JPH0529310Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Field of Application] This invention relates to a safety cover device that is attached to a door opening/closing handle of a vehicle such as a taxi so as to cover the handle body.

[Conventional technology]

Automobiles (passenger cars) equipped with automatic opening/closing doors, such as taxis, have rear seat doors that can be opened and closed automatically by the driver's operating commands, and passengers can also operate the door handle lever without the driver's instructions. Since the door can be opened by direct operation, passengers (children, elderly, drunk people, etc. who lack safety knowledge) can suddenly open the door without the driver's instructions while the vehicle is running or stopped. There is a danger that. As a conventional technology to eliminate such risks, the front surface of the door opening/closing handle is covered with a safety cover so that passengers cannot operate the door opening handle lever, and the door can be opened/closed only by the driver's operation command. A safety cover device is known in which the safety cover device is configured to

[Problem that the invention attempts to solve]

In the conventional safety cover device, the safety cover needs to be easily removed by a passenger in an emergency, so the safety cover is attached to the handle body by slidingly engaging the handle body from the horizontal or vertical direction. but,
Although such safety covers are easy to install, they are also easy to remove, creating problems of loss or removal by unscrupulous passengers. For this reason, the cover is connected with a string to prevent loss and theft, but it is very troublesome to fasten the connecting string, and if the connecting string is connected shorter than the specified length, it will be safe in an emergency. The disadvantage is that the cover cannot be removed. Moreover, since the cover is attached by slidingly engaging the handle body, it cannot be used commonly for door opening/closing handles, which have different dimensions (sizes) depending on the car model, and there is a problem that a cover must be made for each car model. It was hot too.

[Means for solving problems]

In order to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems, this invention has a safety cover that is large enough to cover the front of the main body of the door opening/closing handle, which has the largest size depending on the car model, and is folded inside the safety cover. A plurality of removable positioning claws are provided so as to be displaced so that at least one of them can engage with several types of handle bodies of different sizes, and positioning for other vehicle models that would be an obstacle when securing the safety cover. The claw is broken off and the cover is positioned using a matching positioning claw, and the main body mounting screw is used at the inner bottom surface position of the recess in which the door opening handle lever of the handle body is installed. For those without body mounting screws, there is an elastic body mount that is fixed using adhesive, and an appropriate elastic body mount that is stretched and fixed between this elastic body mount and the elastic body attachment part of the cover. The safety cover is provided with an elastic body such as a coil spring having tension, and the safety cover is connected and fixed to the handle body by the tension of the elastic body.

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, an embodiment of this invention will be explained according to the drawings. In the drawing, D can be automatically opened and closed by the driver's operation command, or the passenger can directly press the opening handle lever B without the driver's instruction. This shows an automatic opening/closing door of a car, such as a taxi, that can be opened by operation, and the inside (indoor side) of this automatic opening/closing door D.
The door opening/closing handle A installed in
It consists of a handle body E, which has a concave portion C inside, and a handle body E to which the lever B is pivotally attached so that the lever B can be opened and closed. It's different.

The safety cover device of this invention is used by being attached to the above-mentioned automobile door opening/closing handle A, and can cover the front of the main body of the door opening/closing handle (not shown), which has the largest dimensions depending on the vehicle model. A safety cover 1 is formed to a size and has a spring hook attachment part 11 at the inner center position, and a body mounting screw 2 is used at the inner bottom surface position of the recess C in which the door opening handle lever B of the handle body E is installed. The hooks 4a and 4b at both ends are hooked between the washer-shaped spring hook fitting 3 which is fastened to the cover 1, and the spring hook fitting 3 and the spring hook attaching portion 11 of the cover 1, and the hooks 4a and 4b are hooked to the tensioned state. Inside the safety cover 1, there are several types of handle bodies A of different sizes,
A plurality of breakable positioning claws 1a to 1d, at least one of which can be engaged with A', are provided in a displaced manner as shown in FIG. Break off the positioning claws, for example 1b and 1d, for the vehicle type, and engage the remaining matching positioning claws, for example 1a and 1c, with the inner edge of the opening (or the outer edge of the opening) of the handle body E as shown in Fig. 2. , to prevent displacement of the cover 1 in the fixed state.

The coil spring 4 has an appropriate elastic force that urges the safety cover 1 to join the handle body E when the safety cover 1 is attached to the door opening/closing handle A as shown in FIG. The elastic force is such that the cover 1 cannot be pulled up by the force of a child (about 3 to 5 years old), and an adult cannot pull up the cover 1.
The strength is set so that when the cover 1 is pulled strongly by holding the finger hooks 5, 5' provided on the cover 1, the cover 1 can be pulled up and displaced vertically or horizontally. In addition to the coil spring 4, it is also possible to use a rubber string or the like as an elastic body having such elastic force.

Figure 4 shows the first position inside the recess C of the handle body E.
An example is shown in which there is no mounting screw 2 as shown in Figs. The difference is that it includes a spring hook fixture 3' (elastic body fixture) that is adhesively fixed using an adhesive.

[Effect of idea]

The safety cover device of this invention has a structure in which the safety cover is fixed to the door opening/closing handle using an elastic body, so the installation of the safety cover is easier compared to the conventional string connection method, and the safety cover can be easily attached to the door opening/closing handle. This eliminates the problem of items being taken away by unscrupulous passengers. Additionally, opening the door in an emergency can be easily performed by pulling up and displacing the safety cover using the stretch of the elastic body. Moreover, the safety cover device of the present invention has a structure that allows it to be used commonly for opening and closing doors, which have different dimensions (sizes) depending on the car model, so unlike the conventional case, a cover for each car model is required. There is no need to make one, and it has excellent versatility.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a perspective view showing the safety cover device of the present invention in an exploded state, Fig. 2 is a front view with main parts cut away showing how the cover device is installed and used, and Fig. 3 is shown along the - line in Fig. 2. FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing an embodiment in which an elastic body fixture is fixed with an adhesive to door opening/closing handles of different shapes. D... Automatic opening/closing door, A, A'... Door opening/closing handle, B... Door opening handle lever, E... Handle body,
C...Concave part of the same body, 1...Safety cover, 1a~1
d...Positioning claw, 11...Spring hook mounting part (elastic body mounting part), 2...Body mounting screw, 3, 3'...
Spring hook attachment (elastic body attachment), 4... Coil spring (elastic body).

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] Taxis, etc. equipped with automatic opening/closing doors that can be opened and closed automatically by the driver's command, or by passengers directly operating the door handle lever without the driver's instructions. A safety cover device for a door opening/closing handle applied to automobiles, which has an elastic body attachment part at the center position on the inside and is sized to cover the front surface of the main body of the door opening/closing handle, which is the largest in size depending on the vehicle model. safety cover and
An elastic body mount that is fixed to the inner bottom surface of the recess in which the door-opening handle lever of the handle body is housed using a body attachment screw or, in the case of a handle body without a body attachment screw, using an adhesive. In order to connect and fix the safety cover to the handle body, an elastic body such as a coil spring having an appropriate tension is tensioned and fixed between the elastic body mounting part of the cover and the elastic body fixture fixed to the main body. A plurality of breakable positioning claws are provided on the inside of the safety cover and are displaced so that at least one of the positioning claws can be engaged with several types of handle bodies of different sizes, and the safety cover A safety cover device for an automobile door opening/closing handle, characterized in that a positioning claw for other car models that gets in the way when the door is fastened is broken off.