JPH05139214A - Console box of vehicle - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To eliminate necessity of preparatory operation such as locking release when a lid is open in lateral direction by forming a constraining member which constrains movement, in the disengaging direction, of a hinge member which is engaged with a hinge receiving member on the other side. CONSTITUTION:In a constraining lever 20, an edge on the passive projecting piece 20a side is disposed at the left side edge of the rod receiving part 14a of a right front hinge rod receiving member 14. When the right side of the lid 2 is released under this condition, two hinge rods on the right side move upward. At this time, respective right front hinge rod receiving members 14 anti respective sight rear hinge rod receiving members which are positioned at, the front and the rear of the article housing 7a of an inner case 7 are rotated in the left direction with a supporting shaft 18 centered when an upper edge 14b of the rod receiving part 14a is pressed upward by the fitting rod part of the hinge rod 5, and then are positioned when a positioning pin is fitted in a positioning recessed part 14e when it is released.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a console box for a vehicle in which a lid can be opened and closed on either the left or right side.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a vehicle is provided with a console box between a driver's seat and a passenger seat. For this console box, the lid provided on the box body is required to have a structure that can be opened and closed on both the left and right sides of the driver's side and the passenger's side, and in response to such requests, Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 2-110551 and Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 2-10
As disclosed in Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 5042 and Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 2-106943, a lid and a box body on the opening side are operated by operating an operation unit such as a knob or a button provided at a left and right position of a console box. There has been proposed a structure capable of releasing a lock between the lid and the lid and opening the lid from desired sides on the left and right.

[0003]

However, each of the above-mentioned conventional structures has a problem in that the operation portion needs to be operated when the lid is opened, resulting in poor operability.

[0004]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the vehicle console box of the present invention has a lid provided on the box main body centered on hinge members provided at the left and right positions thereof. In a console box of a vehicle that can be opened and closed in any of the left and right directions by rotating to the left and right sides, a hinge member can be freely inserted into and removed from a corresponding portion of the box body portion with each of the hinge members. Yes,
When the fitted hinge member is removed and moved in the lid opening direction, the hinge member is swingably supported so as to swing in the direction of the other hinge receiving member facing in the left-right direction with this movement. A hinge receiving member is provided, and between the hinge receiving members facing each other in the left-right direction, the hinge receiving member is pushed by one hinge receiving member that swings with the movement of the hinge member in the lid opening direction and is moved toward the other hinge receiving member. It is characterized in that a restraint member is provided to restrain the movement of the hinge member fitted with the other hinge receiving member in the pull-out direction by moving.

[0005]

According to the above construction, in the closed state of the lid, the hinge members provided at the left and right positions of the lid are fitted with the corresponding hinge receiving members of the box body.

When the right side of the lid is opened from this state, the right hinge receiving member swings toward the left hinge receiving member as the right hinge member is pulled out in the lid opening direction. As a result, the restraint member is pushed by the right hinge receiving member and moves toward the left hinge receiving member, and restrains the movement of the hinge member fitted with the left hinge receiving member in the pull-out direction. Therefore,
The lid is rotatable around the left hinge member.

As described above, in the present console box, when the lid is opened in the left-right direction, no pre-operation such as unlocking is required, and the lid is securely detached from the center of rotation of the lid. To be prevented.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. As shown in FIG. 1, the console box of this embodiment includes a box body 1 and a lid 2 provided on the box body 1. The lid 2 is a box body as shown in FIG. The part 1 can be opened and closed freely in either the left or right direction.

The lid 2 has a lid substrate 3 formed in a rectangular shape corresponding to the box body 1 having a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape on the surface facing the box body 1. The upper surface of the lid substrate 3 is It is covered with the exterior member 4. As shown in FIG. 3, convex hinge rod mounting seats 3a ... Are formed near the four corners of the lid substrate 3, and the hinge rod mounting seats 3a .. Is provided. As shown in FIG. 4, this hinge rod 5 has a fitting rod portion 5a extending in the front-rear direction of the vehicle in the lower portion, and a fitting rod portion 5a in the upper portion.
It has individual mounting parts 5b, 5b, and both ends of the fitting rod part 5a are connected to the corresponding mounting parts 5b, 5b by U-shaped connecting parts 5c, 5c. Then, the hinge rod 5 has the fitting rod portion 5
a is a hinge rod insertion hole 3b formed in the lid substrate 3
Through the through-holes, the screw rods 6 project downward from the lid substrate 3 and are arranged on the outer side in the vehicle width direction, and are fastened to the hinge rod mounting seats 3a by screws 6 inserted into the mounting portions 5b and 5b.

The box body 1 has an inner case 7 and an outer case 8. The inner case 7 has a container-shaped article storage portion 7a, and a horizontal plate-shaped flange portion 7 also shown in FIG. 5 on the outer peripheral portion of the upper end portion of the article storage portion 7a.
b. The outer case 8 is provided along the lower surface of the outer edge portion of the flange portion 7b. In addition, a hinge rod insertion hole 7c through which the hinge rod 5 is inserted when the lid 2 is closed is formed in the flange portion 7b.

A hinge mechanism supporting housing 9 extending in the left-right direction between the article storage portion 7a and the outer case 8 is provided at a front portion and a rear portion of the article storage portion 7a below the flange portion 7b of the inner case 7. It is provided. Each of the hinge mechanism supporting casings 9 includes a front casing portion 10 and a rear casing portion as shown in FIG. 6 which is a sectional view taken along the line AA in FIG. A fitting body with the body portion 11 is formed by being fastened to the article storage portion 7a with the screw 12.

In each of the above-mentioned hinge mechanism supporting casings 9, a hinge rod receiving assisting member 13 is provided at a portion corresponding to each hinge rod 5. An upper portion of the hinge rod receiving auxiliary member 13 is opened, and a rod receiving portion 13a into which the fitting rod portion 5a of the hinge rod 5 fits when the lid 2 is closed is formed.

As shown in FIG. 8, a right front hinge rod receiving member 14 and a right rear hinge rod receiving member 15 are provided at the front and rear positions of the right hinge rod receiving auxiliary member 13, and the left hinge rod receiving auxiliary member is provided. A left front hinge rod receiving member 16 and a left rear hinge rod receiving member 17 are provided at front and rear positions of 13. As shown in FIG. 11, each of the hinge rod receiving members 14 to 17 is formed with rod receiving portions 14a to 17a protruding upward. These rod receiving portions 14a to 17a are laterally opened and appropriately receive the fitting rod portion 5a of the hinge rod 5 when the lid 2 is closed. Therefore, the lower edge portions 14c to 17c are more than the upper edge portions 14b to 17b. Is also getting longer. And
Each of the hinge rod receiving members 14 to 17 includes the rod receiving portion 1
The support shafts 18 support the openings 4a to 17a so that the openings 4a to 17a are directed outward in the left-right direction so that the corresponding hinge rods 5 can be swung in the direction of movement associated with opening and closing of the lid 2.

Further, the hinge rod receiving members 14 to 17 are positioned at the lower ends of the hinge rod receiving members 14 to 17 so that the lower edge portions 14c to 17c of the rod receiving portions 14a to 17a are positioned substantially horizontally. Successful positioning recess 14
d to 17d and open-time positioning recesses 14e to 17e for positioning the hinge rod 5 in a pivotal position where the hinge rod 5 can be removed from the rod receiving portions 14a to 17a. The positioning recesses 14d to 17d and 14e are located near the positioning recesses 14d to 17d and 14e to 17e.
Notch 14 for giving elasticity to the portion between 17e
f to 17f are formed. Each positioning recess 1 described above
Positioning pins 19 are provided on the hinge mechanism supporting housing 9 in correspondence with 4d to 17d and 14e to 17e.
Further, drive convex pieces 14g and 17g are formed on the rear surface of the right front hinge rod receiving member 14 and the front surface of the left rear hinge rod receiving member 17.

The right front hinge rod receiving member 14 and the left front hinge rod receiving member 16 and the space between the right rear hinge rod receiving member 15 and the left rear hinge rod receiving member 17 are also shown in FIGS. 9 and 10, respectively. A restraint bar 20 which is an elongated plate-like restraint member is provided. The restraint bar 20 has a passive convex piece 20a formed at one end of one surface and a stepped portion 20b receding from the surface having the passive convex piece 20a formed at the other end. .. Further, the restraint bar 20 is provided with a guide convex portion 20c on the surface opposite to the side surface on which the passive convex piece 20a is formed. The restraint bar 20 between the right front hinge rod receiving member 14 and the left front hinge rod receiving member 16, that is, the restraint bar 2 on the front side.
0 means that the end on the side of the passive convex piece 20a is in contact with the left end of the rod receiving portion 14a of the right front hinge rod receiving member 14, and the step or step is close to the step. The attached portion 20b is arranged so as to extend toward the left front hinge rod receiving member 16 side. On the other hand, the restraining bar 20 between the right rear hinge rod receiving member 15 and the left rear hinge rod receiving member 17, that is, the rear restraining bar 20 has the passive convex piece 20a facing the front side. The end portion on the side of 20 a comes into contact with or comes close to the right end portion of the rod receiving portion 17 a of the left rear hinge rod receiving member 17, and the stepped portion 20
b is arranged so as to extend to the right rear hinge rod receiving member 15 side. In this state, the front restraint bar 20
The passive convex piece 20a of the right front hinge rod receiving member 14 is disposed in the vicinity of the right side position of the driving convex piece 14g, and the passive convex piece 20a of the rear side restraining bar 20 is the driving convex piece of the left rear hinge rod receiving member 17. It is placed close to the left side of 17g. In addition, the end portion of each restraint bar 20 on the stepped portion 20b side includes the hinge rod receiving members 14 to.
It has reached a position close to the position directly above the hinge rod 5 held by 17. Further, each restraint bar 20 is shown in FIG.
As shown in, the guide protrusion 20c is guided by the guide recesses 10a and 11a formed in the front casing 10 and the rear casing 11, and is slidable only in the left-right direction.

In the above structure, when the lid 2 is closed, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 8, the fitting rod portion 5a of each hinge rod 5 is connected to the rod receiving member of each hinge rod receiving auxiliary member 13. Part 13a and the rod receiving parts 14a to 17a of the hinge rod receiving members 14 to 17, and the hinge rod receiving members 14 to 17 are positioned with the positioning pin 19 fitted into the positioning recesses 14d to 17d when closed. ing. Also, each restraint bar 20
A state in which the end portion on the side of the passive convex piece 20a is in contact with or close to the left end portion of the rod receiving portion 14a of the right front hinge rod receiving member 14 or the right end portion of the rod receiving portion 17a of the left rear hinge rod receiving member 17. It is distributed in.

From the above state, when the right side of the lid 2 is opened, for example, as shown in FIG. 11, the two hinge rods 5 on the right side move upward. At this time, in each of the right front hinge rod receiving member 14 and the right rear hinge rod receiving member 15 positioned before and after the article storage portion 7a in the inner case 7, the upper edge portions 14b and 15b of the rod receiving portions 14a and 15a are hinge rods. After being pivoted to the left around the support shaft 18 by being pushed upward by the fitting rod portion 5a of No. 5, the positioning recesses 14e and 15e when opened are formed.
The positioning pin 19 is engaged with the positioning pin 19 for positioning.

Further, the right front hinge rod receiving member 1 described above.
4, the restraint bar 20 on the front side moves the passive convex piece 2
The end portion on the 0a side is pushed leftward by the left end portion of the rod receiving portion 14a of the right front hinge rod receiving member 14 and slides. Thereby, the stepped portion 20b of the restraint bar 20 described above is provided.
Moves onto the fitting rod portion 5a of the left hinge rod 5, and the left hinge rod 5 cannot be removed from the hinge rod receiving auxiliary member 13, the left front hinge rod receiving member 16 and the left rear hinge rod receiving member 17. , It is restrained in the state fitted with these. Therefore, the lid 2 can smoothly rotate about the left hinge rod 5.
Since the rear restraint bar 20 is not pushed by the right rear hinge rod receiving member 15, it remains stationary in the position shown in FIG.

Further, when the lid 2 is closed from the opened state of the lid 2, the right front hinge rod receiving member 14 and the right rear hinge rod receiving member 15 have the rod receiving portion 1
The lower edge portions 14c and 15c of 4a and 15a are pushed downward by the fitting rod portion 5a of the hinge rod 5 so that the lower edge portions 14c and 15c rotate to the right, and then the positioning recess 14d upon closing is formed.
Positioning is performed by fitting the positioning pin 19 to 15d.

With the rotation of the right front hinge rod receiving member 14, the front restraining bar 20 slides by pushing the passive convex piece 20a rightward by the driving convex piece 14g of the right front hinge rod receiving member 14. .. As a result, the stepped portion 20b of the restraint bar 20 moves to the right from above the fitting rod portion 5a of the left hinge rod 5, and the restrained state of the left hinge rod 5 is released.

On the other hand, when the left side of the lid 2 is opened, the rear side restraining bar 20 moves as the left rear hinge rod receiving member 17 rotates, and the same operation as described above is performed. ..

Further, when the lid 2 is lifted upward in a parallel state, when the lid 2 is closed, the end of each restraining bar 20 on the stepped portion 20b side comes close to the corresponding hinge rod 5. Since the dimensions are set so as to reach the position, the left and right hinge rods 5 are removed from the hinge rod receiving members 14 to 17 and the hinge rod receiving auxiliary member 13 by the rotation of the hinge rod receiving members 14 to 17. Before and after, the front and rear restraint bars 20 move left and right to restrain the corresponding hinge rods 5. Therefore, the situation in which the lid 2 is lifted as described above and is disengaged from the box body 1 is prevented.

[0023]

The vehicle console box of the present invention is
As described above, the hinge member can be inserted into and removed from the corresponding portion of the box body on the left and right positions of the lid, and the fitted hinge member can be removed in the lid opening direction. When you move out, along with this move,
A hinge receiving member that is swingably supported is provided so as to swing in the direction of the other hinge receiving member facing in the left-right direction, and a hinge opening direction of the hinge member is provided between the hinge receiving members facing in the left-right direction. Of the hinge member engaged with the other hinge receiving member by being pushed by the one hinge receiving member and moving toward the other hinge receiving member due to the movement to the other hinge receiving member. This is a configuration in which a restraint member that restrains is provided.

As a result, when the lid is opened in the left-right direction, the lid is prevented from coming off from the center of rotation of the box with respect to the box body, and pre-operation such as unlocking is unnecessary.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view showing in partial section a console box of a vehicle according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front view showing a state in which a lid 2 of the console box shown in FIG. 1 is opened in the left-right direction.

FIG. 3 is a plan view showing a main part of the lid substrate shown in FIG.

4 is a perspective view of the hinge rod shown in FIG. 1. FIG.

5 is a plan view showing a main part of the box body shown in FIG. 1. FIG.

6 is a rear view of the console box along the line AA in FIG.
FIG.

FIG. 7 is a view of the front portion of the console box as seen from the direction of arrow B in FIG.

FIG. 8 is a plan view of the hinge mechanism provided in the hinge mechanism supporting housing shown in FIG. 1 when the lid is closed.

9 is a front view of the restraint bar shown in FIG. 1. FIG.

FIG. 10 is a plan view of the restraint bar shown in FIG.

FIG. 11 shows the console box shown in FIG.
FIG. 4 is a front view of the main part showing a state in which the right side of the lid 2 is opened.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Box Main Body 2 Lid 5 Hinge Rod (Hinge Member) 13 Hinge Rod Receiving Aid Member 14 Right Front Hinge Rod Receiving Member (Hinge Receiving Member) 15 Right Rear Hinge Rod Receiving Member (Hinge Receiving Member) 16 Left Front Hinge Rod Receiving Member (Hinge Receiving member) 17 Left rear hinge rod receiving member (hinge receiving member) 20 Restraint bar (restraint member)

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A console of a vehicle in which a lid provided on a box body is pivoted about hinge members provided at the left and right positions of the lid so that the lid can be opened and closed in any of left and right directions. In the box, a corresponding portion of each of the above-mentioned hinge members in the above-mentioned box main body is detachable from the hinge member, and when the fitted hinge member is pulled out and moved in the lid opening direction,
Along with this movement, a hinge receiving member that is swingably supported is provided so as to swing in the direction of the other hinge receiving member that faces in the left-right direction, and between the hinge receiving members that face in the left-right direction, In the hinge member fitted to the other hinge receiving member by being pushed by one hinge receiving member that is swung along with the movement of the hinge member in the lid opening direction and moving toward the other hinge receiving member. A console box for a vehicle, comprising a restraint member for restraining movement in the pulling-out direction.