JPH0423068Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] (Industrial Application Field) This invention relates to a back mirror device for an automobile, such as a door mirror, for example.

(Prior Art) Conventionally, as the above-mentioned automobile back mirror device, there is, for example, a door mirror described in Japanese Utility Model Application Publication No. 138859/1983.

That is, this is a back mirror device for an automobile in which a door mirror housing is arranged in a corner bracket in front of a side window, and a mirror is arranged in the door mirror housing.

However, in the conventional device described above, in order to prevent the door glass and door sash from being sucked out, it is necessary to newly set a locking piece and an engaging part that engages with this locking piece on the vehicle body side and the door side, respectively. This has the disadvantage of making the structure complex.

(Purpose of the invention) This invention can reliably prevent the door glass and door sash from being sucked out by attaching the rearview mirror to the vehicle body and providing the rearview mirror with a stopper piece of a unique structure. Moreover, it is an object of the present invention to provide a rear view mirror device for an automobile in which the stopper piece can be stored in a storage portion to eliminate protrusions when the stopper piece is not needed.

(Structure of the invention) This invention attaches a back mirror to the outer surface of the front pillar, forms a storage part in the back mirror, and moves at least one of the door glass and door sash of the side door adjacent to the back mirror from the outside of the vehicle toward the inside of the vehicle. The present invention is characterized in that it is a rear view mirror device for an automobile, in which a stopper piece for preventing sucking out to be pressed is arranged so as to be retractable in the storage portion.

(Effect of the invention) According to this invention, since the above-mentioned back mirror is attached to the outer surface of the front pillar as a component on the vehicle body side, the door glass and door sash can be reliably sucked out by the above-mentioned stopper piece arranged on this back mirror. It has the effect of preventing

Moreover, since the stopper piece described above is configured to be able to be stored in the storage part of the rearview mirror, by storing this stopper piece in the storage part when the stopper piece is not needed, it is possible to eliminate protrusions from the rearview mirror. This also has the effect of smoothing the movement of the door glass up and down.

(Example) An example of this invention will be described in detail below based on the drawings.

The drawing shows a rearview mirror device for an automobile, and the first
In the figure, a door panel 1, a door glass 2,
Door sash 3 whose upper part is curved inward
A door 4 having a door 4 is attached to an opening 6 of a vehicle body 5 so as to be openable and closable.

Front pillar 7 as part of the above-mentioned vehicle body 5
Like the door sash 3 described above, the upper part is curved inward, and a door mirror 8 is attached to the upper part of the front pillar 7, that is, at a position approximately at the same height as the driver's eye point. There is.

As shown in FIGS. 2 to 4, the above-mentioned front pillar 7 is a column in which an inner panel 10 is joined to the inside of an outer panel 9, and a closed cross section 11 is formed between these two panels 9 and 10. 7 front joint flange part 12 and windshield 1
A wind molding 14 is disposed between the terminal and the terminal 3.

Furthermore, a seaming welt 16 having a core metal (not shown) is fitted into the rear joining flange portion 15 of the front pillar 7, and a seaming welt 16 having a core metal (not shown) is fitted to the interior side of the inner panel 10 of the front pillar 7. The pillar trim 18 is installed using the mounting bracket 17.

Furthermore, a screw 19 is provided on the interior side of the inner panel 10 of the front pillar 7.
A bracket 20 is attached using a bracket 20, and an operating lever 22 is pivotally attached to a shaft portion 21 of this bracket 20.

The above-mentioned operation lever 22 is connected to the above-mentioned pillar trim 1.
In the normal state of the operating lever 22, which is located in the opening 18a of the pillar trim 18 and shown by the solid line in FIG. It is configured to be in one shape.

By the way, the front edge 3a of the door sash 3 mentioned above
A retainer 25 having a core metal 24 therein is attached using a screw 23 to the rear surface of the opening 6 of the vehicle body 5 facing the front pillar 7, that is, the opening forming part 9a of the outer panel 9. The above-mentioned retainer 25, more specifically, a lip portion 26 extending rearward and abutting against the outer end portion 3b of the door sash 3 is integrally formed on the outer sheath covering the core bar 24.

On the other hand, the door sash front edge 3a mentioned above is
As is clear from FIGS. 4 and 4, a single metal plate is formed by roll forming, and a rearward facing recess 27 is formed on the outside of the center, and a closed section is formed on the inside of the center. 28 and a forward facing recess 29 located in the front part of the closed section 28, respectively, a glass launch channel 30 for guiding the raising and lowering of the door glass 2 is formed in the rearward facing recess 27, and a glass launch channel 30 is formed in the forward facing recess 29. A weather strip 31 is provided respectively.

Incidentally, an opening 32 is formed on the outer surface of the outer panel 9 of the front pillar 7, and the door mirror 8 is attached via a garnish 33 fitted into the opening 32.

This door mirror 8 is installed in a mirror case 35 in a mirror housing 34 as shown in FIGS. 2 to 4.
The mirror 36 attached to the mirror case 35 is connected to the above-mentioned mirror case 35 with a spring 37 for folding and a harness 38 for electric remote control. For the purpose of removing fogging, vent holes 39 are formed to allow air to flow through the vehicle in the front and rear direction while the vehicle is running.

Moreover, the size of the ventilation hole 39 is set to be large enough to accommodate a stopper piece 42, which will be described later.

A stopper piece 42 for preventing suction is pivotally attached to a wall portion 40 of the mirror housing 34 that forms the inner side wall of the above-mentioned ventilation hole 39 via a shaft 41.

The rear end portion of this stopper piece 42 is formed with a lip portion 42a that presses the outer surface of at least one of the door glass 2 and the door sash 3 from the outside to the inside. In this embodiment, a lip portion 42 is integrally formed at the rear end of the stopper piece 42.
A rubber 43 is integrally joined to the lip 42a and the rubber 43 is configured to press the door glass 2 described above.

Moreover, when the stopper piece 42 is rotated about the shaft 41 in the clockwise direction in FIG. 3, it is stored in the ventilation hole 39.

Base 42 for the spring receiver of the above-mentioned stopper piece 42
b, and the protrusion 4 formed on the garnish 33 described above.
A coil-shaped return spring 45 is stretched between the stopper piece 42 and the stopper piece 42 as a biasing means for constantly biasing the stopper piece 42 in the pressing direction.

Moreover, the base 42b of the above-mentioned stopper piece 42,
A movable cable 46 for closing the stopper piece 42 via the operating lever 22 is stretched between the operating lever 22 and one free end 22a of the operating lever 22.

Note that 47 in FIGS. 3 and 4 is an inner weather strip that is integrally joined to the seaming welt 16 on the vehicle body side.

The illustrated embodiment is configured as described above,
The action will be explained below.

When the vehicle is running at high speed, the door glass 2 tends to be sucked outward, but there is a stopper piece 42 on the outer surface of the door glass 2 that is spring-biased in the pressing direction by the spring force of the return spring 45.
Since the lip portion 42a is in contact with the door glass 2 through the rubber 43, this stopper piece 42 can reliably prevent the door glass 2 from being sucked out.

Further, since the above-mentioned door mirror 8 is formed with a ventilation hole 39 penetrating in the front-rear direction, airflow while the vehicle is running flows rearward through this ventilation hole 39, and the outside surface of the stopper piece 42 described above. Since the flow is rectified by the flow, vortex sulfur will not be generated at the rear of the door mirror 8.

Furthermore, the door glass 2 passes through the above-mentioned ventilation hole 39.
The air hitting the door glass 2 can prevent the door glass 2 from fogging up, and the formation of the above-mentioned ventilation holes 39 can reduce air resistance.

On the other hand, when the vehicle is stopped and the door 4 is opened in the direction of the arrow a in FIG. In Fig. 3, imaginary line b
After passing through the state shown in , it is stored in the above-mentioned ventilation hole 39 as shown by a virtual line c. This retracted state is maintained by the above-mentioned return spring 45 passing over the fulcrum.

Therefore, when the door 4 is opened and the stopper piece 4
By storing this stopper piece 42 in the ventilation hole 39 as shown by the imaginary line c in FIG. It also has the effect of smoothing the process.

In conjunction with the opening operation of the stopper piece 42, the operating lever 22 on the indoor side rotates as shown by the imaginary line d in FIG. 3 via the movable cable 46.

Therefore, when the above-mentioned operating lever 22 is rotated from the indoor side in the direction of the arrow e in FIG. 3 after the door 4 is closed, the above-mentioned stopper piece 42 is pulled via the movable cable 46. As shown by the solid line in the figure, this stopper piece 42 can be used to press the outer surface of the door glass 2 again.

In short, when the stopper piece 42 is not needed, by storing the stopper piece 42 in the ventilation hole 39 serving as a storage part, the protrusion from the door mirror 8 can be eliminated, and the door glass 2
This also has the effect of making lifting and lowering operations smoother.

As shown in the embodiment, if the door mirror 8 is attached above the front pillar 7 and the height of the door mirror 8 is set to be approximately the same height as the driver's eye point, the rear downward visibility will be good. There is a certain effect.

5 to 7 show other structures of the above-mentioned embodiment. In this embodiment, the shape of the above-mentioned ventilation hole 39 is made slightly smaller, and a A substantially L-shaped storage recess 50 is formed, and the shape of the stopper piece 51 is set to be substantially L-shaped in accordance with the shape of the storage recess 50.

Then, the above-mentioned stopper piece 51 is inserted into the storage recess 5.
The stopper piece 51 is pivoted so that it can be stored inside the stopper piece 51, and the rear end of this stopper piece 51 is provided with a lip part 51 as in the previous embodiment.
a and rubber 52 are formed.

With this configuration, the ventilation hole 39 is not blocked when the stopper piece 51 is stored.
During low-speed driving when it is not necessary to prevent the door glass 2 from being sucked out, the air flow passing through the ventilation hole 39 has the effect of reducing air resistance of the door mirror 8 and defogging the door glass 2.

In other respects, the functions and effects are almost the same as those of the previous embodiment, so FIGS.
In the figure, the same parts as in FIGS. 2 to 4 are designated by the same numbers and symbols, and detailed explanation thereof will be omitted.

In terms of the correspondence between the structure of this invention and the above-mentioned embodiment, the back mirror of this invention corresponds to the door mirror 8 of the embodiment, and similarly, the storage section has the ventilation hole 39 and the second embodiment of the first embodiment.
Although the stopper piece corresponds to the storage recess 50 of the embodiment, and the stopper piece corresponds to the stopper piece 42 of the first embodiment and the stopper piece 51 of the second embodiment, this invention is limited only to the configuration of the above-mentioned embodiment. It is not something that will be done.

Further, the lip portions 42a, 51a formed on the stopper pieces 42, 51 described above may be configured to press the outer surface of the door sash 3, and in a hard-top type suspensionless automobile, the lip portions 42a, 51a as in the embodiment may be used. Of course, it is sufficient to use only one.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The drawings show one embodiment of this invention, in which Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a car equipped with a rearview mirror device, Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the backmirror device, and Fig. 3 is a cross section taken along line A-A in Fig. 2. 4 is a sectional view taken along the line B-B in FIG. 2, FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing another embodiment of the rearview mirror device, and FIG. 6 is a sectional view taken along the line C-C in FIG. 5. FIG. 7 is a sectional view taken along the line D--D in FIG. 5. 2...Door glass, 3...Door sash, 4...
...Door, 7...Front pillar, 8...Door mirror, 39...Vent hole, 42...Stopper piece, 50
... Storage recess, 51 ... Stopper piece.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claim for Utility Model Registration] A back mirror is attached to the outer surface of the front pillar, a storage portion is formed in the back mirror, and at least one of the door glass and door sash of a side door adjacent to the back mirror is pressed from the outside of the vehicle toward the inside of the vehicle. A rear view mirror device for an automobile, in which a stopper piece for preventing suction from being sucked out is retractably arranged in the storage part.