JPH0345863Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] This invention relates to a vehicle lamp such as a marker lamp.

[Conventional technology]

Small lamps such as marker lamps include types in which both ends of the lamp body are screwed to the vehicle body, and types in which one end is secured with a bracket and only the other end is secured with screws.

An example of this latter type of lamp is shown in FIGS. 5 and 6. Lamp body 1 is
It consists of a housing 3 having a flange 2, and a lens 4 placed over the housing 3 and sealed thereto with a sealing material. A lamp bulb 5 is disposed within a lamp chamber defined by the housing 3 and the lens 4 and held in a socket 6 that is detachably attached to the rear of the housing 3.

The lamp body 1 is attached to a lamp attachment opening 8 formed in a vehicle body panel 7 with the flange 2 abutting the periphery of the attachment opening 8. This installation involves locking an L-shaped bracket 9 integrally formed on the lower surface of one end of the flange 2 to one peripheral flange 8a of the mounting opening 8, and attaching the other end to the other peripheral flange 8a of the mounting opening 8 using a mounting bolt 10. This is done by screwing around the periphery.

[Problem that the invention attempts to solve]

The size of the mounting opening 8 formed in the vehicle body panel 7 is made as small as possible within a dimensionally acceptable range from the viewpoint of preventing rainwater from entering the vehicle body through the mounting opening 8. Therefore, when the bracket 9 is to be locked to the peripheral flange 8a of the mounting opening 8, the lamp body 1 must be inserted obliquely as shown in FIG. Therefore, the entrance height H of the bracket 9 is set larger than the height h of the peripheral flange 8a of the mounting opening 8. Moreover, since the normal vehicle body panel 7 is formed of sheet metal, there are large variations in accuracy in the height h of the peripheral flange 8a, etc. Considering this, a considerable margin is required for the entrance height H of the bracket 9. have to have it. As a result, when the lamp body 1 is installed in the mounting opening 8, it will shake by the difference between the entrance height H of the bracket 9 and the height h of the peripheral flange 8a of the mounting opening 8, and vibrations of the vehicle body will occur. This may cause the lamp bulb 5 to break or the bolt 10 attachment portion to break.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of this invention is to provide a vehicular lamp whose one end is attached to a vehicle body by locking a bracket, in which rattling at the bracket locking portion is prevented.

[Means for solving problems]

The vehicle lamp according to this invention is characterized in that an elastic piece is integrally formed at the tip of an L-shaped bracket formed on the lower surface of one end of the flange of the lamp body, and the elastic piece approaches the flange toward the base end. do.

[Effect]

Even though the entrance height at the tip of the L-shaped bracket is wide, it is provided with an elastic piece that becomes narrower as it goes deeper into the bracket, and this elastic piece prevents rattling.

〔Example〕

An embodiment of this invention is shown in FIG. 1, and the structure other than the bracket 11 is similar to the conventional example shown in FIGS. 5 and 6. That is, the lamp body 1 consists of a housing 3 having a flange 2 and a lens 4, and a lamp bulb 5 inside the lamp is held in a socket 6 attached to the housing 3. And this lamp is
A bracket 11 formed on the lower surface of one end of the housing 3 is engaged with a peripheral flange 8a of a mounting opening 8 formed in the vehicle body panel 7, and a mounting bolt 10 passing through the lens 4 and the housing 3 is screwed to the other end. and is attached to the vehicle body panel 7.

As shown in the front view of FIG. 2, the side view of FIG. 3, and the bottom view of FIG.
Both side parts 12 of the letter shape, a base end spar part 13 continuous to its base end, and a distal end spar part 14 continuous to its tip part.
, an elastic piece 15 that continues from the tip spar part 14 and approaches the flange 2 of the housing 3 toward the base end side, and an inverted triangular reinforcing part 16 that continues to the rear part of the base end of both side parts 12 are integrated. It is formed into.

The entrance height H of the bracket 11 is greater than its inner height A, and the inner height A is greater than the height h of the peripheral flange 8a of the mounting opening 8 of the vehicle body panel 7. Moreover, this flange height h is larger than the inner height a when the elastic piece 15 is in a free state. Therefore, the lamp body 1 as shown in FIG.
When inserting the bracket 11 into the peripheral flange 8a of the mounting opening 8 at an angle and pushing it toward the bracket 11 while pushing down the other end of the lamp body 1, the upper surfaces of both sides 12 of the bracket 11 will be aligned with the mounting opening 8. It advances in contact with the tip of the peripheral flange 8a, and when it reaches the inner part, the elastic piece 15 is pushed by the tip of the flange 8a and moves downward. As a result, the peripheral flange 8a is elastically held between the elastic piece 15 and the housing flange 2,
This prevents rattling.

[Effect of idea]

As mentioned above, the vehicle lamp according to this invention is
In a vehicle lamp whose one end is attached to the vehicle body by locking a bracket, an elastic piece is attached to the tip of the L-shaped bracket formed on the lower surface of one end of the flange of the lamp body, and the elastic piece approaches the flange toward the base end. Since they are integrally formed, the vehicle body is elastically sandwiched between this elastic piece and the flange, reliably preventing wobbling when the light is installed, and also absorbing variations in dimensional accuracy of the bracket and mounting opening. At the same time, the dimensional accuracy itself can be relaxed, which reduces design constraints.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a front view of a vehicle lamp showing an embodiment of this invention, Fig. 2 is a front view of the bracket part of the lamp shown in Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a side view of the part shown in Fig. 2. 4 is a bottom view of the part shown in FIG. 2, FIG. 5 is a front view showing an example of a conventional vehicle lamp, and FIG. 6 is a side view of the lamp shown in FIG. FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram of the installation of the lamp shown in FIG. 5. 1... lamp body, 2... flange, 3...
Housing, 4... Lens, 5... Lamp bulb, 6... Socket, 7... Vehicle body panel, 8...
Mounting opening, 9, 11... L-shaped bracket, 15
...Elastic piece.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] The flange of the lamp body is placed over the periphery of the lamp mounting opening in the vehicle body, one end of the flange is locked between one end of the flange and an L-shaped bracket formed on the lower surface of the flange, and the other end of the flange is placed over the periphery of the mounting opening. The vehicular lamp is attached to the vehicle body by screwing the other end of the L-shaped bracket, and the L-shaped bracket has a base end integrally formed with the flange, and a base end facing outward. A vehicular lamp integrally formed with an elastic piece that approaches the flange toward the end.