JPH0345866Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] This invention relates to a type of vehicle lamp that is attached from the inside to a lamp attachment opening in a vehicle body panel with a sealing material interposed around the entire circumference.

[Conventional technology]

The applicant of the present application previously proposed this type of inside-mounting type vehicle lamp. Compared to conventional lighting fixtures that are mounted from the outside of the car body panel, this type of inside-mounting type light fixture has the advantage that it requires less installation space on the outside of the car body panel, and the sealing material is hidden inside the car body panel, improving sealing performance. There is.

FIG. 3 shows an example of such an inside-mounting type lamp proposed by the applicant.
The housing 1 is integrally molded from a synthetic resin material, and is provided with a groove 2 around the entire periphery of its front opening.
A leg portion 4 is formed around the entire periphery of the lens 3 inside the lens 3.
are inserted and joined by hot melt 5. The outer wall 2a of the groove 2 is extended toward the lens side,
The flange portion 6 is bent outward at its front end.
A shallow groove portion 7 is formed on the front side of the flange portion 6 over the entire circumference. A socket mounting hole is formed at the rear of the housing 1, and a socket 9 holding a lamp bulb 8 is removably inserted into the socket mounting hole.

This light fixture is installed in the light fixture mounting opening 1 of the vehicle body panel 10.
1, after filling the flange groove 7 of the housing 1 with a sealing material 12 such as hot butyl, the lens 3 was attached from the inside so as to be exposed to the outside through the mounting opening 11, and fixed to the inside of the vehicle body panel 10. A housing 1 is attached to a bracket (not shown).
It is fixed by screwing a mounting portion (not shown) extending from the same.

[Problem that the invention attempts to solve]

However, even in such an inside-mounted type of lamp, in the case of a lamp in which a gap 13 is formed between the groove outer wall 2a on the lower edge of the housing 1 and the lens leg 4 as shown in the figure, this gap 13 is There is a risk that rainwater may accumulate, and the rainwater that has accumulated here may leak into the inside of the vehicle body panel 10 through a gap with the sealing material 12 or its adjacent member. If the inside of the vehicle body panel 10 is a vehicle interior such as a trunk room, such water leakage must be avoided at all costs.

Therefore, an object of this invention is to provide a vehicular lamp equipped with a structure for draining accumulated water in an inside-mounted type lamp having a structure in which water tends to accumulate on the lower edge of the lamp.

[Means for solving problems]

In order to achieve the above object, the lamp according to this invention is characterized in that a drain hole is provided in a portion of the vehicle body panel directly above the sealing material at the lower edge of the lamp.

[Effect]

Water accumulated on the lower edge of the lamp is discharged to the outside of the vehicle body panel from a drain hole formed in the portion of the vehicle body panel directly above the sealing material.

〔Example〕

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of this invention. The overall structure of the lamp is similar to that shown in FIG. 3, so similar members and parts will be described using the same reference numerals. A housing 1 integrally formed of a synthetic resin material has a groove 2 around the entire periphery of its front opening, into which a leg 4 formed around the entire periphery of the lens 3 is inserted, and the hot melt 5. The outer wall 2a of the groove 2 is extended toward the lens and bent outward at its front end to form a flange 6. On the front side of the flange 6, there is a shallow groove 7 along its entire circumference.
is formed. Further, a socket mounting hole is formed in the rear part of the housing 1, and a socket 9 holding the lamp bulb 8 is inserted into this socket mounting hole.
is removably inserted.

A drain hole 14 is provided just above the flange groove 7 on the lower edge of the housing 1 at the periphery of the lamp attachment opening 11 of the vehicle body panel 10 . The drain hole 14 is a small diameter round hole as shown in FIG. 2, and since the flange groove 7 is filled with the sealing material 12, the draining hole 14 is located directly above the sealing material 12.

As described above, this lighting device is equipped with a vehicle body panel 10.
After filling the flange groove 7 of the housing 1 with a sealant 12 into the lamp mounting opening 11 of the housing 1, the lens 3 was attached from the inside so as to be exposed to the outside from the mounting opening 11, and was fixed to the inside of the vehicle body panel 10. A mounting portion (also not shown) extending from the housing 1 is fixed to a bracket (not shown) by screwing.

In such a lamp, when water accumulates in the space 13 between the groove outer wall 2a of the housing 1 at the lower edge of the lamp and the lens leg 4, the accumulated water drains into a drain hole formed in the vehicle body panel 10. 14 to the outside of the vehicle body panel 10.

The drain hole 14 may be located at any position as long as it is directly above the sealing material 12 on the lower edge of the lamp, and its size,
The shape can also be arbitrarily selected as long as it does not look bad. If the lamp is a rear combination lamp, a bumper is placed directly below the lamp, so the bumper can hide this drain hole.

[Effect of idea]

As mentioned above, the vehicle lamp according to this invention is
In the case of inside-mounted lamps that tend to collect water on the lower edge of the lamp, we have provided a drainage hole in the body panel directly above the sealing material on the lower edge of the lamp, so that even if water accumulates on the lower edge of the lamp, this will not occur. The water is drained from the drain hole to the outside of the vehicle body panel.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a sectional view of a lamp showing an embodiment of this invention, Fig. 2 is a partially enlarged front view taken from the direction of arrow A in Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is an example of an inside-mounting type lamp. FIG. 1...Housing, 3...Lens, 10...Vehicle body panel, 11...Light fitting opening, 14...Drain hole.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] A vehicle lamp, in which a lens is attached to a front opening of a housing and a light source is arranged inside, and is attached from the inside to a lamp mounting opening in a vehicle body panel through a sealing material around the entire circumference, the seal at the lower edge of the lamp. A vehicle lamp characterized by having a drainage hole in the vehicle body panel directly above the wood.