JPH0620677Y2 - Drain channel support device for sun roof - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial field of application] The present invention relates to a drain channel support device for a sunroof.

[Prior Art] Conventionally, in a sunroof in which a lid opening and closing is performed by a lid, for example, rainwater is provided by a drain channel provided at a drain position of the roof opening as described in JP-A-61-92921. The method of draining the water outside the vehicle is adopted.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] As described above, rainwater is drained to the outside of the vehicle by the drain channel, and the drain channel is an elevating mechanism that supports the rear end side of the lid via the drain channel arm. It is connected and can move from the drain position of the roof opening to the inside of the storage space inside the roof panel according to the back and forth movement of the lid.

As described above, when the lid slides into the storage space inside the roof panel from the location where the drain channel is connected to the elevating mechanism by the drain channel arm and has a large distance, the drain channel and the drain channel arm are included in the drain channel. Along with the space of the channel, it is necessary to secure a large storage space.

Also, since the drain channel arm is exposed when the lid is tilted up, it is not good in terms of appearance quality.
There is a risk of looseness due to improper assembly, which may impair the quality.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a drain channel support device for a sunroof that does not require a large storage space and is favorable in terms of appearance quality.

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to achieve the above object, in the present invention, a drive shoe supporting a rear end side of a lid provided in a roof opening of a sunroof has a coupling surface. A stop portion is provided, and a drain channel arranged in the roof opening is supported by a movable shoe arranged behind the locking portion and slidable back and forth, and at the same time, the general surface of the guide rail is opposed to the locking portion. There is provided an engaging body which engages with the connecting surface of the locking portion when the drain positioning portion provided on the above is moved to the general surface.

[Operation] According to such a drain channel support device, when the engaging body moves from the drain positioning portion to the general surface, the engaging body is brought into pressure contact with the connecting surface of the engaging portion and the lifting mechanism and the moving shoe are integrally connected and moved. Therefore, the drain channel arm becomes unnecessary and the storage space becomes small.

[Embodiment] An embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings of FIGS. 1 to 11.

Reference numeral 1 in the drawing shows a roof composed of an inner panel 3 and an outer panel 5, and a roof opening 7 is provided in the roof 1. The roof opening 7 is provided with a lid 9 that can be opened and closed.

A seal member 11 such as a weather strip is attached to the outer peripheral edge of the lid 9 to elastically contact the roof opening edge 1a to ensure a seal when the lid 9 is fully closed.

Left and right mounting brackets 13 are integrally coupled and fixed to the rear surface of the lid 9 by fastening bolts 13a over substantially the entire length in the front-rear direction. Guide rails 17 having rail portions 15 having a channel-shaped cross section are disposed on both sides of the inner panel 3 below the mounting bracket 13 along the front-rear direction. A first first moving shoe 19a serving as a support mechanism 19 for the lid 9 is assembled in the left and right rail portions 15 of the guide rail 17 so as to be movable back and forth. The front end of the mounting bracket 13 is rotatably supported by the first moving shoe 19a via a pin P, and
The rear part is supported by a lifting mechanism 21 so as to be vertically movable.

The movement of the first moving shoe 19a in the front-rear direction is restricted by the lock mechanism 23 shown in FIGS. 8 and 9.

The lock mechanism 23 includes a stopper pin 27 supported by a stopper pin holder 25 and an operating lever 29 for releasing the stopper pin 27 from the pressure, and the stopper pin holder 25 is fixed to the bottom surface of the guide rail 17 with screws 31.

The stopper pin holder 25 is provided with a coupling concave portion 33 that opens rearward, and the coupling concave portion 33 is disengageably engaged with a coupling convex portion 35 provided on the lower surface 19b of the first moving shoe 19a. There is.

The coupling recess 33 has a function of restricting the vertical movement of the lid 9 and a positioning function of stopping the lid 9 at the fully closed position when the slide is fully closed.

The stopper pin 27 is constantly urged upward by an urging spring 37 so that the head portion is on the lower surface 1 of the first moving shoe 19a.
It faces the opening 39 provided in 9b and restrains the rearward movement of the first moving shoe 19a.

The actuating lever 29 is rotatably supported in the main body of the first moving shoe 19a about a lever shaft 41 as a fulcrum, and a free end-side tip portion 43 is in contact with the head portion of the stopper pin 27. Further, a protrusion 45 projecting toward the rear surface 13a side of the mounting bracket 13 is provided near the base of the operating lever 29, and the protrusion 45 is lowered by the rear surface 13a of the mounting bracket 13 when the lid 9 is tilted down. It is designed to be pressed counterclockwise.

On the other hand, one end of an elevating arm 47 that constitutes the elevating mechanism 21 is rotatably supported by the mounting bracket 13 via a pin P ₁ . The other end of the elevating arm 47 has a first pin 53 and a second pin 54 in the left and right guide grooves 51 and 52 provided in a second moving shoe 49 that serves as a rear drive shoe.
It is slidably engaged via. Lifting arm 47
Of the first and second pins 53 and 54 provided on the second pin 54, the second pin 54 is provided on the rear end of the elevating arm 47. First
The pin 53 is a fulcrum pin which is provided near the central portion and vertically moves the front end side and the rear end side of the elevating arm 47, and the pins 53 and 54 respectively project from the elevating arm 47 to the left and right.

The second moving shoe 49 has a rear end portion that is assembled in the rail portion 15 of the guide rail 17 so as to be movable back and forth, and a locking portion that engages with a third moving shoe 55, which will be described later, in a disengageable manner. 57 is provided. The locking portion 57 has a plate-like shape in which the plate thickness on the front end side is large and the thickness gradually decreases toward the base side so that the locking section 57 has a flared cross section.

The second moving shoe 49 is provided with first and second guide bodies 59 and 60 having the guide grooves 51 and 52 on the left and right sides. The width of the interval between the first guide body 59 and the second guide body 60 is set to be slightly larger than the thickness of the elevating arm 47, and the front portion of the first guide body 59 is partially cut away. Thereby, as shown in FIG. 7, the second pin 54 of the elevating arm 47 can be laterally inserted into the guide groove 52 of the second guide body 60. Further, the first guide body 59 is provided with a vertical insertion groove 59a for guiding the first pin 53 to the guide groove 51.

The insertion groove 59a is filled with an insertion groove plug that is fixed in the screw hole 61 when the assembling of the elevating arm 47 is completed.

A guide groove 51 with which a first pin 53, which is a fulcrum pin of the elevating arm 47, engages among the first and second guide bodies 59 and 60.
Is a substantially horizontal tilt-down guide portion 51a that tilts the lid 9 downward from the outer panel 5 from the front to the rear, a fully-closed guide portion 51b that is substantially horizontally continuous from the tilt-down guide portion 51a, and a fully-closed guide. Part 5
It is composed of a tilt-up guide portion 51c which is inclined upward from 1b.

Further, the guide groove 52 of the second guide body 60 with which the second pin 54 of the elevating arm 47 is engaged has a tilt-down guide located above the tilt-down guide portion 51a of the guide groove 51 from the front to the rear. The left and right fully closed guides include a portion 52a, a substantially horizontal fully closed guide portion 52b that is inclined downward from the tilt down guide portion 52a, and a tilt up guide portion 52c that continues substantially horizontally from the fully closed guide portion 52b. The guide areas of the parts 51b and 51b are set at the same position. In addition, the tilt-down guide section 51
The a / 52a and the tilt-up guide parts 51c / 52c are set in a vertical relationship with respect to the fully closed guide parts 51b / 52b. For example, the first pin 53 is the tilt-down guide part 5
When the first pin 53 is located at 1a, the second pin 54 is also located at the tilt-down guide part 52a, and hereinafter, the second pin 54 is also at the same guide part 52b and 52c with respect to the guide parts 51b and 51c at which the first pin 53 is located. It has a guide function located with respect to.

The third moving shoe 55 is disposed behind the second moving shoe 49 and is slidably attached to the rail portion 15 of the guide rail 17. Third moving shoe 55
A drain channel 65, which is arranged at the drain position of the roof opening 7, is fixed to this through a bracket 63.
An engaging body 67 is provided at the front end of the third moving shoe 55 so as to engage with the locking portion 57 of the second moving shoe 49 in a disengageable manner.

The engaging body 67 is formed of a flat U-shaped spring material having a width substantially equal to the width of the tip portion of the engaging portion 57 of the second moving shoe 49, and both end portions 69 and 69 serving as both free ends are formed. The guide rail 17 is always opened and is provided on the general surface 77 of the guide rail 17 and engages with the groove-shaped drain 71. Both end portions 69 of the engaging body 67 are restricted inward movement by a retractable restraint portion 75 which is constantly urged by an urging spring 73 to a substantially central portion of the engaging body 67, and the both end portions 6
Drain positioning groove 71.7 even if external force acts on 9/69
It is restrained so as not to get out of 1. Also,
Both end portions 69, 69 of the general surface 77, 77 of the guide rail 17 which is disengaged from the drain positioning groove 71 are forcibly compressed inward by the general surface 77, 77. Engaging body 67 located on general surface 77/77
The diameters of both end portions 69, 69 of the second moving shoe 49 are set to be substantially the same as or slightly smaller than the plate thickness of the base portion of the locking portion 57 of the second moving shoe 49, and as shown in FIG. Power is acting. The binding force is 69 at both ends.
-69 is released by entering the drain positioning groove 71, 71.

An L-shaped regulating member 79 is provided at the rear end of the mounting bracket 13.
Is fastened with a bolt 80, and the restriction portion 81 at the tip can pass from the opening 83a of the upper flange 83 of the guide rail 17 to the lower flange 84 of the guide rail 17 when tilting down. 81 is positioned between the upper and lower flanges 83 and 84 by moving back and forth after the passage of the opening 83a is completed, and has a function of restricting vertical operation.

A cable guide groove 85 is formed in the side walls of the guide rail 17 that face each other in the rail portion 17, and a geared cable 87 is accommodated in the cable guide groove 85 so as to be movable relative to each other. A traction control is performed by a motor (not shown) capable of forward / reverse rotation by a switch, and a stator 89 integrated with the second moving shoe 49.
And they are fixed separately. As a result, the movement of the geared cable 85 allows the second moving shoe 49 to slide back and forth.

Next, the operation of the sunroof device configured as described above will be described. When the lid 9 is fully closed, the stopper pin 27 faces the opening 39 of the first moving shoe 19a, so that the first moving shoe 19a, that is, the lid 9 does not move in the front-back direction with respect to the guide rail 17. Being detained.

Next, by driving the cable 87 from the fully closed state to move the second moving shoe 49 forward (left side in FIG. 4),
The pin 53 reaches the tilt-up guide 51c of the guide groove 51. At the same time, the second pin 54 also tilts up the guide portion 52.
As a result of reaching the position c, the front side of the elevating arm 47 is raised on the pin P ₁ side, and as a result, the lid 9 is tilted up.

Next, in order to change from the tilt-up state to the fully closed state, the second
The moving shoe 49 of is moved backward. As a result, the first and second pins 53 and 54 reach the fully closed guide portions 51b and 52b of the guide grooves 51 and 52, and the fully closed state shown in FIG. 5 is obtained.

On the other hand, the cable 87 is driven from the fully closed state shown in FIG.
When the moving shoe 49 of No. 1 is moved further rearward to approach the third moving shoe 55, the first and second pins 53, 54
Moves from the fully closed guide portions 51b / 52b to the tilt-down guide portions 51a / 52a. Lid 9 with this
A tilt-down state is obtained in which the rear end side is lower than the outer panel 5. At this time, the operating lever 29 is pressed by the lid 9, and the head of the stopper pin 27 is biased by the biasing spring 37.
Press against. Thereby, the first moving shoe 19a
Is released. On the other hand, during the series of movements of the lid 9, the locking portion 57 of the second moving shoe 49 presses the restraining member 75 of the third moving shoe 55 against the biasing spring 73, so that the engaging body 67 of the engaging body 67 moves. Both end portions 69, 69 move from the drain positioning portions 71, 71 to the general surface 77. General 77
The engaging body 67 that has moved to the position
It is crimped with 8.58 and engaged together. When the cable 87 is further driven in the same direction from this state, the second and third moving shoes 49 and 55, the lid 9 and the like move integrally into the rear roof space W, and the roof opening 7 is largely opened. An open state is obtained.

At this time, the roof space W is enough for the storage space for the lid 9 and the third moving shoe 55.

Next, when the second moving shoe 49 is moved forward,
The moving shoe 55 of is also moved together. Engaging body 67/67
When is located on the drain positioning portion 71, 71 from the general surface 77, 77, both end portions 69, 69 expand outward, so that the third moving shoe 55 is positioned at the drain position and remains there, and the locking portion 57 is engaged. It keeps moving away from the united body 67 and moving forward. This movement continues until the engagement protrusions 35 engage with the engagement recesses 33, and at the same time as the engagement protrusions 35 and the engagement recesses 33 are coupled, the first and second pins 53, 54 are completely closed. 51
The position of b 52b allows the lid 9 to be fully closed.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the drain channel support device of the present invention, the lifting device and the drain channel are integrated or separated due to the engagement between the engaging body and the locking portion, so that the roof space The storage space inside will be small. Further, since the drain channel arm that causes rattling is eliminated, the appearance and quality are very favorable.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view of an essential part showing a drain channel supporting device of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a side view illustrating an engaging body, and FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a state in which a mounting bracket is supported by a supporting mechanism and a lifting mechanism. 4 and 5 are sectional side views showing the tilt-up state of the lid, FIG. 5 is a sectional side view of the lid in the fully closed state, FIG. 6 is a sectional side view of the same in the tilt-down state, and FIG. FIG. 8 is a perspective view of the second moving shoe, FIGS. 8 and 9 are sectional views showing the locking mechanism, and FIG. 10 is XX of FIG.
FIG. 11 is a sectional view taken along line XI-XI in FIG. Description of main drawing symbols 7 ... Roof opening 9 ... Lid 21 ... Guide rail 21 ... Lifting mechanism 49 ... Second moving shoe (driving shoe) 55 ... Moving shoe 57 ... Locking portion 58 ... Connecting surface 65 ... Drain channel 67 ... Engaging body 71 ... Drain positioning part 77 ... General surface

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A movable shoe, which is provided at the roof opening of a sunroof, has a driving shoe which supports a rear end side of the lid, and has a locking surface having a coupling surface. And, while supporting the drain channel arranged at the rear edge of the roof opening, facing the locking portion, the drain positioning portion provided on the general surface of the guide rail moves from the drain positioning portion to the general surface of the locking portion. A drain channel support device for a sunroof, comprising: an engaging body that engages with a connecting surface.