JP6543547B2 - Roof side rail of the vehicle - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a roof side rail of a vehicle such as a car.

  FIG. 7 is a perspective view showing the appearance of a conventional vehicle, taking a four-wheeled vehicle as an example. As shown in FIG. 7, the vehicle 100 includes a quarter glass 110 closing an opening of a quarter panel on a side of a vehicle body and a decorative garnish 120 provided behind the quarter glass 110. Furthermore, a roof side rail 140 is disposed along the upper edge of the quarter glass 110 and the garnish 120 and the front door 130, and a roof panel 150 is disposed so as to straddle the pair of roof side rails 140. A back door 160 is further disposed continuously from the garnish 120 to the rear of the vehicle body.

  When the quarter panel is covered with the quarter glass 110 and the garnish 120 like the vehicle 100, the processing of the boundary E between the quarter glass 110 and the garnish 120 becomes a problem.

  For such a problem, a technique is known in which the boundary E between the quarter glass 110 and the garnish 120 is blinded by wearing a molding or the end face of the garnish 120 is overlapped on the quarter glass 110 (see FIG. See, for example, Patent Document 1).

JP, 2011-131770, A

  However, the roof side rail of the above-described conventional vehicle has the following problems. That is, in the case where the quarter glass 110 and the garnish 120 are arranged in an overlapping manner so as to produce a surface step, the space 140 x between the upper end of the quarter glass 110 and the garnish 120 and the roof side rail 140 is the quarter glass 110 and the garnish 120. Due to the step difference between the vehicle 100 and the vehicle 100, the width along the vehicle height direction is significantly changed, and the beauty of the vehicle 100 is impaired.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a roof side rail of a vehicle capable of improving the aesthetic appearance in a vehicle in which quarter glass and garnish are arranged in an overlapping manner. Do.

  In order to achieve the above object, a first aspect of the present invention is a roof side rail of a vehicle having a quarter glass and a side wall adjacent to a periphery of a garnish partially laminated to the quarter glass. The angle of the side wall is gradually changed at least at a portion facing the periphery of the laminated surface where the quarter glass and the garnish overlap, and the inclination angle of the side wall from the height direction of the vehicle to the vehicle width direction is A roof side rail of a vehicle, wherein a portion facing only the peripheral edge of the quarter glass adjacent to the laminated surface is larger than an angle of the side wall opposed only to the peripheral edge of the garnish adjacent to the laminated surface.

  As another aspect of the present invention, the side wall may gradually change an angle at a portion corresponding to the periphery of each of the quarter glass and the garnish adjacent to the laminated surface.

  Furthermore, as another aspect of the present invention, the length of the gradually changing side wall of the quarter glass adjacent to the laminated surface changes the angle of the garnish adjacent to the laminated surface. The length of the side wall may be greater than the length of the side wall.

  The present invention as described above has an effect that it is possible to improve the aesthetics in a vehicle in which quarter glass and garnish are arranged in an overlapping manner.

The side view which shows the principal part of composition of the roof side rail of vehicles concerning an embodiment of the invention Sectional drawing by the AA straight line of FIG. 1 Sectional drawing by the BB straight line of FIG. 1 Cross-sectional view taken along the line C-C in FIG. 1 Cross-sectional view taken along line D-D in FIG. 1 The side view which shows the principal part of composition of the roof side rail of vehicles concerning an embodiment of the invention A perspective view showing the appearance of a conventional vehicle

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a side view showing a roof side rail of a vehicle according to an embodiment of the present invention and a configuration around the roof, and is an enlarged view of a region R indicated by a dashed dotted line in the vehicle 100 shown in FIG. . FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line A-A in FIG. 1 and is a cross-sectional view taken along the vehicle length direction of the vehicle 100. 3 to 5 are cross-sectional views taken along line A-A, line B-B, and line C-C, respectively, of FIG.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the roof side rails 10 of the vehicle according to the present embodiment are located at both vehicle width sides of the roof panel 20 of the vehicle, and an upper end surface 30 x of the quarter glass 30 closing the opening of the quarter panel (not shown). And adjacent to the upper end surface 40 x of the garnish 40 for decoration provided behind the quarter glass 30.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the garnish 40 is disposed so that the side end face 40 y wraps outside the side end face 40 y of the quarter glass 30 in the vehicle width direction to form a laminated surface 50 overlapping on the surface. Ru. Thereby, the shape of the vehicle width direction of a vehicle has the surface level | step difference which the garnish 40 protruded outside from the quarter glass 30. FIG. In addition, the space between the quarter glass 30 and the garnish 40 is sealed by a lip 60, and the flow of outside air or the like is blocked.

  Next, in the roof side rail 10, the upper end surface 30x of the quarter glass 30 and the opposing surface with the upper end surface 40x of the garnish 40 are directed from the vehicle height direction toward the vehicle width direction outside as shown in FIGS. The side walls 11 include inclined sub side walls 11a and 11b, and an air gap C is formed between the sub side walls 11a and 11b and the upper end surfaces 30x and 40x.

  Further, as shown in FIGS. 3 to 5, the roof side rail 10 has a closed cross-sectional structure that extends in the vehicle length direction by connecting the side outer 10 a located outside and the side inner not shown, An opening O closed by a quarter glass 30 or a garnish 40 is formed below 10 a.

  Furthermore, as shown in FIG. 3, the flange portion 10a1 on the inner side in the vehicle width direction of the side outer 10a is joined to the roof panel 20 to form a vehicle body. As shown in the figure, the space between the side outer 10a and the quarter glass 30 is sealed by the sealing material 31, and the flow of the outside air or the like is blocked. Although not shown or shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, the side outer 10 a and the garnish 40 are fixed by attaching a hole provided on the garnish 40 to the side outer 10 a with a clip with a packing. It is done.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 2, the side outer 10a constituting the roof side rail 10 is combined with the side reinforcements 10b and 10c to constitute a rear pillar 70 having a closed cross-sectional structure extending in the vehicle height direction.

  In the above configuration, the roof side rail 10 corresponds to the roof side rail of the vehicle of the present invention, the quarter glass 30 corresponds to the quarter glass of the present invention, and the garnish 40 corresponds to the garnish of the present invention. The upper end face 30x of the quarter glass 30 and 40x of the garnish 40 correspond to the peripheral edge of the present invention, the side wall 11 including the sub side walls 11a and 11b of the roof side rail 10 corresponds to the side wall of the present invention It corresponds to the lamination surface of the present invention.

  The roof side rail 10 of the vehicle according to the present embodiment having the configuration as described above makes the angles of the sub-sidewalls 11a and 11b different from each other at the upper end surface 30x of the quarter glass 30 and the side wall 11 facing 40x of the garnish 40. In addition, the angle from the sub sidewall 11a to the sub sidewall 11b is gradually changed in the vehicle length direction in a portion including the laminated surface 50 on which the quarter glass 30 and the garnish 40 overlap.

  The following will be described. As shown in FIGS. 1 and 3, in the roof side rail 10, the portion adjacent to only the quarter glass 30 has the sub side wall 11a inclined at an inclination angle θ1 from the vehicle height direction to the outer side in the vehicle width direction. To face. In this case, the dimension of the gap C between the roof side rail 10 and the quarter glass 30 corresponds to the distance D1 between the sub sidewall 11a and the upper end surface 30x.

  On the other hand, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 4, in the roof side rail 10, the portion adjacent to only the garnish 40 is inclined from the vehicle height direction toward the vehicle width direction outside with an inclination angle θ2 that is θ1> θ2. The sub sidewall 11b faces the upper end surface 40x. In this case, the dimension of the gap C between the roof side rail 10 and the garnish 40 corresponds to the distance D2 between the sub sidewall 11 b and the upper end surface 40 x.

  Furthermore, as shown in the side views of FIG. 1 and FIG. 5 and FIG. 6, in the roof side rail 10, the portion adjacent to the lamination surface 50 where the quarter glass 30 and the garnish 40 overlap overlap the boundary 11x shown in FIG. As a ridge line, the cross section of the side wall 11 is bent and includes a portion having the same inclination angle θ1 as the sub side wall 11a on the quarter glass 30 side and a portion having the same θ2 as the sub side wall 11b on the garnish 40 side. Furthermore, the inclination angle of the entire side wall 11 is gradually changed from θ1 to θ2 by continuously changing the area ratio of each sub-side wall including the two inclination angles in the vehicle length direction.

  As a result, on the quarter glass 30 side, the dimension visually observed at a depression angle from the vehicle height direction of the space C between the roof side rail 10 and the quarter glass 30 continuously changes from the distance D1 to the distance D2. It is possible to improve the aesthetics of the boundary between the roof side rail 10 and the quarter glass 30 and the garnish 40 by suppressing the change width of the angle.

  Furthermore, in the present embodiment, the roof side rail 10 has a relationship of θ1> θ2 between the inclination angle θ1 of the sub side wall 11a of the roof side rail 10 and the inclination angle θ2 of the sub side wall 11b. It has a relation of D1> D2 between the distances D1 and D2 between the upper end faces 30x and 40x and the sub-sidewalls 11a and 11b giving the dimension of the gap C formed between the quarter glass 30 and the garnish 40, respectively. And the size of the space C gradually changes in response to the change from D1 to D2.

  Thereby, the gap between the upper end surface 40x of the garnish 40 stacked on the upper side of the quarter glass 30 and the roof side rail 10 is prevented from expanding from the gap between the upper end surface 30x of the quarter glass 30 and the roof side rail 10 Can maintain the beauty. Further, the angle at the garnish 40 side of the side outer 10a constituting the roof side rail 10 can be further reduced to improve the removal characteristic of the side outer 10a in press processing etc., and the productivity can be enhanced while maintaining the appearance of the vehicle body. It becomes.

  In the roof side rail 10, the area gradually changing from the sub-sidewalls 11a to 11b is not only on the part facing the laminated surface 50 but also on the laminated surface 50 at the upper end face 30x of the quarter glass 30 and the upper end face 40x of the garnish 40. It is preferable to include adjacent portions. That is, as shown in FIG. 6, the gradual change of the angle of the side wall is adjacent to the laminated surface 50 and a portion DX facing only the upper end face 30 x of the quarter glass 30 and adjacent to the laminated surface 50 and garnish 40. The start point (end point) is included in each of the parts DY facing only the upper end face 40x.

  Thereby, it is possible to further suppress the change width of the gap C from being remarkable, and to improve the aesthetics of the boundary between the roof side rail 10, the quarter glass 30, and the garnish 40. Furthermore, in this case, the length of the site DX is more preferably shorter than the site DY.

  In the above description, the change in the inclination angle of the side wall 11 is gradually changed by bending the cross section of the side wall 11 with the boundary 11x shown in FIG. 1 as a ridge line, but the change in the cross section is a curved surface It may be in a smooth manner.

  Furthermore, in the above description, the vehicle having the back door is illustrated and described as an example, but the vehicle of the present invention has quarter glass and a garnish partially laminated thereon Well, not limited by vehicle type.

  As described above, the present invention is a roof side rail of a vehicle having a quarter glass and a side wall adjacent to a peripheral edge of a garnish partially stacked on the quarter glass, wherein the side wall is at least the quarter glass And the garnish is gradually changing in angle at the part facing the peripheral edge of the stacked surface, and the inclination angle of the side wall from the height direction of the vehicle to the vehicle width direction is the quarter adjacent to the stacked surface. It is sufficient if the part of the glass facing only the peripheral edge is larger than the angle of the side wall facing only the peripheral edge of the garnish adjacent to the laminated surface, and is limited by other specific purpose, application, and configuration It is not something to be done.

  Therefore, the present invention may be implemented as various modifications to the above-described embodiment, including those described above, as long as the scope of the present invention is not deviated.

  The present invention as described above has the effect that it is possible to improve the aesthetics in a vehicle in which quarter glass and garnish are arranged in an overlapping manner, and is useful in, for example, application to roof side rails of vehicles such as automobiles. It is.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 roof side rail 10a side outer 10a1 flange part 10b, 10c side reinforcement 11 side wall 11a, 11b sub side wall 11x boundary 20 roof panel 30 quarter glass 30x, 40x upper end surface 31 sealing material 40 garnish 40y side end surface 50 laminated surface 60 lip 70 rear pillar

Claims (1)

A roof side rail of a vehicle having a quarter glass and a side wall adjacent to a periphery of a garnish partially stacked on the quarter glass,
The angle of the side wall is gradually changed at least at a portion facing the periphery of the laminated surface where the quarter glass and the garnish overlap.
The inclination angle of the side wall directed from the height direction of the vehicle to the vehicle width direction is only the peripheral edge of the garnish adjacent to the laminated surface in the portion facing only the peripheral edge of the quarter glass adjacent to the laminated surface. Greater than the angle of the side wall facing the
Roof side rail of the vehicle.

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