JP4821463B2 - Air-conditioning register assembly structure - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an air-conditioning register provided inside a vehicle such as an instrument panel, and more particularly to an air-conditioning register that is provided adjacent to the center of the vehicle and blows wind to different passengers.

  In the center of the instrument panel of the automobile, air conditioning registers are provided for passengers in the driver's seat or passenger seat, and two registers are provided for each passenger.

In this case, the center console is provided flush with the audio device or the like. For example, as shown in Patent Literature 1 and Patent Literature 2, the air conditioning register unit is integrated with the center console from the back side.
JP-A-2005-75087 6-12129

  However, in recent years, various shapes of instrument panels and center consoles have been proposed according to customer needs. For example, there is a configuration in which the center console slightly protrudes from the instrument panel. In this case, from the air conditioning register attached to the center console, each occupant is in a lateral direction, and in the configuration in which the left and right air conditioning registers are integrally provided, even if the fins of the air conditioning register are changed, sufficient air conditioning cannot be performed. A case occurs. Although it is conceivable to set the axes of the left and right air conditioning registers in the occupant direction, it has been difficult to accurately assemble the left and right air conditioning registers in the narrow space of the center console.

  The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-described conventional problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide an air conditioning register that can perform air conditioning on the left and right passengers and is easy to assemble. It is to provide.

The invention according to claim 1 of the present invention for achieving the above object is an air conditioning register that is attached to a vehicle and blows conditioned air to an occupant. The air conditioning register includes two left and right retainer bodies, on the side surface of the adjacent side of both the retainer body, provided at least a pair of rail members engage one another, the front and rear side of the rail member, regulating portion for regulating the distance between the retainer body is provided from said retainer body, restricting The part is provided with two large and small restricting protrusions having different heights adjacent to each other on one side and two small and large restricting protrusions having different heights adjacent to each other on the other side and assembled. The size of the restricting protrusions is in contact with each other to restrict the distance between the retainer bodies .

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the air conditioning register according to the first aspect, one of the rail members has a U-shape and the other has an L-shape.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the air-conditioning register according to the first or second aspect, a positioning rib that contacts the rear end of the L-shaped rail member is formed on the rear end side of the U-shaped rail member. It is characterized by being.

  According to the present invention, in an air-conditioning register that is attached to a vehicle and blows conditioned air to an occupant, the register is composed of two left and right retainer bodies, which are connected to each other on the side surfaces adjacent to both retainer bodies. At least a pair of rail members to be joined are provided, and a restricting portion for restricting the distance between the two retainer bodies is provided on both the front and rear sides of the rail members. Therefore, an air-conditioning register that can be easily assembled can be obtained.

  Hereinafter, the best mode for carrying out the present invention will be described.

  One of the rail members of the present invention has a U-shape, and the other may have an L-shape configuration, or may have other fitting configurations, but a U-shaped configuration and an L-shaped configuration for sliding engagement. By doing so, it can be assembled securely. Moreover, it can confirm reliably that it assembled | attached by setting it as the structure by which the positioning rib which contact | abuts the rear end of an L-shaped rail member was formed in the rear end side of the U-shaped rail member.

  Furthermore, the restricting portion of the present invention is provided with two large and small restricting protrusions having different heights adjacent to each other on one side and two small and large restricting protrusions having different heights adjacent to each other on the other side. With a structure that regulates the distance between the retainer bodies by contacting the size of the restricting projections in the installed and assembled state, the distance between the retainer bodies can be determined reliably and assembled with high accuracy. Can do.

  The air-conditioning register of the present invention can be used for an assembly structure of an air-conditioning register provided in the center console, the center of the instrument panel, or the center of the ceiling of the rear seat.

  Next, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an air conditioning register attached to the center console of the present embodiment, and FIG. 2 is a perspective view of an air conditioning register in which the left and right air conditioning registers of the present embodiment are assembled.

  FIG. 1 shows a state in which a pair of left and right air-conditioning registers 11 of the present embodiment is attached to the front panel 10 of the center console 1. The right and left air-conditioning registers 11 are assembled in accordance with the occupant direction of the driver's seat and the passenger's seat so that the direction of the conditioned air is directed toward the occupant direction, and each occupant sets the wind direction to the direction required for the occupant. It is easy to do.

  FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a state in which the left and right air-conditioning registers 11 of the present embodiment are assembled. In this figure, the retainer main body L and the retainer main body R are integrally assembled by an assembly structure to be described later, and the central axes in the wind direction are shifted to the left and right respectively.

  Next, FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the retainer main body L of the present embodiment, and FIG. 4 is a perspective view of the retainer main body R of the present embodiment. U-shaped rail members 21 are provided above and below the right side surface of the retainer body L shown in FIG. Further, L-shaped rail members 31 are provided above and below the left side surface of the retainer main body R shown in FIG. The pair of rail member 21 and rail member 31 are provided in two sets of upper and lower so that the convex portion 33 protruding from the base portion 32 of the rail member 31 slides and fits into the U-shaped groove portion of the rail member 21. .

  A positioning rib 29 (the positioning rib 29 of the lower rail member 21 is not shown) is provided on the rear end side of the upper and lower U-shaped rail members 21, and the rail member 21 and the rail member 31 are further provided. On the rear side, an engagement concave portion 25 and an engagement convex portion 35 are provided as restricting portions. With these configurations, the assembly position can be determined with high accuracy.

  On the front side of the rail member 21 and the rail member 31 of the retainer main body L and the retainer main body R, small restricting protrusions 26 and 36 and restricting protrusion large 27 and 37 as restricting portions for restricting the distance between the tip portions are provided on the retainer main body L and The retainer body R is provided with a combination of small, large, small, large, small and large from the upper side, and the restricting protrusion small 26 and restricting protrusion 37 adjacent to the side and the restricting protrusion 36 and restricting protrusion 27 abut each other to retain the retainer body L and the retainer body R. Regulate the distance between the tips of

  Next, the procedure for assembling the air conditioning register 11 of this embodiment will be described. The retainer main body L and the retainer main body R shown in FIGS. 3 and 4 are mounted with vertical and horizontal fins, fin support members, and left and right registers from the front end side of the U-shaped rail member 21 of the retainer main body L. The base 32 of the retainer body 31 is fitted and slid and assembled. At this time, by sliding the retainer body R back to the rear, the taper surface on the front end side of the engagement recess 25 formed at the rear of the rail member 21 and the rail member 31 and the rear end of the engagement protrusion 35 are formed. The tapered surface on the side contacts. Then, due to the elastic deformation of the retainer main body L and the retainer main body R, the engaging convex portion 35 gets over the tapered surface of the engaging concave portion and engages with the engaging concave portion. At this time, the positioning rib 29 provided on the rail member 21 contacts the rear end surface of the convex portion 33 of the rail member 31, and the retainer main body L and the retainer main body R are positioned, and it is confirmed that the assembly is completed. can do.

  By assembling the retainer main body L and the retainer main body R as described above, air conditioning can be performed on each of the left and right passengers, and an air conditioning register that can be easily assembled can be obtained.

  In the above embodiment, the present invention is applied to an air conditioning register of an automobile. However, the present invention can be used in various fields such as an assembly structure of an air conditioning register provided in a seat of an airplane, a ship, a train or the like.

The perspective view of the register | resistor for an air conditioning with which the center console of this embodiment was attached. FIG. 3 is a perspective view of an air conditioning register in which the left and right air conditioning registers of the present embodiment are assembled. The perspective view of the retainer main body L of this embodiment. The perspective view of the retainer main body R of this embodiment.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Center console 10 ... Front panel 11 ... Resistor for air conditioning 21 ... Rail member 25 ... Engagement recessed part (regulation part)
26: Small regulation protrusion (regulation section)
27 ... Regulation protrusion large (regulation section)
29 ... Positioning rib 31 ... Rail member 32 ... Base 33 ... Convex part 35 ... Engaging convex part (regulation part)
36 ... Regular protrusion small (regulatory part)
37 ... regulation protrusion large (regulation section)
L ... Retainer body R ... Retainer body

Claims (3)

In the air-conditioning register that is attached to the vehicle and blows air-conditioned air to the passengers,
The air-conditioning register consists of two left and right retainer bodies,
At least a pair of rail members that engage with each other are provided on the side surfaces of the two retainer bodies adjacent to each other;
On both the front and rear sides of the rail member, a restricting portion for restricting the distance between the two retainer bodies is provided from the retainer body.
The restricting portion is provided with two large and small restricting protrusions having different heights adjacent to each other on one side and vertically, and two small and large restricting protrusions having different heights adjacent to each other on the other side and assembled. A structure for assembling the air-conditioning register , wherein the restricting projections are in contact with each other to regulate the spacing between the retainer bodies .   The assembly structure of the air-conditioning register according to claim 1, wherein one of the rail members has a U-shape and the other has an L-shape. The positioning rib which contacts the rear end of the L-shaped rail member is formed in the rear end side of the U-shaped rail member.
Or the assembly structure of the air-conditioning register | resistor of Claim 2.

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