JPH0714040Y2 - Lock device for hood type sunroof device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Object of the Invention] (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention relates to a lock device for a hood type sunroof device.

(Prior Art) Conventionally, a foldable hood called a cabas top provided in a hoof opening of a vehicle body is locked by a locking device when fully closed, as described in Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 62-71025.

This lock device has a structure in which a lock state is obtained by engaging a lock portion 105 of a lock lever 103 provided on a hood side 101 with a striker 109 provided on a vehicle body 107 side as shown in FIG. ing.

(Problems to be solved by the invention) As described above, the hood when fully closed comes to be locked by the lock device, but at the time of this locking operation, since there is no stopper, it is difficult to know when the hood is completely closed. ,
When the lock portion 105 of the lock lever 103 is properly aligned with the striker 109, a force is required for pulling the hood in the fully closing direction, and a force is required for the operation.

Therefore, this invention proposes a locking device for a hood-type sunroof device that automatically locks when the hood is slid all the way to the fully closed position, and the striker mounting position is easy to improve, resulting in improved assembly. It is intended to be provided.

[Structure of the Invention] (Means for Solving the Problems) In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention provides an openable hood that slides back and forth along a guide rail member in a roof opening of a vehicle body. On the side, a striker having a meshing surface and a restricting surface formed on the front and back is provided, while on the hood side, the urging means constantly urges the striker toward the striker side, and when the hood is fully closed, the striker meshes with the meshing surface and the opening / closing direction. An engaging member having a hook portion that engages with the hook portion in a vertically disengageable manner from the vertical direction is provided, and the engaging member faces the hook portion in the front-rear direction, and when the hood is completely closed, the striker restricting surface is provided. A stopper portion is provided which abuts and positions the hook portion at a meshing position where the hook portion meshes with the meshing surface.

(Operation) According to such a lock device, when the opened hood is slid to the fully closed state, the stopper portion of the engaging member abuts the regulation surface of the striker. At the same time, the hook portion positioned at the meshing position comes to mesh with the meshing surface of the striker by the biasing means. Therefore, it is not necessary to operate while visually checking the alignment of the hook portion with the striker, and the operability is greatly improved. Further, since the striker and the stopper portion have a function of positioning at the meshing position, the accuracy of the mounting position of the striker with respect to the engaging member becomes easy, the assembling becomes very easy, and the secure meshing state can be obtained.

(Embodiment) An embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings of FIGS. 1 to 14.

In the figure, reference numeral 1 denotes a roof of an automobile 3. The roof 1 is provided with roof openings 9 in which guide rail members 7 are arranged on both left and right sides.

The guide rail member 7 is a cable guide groove as shown in FIG.
It has a shape including a rail portion 13 having 11 and 11 and guide recesses 12 and 12, and a second rail portion 15 provided in parallel with the rail portion 13. Outside the second rail portion 15 and on the guide rail member 7, an outer seal member 16a such as a weather strip and an inner seal member 16b are provided in duplicate, and the upper portion of the second rail surface 15 is at the rail surface 15a.
Has become. Further, an inclined surface 17 which is continuous with the rail surface 15a and is inclined downward is provided on the front end side of the second rail portion 15.

The roof opening 9 is provided with a foldable hood 23 made of flexible hood cloth.

The hood 23 has an outer leather 23a on the outer side and an inner leather 23b on the inner side which serves as a headlining. On both sides of the canopy 23, wires 24 for ensuring tension are provided on the outer leather 23a side, and are in elastic contact with the outer and seal members 16a, 16b when fully closed.

The front area of the hood 23 is supported by the front movable body 25, the intermediate area thereof is supported by the plurality of support bodies 27, and the rear area thereof is supported by the rear movable body 29. A combination mode in which the front movable body 25 of the hood 23 is opened and closed manually by power and the rear movable body 29 is manually opened and closed is described. First, the front movable body 25 side that is opened and closed by power will be sequentially described.

On the rear end side of the roof opening 9, there is provided a drive motor 19 capable of normal rotation and reverse rotation controlled by a hand switch (not shown),
Geared cable driven by drive motor 19
The guide rail member 7 is movably arranged in the bull guide groove 11 of the guide rail member 7.

On the other hand, the front movable body 25 has a predetermined width, is formed in the shape of a strip plate that is long in the vehicle width direction, covers the upper surface of the front movable body 25, and is a terminal portion of the outer leather 23a folded back from the front edge to the back side. Are fixed to the back surface of the front movable body 25.

Both ends of the front movable body 25 are movably supported by a front elevating mechanism 31 slidable along the guide rail member 7.

In the front lifting mechanism 31, the first arm 35 and the second arm 37 are rotatably assembled in an X shape by the arm shaft 33, and one end of the first arm 35 is a bracket 39 fixed to the back surface of the front movable body 25. It is rotatably supported by a pin P ₁ on the front mounting portion. The other end is pivotally supported by a driven slider 41 by a pin P ₂ , and the driven slider 41 has a slider hook portion 41 a and is slidably engaged in a guide recess 13 of the guide rail member 7. The slider hook portion 41a contacts the stopper 42 when fully closed.

The second arm 37 has a rolling roller, one end of which is slidably supported by a guide hole 49 formed in the rear mounting portion of the bracket 39 through a pin P ₃ and the other end of which is a pin P ₄ Is pivotally supported by the drive slider 45. The drive slider 45 is slidably engaged with the guide recess 12 of the guide rail member 7. As shown in FIG. 6, the geared cable 21 is screwed onto the drive slider 45, and the drive slider 45 can be slid back and forth by pulling control by the geared cable 21.

The rolling roller 43 comes into contact with the inside of the inclined surface 17 provided on the front end side of the second rail portion 15 when fully closed. As a result, the upward movement of the front movable body 25 is restricted.

The guide hole 49 provided in the rear mounting portion of the bracket 39 has a shape corresponding to the operation locus of the pin P _{3 which} moves up and down with the upper end side of the second arm 37 about the arm shaft 33 as a fulcrum. As a result, the smooth sliding movement of the pin P ₃ is allowed.

The support bodies 27 that support the intermediate region of the hood 23 are arranged at four locations at substantially equal intervals, and a pipe-shaped hood aggregate 50 that is long in the vehicle width direction.
And sliders 51 and 53 described later.

The hood aggregate 50 of the support 27 has an arcuate shape in which the central portion is slightly higher than both ends, and along the guide rail member 7 on both sides of the hood aggregate 50 located at the first and third positions. The sliding sliders 51, 51 are slidable, and the vertically movable floating sliders 53, 53 are fitted and fixed to both sides of the top and second aggregates 50, respectively. At this fitting and fixing part, as shown in FIG.
On the 51/53 side, fitting protrusions 51a / 53a with a cross-shaped cross section
On the side of 50, a fitting recess 50 that engages with the fitting projections 51a and 51a
a and 50a are provided, and a fitted state in which the rotation of the top aggregate 50 is restricted with respect to the sliders 51 and 53 is secured.

In addition, as shown in FIG.
On both sides of the outer leather 23a, a first insertion portion 55 that fits into the bag portion of the outer leather 23a, a second insertion portion 57 that fits into the bag portion of the folded inner leather 23b, and protrudes forward and backward. The floating slider 53 is engaged with the engaging member 59 fixed to the guide rail member 7 side so as to be engageable and disengageable with each other when the hood 23 is completely closed. A hook portion 61 is provided.

The engagement surface 59a of the engagement member 59 has a shape that allows engagement when the engagement hook portion 61 slides back and forth and when forcedly pressed from above, and restricts upward movement.

The fixing slider 51 slidably engages with the guide recess 12 of the guide rail member 7 and the hinge arm 63.
Is connected to the slider 53 for floating via.

The hinge arm 63 is formed in a U-shape with a downward cross section, and one end thereof is pivotally supported by the pin P _{5 on} the slider 51 for fixing, and the other end is pivotally supported by the pin P _{6 on} the slider 53 for floating and also for floating. Clamping pieces 63a and 63a for restraining the left and right movements of the hinge arm 63 by engaging with each other from above the rail portion 13 when the hood 23 that is in a substantially horizontal posture is fully closed are provided on the slider 53 side. There is.

In addition, a coil-shaped first biasing spring 65 is interposed at the insertion base portion of the slider 51 for fixing, and one spring terminal is provided.
65a is locked to the slider 51. The other spring terminal 6
5b is locked to the hinge arm 63, and the slider 53 for floating
Is always urged upward by the first urging spring 65.

The rear movable body 29 has a predetermined width, is formed in a strip plate shape that is long in the vehicle width direction, covers the upper surface of the rear movable body 29, and is a terminal of the outer leather 23a folded back from the rear edge to the back side. The portion is fixed to the rear surface of the rear movable body 29.

2 and 3 show a means operating portion 67 for manually operating the rear movable body 29, which is provided on both left and right sides of the rear movable body 29.

The manual operation part 67 is mounted on the handle bracket 69 with the handle shaft 71.
The operation handle 73 is attached via the flange 69a.
Is fixed to a cover plate 70 that is long in the vehicle width direction. The operation handle 73 is operated by a pin P ₇ on the tip side, which will be described later, crossing a horizontal virtual reference line passing through the handle shaft 71 as a fulcrum.
73 becomes operable in the non-operating position B and the operating position B, and is normally urged to the non-operating position B by the second urging spring 74. The tip of the operation handle 73 is pivotally supported on one end side of the first link rod 75 via the pin P ₇ . The other end of the first link rod 75 is pivotally supported together with the second link rod 39 by the base of the arm-shaped engaging member 77 and the pin P ₈ . The second link rod 79 has a pin P _{9 on the} handle bracket 69.
It is rotatably supported via.

The engaging member 77 has a hook portion 81 and a stopper portion 78, and when the hook portion 81 descends downward with the arm shaft 80 as a fulcrum, it engages with the striker 83 in a disengageable manner.

The striker 83 is fixed to the canvas top frame 66 on the vehicle body side by screws on the vehicle body side and has a meshing surface 83a and a regulating surface 83b that mesh with the hook portion 81. The meshing surface 83a and the restricting surface 83b are substantially vertical surfaces, and the restricting surface 83b is forward (on the left side in FIG. 3) to the meshing surface 8b.
3a are respectively formed on the rear side (right side in FIG. 3).

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the relationship between the engaging member 77 and the operating handle 73 is such that when the operating handle 73 is in the non-actuated position a, the first link rod 75 is in the inclined posture. The hook portion 81 of the engaging member 77 is set in an engaged state in which it engages with the striker 83. Further, when the operating handle 73 is in the operating position B, the first link rod 75 is in the horizontal posture. At this time, the hook portion 81 of the engagement member 77 is set to the disengaged state separated from the striker 83, and the rotation amount a of the second link rod 79 becomes the movement amount of the engagement member 77 in the front-rear direction. Becomes tension that pulls the hood 23 in the front-back direction.

The stopper portion 78 of the engaging member 77 is provided so as to oppose the hook portion 81. The hook portion 81 has an inner hook surface 81a,
Each has a flank face 81b on the outside, and the flank face 81b
Has a function of allowing the hook 81 to escape upward and allow the striker 83 to be passed over without any trouble when the hood 23 comes into contact with the restricting surface 83b of the striker 83 when fully closed.

Further, the hook portion 81 of the engaging member 77 is always urged downward by the third urging spring 85, that is, urged toward the striker 83.
One end of the biasing spring 85 is locked to the handle bracket 69, and the other end is locked to an arm extension 77a formed integrally with the engaging member 77.

As shown in FIG. 4, a mounting arm 87 and an engaging arm 89 are integrally extended from the handle bracket 69 via a hinge P to enable vertical movement independent of the handle bracket 69, and the mounting arm 87 is It is fixed to the rear movable body 29. Opposing engaging portions 90, 90 provided at the tip of the engaging arm 89 are slidably engaged along the guide concave portion 12 of the guide rail member 7, and are fully closed at the rear side of the guide rail member 7. The urging force for urging the rear end side of the hood 23 downward is secured by facing the inside of the descending inclined groove 91 provided in the. As a result, the rear movable body 29 comes into strong elastic contact with the seal members 16a and 16b.

In addition, a support member extended from the handle bracket 69
As shown in FIG. 12, a substantially middle portion of the braking arm 92 is rotatably supported by 66 on a pivot shaft 92a. At one end of the braking arm 92, a rubber braking body 93 that is in pressure contact with the rail upper surface 13a of the rail portion 13 is provided, and the braking body 93 is provided by a fourth biasing spring 94 provided on the opposite side of the braking arm 92. It is constantly in pressure contact with the rail upper surface 13a. As a result, the movement in the front-rear direction is restricted by the frictional resistance with the rail upper surface 13a.

The braking body 93 can be released from the rail upper surface 13a by the first restraint releasing means 95 and the second restraint releasing means 96.

The first restraint releasing means 95 has a cam body 72 fixed to the handle shaft 71 of the operation handle 73, and the cam body 72 is operated when the handle is operated.
72 pushes the end surface 92b of the braking arm 92 downwards against the fourth biasing spring 94, so that the braking body 93 rises, and the rail top surface
It is designed to move away from 13a.

The second restraint releasing means 96 is extended from the braking arm 92 and has a protruding member 97 that faces above the second rail portion 15,
It consists of a push-up roller 98 that can slide along the rail portion 15, and the push-up roller 98 is a slider for fixing on the rear side.
51 is rotatably supported by a pin P _{5 on} the second rail portion.
It is rotatably supported by a roller arm 99 that slides along 15.

The push-up roller 98 has a function of entering the lower portion of the projecting member 97 and pushing up the projecting member 97 upward when the hood 23 is folded, and separating the braking body 93 from the rail upper surface 13a. It is blindfolded by S so that it cannot be seen from the inside.

In the hood type sunroof device configured in this way,
The front movable body 25 in the fully closed state is moved by the geared cable 21 that meshes via the drive slider 45, and the rear movable body 29.
The engagement member 77 ensures the restrained state. In this state, when the drive motor 19 pulls and controls the geared cable 21, the front movable body 25 is moved rearward by the front elevating mechanism 31 with the rear end side inclined upward. By this movement, the rear end of the driven slider 41 presses the pressing portion 56 of the fixing slider 51 located at the first position, so that the floating slider 53 is pressed via the hinge arm 63 and the engaging hook portion 61 is engaged. It disengages from the mating member 59 and rises. Hereinafter, the first fixing slider 51 presses the pressing portion 56 of the next fixing slider 51 by the pressing portion 56. This allows the final slider to float.
The engaging hook portion 61 of 53 is disengaged from the engaging member 59 and rises.
Then, when the backward movement of the front movable body 25 is completed, the raised support body 27 allows the hood 23 to be in a fully open mode in which it is folded into two tiers.

On the other hand, the operation handle 73 is moved to the operating position B, and the hook
By disengaging 81 from the striker 83, the engagement state is released. Therefore, if the rear movable body 29 is moved forward, a mode in which the rear of the roof opening 9 is opened is obtained. Next, when the rear movable body 29 in the open state is slid backward, the stopper portion 78 comes into contact with the restricting surface 83b of the striker 83, and at the same time, the meshing surface 83a.
The hook portion 81 is positioned in the left and right hook portions 81 are surely engaged with the engagement surface 83a by the third biasing spring 85, and the left and right lock states are simultaneously obtained. Therefore, it is not necessary to operate while visually checking the alignment of the hook portion 81 with the striker 83, and the operability is greatly improved. Also, the striker 83 and the stopper 78 are hooks.
Since it has the function of positioning 81 at the meshing position, the accuracy of the mounting positions of the strikers 83 on the left and right becomes easy and the assembly becomes very easy.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the lock device of the hood type sunroof device of the present invention, when the hood is slid by hand to be fully closed, the hood is positioned by the stopper portion that abuts the striker and the hook portion. The meshing surface is surely meshed with the meshing surface, and the operability can be improved.

Further, since the accuracy of the mounting positions of the left and right strikers can be easily obtained, the assembling becomes very easy and the assembling property is improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a cut-away side view of a hood type sunroof device embodying the present invention, FIG. 2 is a cut-away side view of a manual operation part, FIG. 3 is an operation explanatory view of the manual operation part, and FIG. 4 is a manual operation part. Plan view,
5 is a rear view of the same as above, FIG. 6 is an enlarged sectional view taken along line VI-VI of FIG. 1, FIG. 7 is an enlarged sectional view taken along line VII-VII of FIG. 1, and FIG.
The figure is an enlarged sectional view taken along the line VIII-VIII of FIG. 1, FIG. 9 is an enlarged sectional view taken along the line IX-IX of FIG. 1, FIG. 10 is a sectional view taken along the line XX of FIG. 1, and FIG. 11 is fixed. Side view showing a connected state of a slider for a vehicle and a partially expanded floating slider, FIG. 12 is a perspective view showing a restraint means of a manual operation part, and FIG. 13 is a perspective view of an automobile in which a sunroof device is implemented. FIG. 14 is a plan view of a developed roof portion, and FIG. 15 is an explanatory view of a lock device showing a conventional example. 7 ... Guide rail member 9 ... Roof opening 23 ... Hood 77 ... Engaging member 78 ... Stopper portion 81 ... Hook portion 83 ... Striker

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A roof opening of a vehicle body is provided with an openable and closable hood that slides forward and backward along a guide rail member, and a striker having a meshing surface and a regulation surface is provided on the vehicle body side, and a hood side is provided on the hood side. An engaging member provided with a hook portion that is constantly urged toward the striker side by the urging means and is engaged with the engagement surface of the striker in a direction perpendicular to the engagement surface of the striker and the opening / closing direction when the hood is fully closed, The engaging member is provided with a stopper portion that opposes the hook portion in the front-rear direction, contacts the restriction surface of the striker when the hood is fully closed, and positions the hook portion at a meshing position where the hook portion meshes with the meshing surface. A locking device for a hood type sunroof device, which is characterized in that