JPH0721373Y2 - Sunshade guide rail support structure - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Industrial field of application) The present invention relates to a sunroof of an automobile, and more particularly to a structure for supporting a sunshade guide rail in the sunroof.

(Prior Art) Some sunroofs are disclosed, for example, in Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 61-201931. According to this, a window opening is formed in the roof panel of the vehicle body, a reinforcing plate for reinforcing the opening edge of the window opening is provided, and the reinforcing plate is supported by a bracket attached to the roof side rail.

Further, in the above structure, there is one in which the window opening is opened and closed from the passenger compartment side to provide a sunshade that enables light shielding. In this case, a pair of guide rails are provided along the opening edge of the window opening. The sun shade is supported by the guide rail so as to be slidable back and forth, and the window opening is opened and closed by the sliding forward and backward.

(Problems to be solved by the invention) By the way, in the case of the above-described conventional configuration, the bracket for supporting the guide rail on the vehicle body side is provided separately from the bracket of the reinforcing plate. However, there is a disadvantage that the structure of the sunroof becomes complicated.

Further, in the above case, in order to support the sunshade without rattling, it is required that the support of the guide rail with respect to the vehicle body side is as strong as possible.

(Purpose of the Invention) The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and it is intended to support the sunshade guide rail with respect to the vehicle body side with a simple structure and with sufficient strength. With the goal.

(Structure of the Invention) A feature of the present invention for achieving the above-mentioned object is that when a reinforcing plate for reinforcing the opening edge of the window opening is supported by the bracket on the roof side rail, the sunshade is attached to the bracket. It is the point that the guide rails for cars were supported.

(Embodiment) An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

In FIG. 2, reference numeral 1 denotes an automobile body, and a ceiling portion of the vehicle body 1 is composed of a pair of left and right roof side rails 2 and a roof panel 3 whose left and right ends are supported by the roof side rails 2 and 2. The roof panel 3 is provided with a sunroof 4. Reference numeral 5 is a front window, and 6 is a front side door.

The sunroof 4 will be described with reference to all the drawings.

The roof panel 3 has a window opening 8 formed in a rectangular shape in a plan view, and a window glass 9 for closing the window opening 8 is provided. 10 is a molding, 11 is an adhesive, and the window glass 9 is fixed to the opening edge 13 of the window opening 8 by this adhesive 11, that is, the sunroof 4 is a fixed window type. Then, the vehicle interior 14 can be illuminated through the window glass 9.

A reinforcing plate 15 is provided that extends along the surface of the opening edge 13 on the vehicle compartment 14 side, and the reinforcing plate 15 has a frame shape that borders the window opening 8 in a plan view. The edge of the reinforcing plate 15 on the side of the window opening 8 in the width direction (hereinafter, this is referred to as the inner edge 15a, and the opposite edge is referred to as the outer edge 15b). The upper surface is the lower surface of the opening edge 13. It is joined and welded, whereby the opening edge 13 is reinforced. Further, the outer edge portion 15b is formed in a U-shaped cross section, and this is the drain groove 17
This drainage groove 17 drains rainwater that has entered the passenger compartment 14 side from the joint surface between the window glass 9 and the opening edge 13 toward the outside of the vehicle.

Each of the roof side rails 2 is formed in a box-shaped cross section by joining an inner panel 18 and an outer panel 19 in the middle, and thus supports the roof panel 3 with sufficient strength. A bracket 21 for supporting the reinforcing plate 15 is provided on the roof side rail 2.

The bracket 21 is made of sheet metal and is bent in a wave shape in cross section, that is, formed so as to have sufficient rigidity.
A pair of front and rear brackets 21 are provided on each of the left and right opening edges of the opening edge 13, and the lower end of each bracket 21 is firmly screwed to the inner panel 18 of the roof side rail 2 by a bolt 22. . Further, the upper end of the bracket 21 is firmly screwed to the outer edge portion 15b of the reinforcing plate 15 by a pair of front and rear bolts 23, that is,
The reinforcing plate 15 is firmly supported by the roof side rail 2 via the bracket 21, whereby the opening edge 13 is further sufficiently reinforced.

A pair of guide rails 25, 25 extending in the front-rear direction of the vehicle body 1 are provided along the left and right opening edges of the opening edge 13, and the left and right ends of the sunshade 26 are slidable back and forth on the guide rails 25, 25. It is fitted. When the sunshade 26 is slid forward, the window opening 8 is closed to block light (shown by the solid line in each figure), and when slid backward, the window opening 8 is opened. It is possible to illuminate (shown by phantom lines in FIG. 2).

In the above case, each guide rail 25 is made of sheet metal, and the guide rail 25 has a U-shaped cross-section fitting portion 27 into which the left and right ends of the sunshade 26 are fitted, and a supporting piece extending from the fitting portion 27.
28 and. Then, the support piece 28 is screwed to the lower surface of the upper end of the bracket 21 by a pair of front and rear bolts 30, 30, that is, each of the guide rails 25 is a bracket.
Supported by 21.

31 is a molded ceiling, the molded ceiling 31 is hooked at its upper end to a locking piece 32 integrally molded with the support piece 28, the lower end is attached to the lower end of the bracket 21 by a pair of front and rear clips 33, that is, The molded ceiling 31 is also firmly supported by the roof side rail 2 and the bracket 21. The molded ceiling 31 entirely covers the lower surface of the roof panel 3 to improve the appearance of the passenger compartment 14.

According to this invention, since the sun shade guide rails are supported by using the brackets for supporting the reinforcing plates on the roof side rails, the brackets are individually provided for supporting the reinforcing plates and the guide rails. As compared with the conventional case, the support of the guide rail is achieved by a simple structure.

Further, the roof side rails and brackets have sufficient strength in terms of their functions. Therefore, the guide rails supported by these roof side rails and brackets are supported with sufficient strength.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 1 shows I-I of FIG.
FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the vehicle body corresponding to the line arrow view, FIG. 2 is an upper perspective view of the automobile, FIG. 3 is an enlarged perspective view of the left bracket, and FIG. FIG. 1 ... Car body, 2 ... Roof side rails, 3 ... Roof panel, 4 ... Sunroof, 8 ... Window opening, 13 ... Opening edge, 14 ... Car interior, 15 ... Reinforcing plate, 21 ... Bracket, 25 …… Guide rail, 26 …… Sunshade.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A window opening is formed in a roof panel of a vehicle body, a reinforcing plate extending along an opening edge of the window opening to reinforce the opening edge is provided, and the reinforcing plate is attached to a bracket attached to a roof side rail. A sunshade guide rail supporting structure in which a guide rail is supported by the bracket in an automobile sunroof provided with a sunshade guide rail extending along the opening edge of the window opening.