JP6803316B2 - Wire type wind regulator - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a wire type wind regulator.

The wire type wind regulator includes a guide rail extending in the longitudinal direction, a slider base that is freely supported by the guide rail and the wind glass is supported, and a drive wire for driving the slider base up and down along the guide rail. And a drive mechanism for driving this drive wire. Upper and lower wire guide members are provided near the upper and lower ends of the guide rail.

In such a conventional wire type wind regulator, when the slider base (glass) moves up and down, a force for deforming (bowing) the upper and lower ends of the guide rail is applied via the wire guide member. This bow deformation force is maximum at the elevating end of the glass. For this reason, conventionally, the upper and lower wire guide members have been fixed to the door panel (inner panel) of the vehicle (Patent Document 1).

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2012-23327

However, in Patent Document 1, the guide rail is not fixed to the door panel of the vehicle, but is only fitted to the upper and lower wire guide members fixed to the door panel of the vehicle. Therefore, since the force applied to the guide rail when raising and lowering the glass is supported only by the wire guide member, there is a risk that the wire guide member may be deformed.

An object of the present invention is to obtain a wire type wind regulator capable of fixing a guide rail and a wire guide member to a vehicle door panel.

The wire-type wind regulator of the present invention is a wire-type wind regulator fixed to the door panel of a vehicle, and guides the slider base to which the window glass is fixed so as to be able to move up and down, and the slider base is guided via a drive wire. A wire drive mechanism that moves up and down along the guide rail, and a wire guide provided at at least one of the upper end and the lower end of the guide rail around which the drive wire is wound to change the wiring direction of the drive wire. The wire guide member has an insertion portion into which one end of the guide rail is inserted, and the insertion portion extends in the insertion direction of the guide rail. It is characterized by having a plurality of ribs that make linear contact with the rail.
The plurality of ribs are arranged at least one rib arranged at a portion facing the front surface of the guide rail and a portion facing the back surface of the guide rail in a cross section orthogonal to the insertion direction of the guide rail. It can include at least one rib.
The plurality of ribs may be arranged apart from each other in a direction intersecting the insertion direction of the guide rail.

The wire guide member supports the fixing member, the fixing member is inserted through the guide rail, and the fixing member can fix the guide rail and the wire guide member to the door panel of the vehicle.

The guide rail, the vehicle door panel, and the fixing member are made of metal, and the fixing member is supported by the wire guide member and abuts on one end of the guide rail, and the guide rail and the vehicle door panel. Can abut.

The guide rail can come into contact with the front and back surfaces of the guide rail while being sandwiched between the door panel of the vehicle and the fixing member.

The guide rails are spaced in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, a pair of vertical wall portions extending in the vehicle width direction, the wire guide member may be brought into contact with the pair of vertical wall portions of the pre-Symbol guide rails. Further, the wire guide member has a support portion for supporting the fixing member, and the support portion can abut on the pair of vertical wall portions of the guide rail.

The wire guide member may have an elastic locking member that prevents the fixing member supported by the wire guide member from coming off.

According to the wire type wind regulator of the present invention, the guide rail and the wire guide member can be fixed to the door panel of the vehicle. Further, according to the wire type wind regulator of the present invention, the wire guide member has an insertion portion into which one end of the guide rail is inserted, and the insertion portion extends in the insertion direction of the guide rail and is inserted. It has a plurality of ribs that make linear contact with the guide rail. As a result, the plurality of ribs can elastically hold one end of the guide rail inserted into the insertion portion (for example, elastically hold the grip from the front and back surfaces).

It is a front view seen from the vehicle side of the wire type wind regulator by this embodiment. It is a rear view seen from the inside of the car. It is a perspective view of the lower end portion of the guide rail of the wire type wind regulator of FIG. 1 and the lower wire guide member unit mounted on the guide rail. It is a front view which looked at the lower wire guide member of the lower end part of the guide rail from the inside of a car. It is sectional drawing which follows the VV line of FIG. It is sectional drawing which follows the VI-VI line of FIG.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the wire-type wind regulator 10 of the present invention will be described. As shown in FIG. 1, the wire type wind regulator 10 has a guide rail 20 which is a long member. The guide rail 20 is attached to the inside of a vehicle door panel (not shown) via brackets 20A (only one of which is shown) provided at different positions in the longitudinal direction. The guide rail 20 is mounted on the door panel of the vehicle and is arranged so that the longitudinal direction is substantially the height direction of the vehicle. The guide rail 20, the bracket 20A, and the vehicle door panel are made of a metal material.

The wire-type wind regulator 10 has a slider base (glass carrier) 30 that is vertically supported by the guide rail 20 and the wind glass (not shown) is supported. The wire ends W1E and W2E at one end of each of the pair of drive wires W1 and W2 are connected to the slider base 30.

A pulley bracket 40 is fixed near the upper end of the guide rail 20 in the longitudinal direction as a wire guide member for changing the wiring direction of the drive wire W1, and the guide pulley 42 is placed on the pulley bracket 40 via the pulley support shaft 44. It is rotatably supported. The drive wire W1 extends upward from the slider base 30 along the guide rail 20 and is supported by a wire guide groove formed on the outer peripheral surface of the guide pulley 42. The guide pulley 42 rotates about the pulley support shaft 44 according to the advance / retreat of the drive wire W1.

A wire guide member 50 is provided near the lower end of the guide rail 20 in the longitudinal direction. The drive wire W2 extends downward from the slider base 30 along the guide rail 20 and is guided by a wire guide member 50 that changes the wiring direction of the drive wire W2. The wire guide member 50 is fixed to the guide rail 20, and the drive wire W2 is supported so as to be able to advance and retreat along the wire guide groove 54 formed in the wire guide member 50.

The drive wire W1 coming out of the guide pulley 42 is inserted into the tubular outer tube W1T and wound around the drive drum 70 provided in the drum housing 60 to which the outer tube W1T is connected. The drive wire W2 ejected from the wire guide member 50 is inserted into the tubular outer tube W2T and wound around the drive drum 70 provided in the drum housing 60 to which the outer tube W2T is connected.

The motor unit 80 is attached to the drum housing 60. The motor unit 80 has a drive motor for rotating the drive drum 70 and a gear box (not shown).

One end of the outer tube W1T is connected to the pulley bracket 40 and the other end is connected to the drum housing 60, so that the drive wire W1 can move forward and backward in the outer tube W1T whose both end positions are defined in this way. One end of the outer tube W2T is connected to the wire guide member 50 and the other end is connected to the drum housing 60, so that the drive wire W2 can move forward and backward in the outer tube W2T whose both end positions are defined in this way.

The drum housing 60 is fixed to a vehicle door panel (not shown). When the drive drum 70 is rotated in the forward and reverse directions by the driving force of the motor in the motor unit 80, one of the drive wire W1 and the drive wire W2 increases the winding amount around the drive drum 70, and the other is unwound from the drive drum 70. The slider base 30 moves along the guide rail 20 due to the relationship between the traction and relaxation of the drive wire W1 and the drive wire W2. The window glass (not shown) moves up and down according to the movement of the slider base 30.

The details of the guide rail 20 and the wire guide member 50 in the wire type wind regulator 10 having the above basic configuration will be described below with reference to FIG. As shown in FIGS. 3 and 6, the guide rail 20 has a hat-shaped cross section, and connects the vehicle front-rear direction rail portions 21 and 22 and the vehicle front-rear direction rail portions 21 and 22 on the inside and outside of the vehicle. The front / rear position restricting rail portion (vertical wall portion) 23 and the hook-shaped rail portion 24 extending outward from the end portion of the vehicle front / rear direction rail portion 22 opposite to the front / rear position restricting rail portion 23 are provided. The hook-shaped rail portion 24 has an inclined portion (vertical wall portion) 24a that inclines both in the vehicle front-rear direction and the vehicle width direction so as to increase the distance from the front-rear position regulating rail portion 23 as the distance from the vehicle front-rear direction rail portion 22 increases. A front-rear direction rail portion 24b parallel to the vehicle front-rear direction rail portion 21 is provided.

The guide rail 20 is formed with a slit 25 at the lower end of the vehicle front-rear direction rail portion 22 so that the lower end is opened and extends upward. The upper end portion of the slit 25 constitutes a semicircular portion 25a.

The wire guide member 50 is made of a molded product made of a synthetic resin material, and includes an insertion portion (groove) 51 into which the guide rail 20 is inserted, a support portion 52 of a metal bolt (fixing member) 90, and an outer tube W2T. The tube insertion tube 53 into which the tip is inserted, the wire guide groove 54 extending in a front arc shape on the same plane as the surface including the axis of the tube insertion tube 53 (outer tube W2T), and the descending end of the slider base 30. It has a regulating portion (surface) 55 for regulating, and a detachment prevention claw 56 for temporarily holding the drive wire W2 before fitting (engaging) the drive wire W2 in the wire guide groove 54. A slit 53a into which the drive wire W2 is inserted is formed in the tube insertion tube portion 53.

The insertion portion 51 inserts the hook-shaped rail portion 24 of the guide rail 20, and inserts an inclined portion 51a having an inclination corresponding to the inclination of the inclined portion 24a and a front-rear direction portion 51b corresponding to the front-rear direction rail portion 24b. On the inner surface thereof, a plurality of contact ribs 51c extending in the vertical direction (insertion direction of the guide rail 20) and linearly contacting the inserted guide rail 20 are formed. The plurality of contact ribs 51c elastically hold the hook-shaped rail portion 24 (inclined portion 24a, front-rear direction rail portion 24b) of the guide rail 20 inserted into the insertion portion 51 from the front and back surfaces.

The support portion 52 is composed of a bottomed groove 52b in which the lower end portion and the surface of the guide rail 20 on the vehicle front-rear direction rail portion 22 side are opened and the upper end portion is closed by the closing portion 52a (FIG. 5). That is, as shown in FIG. 6, the bottomed groove 52b has a vehicle front-rear direction wall 52b1 facing (parallel to) the vehicle front-rear direction rail portion 22 of the guide rail 20 inserted into the insertion portion 51, and the vehicle front-rear direction. It has a vehicle width direction wall 52b2 extending inward from both ends of the wall 52b1 in the front-rear direction. The tip of the pair of vehicle width direction walls 52b2 (the end opposite to the vehicle front-rear direction wall 52b1) is open, and the guide rail 20 inserted into the insertion portion 51 is opened in this open portion. The vehicle front-rear direction rail portion 22 is located. The inner end surface of the vehicle width direction wall 52b2 comes into contact with the vehicle front-rear direction rail portion 22, and the vehicle inner surface of the vehicle front-rear direction rail portion 22 is exposed. Further, of the pair of vehicle width direction walls 52b2, the vehicle width direction wall 52b2 located on the front / rear position regulation rail portion 23 side of the guide rail 20 is a reinforcing rib that extends in the vertical direction and comes into contact with the front / rear position regulation rail portion 23. 52e is formed.

As shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, a retaining elastic arm 52c is formed on the vehicle front-rear direction wall 52b1 by a pair of slits 52b3 having an open lower end portion, and the lower end portion of the retaining elastic arm 52c is formed. , A retaining hook portion 52c1 (FIG. 5) projecting inward of the bottomed groove 52b is formed. Further, the support portion 52 is formed with a reinforcing rib 52d (FIGS. 3, 4, and 5) that is positioned below the retaining elastic arm 52c and connects the vehicle front-rear direction wall 52b1 and the inclined portion 51a. There is.

The metal bolt 90 has a fastening head 91 and a male screw portion 92. The fastening head 91 has a square (rectangular) view in a plan view, and a male screw portion 92 protrudes from the center of one side surface thereof. The distance D (FIG. 6) between the pair of vehicle width direction walls 52b2 of the support portion 52 corresponds to the front-rear direction width d (FIGS. 3 and 6) of the fastening head 91 of the metal bolt 90, and the closing portion 52a The distance H (FIG. 5) between the inner surface 52a1 (FIG. 5) and the retaining hook portion 52c1 of the retaining elastic arm 52c corresponds to the vertical width h (FIGS. 3 and 5) of the fastening head 91.

The fastening head 91 of the metal bolt 90 is inserted into the bottomed groove 52b from below with the guide rail 20 inserted into the insertion portion 51 of the wire guide member 50. At the time of this insertion, the male screw portion 92 of the metal bolt 90 is fitted into the slit 25 at the lower end of the guide rail 20, and the fastening head 91 is fitted into the bottom groove 52b while bending the retaining elastic arm 52c and inserted. In the completed state, the retaining hook portion 52c1 engages with the lower end portion of the fastening head 91 to prevent the metal bolt 90 from falling off. At this time, the male screw portion 92 is along the semicircular portion 25a of the slit 25. When the fastening head 91 of the metal bolt 90 is inserted into the bottom groove 52b in this way, the inner surface of the fastening head 91 is a rail in the vehicle front-rear direction of the guide rail 20 inserted into the insertion portion 51. The portion 22 comes into contact with the outer surface of the vehicle (FIGS. 5 and 6). A chamfer 91a is provided on the edge of the inner surface of the fastening head 91, and ribs 52ar and 52br located in the chamfer 91a are formed on the closing portion 52a and the bottom groove 52b. ing. The chamfers 91a and the ribs 52ar and 52br are for holding the metal bolt 90 in the bottomed groove 52b in a stable state, and are not compressed.

In the above wire type wind regulator 10, the wire guide member 50 supports the metal bolt (fixing member) 90, the metal bolt 90 is inserted into the slit 25 of the guide rail 20, and the metal bolt 90 is the guide rail 20. And the wire guide member 50 is fixed to the door panel of the vehicle. That is, with the guide rail 20 inserted into the insertion portion 51 of the wire guide member 50 and the metal bolt 90 supported by the support portion 52, as shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, the guide rail 20 and the wire guide member 50 It is fastened and fixed to the door panel (inner panel) 100 of the vehicle by metal bolts 90 and nuts 93. Specifically, the male threaded portion 92 of the metal bolt 90 is inserted into the fastening hole 101 formed in the door panel 100 of the vehicle, and the nut 93 is screwed into the male threaded portion 92 protruding from the fastening hole 101 to form the guide rail 20. It is fixed to the door panel 100 of the vehicle. Since the guide rail 20 and the wire guide member 50 are fixed to the door panel 100 of the vehicle via the metal bolt 90, there is little risk that the wire guide member 50 will be deformed even if a load is applied to the guide rail 20. ..

In this fixed state, the fastening head 91 of the metal bolt 90, the vehicle front-rear direction rail portion 22 of the guide rail 20, and the vehicle door panel 100 come into contact with each other (metal touch) in order, and no compressive force is applied to the wire guide member 50. At this time, the inner surface 52a1 of the closing portion 52a of the wire guide member 50 and the upper end portion of the fastening head 91, and the semicircular portion 25a of the slit 25 and the male screw portion 92 come into contact with each other and move downward of the wire guide member 50. prevent. In particular, when the slider base 30 reaches the descending end and a descending force is applied to the wire guide member 50 via the regulating portion (surface) 55, the wire guide member 50 is prevented from moving downward.

Further, when the nut 93 is tightened, the rotational force applied to the wire guide member 50 via the male screw portion 92 and the fastening head 91 mainly comes into contact between the reinforcing rib 52e and the front / rear position regulating rail portion 23 of the guide rail 20. It is received by the contact portion between the portion and the contact rib 51c and the inclined portion 24a of the guide rail 20, and the rotation of the wire guide member 50 is reliably prevented. In the above embodiment, the fastening head 91 of the metal bolt 90 is rectangular, but it may have another non-circular shape or a circular shape.

In the wire type wind regulator 10 described above, since the wire guide member 50 has a retaining elastic arm 52c that engages with the fastening head 91 of the nut 93 inserted in the insertion portion 51 to prevent it from coming off, the inserted nut 93 Is no longer likely to fall off from the wire guide member 50, facilitating assembly work.

In the above wire type wind regulator 10, the work of inserting the guide rail 20 into the insertion portion 51 of the wire guide member 50 and the work of mounting the metal bolt 90 (inserting into the bottom groove 52b and the slit 25) are independent. Therefore, the assembly work is easy.

In the above embodiment, the present invention is applied to the wire guide member 50 at the lower end of the wire type wind regulator 10, but the present invention can also be applied to the wire guide member at the upper end.

10 Wire type wind regulator 20 Guide rail 21 22 Vehicle front-rear direction rail part 23 Front-rear position regulation rail part (vertical wall part)
24 Hook-shaped rail portion 24a Inclined portion (vertical wall portion)
24b Front-rear direction rail part 25 Slit 25a Semi-circular part 30 Slider base (glass carrier)
40 Pulley bracket 42 Guide pulley 44 Pulley support shaft 50 Wire guide member 51 Insertion part (groove)
51a Inclined portion 51b Front-rear direction portion 51c Contact rib (rib)
52 Supporting part 52a Closing part 52b Bottomed groove
52b1 Vehicle front-rear direction wall 52b2 Vehicle width direction wall 52c Retaining elastic arm (elastic locking member)
52e Reinforcing rib (rib)
53 Tube insertion tube 54 Wire guide groove 55 Restriction (face)
56 Detachment prevention claw 60 Drum housing 70 Drive drum 80 Motor unit (wire drive mechanism)
90 Metal bolt (fixing member)
91 Fastening head 91a Chamfering 92 Male threaded part 93 Nut 100 Vehicle door panel (inner panel)
W1 drive wire W1T outer tube W2 drive wire W2T outer tube

Claims (9)

A wire-type wind regulator that is fixed to the door panel of a vehicle.
A guide rail that guides the slider base on which the window glass is fixed so that it can be moved up and down,
A wire drive mechanism that raises and lowers the slider base along the guide rail via a drive wire,
A wire guide member provided at at least one of the upper end portion and the lower end portion of the guide rail, wherein the drive wire is wound and changes the wiring direction of the drive wire.
Have,
The wire guide member has an insertion portion into which one end of the guide rail is inserted.
The insertion portion has a plurality of ribs extending in the insertion direction of the guide rail and linearly contacting the inserted guide rail.
A wire-type wind regulator that features this. The wire guide member supports the fixing member and
The fixing member is inserted into the guide rail.
The fixing member fixes the guide rail and the wire guide member to the door panel of the vehicle.
The wire-type wind regulator according to claim 1. The guide rail, the vehicle door panel, and the fixing member are made of metal, and the fixing member is supported by the wire guide member and abuts on one end of the guide rail, and the guide rail and the vehicle door panel. Are in contact with each other
The wire-type wind regulator according to claim 2. The front and back surfaces of the guide rail are in contact with the door panel of the vehicle while being sandwiched between the fixing members.
The wire-type wind regulator according to claim 3. The guide rail has a pair of vertical wall portions that are separated in the vehicle front-rear direction and extend in the vehicle width direction.
It said wire guide member is in contact with the pair of vertical wall portions of the pre-Symbol guide rails,
The wire-type wind regulator according to any one of claims 2 to 4. The wire guide member has a support portion that supports the fixing member, and the support portion is in contact with the pair of vertical wall portions of the guide rail.
The wire type wind regulator according to claim 5. The wire guide member has an elastic locking member that prevents the fixing member supported by the wire guide member from coming off.
The wire-type wind regulator according to any one of claims 2 to 6 , wherein the wire type wind regulator is characterized in that. The plurality of ribs are arranged at least one rib arranged at a portion facing the front surface of the guide rail and a portion facing the back surface of the guide rail in a cross section orthogonal to the insertion direction of the guide rail. Contains at least one rib,
The wire-type wind regulator according to any one of claims 1 to 7. The plurality of ribs are arranged apart from each other in a direction intersecting the insertion direction of the guide rail.
The wire-type wind regulator according to any one of claims 1 to 8.

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