JPH0843140A - Instrument for vehicle - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce the cost by providing a case, a facing plate, a fixing part and an indicator thereby making a case structure having enhanced versatility possible to be employed. CONSTITUTION:In order to fix an indicator in a case 7, the case 7 is provided with a plurality of case side fixing parts 10-14 on the surface opposite to a facing plate 8. In order to fix the indicator in the case 7 along with the fixing parts 10-14, each indicator is provided with an indicator side fixing part being formed according to a predetermined arranging pattern. An indicator selected among predetermined indicators is mounted on the facing plate 8 and the plurality of fixing parts 10-14 are formed on the facing surface of the case 7 so that the arranging pattern at the indicator side fixing part which a selectable indicator has is satisfied. Since a case 7 are for enhancing the versatility is employed, a different indicator can be arranged in the same case 7 for each grade or each type of vehicle, and thereby, the cost can be reduced.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a vehicle instrument installed in a vehicle and displaying vehicle information, and more particularly to a structure for holding and fixing an indicator stored in the vehicle instrument.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, a vehicle is equipped with an instrument inside an instrument panel for displaying vehicle information such as vehicle speed and remaining fuel amount to an occupant. Such an instrument is usually called a combination meter, and is equipped with a plurality of indicators and can display a plurality of information.

An example of such a vehicle instrument is shown in FIG. The vehicle instrument has a storage case 7a as shown in FIG.
It has multiple indicators inside. Here, the speedometer 30, the tachometer 31, the water temperature gauge 32, the fuel gauge 33, and the like are arranged on the back surface side of the dial plate 8. On the bottom wall of each of these indicators and the storage case 7a, a fixing portion such as a mounting hole for fixing each indicator is formed. Then, after each indicator and the storage case 7, the fixing parts of the both are aligned and screwed, and each indicator is attached and fixed to the storage case 7a.

[0004]

However, conventionally,
The fixed portions formed on the storage case 7a are set exclusively for the fixed portions of one predetermined indicator, and the display meters other than the predetermined indicator are the same fixed portion in the storage case. Could not be fixed to.
For example, the above-described speedometer 30 shown in FIG. 11 has its own fixed part, and the fixed part is formed in the storage case 7a so as to correspond to the arrangement pattern of the fixed part. However, even if another indicator, for example, a tachometer 31 or the like, is to be installed at a portion where the speedometer 30 is installed, the fixed portion and the storage case 7 in the indicator are installed.
The position of the fixed part in a does not match, and the storage case 7a
Can not be fixed to. As described above, in the conventional vehicle instrument, only the predetermined indicator can be installed in the storage case, and when the indicator other than the predetermined indicator is to be installed, the storage case is used for the indicator. Had to be specially formed to correspond to the fixed part of the. That is, the versatility of the storage case was low, which led to an increase in the cost of the vehicle instrument.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a vehicle instrument which adopts a storage case structure with improved versatility and can reduce costs.

[0006]

In order to solve the above problems, in a vehicle instrument according to claim 1 according to the present invention, a storage case, a dial plate disposed in the storage case, and the dial plate are dustproof. In order to do so, a dust-proof glass, and a display instrument for displaying vehicle information, which is provided on the back side of the dial plate, for displaying vehicle information, in a vehicle instrument provided in an instrument panel of a vehicle, the storage case is In order to fix the indicator in the storage case, the display meter has a plurality of case-side mounting and fixing portions formed on an opposite surface of the storage case that faces the dial plate, and the indicator includes the indicator. In order to fix the inside of the storage case, there is provided a display-meter-side mounting / fixing portion formed in a predetermined arrangement pattern that overlaps only a part of the plurality of case-side mounting / fixing portions. Meter, the display meter side mounting securing portion overlaps a part of the plurality of case-side fixing lugs, characterized in that it is mounted fixed to the facing surface of the storage case.

Further, the storage case, the dial plate arranged in the storage case, the dust-proof glass covered to protect the dial plate from dust, and the rear surface of the dial plate. Equipped with a display that displays vehicle information,
In a vehicle instrument arranged in an instrument panel of a vehicle, the storage case has a predetermined surface on a facing surface of the storage case that faces the dial plate in order to fix the indicator in the storage case. The plurality of case-side mounting and fixing portions formed with height and the display meter overlap only a part of the plurality of case-side mounting and fixing portions in order to fix the internal unit of the display meter in the storage case. And a case-side mounting / fixing portion that overlaps with the display-meter-side mounting / fixing portion, the case-side mounting / fixing portion being formed with a predetermined layout pattern. In addition to having a height, the indicator-side mounting and fixing portion overlaps with the case-side mounting and fixing portion having the predetermined height, and is mounted and fixed to the facing surface of the storage case. It is also possible to adopt an instrument for a vehicle to be.

Further, the display-meter-side mounting case-side mounting and fixing portion according to claim 3 is formed in the inner unit, and is formed in the display-meter-side mounting and fixing portion and the storage case formed in the inner unit. The vehicle instrument according to claim 2, wherein the indicator is fixed to the storage case by the case side attachment fixing portion.

Further, the case side mounting and fixing portion according to claim 4 is formed as a hollow cylindrical pipe-shaped hole portion on a surface of the storage case facing the dial plate. 3. The vehicle according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the indicator is fixed to the storage case by screwing and fixing the portion and the indicator-side mounting fixing portion of the indicator. You may make it employ | adopt a meter.

[0010]

The operation of the vehicle instrument constructed as described above will be described below. In the vehicle instrument according to the present invention, a plurality of case-side attachment fixing portions are provided in the storage case so as to overlap with the respective arrangement patterns of the display-instrument-side attachment fixing portions of the indicator which can be selectively adopted at the same position of the vehicle instrument. Has been formed. In this way, by forming the storage case, it is possible to arbitrarily select and place the display indicator in the same storage case as long as it is a selectable predetermined indicator.

Particularly in claim 2, each indicator has an internal unit for driving the respective indicator, and the internal unit may differ in shape and height depending on the indicator. However, by forming the height and position pattern of the case-side mounting and fixing part in accordance with the height and shape of the internal unit of each such indicator, an indicator having an internal unit of different shape and height can be obtained. Even if you select
It can be arbitrarily selected from the above and can be arranged in the same storage case.

By thus forming the storage case for the vehicle instrument, for example, even in the same storage case according to the grade of the vehicle, the display meter can be selected and the versatility of the storage case can be improved. Is.

[0013]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of a vehicle instrument of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a front view showing a vehicle instrument, for example, a low grade meter mounted on a low grade vehicle. The low grade meter 100 is provided with a water temperature gauge 1, a speedometer 2, a fuel gauge 3, and the like.

FIG. 2 is also a front view showing a vehicle instrument similarly, for example, a high-grade meter mounted on a high-grade vehicle. The high-grade meter 200 is provided with a water temperature fuel gauge 4, a speedometer 2, a tachometer 5, and the like. As will be described later with reference to FIGS. 3 to 10, in the high grade meter 200, the storage case 7, the dial plate 8, and the dustproof glass 9 used in the low grade meter 100 shown in FIG. Used in combination with 100. That is, the high-grade meter 200 of FIG. 2 uses the same storage case 7 as the indicator of the low-grade meter 100 of FIG. 1, that is, the water temperature gauge 1 and the fuel gauge 3, and uses another indicator, that is, a water temperature fuel gauge. 4 and the tachometer 5 is replaced.

In recent years, in response to the vehicle type of the vehicle or the grade in the vehicle type, the display function of the vehicle instrument is reduced or increased to provide the vehicle instrument with the grade. For example, in a low-grade instrument, for example, a tachometer is omitted, and the low-grade meter 100 has a reduced cost. On the contrary, in a high-grade instrument, a tachometer or the like is arranged to make the high-grade meter 200 with more information. At this time, since the high grade meter 200 employs the tachometer 5, instead of the water temperature gauge 1 in the low grade meter 100, the water temperature fuel gauge 4 having the functions of a water temperature gauge and a fuel gauge is adopted. Further, even when the low grade meter 100 and the high grade meter 200 are similarly provided with speedometers or the like, the speedometers having different sizes, shapes, and functions may be adopted. For the above reasons, the low-grade meter 100 and the high-grade meter 200 often differ in the indicator itself arranged inside and the arrangement pattern thereof.

Thus, a vehicle instrument having a different indicator is completed for each combination of indicators in the vehicle instrument that changes depending on the grade of the vehicle, etc., but a storage case in which each indicator is fixed and stored However, if it is formed for each selected combination of indicators, the cost is very high. Therefore, it is desirable to be able to select an indicator to be used within a predetermined combination of indicators and to configure a vehicle instrument for each function such as high grade or low grade by using the same storage case. Hereinafter, such a configuration will be described.

The low grade meter 100 shown in FIG.
Includes a storage case having a back surface as shown in FIG. The storage case 7 includes a fuel gauge pipe-shaped hole group 10 and a speedometer pipe-shaped hole group for fixing the respective indicators of the water temperature gauge 1, the speedometer 2, and the fuel gauge 3 to the storage case 7. 11, Pipe-shaped hole group 12 for water thermometer
have. As will be described later with reference to FIGS. 9 and 10, each of these hole groups is formed as a case side attachment fixing portion for fixing each indicator in a pipe shape from the front side to the back side of the paper surface in FIG. Further, a tachometer pipe hole group 13 and a water temperature fuel gauge pipe hole group 14 to which a tachometer 5 and a water temperature fuel gauge 4 described later with reference to FIGS. 7 and 8 can be fixed are also formed in advance.

Each of the hole groups 10 to 14 is formed in the same arrangement pattern as the display meter side mounting and fixing portion group formed in each of the display meters 1 to 5. The display-meter-side mounting and fixing portion group of the display meter is formed on the water temperature gauge 1, the speedometer 2, and the fuel gauge 3. The display-meter-side mounting and fixing portion group is used to connect the pipe-shaped hole groups 10 to 12 respectively. It is fixed with screws. Further, similarly to the tachometer 5 and the water temperature fuel gauge 4, a display meter side mounting and fixing portion group is formed, and the display meter side mounting and fixing portion group is screwed and fixed to each of the hole groups 13 and 14.

That is, as shown in FIGS. 4 to 8, each display meter is provided with a display meter side mounting and fixing portion group. As shown in FIG. 4, on the back surface of the dial 20 which is the display portion of the fuel gauge 3, the fuel gauge internal unit is arranged so as to match the position pattern of the fuel gauge pipe hole group 10 formed in the storage case 7. A fuel gauge fixing portion group 15 is formed at 31. Further, as shown in FIG. 5, the storage case 7 is provided on the back surface of the dial 20 which is a display portion of the speedometer 2.
The speedometer fixing unit group 16 is formed in the speedometer internal unit 32 so as to match the position pattern of the speedometer pipe-shaped hole group 11 formed in FIG. Also,
As shown in FIG. 6, on the back surface of the dial 20 which is the display portion of the water temperature gauge 1, the water temperature gauge internal unit is arranged so as to match the arrangement pattern of the water temperature gauge pipe-shaped hole group 14 formed in the storage case 7. A water thermometer fixed portion group 17 is formed at 33. Further, as shown in FIG. 7, on the back surface of the dial 20 which is the display portion of the tachometer 5, in FIG. 9, so as to match the arrangement pattern of the tachometer pipe-shaped hole group 13 formed in the storage case 7. A tachometer fixing portion group 18 is formed on the printed wiring board 6 arranged in the illustrated tachometer internal unit 34. Further, as shown in FIG. 8, on the back surface of the dial 20 which is the display portion of the water temperature fuel gauge 4, so as to match the arrangement pattern of the water temperature fuel gauge pipe-shaped hole group 14 formed in the storage case 7, A water temperature fuel gauge fixed portion group 19 is formed.

In each of the indicators 1 to 5, each of the internal units 31 to 35 for driving them has a predetermined shape and size according to the indicators 1 to 5, respectively. The tachometer 5 and the fuel meter 3 will be described below as an example with reference to FIGS. 9 and 10. 9 is a sectional view taken along line BB of the high-grade meter 200 shown in FIG. 2, and FIG.
AA in the low grade meter 100 shown in FIG.
It is sectional drawing.

As shown in FIG. 9, the internal unit 34 of the tachometer 5 installed inside the dial plate 8 is provided with a printed wiring board 6 for controlling and driving the internal unit 34.
The distance from 0 to the tachometer fixing portion group 18 located on the printed wiring board 6 is β. The back surface of the printed wiring board 6 is soldered with the solder 22, and the soldered portion has a shape in which the solder is raised. From the bottom of the storage case 7, a case-side fixing portion formed in a pipe shape is formed at a predetermined height as a tachometer pipe hole group 18. That is, the tachometer pipe-shaped hole group 18 is formed so as to match the depth β at which the fixed portion group is located in the printed wiring board 6 of the tachometer 5 and the arrangement pattern of the fixed portion group.

A fuel gauge pipe-shaped hole group 10 is also formed in the storage case 7. The distance to the fuel gauge fixing portion group 15 formed in the inner unit 31 of the fuel gauge 3 is γ as shown in FIG. 10, and the height of the fuel gauge pipe-shaped hole group 10 is adjusted to this depth γ. Is set, and is formed so as to match the position pattern of the fuel gauge pipe-shaped hole group 10 of the fuel gauge 3.

Here, there is a difference between the height of the tachometer pipe-shaped hole group 13 and the height of the fuel meter pipe-shaped hole group 10, and the printed wiring board 6 of the tachometer 5 is between the height differences α. The solder part in is settled. In the vehicle instrument according to the present invention formed as described above, in the low grade meter 100 and the high grade meter 200 shown in FIG. 1, the dial plate 8 has the same shape,
Further, a fixing portion of the indicator is formed so that the storage case 7 can be used together.

That is, as shown in FIG.
In order to fix different types of predetermined indicators, for example, the water temperature gauge 1 and the water temperature fuel gauge 4 with screws 21, as shown in FIG. The case-side mounting and fixing portion is formed in advance on the storage case 7. The internal units 33, 3 of the respective display meters, the water temperature gauge 1 and the water temperature fuel gauge 4 are
When the heights of the water temperature gauges 5 are the same, the heights of the water temperature gauge pipe-shaped hole group 12 and the water temperature fuel gauge pipe hole group 14 may be set to the same height. As described above, the same storage case 7 can be used in both the low grade meter 100 that uses the water temperature gauge 1 and the high grade meter 200 that uses the water temperature fuel gauge 4.

Further, when the heights of the internal units in the respective display meters are different, that is, when the fuel gauge 3 and the tachometer 5 are to be fixed to the storage case 7, the respective display meters are to be fixed. Each fixing portion is formed in the storage case 7 so as to correspond to the height of the display meter side attachment fixing portion group formed in the inner unit. In the storage case 7 formed in this way, as shown in FIG. 10, it is possible to install the selected indicator, that is, the fuel gauge 3 here instead of the tachometer 5 in the same storage case 7.

Therefore, it is possible to form a high grade meter 200 and a low grade meter 100 of different types, for example, by adopting a predetermined indicator selected in the same housing case 7. That is, the versatility of the storage case for the vehicle instrument can be improved, and the cost of the vehicle instrument can be reduced. At this time, needless to say, if the dustproof glass 9 and the dial plate 8 can be shared in the low-grade and high-grade meters as in this embodiment, further cost reduction can be promoted. .

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, but can be variously modified as follows. For example, in the above embodiment, the dial plate 8 can also be shared,
Low grade meter 100 and high grade meter 200
The shape of the dial 20 of the indicator selected by and is the same, but the shape is not limited to this. That is, even if the dials of the selected predetermined indicators are different from each other, the dial plate 8 is replaced so that the fixed indicator can be fixed in accordance with the arrangement pattern of each fixing portion group formed on the selected predetermined indicator. If the parts are formed in the storage case respectively, at least the versatility of the storage case can be improved.

Further, in the above embodiment, in the instrument having a plurality of indicators like the combination meter and capable of displaying a lot of information, the storage case is formed as described above. However, in a vehicle instrument having a single indicator, even if the fixing portion is formed in the storage case so as to satisfy the arrangement pattern and height of the fixing portion in the selectable indicator, the same as in the above embodiment. The versatility of the storage case can be improved.

[0029]

As described above, according to the present invention, a storage case having improved versatility is adopted, and different indicators can be arranged in the same storage case for each grade and each car model.
It is possible to provide a vehicle instrument that can reduce costs.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view showing a low grade meter of a vehicle instrument according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front view of a high-grade meter of a vehicle instrument according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a back view showing the back surface of the storage case of the vehicle instrument according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a back view showing the back surface of the fuel gauge.

FIG. 5 is a back view showing the back surface of the speedometer.

FIG. 6 is a back view showing the back surface of the water thermometer.

FIG. 7 is a back view showing the back surface of the tachometer.

FIG. 8 is a back view showing the back surface of the water temperature fuel gauge.

9 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line BB of the high-grade meter shown in FIG.

10 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line AA of the low grade meter shown in FIG.

FIG. 11 is a front view of a conventional vehicle instrument.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Water temperature meter 2 Speedometer 3 Fuel meter 4 Water temperature fuel meter 5 Tachometer 6 Printed wiring board 7 Storage case 8 Lookout plate 9 Dust-proof glass 10 Pipe-shaped hole for fuel gauge (fixing part on the case side) 11 Pipe-shaped hole for speedometer ( Case-side mounting and fixing part) 12 Water temperature gauge pipe-shaped hole (case-side mounting and fixing part) 13 Tachometer pipe-shaped hole (case-side mounting and fixing part) 14 Water temperature fuel meter pipe-shaped hole (case-side mounting and fixing part) 15 Fuel Meter fixing part (display meter side mounting and fixing part) 16 Speedometer fixing part (display meter side mounting and fixing part) 17 Water temperature gauge fixing part (display meter side mounting and fixing part) 18 Tachometer fixing part (display meter side mounting and fixing part) 19 Water temperature fuel gauge fixed part (display meter side fixed part) 20 dial 22 solder 100 low grade meter (vehicle instrument) 200 high Redometa (instrument vehicle)

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Hiroaki Maruchi, 1-1, Showa-machi, Kariya city, Aichi Prefecture, Nihon Denso Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor, Masato Terasawa, 1-1, Showa-cho, Kariya city, Aichi Japan Denso Co., Ltd.

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A storage case, a dial plate disposed in the storage case, dust-proof glass that covers the dial plate to prevent dust, and an indicator arranged on the back side of the dial plate for displaying vehicle information. In a vehicle instrument provided in an instrument panel of a vehicle, the storage case has an opposing surface facing the dial plate of the storage case for fixing the indicator in the storage case. And a plurality of case-side mounting / fixing portions formed on the housing, and the indicator has a predetermined overlap with only a part of the plurality of case-side mounting / fixing portions in order to fix the indicator in the storage case. And a display meter side mounting and fixing part formed with an arrangement pattern, wherein the display meter side mounting and fixing part overlaps a part of the plurality of case side mounting and fixing parts. And an instrument for a vehicle, wherein the instrument is mounted and fixed to the facing surface of the storage case. 2. A storage case, a dial plate disposed in the storage case, dust-proof glass that covers the dial plate to prevent dust, and an indicator arranged on the back side of the dial plate for displaying vehicle information. In a vehicle instrument provided in an instrument panel of a vehicle, the storage case has an opposing surface facing the dial plate of the storage case for fixing the indicator in the storage case. A plurality of case-side mounting and fixing parts formed with a predetermined height, and the indicator includes a part of the plurality of case-side mounting and fixing parts for fixing the internal unit of the indicator to the storage case. And a display-meter-side mounting / fixing portion formed with a predetermined arrangement pattern that overlaps with the display meter-side mounting / fixing portion. Has a predetermined height corresponding to the height, and the indicator-side mounting and fixing portion overlaps with the case-side mounting and fixing portion having the predetermined height, and is mounted and fixed to the facing surface of the storage case. Vehicle instrument characterized by. 3. The display-meter-side mounting case-side mounting-fixing portion is formed in the inner unit, and the display-meter-side mounting-fixing portion is formed in the inner unit and a case-side mounting-fixing portion is formed in the storage case. The vehicle instrument according to claim 2, wherein the indicator is fixed to the storage case by the. 4. The case-side mounting and fixing portion is formed as a hollow cylindrical pipe-shaped hole on the facing surface facing the dial plate of the storage case, and the pipe-shaped hole and the display of the indicator. The vehicle instrument according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the indicator is fixed to the storage case by screwing and fixing the meter-side mounting and fixing portion.