JP4872330B2 - Closure member mounting structure - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a closing member mounting structure, and more particularly to a closing member mounting structure for mounting a closing member that covers and closes at least a part of an opening provided in a vehicle interior to an edge of the opening.

  In the vehicle interior, for example, a parking brake lever, a shift lever, and the like have a boot (blocking member) closed between the lever and an opening in the vehicle interior.

  As an example, Patent Document 1 describes a shift lever boot mounting structure using a skirt frame integrally provided with a cylindrical portion that rises upward along an inner peripheral surface of an opening.

  By the way, in the actual use situation of the parking brake lever or the shift lever, a phenomenon that the boot partially bulges into the vehicle interior, so-called “buzz” may occur.

In order to prevent this blinking, for example, a backing material may be attached to the boot, but an attachment structure that can reliably prevent blinking is desired at a lower cost.
Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 61-174341

  In view of the above facts, an object of the present invention is to obtain a blocking member mounting structure that can reliably prevent the blocking member from being blinked at low cost.

According to the first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a closing member that covers and closes at least part of an opening provided in the vehicle interior that is flexible and has a through hole formed therein, and a periphery of the through hole of the closing member. , A crest portion in which the blocking member is partially bulged into the passenger compartment, a drop portion in which the clogging member is bulged in the opposite direction to the crest portion, and an edge portion of the opening. And the closing member is attached to the surface on the inner side of the opening, and extends from the fixed piece toward the outside of the vehicle compartment from the vehicle interior, and the drop portion is attached to the surface on the vehicle interior side. And a guide piece that restrains the dropping portion in a state of bulging in a direction opposite to the peak portion.

  Therefore, the fixed piece is fixed to the edge of the opening, the closing member is attached to the fixed piece, and the closing member covers at least a part of the opening. Since the closing member has flexibility, for example, when a member such as a parking brake lever or a shift lever is disposed in the through hole, the movement of these members is not limited.

Around the through hole, the blocking member is partially bulged into the passenger compartment to form a peak portion, and further, the periphery of the peak portion is bulged in a direction opposite to the peak portion to form a drop portion. A blocking member is attached to the surface of the fixed piece on the vehicle interior side. Here, a guide piece extends from the fixed piece. A drop part is attached to the surface inside the opening of the guide piece , so that the drop part is restrained in a state of bulging in a direction opposite to the peak part. That is, since the closing member is maintained in a state of being bulged in the direction opposite to the peak portion by the guide piece, it is possible to reliably prevent the blocking member from being blown. For example, even when a member such as a parking brake lever or a shift lever in the through hole moves, the blocking member can be prevented from bulging into the vehicle interior due to the movement. In addition, since it is not necessary to attach a backing material to the closing member for preventing glare, the cost is reduced.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, the guide piece extends substantially perpendicular to the fixed piece.

  That is, the angle formed by the guide piece with respect to the fixed piece is not particularly limited as long as the blocking member can be guided toward the outside of the passenger compartment to prevent the blinking. In addition, it is preferable because the closing member is not excessively bent.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the first or second aspect of the present invention, the closing member is bonded to the fixed piece and the guide piece with an adhesive.

  Thus, by attaching the closing member to the fixed piece and the guide piece with an adhesive, it can be attached at a lower cost.

  In the inventions according to the above claims, the closing member often closes the entire opening, but only a part of the opening may be closed. Moreover, although the fixing piece may be fixed in a later step, the one formed separately from the edge of the opening may be formed integrally in advance.

  Since the present invention is configured as described above, it is possible to reliably prevent the blocking member from blinking at a low cost.

  1 and 2 show a closing member mounting structure 12 according to an embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, as an example, a structure in which the closing member mounting structure 12 is applied to the parking brake lever 16 of the console panel 14 in the interior of the automobile is cited. Hereinafter, the front of the vehicle is indicated by an arrow FR, the upper side is indicated by an arrow UP, and the vehicle width direction is indicated by an arrow W.

  An opening 18 is formed in the console panel 14. A parking brake lever 16 is disposed in the opening 18, and the parking brake can be operated by the occupant gripping and rotating the grip portion 16H (see FIG. 2).

  A parking brake boot 20 is disposed in the opening 18, and a through hole 42 through which the parking brake lever 16 passes is formed in the center thereof. Accordingly, the clearance between the parking brake lever 16 and the edge 18E of the opening 18 is closed by the parking brake 20. Further, the parking brake boot 20 is flexible and does not restrict the movement of the parking brake lever 16. In order for the parking brake boot 20 to have such flexibility, for example, a flexible material (leather, cloth, rubber, etc.) may be used as the material itself, and the shape thereof may be changed. The structure may be flexible (deformable) as a whole by devising (for example, a bellows shape).

  The parking brake boot 20 around the through hole 42 bulges toward the passenger compartment and forms a mountain portion 44. Further, around the mountain portion 44, the parking brake boot 20 bulges in a direction opposite to the mountain portion 44, that is, outside the passenger compartment, and forms a drop-in portion 30.

  A mounting piece 22 is fixed to the front end and the rear end of the edge 18E of the opening 18. The mounting piece 22 has an L-shaped end surface when viewed in the vehicle width direction, and a fixed piece 24 fixed to the edge 18E and a guide piece 26 extending perpendicularly from the fixed piece 24 are integrated. It is structured. The fixing piece 24 is adhered to the edge portion 18E, whereby the attachment piece 22 is securely fixed to the edge portion 18E. In the fixed state, the guide piece 26 extends toward the outside of the passenger compartment.

  The edge 20E of the parking brake boot 20 is bonded along the edge 18E of the opening 18. Here, in particular, as shown in FIG. 2, not only the upper surface 24U (surface on the vehicle interior side) of the fixing piece 24 but also the inner surface 26U (surface inside the opening 18) of the guide piece 26 is adhered by the adhesive 28. The parking brake boot 20 is adhered, and thereby, the dropping portion 30 of the parking brake boot 20 is partially guided toward the outside of the passenger compartment regardless of the operation and position of the parking brake lever 16. The state is maintained. In this respect, the guide piece 24 is also a restraint piece of the present invention.

  Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described.

  Since the parking brake boot 20 of this embodiment has flexibility, as shown in FIG. 2, the occupant can grip the gripping portion 16H and rotate the parking brake lever 16.

  Further, the parking brake boot 20 has a dropping portion 30 partially guided toward the outside of the passenger compartment, and the dropping portion 30 is adhered to the guide piece 26 so as to ensure that it is in the dropped state. To be maintained. For this reason, when the parking brake lever 16 is rotated, so-called blinking can be reliably prevented regardless of the position of the parking brake lever 16. Since no blinking occurs, the appearance is also improved. On the other hand, in the closing member mounting structure 32 using the mounting piece 34 having no guide piece as shown in FIG. 3, the drop portion 30 is not maintained by the guide piece. There is a risk of the occurrence of the blink 36.

  In addition, in the present embodiment, it is not necessary to attach a backing material to the parking brake boot 20 in order to prevent blinking, so that it can be configured at low cost. A means (adhesive etc.) for sticking the backing material is also unnecessary, and this is also low cost.

  In the above description, the mounting piece 22 having the shape in which the guide piece 26 extends substantially at a right angle to the fixed piece 24 has been described as an example, but this angle is not limited to a substantially right angle. However, if it is substantially perpendicular, a part of the parking brake boot 20 (the drop-in portion 30) can be effectively guided toward the outside of the passenger compartment with respect to the extension length of the guide piece 26 from the fixed piece 24, preferable. From this point of view, the “substantially right angle” referred to here may be an angle between the fixed piece 24 and the guide piece 26 of 45 degrees to 135 degrees.

  The means for attaching the edge portion 20E of the parking brake boot 20 to the fixed piece 24 and the guide piece 26 is not particularly limited, but it is preferable to attach the edge portion 20E to the fixed piece 24 and the guide piece 26 with an adhesive as described above, because it can be reliably attached with a simple configuration. Instead of (or in combination with) the adhesive, it may be attached by welding or fusion, or may be attached by screws or clips.

  Furthermore, although the example which applied the closure member attachment structure 12 of this invention to the parking brake lever 16 of the console panel 14 of the interior of a motor vehicle was mentioned above, the application example is not limited to this. The closing member closes at least a part of the opening in the passenger compartment, and the present invention can be preferably applied to a portion where there is a concern about the blocking of the closing member. Examples of such a part include a shift lever and a column cover. In particular, the shift lever and column cover may have more than one rotation center, and the operation of the shift lever and column cover may be more complicated than the parking brake lever. If the mounting piece is arranged, it is possible to reliably prevent blinking. Of course, even when the present invention is applied to a parking brake, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment in which the attachment piece 22 is fixed to the front end and the rear end of the edge 18E of the opening 18, but for example, the vehicle of the edge 18E of the opening 18 You may use the attachment piece 22 in the width direction edge part.

It is a disassembled perspective view which shows the closure member attachment structure of one Embodiment of this invention. It is sectional drawing which shows the obstruction | occlusion member attachment structure of one Embodiment of this invention in the cross section of a vehicle front-back direction. It is sectional drawing which shows the obstruction | occlusion member attachment structure of a comparative example in the cross section of a vehicle front-back direction.

Explanation of symbols

12 Closing member mounting structure 14 Console panel 16 Parking brake lever 16H Grip portion 18 Opening 18E Edge portion 20 Parking brake boot (closing member)
20E Edge 22 Mounting piece 24 Fixed piece 24U Upper surface 26 Guide piece (restraint piece)
26U inner surface 28 adhesive 30 dropping part 42 through hole 44 mountain part

Claims (3)

A closing member that is flexible and covers and closes at least a part of an opening provided in the vehicle interior;
In the periphery of the through hole of the closing member, a ridge that partially bulges the closing member into the vehicle interior,
Around the mountain part, a drop part that bulges the blocking member in the opposite direction to the mountain part, and
A fixing piece that is fixed to the edge of the opening and the closing member is attached to a surface on the vehicle interior side ;
A guide that is extended from the fixed piece toward the outside of the vehicle compartment from the vehicle interior and restrains the drop portion in a state in which the drop portion is swelled in a direction opposite to the mountain portion by being attached to the inner surface of the opening. With a piece,
A closing member mounting structure characterized by comprising:   The closing member mounting structure according to claim 1, wherein the guide piece extends substantially perpendicularly to the fixed piece.   The closing member mounting structure according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the closing member is bonded to the fixed piece and the guide piece by an adhesive.

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