, and the rear wall 23b is a lower portion that is substantially perpendicular to the upper half portion inclined downward from the upper edge of the vehicle compartment. It is formed in a generally square shape that is gentle with the half. A bottom wall 21b extending obliquely downward toward the passenger compartment side is continuous with the lower edge of the back wall 23b, and further, the bottom wall 21b is provided so as to continue to a position near the lower end of the middle portion of the surface wall 20. The lower part of the back wall 23b of the extended storage part 2b faces the vertical wall-shaped protector member 30 provided on the vehicle compartment side at the upper and lower intermediate positions of the heater unit 3, and the upper half part It is provided to face the upper part of the heater unit 3 with a slight gap.

  Inside the glove box 2, a partition wall 25 extending in the vehicle front-rear direction is formed at the boundary between the main body storage portion 2a and the expansion storage portion 2b over the entire depth dimension of the boundary (expansion storage portion 2b). The wall 25 divides the main body storage portion 2a and the extended storage portion 2b in the width direction. At the boundary, a bottom wall 21a continuous from the lower part of the surface wall 20 on the main body storage part 2a side and a bottom wall 21b continuous from the lower part of the surface wall 20 on the expansion storage part 2a side are separated by a predetermined distance (10 mm to 15 mm). Degree). The partition wall 25 has a substantially triangular vertical wall portion 251 rising from the separation edge of the bottom wall 21a of the main body storage portion 2a, and a substantially triangular vertical wall standing from the separation edge of the bottom wall 21b of the expansion storage portion 2b. The wall 252 has a hollow two-layer wall structure in which the upper edges of the wall 252 are connected by the upper wall 253, and has a substantially U-shaped cross section that opens downward and toward the back. The vertical wall portion 251 on the main body storage portion 2a side is provided in a straight line with the side wall 22 in the front-rear direction. The partition wall portion 25 has an upper wall portion 253 formed substantially horizontally, and the height dimension of the partition wall portion 25 is close to the boundary between the upper half portion and the lower half portion of the back wall 23b of the extended storage portion 2b. It is as.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the glove box 2 has a partition wall 25 between the main body storage portion 2a and the extended storage portion 2b, approximately in front of the knee N2 on the vehicle center side of the passenger seated in the passenger seat. If the occupant's knee N2 hits the surface wall 20 on the side of the extended storage portion 2b of the glove box 2 due to a collision load at the time of a vehicle collision, the design panel 201 and the rib 202 of the surface wall 20 are formed between the knee N2 and the surface wall 20. And the impact on the knee N2 is eased. Further, when the surface wall 20 is pushed forward by the knee N2, the back wall 23b of the extended storage portion 2b comes into contact with the protector member 30 of the heater unit 3 and bottoms. In this case, since the expansion storage portion 2b is strengthened by the partition wall 25 with respect to the crushed deformation in the front-rear direction, the expansion storage portion 2b is not crushed as in the conventional structure, and the knee N2 is received and moved forward of the knee N2. Stop movement.

  In particular, since the partition wall 25 has a two-layer structure composed of two vertical wall portions 251 and 252 rising from the main body storage portion 2a side and the expansion storage portion 2b side, even if a large collision load acts from the knee N2, Since both the vertical wall portions 251 and 252 support and receive the above load, it is possible to more reliably prevent the front and rear of the expansion storage portion 2b from being crushed and more reliably prevent the knee N2 from moving forward. be able to.

Further, since the extended storage portion 2b reliably receives the knee N2 without being crushed and deformed, there is no need to provide a bracket 5b (FIG. 8) for connecting the instrument panel force 4 and the protector member 30 up and down unlike the conventional structure. Accordingly, the number of parts and the cost can be reduced.

  Since the extended storage portion 2b is divided from the main body storage portion 2a by the partition wall 25, it can be used effectively as an accessory case, and the upper portion of the back wall 23b is inclined so as to increase the front-rear length of the opening by not providing the bracket. Can be made into a convenient storage section. Further, the main body storage portion 2a is also convenient because it can be widely used without the partition wall 25 being in the way.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 and 5, an instrument panel reinforcement is installed in the instrument panel 1 in the vehicle width direction at a position facing the knee N1 of the occupant outside the vehicle of the glove box 2 as in the conventional structure. 4, a tongue-like bracket 5a extending rearward along the vehicle front-rear direction is protruded, and the tip end of the bracket 5a is opposed to the inner surface of the surface wall 20 of the glove box 2 with a gap. When the knee N1 hits the front wall 20 and pushes it forward, the front wall 20 hits the bracket 5a and receives the knee N1.

It is a top view of the glove box of the present invention. It is sectional drawing which follows the II-II line of FIG. It is the perspective view seen from the back side of the glove box of the present invention. It is sectional drawing which follows the IV-IV line of FIG. It is sectional drawing which follows the VV line | wire of FIG. 1 and FIG. It is a front view which shows the instrument panel and glove box of the vehicle interior front of a motor vehicle. It is a top view of the conventional glove box. It is sectional drawing which follows the VIII-VIII line of FIG.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Instrument panel 2 Glove box 2a Main body storage part 2b Expansion storage part 21a Bottom wall of main body storage part 21b Bottom wall of expansion storage part 25 Partition wall 251,252 Vertical wall part

Claims (1)

A glove box to be installed in the instrument panel of the automobile,
It consists of an integral molded body of synthetic resin, and on one side of the main body storage portion, an extended storage portion having a depth dimension smaller than that of the main body storage portion is projected in the width direction so that the main body storage portion and the extended storage A vertical wall-shaped partition wall that partitions the main body storage portion and the extended storage portion in the width direction is provided at the boundary between the main body storage portion and the expansion storage portion. The bottom wall is separated from the bottom edge of the bottom wall of the main body storage section and the separation edge of the bottom wall of the expansion storage section facing the space at an interval, and the top edges are continuous with each other. A glove box for a vehicle, wherein the partition wall is formed by a vertical wall .

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