JP6850897B2 - vehicle - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a vehicle in which winkers are arranged on the left and right sides of the headlight.

International Publication No. 2012/120947 discloses that in a circular headlight, a recess is formed in the left-right intermediate portion of the reflector. Further, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2013-63707 discloses that a portion of the contour of the reflector of the headlight facing the winker is formed in the recess.

In general, there are many vehicles such as motorcycles that have a structure in which winkers are arranged close to each other on the left and right sides of the headlights. In each of the above documents, the visibility of the headlight and the winker is improved by devising the shape of the reflector and controlling the light distribution. On the other hand, in such a vehicle, the appearance shape and arrangement of the headlight and the winker, which are excellent in design, are adopted from the viewpoint of customer attraction.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a vehicle capable of further improving the visibility of the headlight and the winker while ensuring the design of the headlight and the winker (balance of arrangement of the headlight and the winker). To do.

The present invention is a vehicle in which winkers are arranged on the left and right sides of the headlight, and has the following features.

First feature: The left and right winkers each have a lighting surface that illuminates the outside and a non-illuminating portion that is provided near the headlight and does not illuminate the outside.

Second feature: The headlight has a reflector for the headlight, and a recess recessed toward the center of the headlight is formed at a portion of the reflector for the headlight facing the left and right winkers. ..

Third feature: The left and right winkers are provided at the rear portion of the non-lighting portion along the front-rear direction of the vehicle and the rear portion of the winker along the front-rear direction, respectively. It further has a winker housing that covers the rear portion of the non-lighting portion and the lighting portion from the rear, and a reflector for the winker provided in the winker housing so as to face the rear portion of the non-lighting portion and the lighting portion.

Fourth feature: The light surface is formed by a part of the winker reflector that is visible outside the contour of the non-light portion in the front view of the vehicle.

Fifth feature: In the front view of the vehicle, the light surface is formed in a substantially C shape.

Sixth feature: The left and right winkers each further have a support portion connected to the vehicle body of the vehicle, and the non-light portion has a part of the support portion extending toward the light surface. Is formed by.

Seventh feature: The left and right winkers are each provided with a wiring structure for allocating a harness from the vehicle body side to the winker via the support portion.

According to the first feature of the present invention, since the left and right winkers each have a non-lighting portion, the light surface of the headlight and the light of the left and right winkers are not changed without changing the distance between the headlight and the left and right winkers. The distance from the surface can be increased. As a result, even if the distance between the light surface of the headlight and the light surface of the left and right winkers is changed, the headlights and the winkers can be designed while ensuring the design of the headlights and the winkers (balance of arrangement of the headlights and the winkers). The visibility of the winker can be improved.

According to the second feature of the present invention, the light surface of the headlight and the light surface of the left and right winkers can be easily separated from each other, so that the visibility of the headlight and the winker can be further improved.

According to the third feature of the present invention, since the non-lighting portion serves as a blindfold for the lighting portion, it is possible to improve the visibility of the headlight and the winker while maintaining the design of the headlight and the winker.

According to the fourth feature of the present invention, a light surface can be easily formed by using a reflector for a winker.

According to the fifth feature of the present invention, the design of the winker can be improved.

According to the sixth feature of the present invention, the non-lighting portion and the light surface can be partitioned to form the light surface with a simple structure.

According to the seventh feature of the present invention, the harness can be routed from the vehicle body side to the light portion by providing the wiring structure using the support portion (non-light portion) that functions as a blindfold. It becomes.

It is a left side view of the motorcycle which concerns on this embodiment. It is a front view of the headlight and the winker of FIG. It is the schematic front view which illustrated the state which removed the lens from the headlight and the winker of FIG. It is sectional drawing along the IV-IV line of FIG. It is a schematic front view which shows the modification of a motorcycle. It is a schematic front view which shows the other modification of a motorcycle.

The vehicle according to the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings, with reference to preferred embodiments.

[Rough configuration of motorcycle 10]
FIG. 1 is a left side view of the motorcycle (vehicle) 10 according to the present embodiment. The motorcycle 10 has a body frame 12 and a resin body cover 14 that covers the body frame 12. In the following description, the scooter type motorcycle 10 will be described as an example, but in the present embodiment, various saddle-type vehicles such as a turnip type, an on-road type, and an off-road type, and a saddle-type vehicle are described. It is also applicable to other types of vehicles other than. Further, in the following description, the front-rear, left-right, and up-down directions will be described according to the directions seen by the occupant seated on the seat 16.

The body frame 12 has a head pipe 18 and the like provided on the front side of the motorcycle 10. The head pipe 18 pivotally supports steering system parts including a bar handle 20 and a front wheel 22 steered by the bar handle 20 so as to be steerable. The vehicle body cover 14 includes a front cover 24 that covers the front portion of the vehicle body frame 12, a leg shield 26 that covers the front of the driver's foot seated on the seat 16, and the like. Further, the central portion of the vehicle body of the bar handle 20 is covered with a handle cover (vehicle body) 28. As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the grip 30 constituting the bar handle 20 extends to the left and right from the handle cover 28 to the outside in the vehicle width direction.

The handle cover 28 is divided into an upper cover 28a that covers the bar handle 20 from above and a lower cover 28b that covers the bar handle 20 from below and fits into the upper cover 28a. A headlight 32 is attached to the center of the front side of the steering wheel cover 28 so as to straddle the upper cover 28a and the lower cover 28b substantially coaxially with the vehicle body center line 34 of the motorcycle 10. The headlight 32 illuminates the front of the motorcycle 10 as will be described later.

Further, on the front side of the steering wheel cover 28, winkers 36 as direction indicators are arranged at positions separated from the headlight 32 to the left and right by a predetermined distance. The left and right winkers 36 are respectively located in front of the handle cover 28 (see FIG. 2) and diagonally rearward of the headlight 32 (see FIG. 1) via a support portion 38 which is a stay extending diagonally forward from the lower cover 28b. See). The left and right winkers 36 also illuminate the front of the motorcycle 10 as will be described later. The details of the configuration and arrangement of the headlight 32 and the left and right winkers 36 will be described later.

In the upper cover 28a and the lower cover 28b, notches are formed in the front portions on the outer side in the vehicle width direction with respect to the left and right support portions 38, respectively. In this case, when the upper cover 28a and the lower cover 28b are fitted so as to cover the bar handle 20, openings 40 which are opened forward by the upper and lower notches are formed on both the left and right sides of the handle cover 28.

In this case, the lever brackets 42 are provided so as to project forward from the left and right openings 40. The left and right lever brackets 42 pivotally support the brake levers 44 extending outward in the vehicle width direction in front of the left and right grips 30, respectively. Further, above the left and right lever brackets 42, mirror pedestals 46 are arranged so as to project forward from the left and right openings 40. The left and right mirror pedestals 46 each support a rear-view mirror 48 extending upward.

Since the structure of the motorcycle 10 is well known, detailed description thereof will be omitted.

[Structure and arrangement of headlight 32 and left and right winkers 36]
Next, the configurations of the headlight 32 and the left and right winkers 36 and their arrangement will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 4. FIG. 3 is a front view of the headlight 32, the left and right winkers 36, and the support portion 38. For ease of understanding, the other components of the motorcycle 10 such as the steering wheel cover 28 are not shown. are doing. Further, in FIG. 3, in order to illustrate the internal configuration of the headlight 32 and the left and right winkers 36, a state in which the lens 50 of the headlight 32 and the lenses 52 of the left and right winkers 36 are removed is shown.

In the front view of FIG. 3, when the straight line in the left-right direction passing through the center 54 of the headlight 32 and orthogonal to the vehicle body center line 34 is the vehicle width direction line 56, the left and right winkers 36 are from the headlight 32 to the vehicle. They are arranged at a predetermined distance along the width direction line 56. Therefore, the headlight 32 and the left and right winkers 36 are arranged side by side in the left-right direction.

Here, the headlight 32 is attached to the front side of the handle cover 28 so as to be embedded in the handle cover 28 (see FIGS. 1 and 2). The headlight 32 is embedded in the handle cover 28 and has a circular housing 58 in the front view of FIG. 3, a lens 50 that forms a space in the headlight 32 by fitting with the housing 58 from the front, and the space. A substrate 60 housed in the center of the vehicle and extending back and forth and left and right along the vehicle width direction line 56, and two light sources 62a and 62b arranged on the vehicle body center line 34 on the upper and lower surfaces of the substrate 60, respectively. It has a reflector (headlight reflector) 64 provided so as to extend in the vertical direction behind the substrate 60 in space.

In this case, the two light sources 62a and 62b are, for example, LED light sources, one light source is a low beam light source and the other light source is a high beam light source. Further, in the front view of FIG. 3, the reflector 64 has a portion (a portion of the vehicle width direction line 56) facing the left and right winkers 36 recessed toward the center 54 in a circle centered on the center 54 of the headlight 32. It has a gourd-shaped shape formed as a recess 66. In this case, the left and right recesses 66 are formed so as to recess the reflector 64 along the vehicle width direction line 56 to the left and right ends of the substrate 60.

Here, for example, when the upper light source 62a is a low beam light source and the lower light source 62b is a high beam light source, when a signal is supplied from a control unit (not shown) of the motorcycle 10 to the upper light source 62a, the signal is supplied. The light source 62a emits light upward according to this signal. The upper portion of the reflector 64 reflects the emitted light forward, and the reflected light is emitted forward as a low beam through the lens 50 (see FIGS. 1 and 2). As a result, when the headlight 32 is viewed from the front, it can be visually recognized from the outside as light emission in the shape of an upper semicircle. Further, when a signal is supplied from the control unit to the lower light source 62b, the light source 62b emits light downward according to this signal. The lower portion of the reflector 64 reflects the emitted light forward, and the reflected light is radiated forward as a high beam through the lens 50. As a result, when the headlight 32 is viewed from the front, it can be visually recognized from the outside as a lower semicircular light emission.

Therefore, the reflector 64 forms the light surface 68 of the headlight 32 that lights the front (outside) of the motorcycle 10. For the two light sources 62a and 62b, a bulb may be used instead of the LED light source. In this case, instead of the substrate 60, a socket for mounting a bulb may be provided in the space of the headlight 32.

On the other hand, the left and right winkers 36 each have the same shape. That is, as shown in FIGS. 1 to 4, the left and right winkers 36 have a support portion 38 arranged on the headlight 32 side and a bowl shape (semicircle in cross section) connected to the support portion 38 and open forward, respectively. A housing (winker housing) 70, a reflector (reflector for winker) 72 provided on the front surface of the housing 70, and a non-lighting portion 74 formed by extending the tip of a support portion 38 in front of the housing 70. It has a light source (lighting portion) 78 provided on the back surface 76 of the non-lighting portion 74, and a lens 52 that forms a space in the winker 36 by fitting with the housing 70 from the front. Therefore, the reflector 72, the non-lighting portion 74, the light source 78, and the like are housed in the space inside the winker 36. Since the left and right winkers 36 have the same configuration, only the left winker 36 is shown in FIG. In the following description, the internal configuration of the winker 36 will be described with reference to the illustrated contents of FIGS. 3 and 4.

The non-lighting portion 74 is provided at a position closer to the headlight 32 (see FIGS. 1 to 3) in the space inside the winker 36. A recess 80 is formed on the back surface 76 of the non-lighting portion 74, and the substrate 82 is attached to the recess 80. The light source 78 is, for example, an LED light source and is arranged on the substrate 82 so as to face the reflector 72.

The support portion 38 is provided with a through hole (arrangement structure) 84 that communicates with the space inside the handle cover 28. As a result, the harness 86 connected to the control unit is routed from the handle cover 28 side to the substrate 82 through the through hole 84 and connected to the light source 78.

As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the reflector 72 is a bowl-shaped reflecting member provided on the housing 70 so as to cover the entire front surface of the bowl-shaped (semicircular cross section) housing 70. Therefore, the reflector 72 is provided so as to face the back surface 76, the light source 78, and the substrate 82 of the non-lighting portion 74. The non-lighting portion 74 is a part of the supporting portion 38, and is made of a material that is opaque or has low transparency to the light emitted from the light source 78.

As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the non-lighting portion 74 projects circularly from the tip of the support portion 38 toward the outside in the vehicle width direction (outer edge portion of the reflector 72) so as to cover the reflector 72 from the front. Is provided. As a result, when the winker 36 is viewed from the front in the front view of FIG. 3, a part of the outer edge portion of the reflector 72 is visually recognized in a state of being exposed in a substantially C shape outside the contour of the non-lighting portion 74. A part of the outer edge portion of the reflector 72 that is visible from the front is formed as a light surface 88 of the winker 36, which will be described later. Therefore, the non-lighting portion 74 extends toward the outer edge portion of the reflector 72 so that the lighting surface 88 looks substantially C-shaped.

In this case, for example, when a signal is supplied from the control unit to the light source 78 via the harness 86 and the light source 78 emits light rearward according to this signal, the reflector 72 has a substantially C shape that can be visually recognized from the front. The light is reflected forward at the portion (light surface 88), and the reflected light is emitted forward through the lens 52. As a result, when the winker 36 is viewed from the front, it can be visually recognized from the outside as a substantially C-shaped light emission on the light surface 88.

Further, in the arrangement of the headlight 32 and the left and right winkers 36 shown in FIG. 3, the distance L1 between the light surface 68 of the headlight 32 and the light surface 88 of the left and right winkers 36 is the headlight on the vehicle width direction line 56. The distance between the reflector 64 (the end of the substrate 60) of 32 and the C-shaped lighting surface 88.

As for the light source 78 in the winker 36, a bulb may be used instead of the LED light source. In this case, instead of the substrate 82, the socket may be arranged on the back surface 76 of the non-lighting portion 74, the socket and the harness 86 may be connected, and a bulb may be attached to the socket.

[Modification example of motorcycle 10]
The motorcycle 10 according to the present embodiment configured as described above can be changed as shown in FIGS. 5 and 6.

The modified example of FIG. 5 is different from the configuration of FIG. 3 in that the area of the non-lighting portion 74 in the front view is small, while the area of the lighting surface 88 is large. Therefore, the light surface 88 has a substantially C-shaped shape in which a part of the circle is missing. Therefore, in the modified example of FIG. 5, the distance L2 between the lighting surface 68 of the headlight 32 and the lighting surface 88 of the left and right winkers 36 is slightly shorter than that of the configuration of FIG. 3 (L2 <L1). In this case, when the light is emitted from the light source 78, when the winker 36 is viewed from the front, it can be visually recognized from the outside as a substantially C-shaped light emission in which a part of the circle is missing.

The modified example of FIG. 6 is different from the configuration of FIG. 3 in that the centers of the left and right winkers 36 are moved below the vehicle width direction line 56. Therefore, the left and right winkers 36 are arranged diagonally downward on the outer side in the vehicle width direction with respect to the headlight 32. Even in this case, when light is emitted from the light sources 78 of the left and right winkers 36, when each winker 36 is viewed from the front, substantially C-shaped light emission can be visually recognized from the outside.

[Effect of this embodiment]
The effect of the motorcycle 10 according to the present embodiment described above will be described.

Since the left and right winkers 36 each have a non-lighting portion 74, the light surface 68 of the headlight 32 and the light surface 88 of the left and right winkers 36 do not change the distance between the headlight 32 and the left and right winkers 36. The distances L1 and L2 can be separated. As a result, for example, when the distances L1 and L2 between the light surface 68 of the headlight 32 and the light surface 88 of the left and right winkers 36 are changed as in the configuration of FIG. 3 and the modified example of FIG. 5 (L1 → Even in L2 or L2 → L1), the visibility of the headlight 32 and the winker 36 can be improved while ensuring the design of the headlight 32 and the winker 36 (balance of arrangement of the headlight 32 and the winker 36).

Further, in the reflector 64 of the headlight 32, a recess 66 recessed toward the center 54 of the headlight 32 is formed at a position facing the left and right winkers 36. As a result, the light surface 68 of the headlight 32 and the light surface 88 of the left and right winkers 36 can be easily separated, and the visibility of the headlight 32 and the winker 36 can be further improved.

Further, since the non-lighting portion 74 serves as a blindfold for the light source 78, the visibility of the headlight 32 and the winker 36 can be improved while maintaining the design of the headlight 32 and the winker 36.

Furthermore, since the light surface 88 is formed by a part of the outer edge of the reflector 72 that is visible outside the contour of the non-light portion 74 in the front view of FIGS. 3, 5, and 6, the reflector 72 is used. The light surface 88 can be easily formed.

In this case, since the light surface 88 is formed in a substantially C shape, the design of the winker 36 can be improved.

Furthermore, since the non-lighting portion 74 is formed by extending a part of the support portion 38 toward the lighting surface 88, the non-lighting portion 74 and the lighting surface 88 are separated by a simple structure. The light surface 88 can be formed.

Further, since the through hole 84 as a wiring structure is provided by using the support portion 38 (non-lighting portion 74) that functions as a blindfold, the harness 86 can be routed from the handle cover 28 side to the light source 78. It becomes.

Although the present invention has been described above using suitable embodiments, the technical scope of the present invention is not limited to the scope described in the above embodiments. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes or improvements can be made to the above embodiments. It is clear from the claims that the form with such modifications or improvements may also be included in the technical scope of the present invention. Further, the reference numerals in parentheses described in the claims are attached following the reference numerals in the accompanying drawings for the purpose of facilitating the understanding of the present invention, and are limited to the elements to which the present invention has the reference numerals. It is not interpreted as being done.

Claims (6)

In the vehicle (10) in which the winkers (36) are arranged on the left and right of the headlight (32).
The left and right winkers (36) are a lighting surface (88) that illuminates the outside, a non-illuminating portion (74) that is provided near the headlight (32) and does not illuminate the outside, respectively. The light portion (78) arranged at the rear of the non-light portion (74) along the front-rear direction of the vehicle (10) and the rear portion of the winker (36) along the front-rear direction are provided. A winker housing (70) that covers the rear portion of the non-lighting portion (74) and the lighting portion (78) from the rear, and the winker housing that faces the rear portion of the non-lighting portion (74) and the lighting portion (78). A vehicle (10) having a winker reflector (72) provided in (70). In the vehicle (10) according to claim 1.
The headlight (32) has a headlight reflector (64).
The headlight reflector (64) is characterized in that a recess (66) recessed toward the center (54) of the headlight (32) is formed at a position facing the left and right winkers (36). Vehicle (10). In the vehicle (10) according to claim 1 or 2.
The light surface (88) is formed by a part of the blinker reflector (72) that is visually recognized outside the contour of the non-light portion (74) in the front view of the vehicle (10). Vehicle (10). In the vehicle (10) according to claim 4.
The vehicle (10) is characterized in that the light surface (88) is formed in a substantially C shape when viewed from the front of the vehicle (10). In the vehicle (10) according to any one of claims 1, 2, 4, and 5.
The left and right winkers (36) each further have a support portion (38) connected to the vehicle body (28) of the vehicle (10).
The vehicle (10) is characterized in that the non-lighting portion (74) is formed by extending a part of the supporting portion (38) toward the lighting surface (88). In the vehicle (10) according to claim 6.
Each of the left and right winkers (36) has a wiring structure (84) for allocating a harness (86) from the vehicle body (28) side to the winker (36) via the support portion (38). (10), characterized in that the vehicle is provided with.

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