JPH0616846Y2 - Vehicle accessory component assembly structure - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Industrial field of application) The present invention relates to a vehicle auxiliary component assembly structure such as a wiper motor installed in an engine room of a vehicle.

(Prior Art) For example, a wiper motor of an automobile is conventionally mounted on a wall surface portion of a cowl box on the engine room side because it is necessary to install the wiper motor close to a wiper installation portion (lower portion of front surface of windshield) (for example, actual opening). 55-16786
No. 1). By the way, a wall surface portion of the cowl box on the engine room side is a vertical wall surface which is generally close to a vertical surface, and the wiper motor is attached to the vertical wall surface in a horizontal posture.

(Problems to be solved by the invention) However, when the wiper motor is mounted on the vertical wall of the cowl box on the engine room side as described above,
The wiper motor projects forward in the engine room by the width of the wiper motor, and a large space for installing the wiper motor is required in the front-rear direction in the engine room. As described above, when the width of the wiper motor protruding to the front is increased, the gap between the wiper motor and other equipment (for example, engine, suspension tower, etc.) installed in the engine room is reduced, and maintenance and inspection service is performed. In addition to the difficulty, there is a problem in that, for example, when a head-on collision occurs, equipment close to the front of the wiper motor is impacted and the wiper motor is easily damaged. In addition, the cowl box to which the wiper motor is attached is usually installed at a relatively high position.If the wiper motor is attached to the front vertical wall of the cowl box, the wiper motor will be installed at a higher height and the bonnet will be installed at a higher position. There was a problem of being limited to.

(Means for Solving Problems) The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems, and is a vehicle accessory such as a wiper motor located on the side wall surface of the engine room of the cowl box. In a vehicle auxiliary component assembly structure in which members are attached, a horizontal wall portion extending horizontally in an engine room side wall surface portion of the cowl box excluding the vehicle auxiliary component attachment position and upward from the horizontal wall portion. The wall portion facing the engine room at the vehicle accessory mounting position of the cowl box is formed by the upright vertical wall portion, and the vertical wall portion is left on the upper end side of the cowl box upward toward the vehicle compartment side. Is formed in a slanted wall portion that is slanted downward from the above, and an accessory member mounting bracket in which the vehicle accessory member is pre-assembled to the wall surface on the engine room side of the slanted wall portion is formed. Arranged in a state of being inclined along the wall surface portion of the inclined wall portion, and fixing the upper end side attachment portion of the accessory member mounting bracket in a vertical wall shape corresponding to the vertical wall portion on the upper end side of the inclined wall portion. On the other hand, the lower end side mounting portion of the accessory member mounting bracket is fixed in a vertical wall shape corresponding to the engine room side vertical wall portion provided below the inclined wall portion.

(Operation) In the auxiliary member assembly structure of the present invention, as described above, first, the portion of the cowl box excluding the vehicle auxiliary member mounting position is
It is formed by a horizontal wall portion projecting forward in the engine room side and a vertical wall portion continuously standing upward from a projecting end of the horizontal wall portion. Therefore, it is possible to secure a sufficiently high support rigidity and a closed cross section of a sufficiently large space that does not hinder the formation of the air duct portion and the like, and the crash stress absorbing performance is high when the vehicle crashes into a vehicle.

Next, on the other hand, the portion of the cowl box corresponding to the vehicle accessory member mounting position first inclines from the upper side to the lower side in the vehicle compartment side direction, leaving a vertical wall portion of a predetermined width at the upper end side. An upper end side mounting of an accessory member mounting bracket which is formed on the inclined wall portion and is preliminarily assembled with a vertical wall portion on the upper end side of the inclined wall portion, for example, a vehicle accessory member such as a wiper motor. Part is formed in a vertical wall shape corresponding to the vertical wall part on the upper end side of the inclined wall part, and the lower end side mounting part of the auxiliary device member mounting bracket is provided below the inclined wall part of the cowl box. Since the engine room side vertical wall portion is attached to the engine room side vertical wall portion in a vertical wall shape corresponding to the engine room side vertical wall portion, the vehicle accessory components are arranged in an inclined state. The vehicle accessory device As compared with the case mounting perpendicular to the front-side vertical wall portion of the scan, it is possible to position the and as possible lower position in the cabin side near the same vehicle accessory member in the engine room. Further, each of the upper and lower ends of the mounting portion of the accessory member mounting bracket is formed in a vertical wall shape, and the vertical wall portion on the upper end side of the inclined wall portion of the vehicle body side cowl box and the engine below the inclined wall portion of the cowl box are formed. Since it is fixed and attached by making it correspond to the vertical wall on the room side, even when the vehicle accessory and accessory bracket are mounted in an inclined state as described above, Since the mounting work can be easily performed from the horizontal direction, workability at the time of assembly and maintenance is improved.

In addition, the auxiliary member mounting bracket simultaneously realizes the reinforcing action of the inclined wall portion for mounting the auxiliary device member.

(Embodiment) An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2. In each drawing, reference numeral 1 is a vehicle body, 2 is an engine room, 3 is a cowl box, 6 is a windshield, and 7 is Engine, 8 is a suspension tower.

The cowl box 3 is composed of a cowl top panel 11, a dash panel upper 12, and a glass molding 14, and a space portion extending in the vehicle width direction inside an area surrounded by the respective members (11, 12, 14). 15 is formed.

A front wall portion (front wall portion of the dash panel upper 12) 22 facing the engine room 2 side in the cowl box 3 is
Most of the range in the vehicle width direction has a closed cross-section structure formed by a main body side horizontal wall portion and a vertical vertical wall portion 23 standing upward from a front end portion of the horizontal wall portion. Part 22
In particular, a front wall portion at a mounting position where a vehicle accessory member (described later) 4 is mounted has a slope that gradually inclines from an upper side to a lower side toward the vehicle compartment side rearward as shown in the figure. The wall 24 is formed.

In this embodiment, the inclined wall portion 24 is provided near one end of the cowl box front wall portion 22 in the vehicle width direction (toward the left side in the vehicle forward direction). Also, this inclined wall portion 24
Length required to mount accessory member 4 (length in vehicle width direction)
And a position lower than the upper end of the cowl box front wall portion 22 by a predetermined width, for example, 45 with respect to a vertical plane.
It is inclined from the upper side to the lower side toward the passenger compartment side at an angle of about °. Therefore, this cowl box front wall 2
The portion of the vehicle body 2 in which the inclined wall portion 24 is formed is a recess chamber 25 that is recessed toward the vehicle compartment side from the vertical vertical wall portion 23. Further, on the upper part of the inclined wall portion 24, a vertical vertical wall surface 26 having a predetermined width (a slight height range) continuous with the side vertical vertical wall portion 23 in the same plane is formed by the above configuration. There is.

The lower surface of the cowl box 3 (dash panel upper 12
The dash panel lower 13 is formed in a vertical state to form a vertical wall surface, and is fixed in a continuous manner.

A wiper motor 4 serving as a vehicle accessory member in the scope of utility model registration is installed on the surface of the inclined wall portion 24 on the engine room side. The wiper motor 4 is a mounting bracket for attaching the accessory member. It is attached via 5.
The mounting bracket 5 is a plate-shaped member having an appropriate area as a whole, and an intermediate portion in the vertical direction serves as an inclined surface portion 31,
Vertical wall-shaped mounting portions 32 and 33 having vertical mounting surfaces are formed at the upper end portion and the lower end portion, respectively. The upper and lower mounting portions 32 and 33 serve as mounting portions for fixing the mounting bracket 5.

The wiper motor 4 includes the inclined surface portion 3 of the mounting bracket 5.
It is assembled and fixed by tightening bolts to 1.

The mounting bracket 5 with the wiper motor 4 is provided with the inclined surface portion 31 along the front side inclined surface of the inclined wall portion 24 of the cowl box front wall portion 22, and the upper mounting portion 32.
Are attached to the vertical vertical wall surface 26 above the inclined wall portion 24, and the lower mounting portion 33 is made to correspond to the front side vertical wall surface of the dash panel lower 13 below the inclined wall portion 24, respectively.・ Fixed by.
As described above, in the mounted state of the mounting bracket 5 with the wiper motor, part of the wiper motor 4 is housed in the recessed chamber 25 in the front surface of the inclined wall portion 24, and the width W of the wiper motor 4 protruding into the engine room 2 is W. (Fig. 2) is getting smaller. Further, since the wiper motor 4 is mounted in an inclined state, it is possible to lower the mounting height position as close to the vehicle compartment side as possible in the engine compartment 2 as compared with a case where the wiper motor 4 is mounted directly on a vertical surface. it can. Therefore, the vehicle front side end portion of the wiper motor 4 and other equipment installed in the engine room 2 (for example, the engine 7 or the suspension tower 8) can be widely spaced, and maintenance and inspection service can be easily performed. As a result, for example, even when an equipment item in the engine room 2 (for example, the engine 7, the suspension tower 8 or the like) is pushed toward the vehicle compartment side due to a rear-end collision, the equipment item is hit by the wiper motor 4 (collision). ) Is difficult, and the mounting height position of the wiper motor 4 is lowered, so that the wiper motor 4 does not become an obstacle to the low bonnet.

Further, the mounting bracket 5 includes the cowl box front wall portion 22 and the dash panel lower 13 which are located above and below the vehicle body.
Are vertically fixed by bolts 34, 34 ... Through vertical wall-shaped upper and lower mounting portions 32, 33 respectively corresponding to the vertical vertical wall portions, so that when mounting the mounting bracket 5, the bolt 34 , 34 ... can be easily screwed in from the horizontal direction, and as described above, the mounting bracket 5
Even when the is mounted along the inclined wall portion 24, the mounting work itself is not difficult.

The output from the wiper motor 4 is transmitted to the wind wiper 10 via the link mechanism 9.

In this embodiment, the wiper motor is applied as the accessory member 4 attached to the front wall portion 22 of the cowl box 3, but in other embodiments, the accessory member 4 may be another one such as a washer tank. Equipment can be adopted.

Further, in the above embodiment, the lower end side mounting portion 33 of the mounting bracket 5 is attached to the dash panel lower 1 below the inclined wall portion 24.
3 is fixed to the front side vertical wall surface, this is another embodiment, for example, the same vertical wall surface portion is formed below the inclined wall portion 24 of the front wall portion 22 of the cowl box,
You may make it fix to the same vertical wall surface part.

(Effect of the Invention) In the vehicle accessory assembly structure of the present invention, as described above,
First, the portion of the cowl box excluding the vehicle accessory member mounting position is formed by a horizontal wall portion projecting forward in the engine room side and a vertical wall portion continuously standing upward from the projecting end of the horizontal wall portion. There is. Therefore, it is possible to secure a sufficiently high support rigidity and a closed cross section of a sufficiently large space that does not hinder the formation of the air duct portion and the like, and the crash stress absorbing performance is high when the vehicle crashes into a vehicle.

Next, on the other hand, a portion of the cowl box corresponding to the vehicle accessory member mounting position first has a vertical wall portion having a predetermined width on the upper end side thereof and an inclined wall inclined from the upper side to the lower side in the vehicle compartment side direction. Is formed on the vertical wall portion on the upper end side of the inclined wall portion, and the upper end side mounting portion of the accessory member mounting bracket configured by preliminarily assembling a vehicle accessory member such as a wiper motor. While mounting in a vertical wall shape corresponding to the vertical wall portion on the upper end side of the inclined wall portion, the lower end side mounting portion of the auxiliary device member mounting bracket is provided below the inclined wall portion of the cowl box. For the vertical wall of the engine room,
Since the vehicle auxiliary component is arranged in an inclined state by mounting it in a vertical wall shape corresponding to the engine room side vertical wall portion, the vehicle auxiliary component is placed in front of the cowl box as in the conventional case. Compared with the case where the auxiliary member is mounted vertically to the side vertical wall portion, it is possible to position the auxiliary device member for the vehicle in the engine room at a position closer to the vehicle and at a position as low as possible. Further, each of the upper and lower ends of the mounting portion of the accessory member mounting bracket is formed in a vertical wall shape, and the vertical wall portion on the upper end side of the inclined wall portion of the vehicle body side cowl box and the engine below the inclined wall portion of the cowl box are formed. Since it is fixedly attached by making it correspond to the vertical wall portion on the room side, even when the vehicle accessory component and the accessory component attachment bracket are attached in an inclined state as described above, Since the mounting work can be easily performed from the horizontal direction, workability at the time of assembly and maintenance is improved.

In addition, the auxiliary member mounting bracket simultaneously realizes the reinforcing action of the inclined wall portion for mounting the auxiliary device member.

Therefore, in the engine room, a large gap in the vehicle front-rear direction between the accessory member and other equipment (for example, the engine or the suspension tower) can be secured, which facilitates maintenance and inspection services and causes a rear-end collision, for example. Even when the engine, the suspension tower, or the like is pushed in, the equipments thereof are less likely to interfere with the auxiliary equipment member. In addition, since the accessory member can be located at a low position, the accessory member does not become an obstacle when a low bonnet is intended.

Moreover, since the mounting portion of the mounting bracket is fixed to the vertical wall portion on the vehicle body side as described above, even if the mounting bracket is mounted in an inclined state, it can be easily mounted from the horizontal direction. It is possible to perform the work, and there is an effect that the work of mounting the mounting bracket does not become difficult.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a partial perspective view of a vehicle adopting an auxiliary member assembly structure according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a II-II of FIG.
FIG. 1 …… Body 2 …… Engine room 3 …… Cowl box 4 …… Auxiliary component (wiper motor) 5 …… Mounting bracket 13 …… Dash panel lower 22 …… Cowl box front wall 23 …… Vertical vertical wall 24 ... Inclined wall 25 ... Recessed chamber 26 ... Vertical vertical wall 32, 33 ... Mounting part 34 ... Bolt

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A vehicle accessory component assembly structure for mounting a vehicle accessory component such as a wiper motor located on a side wall surface of an engine room of the cowl box, wherein the vehicle accessory of the cowl box is attached. While forming the engine room side wall surface portion excluding the member mounting position by a horizontal wall portion that extends in the horizontal direction and a vertical wall portion that rises upward from the horizontal wall portion,
A wall portion of the cowl box facing the engine room side of the vehicle accessory member mounting position is an inclined wall portion that is inclined from the upper side to the lower side toward the vehicle compartment side while leaving a vertical wall portion at the upper end side. A state in which the auxiliary member mounting bracket, which is formed and is pre-assembled with the vehicle auxiliary device member, is inclined with respect to the wall surface of the inclined wall portion on the engine room side along the wall surface portion of the inclined wall portion. And fixing the upper end side mounting portion of the accessory component mounting bracket into a vertical wall shape corresponding to the vertical wall portion on the upper end side of the inclined wall portion while fixing the lower end side mounting portion of the auxiliary component member mounting bracket. Is fixed to the vertical wall shape corresponding to the engine room side vertical wall portion provided below the inclined wall portion, and is fixed.