JPH0894304A - Method and device for measuring level of distortion damage of damaged vehicle - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To provide a method and a device for measuring a level of distortion damage of a damaged vehicle capable of making an accurate estimate of a repair cost. CONSTITUTION: A supporting bodies 3 each having a height-adjusting mechanism are provided to right and left jack points of front or rear locker panel of a vehicle 1 so that the front or rear section of the vehicle 1 is lifted to be supported. A measure 6 having a level 5 is bridged between height-adjusting handles 4 whereby the respective height-adjusting mechanisms of the right and left supporting bodies 3 are operated. Then, the front or rear section of the vehicle 1 is lifted to be supported in the horizontal condition by adjusting the heights observing the level 5 by means of the height-adjusting handles 4. Dimensions of prescribed measuring points of the vehicle 1 lifted to be supported in the horizontal condition are measured by means of the measure 6 so that the level of distortion damage of the accidental vehicle is measured.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a strain damage degree measuring method for an accident vehicle and a measuring instrument therefor.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art When the cost of repairing a vehicle due to an accident is paid by insurance, a repairer who is a repair contractor generally presents an estimate to the insurer before repairing. However, in recent years, an insurance company first makes an estimate of the repair cost of the accident vehicle, and presents this estimate to the repair agency to request the repair.

On the other hand, a vehicle repair shop has conventionally been equipped with a large measuring device which measures the size of a predetermined measurement point of an accident vehicle and accurately indicates the degree of damage due to an accident, and received a repair request. In order to avoid overlooking the estimate presented by the insurer, the repair company measures the exact damage level of the accident vehicle with this measuring device and creates an accurate estimate of the repair cost based on this measurement value. It is desirable to undertake the repair, but for that purpose the vehicle has to be bothered to be brought into the repair shop and installed in a large-scale measuring device, which is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and very troublesome. Therefore, most of the time, they either follow the quotes provided by this insurance company, or the repairers make simple quotes as a guide and undertake repairs.

However, when the repair work is undertaken in this manner, an oversight is often found when the damage degree of the accident vehicle is accurately measured by the measuring device when the repair work is actually started. The cost of repair is different from the estimated cost, and it is the current situation that the repair company suffers a lot of loss due to this incorrect estimate.

In view of the above situation, the present invention can accurately measure the size of a predetermined measurement point of an accident vehicle anywhere regardless of the measurement place, thereby bringing the accident vehicle to a repair shop one by one and taking a large scale. The present invention proposes a strain damage degree measuring method for an accident vehicle and a measuring instrument therefor capable of easily making an accurate estimation of repair cost without installing it in a different measuring device.

[0006]

The gist of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

A support body 3 having a height adjusting mechanism 2 is arranged at each jack point on the left and right of a rocker panel at the front or rear of the vehicle 1 to lift and support the front or rear of the vehicle 1 and The height adjusting handle 4 for actuating the height adjusting mechanism 2 of the support 3 is provided with a measure 6 having a leveler 5 in a suspended state, and the vehicle 1 is adjusted by the height adjusting handle 4 while looking at the leveler 5. The height is adjusted so that the front part or the rear part of the vehicle is lifted and supported in a horizontal state, and the size of a predetermined measurement point of the vehicle 1 lifted and supported in this horizontal state is measured by the measure 6. The present invention relates to a vehicle strain damage degree measuring method.

Further, the height adjusting mechanism 2 is provided with a height adjusting handle 4 for supporting the front portion or the rear portion of the vehicle 1 by lifting and supporting the front and rear portions of the rocker panel on the front portion or the rear portion of the vehicle 1. The two body supports 3 are placed on the body support body 3 and the height adjustment handles 4 of the two body support bodies 3 in a suspended state, and the two body support bodies 3 are operated by the operation of the height adjustment mechanism 2.
And a measure 6 provided with a leveler 5 for setting the vehicle 1 supported in 1) in a horizontal state.

Further, a point bar 15 which is aligned with a predetermined measuring point of the vehicle 1 is provided on the left and right of a long measure 6 having a leveler 5, and at least one of the left and right point bars 15 is provided on the measure 6. It is configured to be slidable along the length direction so that the length between the point bars 15 can be measured, and at least one of the left and right point bars 15 has an expansion and contraction adjustment mechanism 17 that can adjust the expansion and contraction degree of the point bar 15. The present invention relates to a strain damage measuring instrument for an accident vehicle, characterized by being provided so as to be able to measure the expansion / contraction length of the point bar 15.

[0010]

Operation: Supports 3 are arranged at the left and right jack points of the rocker panel at the front or rear of the vehicle 1 to lift and support the front or rear of the accident vehicle 1, and the height of the left and right supports 3 is adjusted. While arranging the measure 6 on the handle 4 while looking at the level 5 of the measure 6,
The left and right support members 3 are operated so that the height adjusting mechanism 4 operates the height adjusting mechanism 2 to lift and support the rocker panel at the front or rear of the vehicle 1 which is supported horizontally.
Adjust the height of. Then, the size of the predetermined measurement point of the accident vehicle 1 which is lifted and supported in this horizontal state is measured by the measure 6.

In addition, the left and right point bars 15 of the measure 6
Is adjusted to the interval of a predetermined measurement point of the vehicle 1, the length between the point bars 15 can be measured. The difference in height between the measurement points can be measured from the expansion / contraction length of the point bar 15.

[0012]

EXAMPLES The support 3 (adjuster rigid track) will be described.

The support body 3 of this embodiment is applied to a jack body, which is a so-called horse jack, which holds the vehicle 1 in a lifted state, and is constructed by providing a height adjusting mechanism 2 on the jack body. It is a thing. The height adjusting mechanism 2 is configured to adjust the height by forming the pillar of the jack body in three parts in the vertical direction.

More specifically, the lower pillar 3a integrally formed with the installation leg is formed as a cylindrical pillar into which the middle pillar 3b can be slid and inserted, and a through hole penetrating horizontally toward the upper part. 7 are formed. On the other hand, near the lower part of the middle support column 3b, there are two upper and lower matching holes 8 corresponding to the through-holes 7. The middle support column 3b is inserted into the lower support column 3a so that the through hole 7 and the through-holes 7 By aligning one of the matching holes 8 with each other in a communicating state, and inserting the locking pins 13 into both of these communicating holes to fix the position, the middle pillar 3b with respect to the lower pillar 3a can be roughly two-steps up and down. It has a structure that allows height adjustment. In addition, a thrust bearing in which a rubber head 10 for mounting and supporting a jack point on the bottom of the vehicle is disposed inside the top of the upper pillar 3c.
A screw rod 11 is provided so as to be horizontally rotatable by 21, and a threaded rod 11 that is screwed and locked correspondingly to a screw hole 9 formed at the top of the column 3b in the middle is vertically provided at the bottom. Also, the upper pillar 3
Mounting holes 12 are formed at four predetermined positions on the lower side of c, and two height adjusting handles 4 are detachably provided in the mounting holes 12 at two positions by a screwing tightening structure. Prop 3
The screw rod 11 of the upper support column 3c is screwed into and engaged with the screw hole 9 of b, and the upper support column 3c is secured by the two height adjusting handles 4.
Is configured to be capable of finely adjusting the height of the upper strut 3c with respect to the middle strut 3b by loosening by horizontally rotating and tightening. The reason why the two height adjusting handles 4 are used is that the two height adjusting handles 4 can be easily grasped and turned by both hands. Also, the rubber head 10
It is possible to horizontally rotate the thrust bearing 21 so that the jack point at the bottom of the vehicle 1 and the groove of the rubber head 10 can be easily aligned with each other, and the vehicle 1 can be lifted and supported to be highly supported. This is because the height adjustment handle 4 can be smoothly rotated. Reference numeral 14 in the drawing is a tightening bolt for fixing the rubber head 10 to prevent it from rotating.

The measure 6 will be described.

The measure 6 of the present embodiment is constructed by forming scales 18 shown in millimeter units on a long body, and providing levelers 5 at three positions of left and right ends and an intermediate part. The levelers 5 are provided at three positions of the measure 6 so that the rocker panels at the front or rear of the vehicle 1 which are lifted and supported by the two supports 3 to be described later by the levelers 5 at the three positions are leveled. This is because it can be done reliably.

A cursor for reading the scale 18 which slides on the measure 6 along the lengthwise direction of the measure 6.
By providing two 16 and projecting a point bar 15 at the lower end of each cursor 16 for adjusting to a predetermined measurement point of the vehicle 1 and sliding each cursor 16 to adjust the point bar 15 to the measurement point, It is configured so that the length dimension between the point bars 15 can be measured.

Further, by providing an expansion / contraction adjusting mechanism 17 capable of adjusting the expansion / contraction degree of the point bar 15 on either one of the point bars 15 and adjusting the expansion / contraction of the point bar 15 to match the measurement points, the height of each measurement point is increased. It is constructed so that the difference in size can be measured.

Explaining the expansion / contraction adjusting mechanism 17 in detail, the point bar 15 is composed of an indicator rod 15a and an indicator rod receiver 15b.
The indicator rod 15a is non-detachable and vertically slidably fitted to an indicator rod receiver 15b attached to the lower end of the cursor 16 so that the indicator rod 15a can extend and contract with respect to the indicator rod receiver 15b. An indicator rod 15a that is inserted into the indicator rod receiver 15b.
In order to measure the degree of expansion and contraction of the indicator rod 15a by forming a long scale 20 for reading the scale 19 on the indicator rod receiving body 15b by forming a scale 19 on the base end portion of the indicator rod 15b. I am configuring. Next, the measuring method will be described.

First, the center beam at the front or rear of the vehicle 1 is located at the front of the vehicle 1 if the front of the vehicle 1 is damaged, and at the rear of the vehicle 1 if the rear of the vehicle 1 is damaged. Jack up with a hydraulic jack. Subsequently, the positions of the jack points on the left and right of the rocker panel on the front or rear of the jacked-up vehicle 1 (to the jack points of the lower arm when the jack points on the rocker panel are damaged) are adjusted to be substantially the same in advance. Place the two support bodies 3 adjusted to the height on the floor, and while checking the position of the jack point and the groove of the rubber head 10, slowly lower the hydraulic jack to support these two bodies. The body 3 lifts and supports the front or rear of the vehicle 1. Subsequently, the height adjusting handles 4 are screwed into the appropriate mounting holes 12 of the left and right supporting bodies 3, and the measure 6 is placed on the height adjusting handles 4 of the respective supporting bodies 3 in a erected state. The height adjusting handle 4 is turned while looking at the three levelers 5 of the measure 6 so that the rocker panel of the vehicle 1 is maintained in a just horizontal state. Then, the diagonal line and length and height of the strut panel, which is the measurement point of the front part of the vehicle 1 and the engine internal skeleton part which are lifted and supported in this horizontal state, the length and height of the lower arm panel, the body side and the door pin. Point, side member height and diagonal, or set ring, which is the measurement point at the rear of vehicle 1, diagonal of gate panel, height of corner fender and rear fender, measurement of length and height of rear side member and diagonal The size of the spot is measured using the above measure 6.

Therefore, accurate dimension measurement of the above-mentioned measurement point, which was conventionally possible only by using a large measuring device installed in a repair shop, can be performed by using the equipment of this embodiment. Since the measuring instrument of the present embodiment, which is composed of the body support 3 and the measure 6, can be easily carried, the measuring location is not selected, and no complicated mechanical operation is required for the measurement, so that workability is good. Demonstrate excellent effects.

Therefore, it is possible to make an accurate estimate of the repair cost without having to bring the vehicle 1 to the repair shop one by one and install it in a large-scale measuring device, which makes it difficult to measure the dimension of the vehicle 1 by the conventional measuring device. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the loss incurred by undertaking repairs according to an inaccurate estimate made as a guide, and to exert an excellent effect.

[0023]

Since the present invention is constructed as described above, it is possible to accurately measure the size of a predetermined measurement point of an accident vehicle by using two supports and a measure.

Further, since the strain damage degree measuring instrument for an accident vehicle of the present invention comprising two supports and a measure can be easily carried, the measurement location is not selected, and complicated mechanical operation is involved in the measurement. Since it does not exist, it has an effect such as excellent workability.

Therefore, it is possible to accurately measure the size of a predetermined measurement point of the vehicle anywhere, and it is easy to accurately estimate the repair cost without having to bring the vehicle to a repair shop one by one and install it in a large-scale measuring device. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the loss incurred by undertaking the repair according to the inaccurate estimation made as a guide, because of the troublesomeness of the dimension measurement of the vehicle performed by the measuring device as in the past.

If the left and right point bars of the measure are aligned with a predetermined measurement point of the vehicle, the length dimension between the point bars can be measured, and one of the left and right point bars can be expanded and contracted by the expansion and contraction adjusting mechanism. If the measurement point is adjusted to the measurement point, the difference in height between the measurement points can be measured from the expansion / contraction length of the point bar.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory side view of a support of this embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a state in which a measure is placed on a height adjustment handle of a support according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a state in which the front part of the accident vehicle is lifted and supported in a horizontal state by the support body of the present embodiment and a predetermined measurement point is measured by a measure.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Vehicle 2 Height Adjusting Mechanism 3 Support 4 Height Adjusting Handle 5 Leveler 6 Measure 15 Point Bar 17 Telescopic Adjusting Mechanism

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A support body having a height adjusting mechanism is provided at each of left and right jack points of a rocker panel at a front portion or a rear portion of a vehicle to lift and support a front portion or a rear portion of the vehicle. Place a measure equipped with a leveler on the height adjustment handle that activates the height adjustment mechanism, and while watching this leveler, lift the front or rear part of the vehicle horizontally with the height adjustment handle. A method for measuring a strain damage degree of an accident vehicle, which comprises adjusting the height so as to be supported, and measuring the dimension of a predetermined measurement point of the vehicle lifted and supported in this horizontal state by the measure. 2. A two-body support body having a height adjusting mechanism by means of a height adjusting handle which is arranged on jack left and right of a rocker panel on the front or rear of the vehicle to lift and support the front or rear of the vehicle. In order to set the vehicle supported on the two support bodies in a horizontal state by placing them on the height adjustment handle of the two support bodies in a straddle state and operating the height adjustment mechanism. A strain damage measuring device for an accident vehicle, comprising: 3. A point bar for adjusting to a predetermined measurement point of a vehicle is provided on the left and right of a long measure equipped with a leveler, and at least one of the left and right point bars is provided along the length direction of the measure. It is configured to be slidable so that the length between the point bars can be measured, and at least one of the left and right point bars is equipped with an expansion and contraction adjustment mechanism that can adjust the expansion and contraction degree of the point bar to measure the expansion and contraction length of the point bar. A strain damage degree measuring instrument for an accident vehicle, which is configured so as to be capable.