JP6674615B2 - Vehicle bumper - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a vehicle bumper having a snorkel penetration portion through which a snorkel that guides outside air to an air cleaner of an engine is passed.

  Patent Document 1 describes a technology related to a vehicle having a snorkel. The vehicle described in Patent Literature 1 is a cab-over type vehicle in which a cabin is installed on an engine, and a snorkel stands upright behind a rear corner of the cabin. Thereby, the air above the cabin can be guided from the rear side of the cabin to the air cleaner of the engine through the snorkel.

  On the other hand, for example, in a vehicle such as a microbus, an engine is installed below the floor in the front of the passenger compartment. For this reason, as shown in FIG. 9, in the aforementioned microbus or the like, as shown in FIG. 9, after forming the snorkel penetration portion 103 in the front bumper 100, the snorkel 105 is passed through the snorkel penetration portion 103 and attached to the vehicle body.

JP-A-9-144615

  As described above, in the structure in which the snorkel 105 is passed through the snorkel penetration portion 103 of the front bumper 100, it is necessary to attach the snorkel 105 to the vehicle body behind the front bumper 100. Further, the connection between the connection portion on the air cleaner side of the engine and the snorkel 105 needs to be performed on the back side of the front bumper 100. For this reason, the operation is performed under the floor of the vehicle, and the operation efficiency is poor.

  The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and an object to be solved by the present invention is to fix the snorkel to the vehicle and then attach the bumper to the vehicle so that the snorkel can be attached to the vehicle. Is to eliminate the work of fixing the snorkel.

The above-mentioned problem is solved by the invention of each claim. The invention according to claim 1 is a bumper of a vehicle including a snorkel penetration portion through which a snorkel for guiding outside air to an air cleaner of the engine is passed, wherein the snorkel penetration portion includes a cutout portion having an open portion at an edge of the bumper. A closing member for closing an open portion of the notch, wherein a size of the open portion of the notch is set to be larger than a diameter of the snorkel, and the vehicle is moved by moving the bumper in a certain direction. The opening of the notch is positioned so that when fixed to the body, the snorkel attached to the vehicle body can relatively move inward through the opening of the notch of the bumper .

  According to the present invention, the size of the open portion of the notch in the bumper is set to be larger than the diameter of the snorkel. For this reason, when the snorkel is fixed to the vehicle and the bumper is mounted on the vehicle, the snorkel can be passed through the notch of the bumper using the open portion of the notch. Then, a snorkel penetration portion is configured by closing an open portion of the cutout portion with the closing member. That is, since the bumper can be attached to the vehicle after the snorkel is fixed to the vehicle, the work of fixing the snorkel on the back side of the bumper is eliminated, and the working efficiency is improved.

  According to the invention according to claim 2, the snorkel penetrating portion includes a covering member formed to match the shape of the notch portion and covering an edge of the notch portion, and the closing member includes an end portion of the covering member. It is configured to be fitted and attached to the vehicle body. In this manner, the appearance of the bumper is improved because the cover member covers the edge of the notch.

The invention according to claim 3 is a bumper of a vehicle including a snorkel penetration portion through which a snorkel for guiding outside air to an air cleaner of an engine is passed, wherein the snorkel penetration portion has a notch having an open portion at an edge of the bumper. And a closing member for closing the open portion of the notch, wherein the size of the open portion of the notch is set to be larger than the diameter of the snorkel, and the snorkel penetration portion is A cover member formed to fit the shape of the notch and covering an edge of the notch, and the closing member is attached to a vehicle body in a state fitted to an end of the cover member, and The member is formed along the end of the covering member main body in a state where the member is covered by the slit-shaped groove with respect to the end of the covering member main body and the end of the covering member main body. And a closing plate, wherein the closing member includes an insertion plate portion inserted into a groove between the covering member main body portion and the positioning plate portion, and the insertion plate portion of the closing member includes the covering plate. By being inserted into the groove between the member body and the positioning plate, the closing member and the end of the covering member are held in a fitted state.

  According to the invention according to claim 4, the closing member includes a pressing rib that protrudes in the insertion direction of the insertion plate portion and extends at a right angle to the insertion plate portion, and the pressing rib includes the pressing rib of the closing member. When inserting the insertion plate portion into the groove between the covering member main body portion and the positioning plate portion, press the end face of the positioning plate portion in a direction along the longitudinal direction of the insertion plate portion, and Position the covering member. For this reason, the covering member can always be held at the fixed position with respect to the closing member, and the appearance of the snorkel penetrating portion can always be kept constant even if the shape of the cutout portion of the bumper varies.

  According to the invention according to claim 5, the covering member includes upper and lower ends of the covering member main body and the positioning plate portion, and the insertion member is formed vertically on the closing member. The upper and lower insertion plate portions of the closing member are inserted into grooves between the upper and lower covering member body portions and the positioning plate portion of the covering member, so that the covering member moves up and down with respect to the closing member. Direction. For this reason, the covering member can always be held at a fixed position in the vertical direction with respect to the closing member.

  According to the invention according to claim 6, the end surface of the positioning plate portion of the covering member pressed by the pressing rib of the closing member is inclined with respect to the projecting direction of the pressing rib. That is, since the tip of the pressing rib of the closing member presses the inclined end surface of the positioning plate, the force at the time of fitting the closing member to the end of the covering member can be used for positioning the covering member. .

  According to the present invention, since the front bumper can be attached to the vehicle after the snorkel is attached to the vehicle, the work of fixing the snorkel on the back side of the front bumper is eliminated, and the working efficiency is improved.

1 is a front perspective view of a vehicle including a front bumper according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. FIG. 2 is an enlarged view as viewed from an arrow II in FIG. 1. FIG. 2 is a front perspective view of the vehicle before the front bumper is mounted. It is a perspective view showing the mounting structure of the closing member which comprises the snorkel penetration part of the said front bumper. It is a perspective view showing the mounting structure of the covering member which comprises the snorkel penetration part of the said front bumper. It is an expansion perspective view of a closure member and a covering member which constitute a snorkel penetration part. FIG. 7 is a plan sectional view (a sectional view taken along the line VII-VII in FIG. 6) of a fitting portion between the closing member and the covering member. FIG. 8 is a longitudinal sectional view (a sectional view taken along the line VIII-VIII in FIG. 6) of a fitting portion between the closing member and the covering member. It is a schematic side view of the vehicle provided with the conventional front bumper.

[Embodiment 1]
Hereinafter, a vehicle bumper according to the first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 8. The bumper of the vehicle according to the present embodiment is a front bumper provided with a snorkel penetration used in a microbus with a snorkel. Here, the front, rear, left, right and up and down shown in the figure correspond to the front, rear, left and right and up and down of a micro bus with snorkel (hereinafter referred to as vehicle 10).

<About the outline of the vehicle 10>
As shown in FIG. 1, the vehicle 10 is a one-box type microbus, and has an engine (not shown) under the floor in the front of the passenger compartment. A snorkel 20 for guiding outside air to the air cleaner of the engine is provided upright at the right front corner of the vehicle body 12. The snorkel 20 is configured to suck air at a position near a rearview mirror (not shown) of the vehicle 10 and to guide the sucked air to an air cleaner (not shown) of the engine. Thereby, for example, even when water reaches the front bumper 30 while the vehicle 10 is traveling on a rough road, it is possible to prevent a trouble that water enters the engine.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, the snorkel 20 includes a connecting tubular portion that connects a snorkel vertical tubular portion 22, a snorkel horizontal tubular portion 24, an end 24 x of the snorkel horizontal tubular portion 24, and an air cleaner (not shown). 26. As shown in FIG. 1, a roof portion 22t having a suction port (not shown) facing downward is provided at an upper end position of the vertical snorkel tube portion 22. The lower side of the roof 22t of the snorkel vertical cylinder 22 and the lower part of the snorkel vertical cylinder 22 are connected to the vehicle body by support members (not shown). As shown in FIG. 2, the horizontal snorkel tube portion 24 enters the back side of the front bumper 30 while being passed through the snorkel penetration portion 40 of the front bumper 30. Then, the end portion 24x of the horizontal snorkel tube portion 24 is connected to the connection tube portion 26 while being supported by the support member 12s of the vehicle body 12, as shown in FIG.

<About the snorkel penetration part 40 of the front bumper 30>
As shown in FIGS. 3 to 5, the snorkel penetration portion 40 of the front bumper 30 is a portion through which the snorkel horizontal tubular portion 24 of the snorkel 20 passes, and is configured so that the penetration portion can be closed from an open state. . As shown in FIG. 5, the snorkel penetration portion 40 of the front bumper 30 has a cutout 33 formed at the right end of the front bumper 30. The notch 33 of the front bumper 30 is formed in a substantially horizontal U-shape and is opened at the right rear end position of the front bumper 30. The size of the open portion of the notch 33 of the front bumper 30 is set to be sufficiently larger than the diameter of the horizontal snorkel portion 24.

<About the covering member 41>
The snorkel penetrating portion 40 includes a covering member 41 that covers the edge (not shown) of the notch 33 of the front bumper 30. The covering member 41 is formed in a substantially horizontal U-shape according to the shape of the notch 33. The covering member 41 is configured so as to cover the notch 33 of the front bumper 30 from the front side and to connect a stop member 41z, which is also formed in a substantially horizontal U shape, from the back side of the front bumper 30. The covering member 41 and the stop member 41z are set in such a manner that the position thereof can be adjusted in the horizontal direction and the vertical direction with respect to the notch 33 of the front bumper 30. The covering member 41 includes a covering member main body 43 that forms a design of the snorkel penetration portion 40, and a positioning plate 44 formed at upper and lower open end portions 43 y of the covering member main body 43.

  As shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, the positioning plate portion 44 is a flat plate having a substantially trapezoidal shape, and includes a lower portion of the upper open end portion 43 y and a lower open end portion of the covering member main body 43. 43y. As shown in FIG. 8, a slit-shaped deep groove M extending along the covering member main body 43 is formed between the upper and lower positioning plate parts 44 and the covering member main body 43. That is, the upper and lower positioning plate portions 44 are formed along the covering member main body portion 43 with the deep groove M interposed therebetween. The deep groove M is formed such that the width dimension on the opening side is relatively large and the width dimension on the bottom side is small.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 7, the positioning plate portion 44 has a flat and substantially trapezoidal shape such that the length dimension of the bottom side (left side) of the deep groove M is larger than the length dimension of the opening side (right side) of the deep groove M. Is formed. Therefore, one end surface 44b (rear end surface 44b) and the other end surface 44f (front end surface 44f) in the length direction of the positioning plate portion 44 are inclined surfaces.

<About the closing member 45>
As shown in FIG. 2, the snorkel penetration portion 40 includes a cutout portion 33 of the front bumper 30 and a closing member 45 that closes an open portion of the covering member 41. The closing member 45 is a decorative member for closing the open portion of the covering member 41 and the like so that the snorkel penetrating portion 40 looks substantially elliptical, and also has a positioning function of the covering member 41. As shown in FIGS. 4 and 6, the closing member 45 includes a closing member main body 46 that constitutes a design of the snorkel penetration portion 40. The closing member main body 46 has a flat cross-sectional shape formed by a vertical wall 46w that forms a design surface that is continuous with the front bumper 30 and the covering member main body 43, and an arc wall 46e that forms the inner peripheral surface of the snorkel penetration 40. Are formed in a substantially L-shape as shown in FIG.

  The closing member 45 includes an insertion plate portion 47 formed at a rear upper end position and a rear lower end position of the closing member main body portion 46. The upper and lower insertion plate portions 47 are formed in a shelf shape (horizontal) behind the vertical wall portion 46w of the closing member body portion 46, and as shown in FIG. The upper and lower deep grooves M can be inserted. Here, the projecting dimension of the insertion plate portion 47 from the vertical wall portion 46w of the closing member main body portion 46 is set substantially equal to the depth dimension of the deep groove M. Therefore, when the insertion plate portion 47 of the closing member 45 is inserted into the deep groove M, the design surface of the closing member body portion 46 and the design surface of the covering member body portion 43 become continuous.

  At the rear end position on the back side of the vertical wall portion 46w of the closing member 45 (closing member main body portion 46), as shown in FIG. 7, a pressing rib 48b projecting in the insertion direction (left direction) of the insertion plate portion 47 is provided. The portion 47 is formed so as to extend at right angles, that is, in the vertical direction. On the back side of the vertical wall portion 46w of the closing member main body portion 46, a front pressing rib 48f is formed at the front end position in parallel with the pressing rib 48b. When the insertion plate portion 47 of the closing member 45 is inserted into the upper and lower deep grooves M between the covering member main body 43 and the positioning plate portion 44, the pressing rib 48b and the front side pressing rib 48f are inclined rear end surfaces of the positioning plate portion 44. 44b or the front end surface 44f can be pressed.

  Here, the dimension from the pressing rib 48b to the front pressing rib 48f is set substantially equal to the length from the front end position to the rear end position of the positioning plate portion 44, as shown in FIG. For this reason, for example, when the pressing rib 48b presses the inclined rear end face 44b of the positioning plate portion 44, the positioning plate portion 44 is pressed forward along the insertion plate portion 47 against the closing member 45, and It is arranged between the pressing ribs 48f, 48b. Further, when the front side pressing rib 48f presses the inclined front end surface 44f of the positioning plate portion 44, the positioning plate portion 44 is similarly pressed rearward, and is disposed between the front and rear pressing ribs 48f and 48b. Thereby, the positioning of the covering member 41 with respect to the closing member 45 in the horizontal direction is performed.

  On the back side of the vertical wall portion 46w of the closing member 45, an engaging claw 49 for fixing the closing member 45 to the bumper support 15 is formed so as to protrude, as shown in FIG. Here, the projecting direction of the engaging claw 49 is configured to coincide with the inserting direction (left direction) of the inserting plate portion 47. As shown in FIG. 4, the bumper support 15 is a member for fixing the left and right ends of the front bumper 30 to the left and right front corners of the vehicle body 12, and is bolted to the left and right front lower portions of the vehicle body 12.

<Installation of front bumper 30>
When mounting the front bumper 30, as shown in FIG. 3, it is assumed that the bumper support 15 is fixed to a predetermined position of the vehicle body 12, and the mounting of the snorkel 20 is completed. In this state, as shown in FIG. 5, the covering member 41 is set in the notch 33 of the front bumper 30, and the stopping member 41z is connected to the covering member 41. Thereby, the covering member 41 is set at the position of the notch 33 in a state where the position can be adjusted in the horizontal direction and the vertical direction with respect to the notch 33 of the front bumper 30.

  Next, when the front bumper 30 is attached to the vehicle body 12, the snorkel horizontal tubular portion 24 of the snorkel 20 is relatively moved to the inside of the notch 33 and the covering member 41 by utilizing the open portion of the notch 33 and the covering member 41. Move to Then, in this state, the left and right ends of the front bumper 30 are fixed to the left and right bumper supports 15 of the vehicle body 12. Next, the upper and lower insertion plates 47 of the closing member 45 are inserted into the upper and lower deep grooves M between the covering member body 43 of the covering member 41 and the positioning plate 44 as shown in FIG. At this time, for example, as shown in FIG. 7, the pressing member 48b of the closing member 45 presses the inclined rear end surface 44b of the positioning plate part 44, so that the covering member 41 is attached to the insertion plate part 47 of the closing member 45. Displaced forward along.

  That is, by fitting the closing member 45 to the end of the covering member 41, the covering member 41 can be positioned in the vertical and horizontal directions. The closing member 45 is fixed to the vehicle body 12 by engaging the engaging claw 49 with the bumper support 15. Thereby, the closing member 45 can form the snorkel penetration portion 40 of the front bumper 30 into a substantially elliptical shape by closing the open portion of the covering member 41 and the like.

<Advantages of the front bumper 30 according to the present embodiment>
In the front bumper 30 according to the present embodiment, the size of the open portion of the notch 33 is set to be larger than the diameter of the snorkel 20 (snorkel horizontal cylinder portion 24). For this reason, after fixing the snorkel 20 to the vehicle 10, when the front bumper 30 is mounted on the vehicle 10, the snorkel 20 (snorkel horizontal tube portion 24) is cut using the open portion such as the notch 33. Can be passed through. Then, the opening of the notch 33 is closed by the closing member 45 to form the snorkel penetration portion 40. That is, since the front bumper 30 can be attached to the vehicle after the snorkel 20 is fixed to the vehicle 10, the work of fixing the snorkel on the back side of the front bumper 30 is eliminated, and the working efficiency is improved.

  Further, since the edge of the notch 33 is covered by the covering member 41, the appearance of the front bumper 30 is improved. Further, the closing member 45 is provided with a pressing rib 48b. When the inserting plate portion 47 of the closing member 45 is inserted into the deep groove M of the covering member 41, the pressing rib 48b presses the rear end face 44b of the positioning plate portion 44 forward. And it is comprised so that the said covering member 41 can be positioned. For this reason, the covering member 41 can always be held at the fixed position with respect to the closing member 45, and even if the shape of the notch 33 of the front bumper 30 varies, the appearance of the snorkel penetration portion 40 can always be kept constant. Further, the force at the time of fitting the closing member 45 to the end of the covering member 41 can be used for positioning the covering member 41.

<Example of change>
Note that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and can be changed without departing from the scope of the present invention. For example, in the present embodiment, an example is shown in which the covering member 41 and the stopper member 41z are attached to the notch 33 of the front bumper 30 later. However, it is also possible to integrally form the covering member 41 and the like with the notch 33 of the front bumper 30. In this case, since the position adjustment of the covering member 41 by the closing member 45 becomes unnecessary, the closing member 45 only needs to be a structure that can be fitted to the covering member 41. Further, in the present embodiment, the front bumper 30 of the micro bus having the engine on the front side of the vehicle is illustrated, but the present invention can be applied to a rear bumper such as a bus having an engine on the rear side of the vehicle.

10 vehicle 12 vehicle body 20 snorkel 24 snorkel horizontal cylinder 30 front bumper (bumper)
33 ··· Notch 40 ··· Snorkel penetration 41 ··· Coating member 43 ··· Coating member main body 43y ··· Open end portion (end)
44 positioning plate portion 44f front end surface 44b rear end surface M deep groove (groove)
45 closing member 46 closing member body 47 insertion plate 48b pressing rib

Claims (6)

A bumper for a vehicle having a snorkel penetration through which a snorkel that guides outside air to an engine air cleaner is provided,
The snorkel penetrating portion includes a notch having an open portion at an edge of the bumper, and a closing member that closes the open portion of the notch,
The size of the open portion of the notch is set larger than the diameter of the snorkel ,
When the bumper is moved in a certain direction and fixed to the vehicle body, the notch is provided so that the snorkel attached to the vehicle body can relatively move inward through an open portion of the notch of the bumper. Vehicle bumper where the open part of the part is positioned . The vehicle bumper according to claim 1,
The snorkel penetrating portion is provided in accordance with the shape of the notch portion, and includes a covering member that covers an edge of the notch portion,
A vehicle bumper, wherein the closing member is attached to a vehicle body while being fitted to an end of the covering member. A bumper for a vehicle having a snorkel penetration through which a snorkel that guides outside air to an engine air cleaner is provided,
The snorkel penetrating portion includes a cutout portion having an open portion at an edge of the bumper, and a closing member that closes the open portion of the cutout portion,
The size of the open portion of the notch is set larger than the diameter of the snorkel,
The snorkel penetrating portion is provided in accordance with the shape of the notch portion, and includes a covering member that covers an edge of the notch portion,
The closing member is attached to the vehicle body in a state where the closing member is fitted to an end of the covering member,
The covering member includes a covering member main body, and a positioning plate formed along an end of the covering member main body in a state where the covering member main body has a slit-shaped groove with respect to an end of the covering member main body. With
The closing member includes an insertion plate portion inserted into a groove between the covering member main body portion and the positioning plate portion,
By inserting the insertion plate portion of the closing member into a groove between the covering member main body portion and the positioning plate portion, the closing member and the end portion of the covering member are held in a fitted state. bumper. The vehicle bumper according to claim 3, wherein
The closing member includes a pressing rib protruding in an insertion direction of the insertion plate portion and extending perpendicularly to the insertion plate portion,
The pressing rib, when inserting the insertion plate portion of the closing member into the groove between the covering member body and the positioning plate portion, the end face of the positioning plate portion in a direction along the longitudinal direction of the insertion plate portion A bumper for a vehicle that presses and positions the covering member with respect to the closing member. A bumper for a vehicle according to claim 3 or claim 4,
The covering member includes upper and lower ends of the covering member body and the positioning plate,
The insertion plate portion is formed at the top and bottom of the closing member,
The upper and lower insertion plate portions of the closing member are inserted into grooves between the upper and lower covering member body portions and the positioning plate portion of the covering member, so that the covering member moves vertically with respect to the closing member. Vehicle bumper to be positioned. A bumper for a vehicle according to claim 4 or claim 5,
An end surface of the positioning plate portion of the covering member pressed by the pressing rib of the closing member is inclined with respect to a projecting direction of the pressing rib.

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