JPH09136572A - Shading rib structure in license garnish - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the number of part items and the number of machining processes of a license garnish having a shading rib and to prevent the causing of dents during injection molding of the license garnish. SOLUTION: An illumination means 10 is mounted on the top of a license garnish 3 made of a synthetic resin, an opening 39 for illuminating a license plate is formed in the bottom of the illumination means 10, and a shading rib 15 is formed integrally with the garnish in such a way as to cover the top and side of the garnish. The shading rib 15 comprises a relatively thick upper shading rib 151 , side shading rids 151 155 , a boss 156 , and thin-walled parts 152 , 153 connected to the upper circumferential wall 31 of the license garnish 3. During injection molding of the license garnish 3 the thin-walled parts 152 , 153 are allowed to cool and set at early stages, thereby preventing the upper circumferential wall 31 of the license garnish 3 from denting.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a license garnish made of a synthetic resin, which is provided in the rear part of a vehicle body of a vehicle, and which has a license plate support wall extending substantially vertically and supporting a license plate on the rear surface, and a license plate. An eaves portion extending substantially rearward from the upper end of the plate support wall and a peripheral wall extending substantially upward from the rear end of the eaves portion are provided, and an illumination means is provided in front of the peripheral wall to illuminate the license plate through an opening formed in the eaves portion. Licensed garnish, and more particularly to its light-blocking rib structure.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A license plate provided on the rear part of a vehicle body is not directly supported on a metal panel of a tailgate or a trunk lid, but is supported on a synthetic resin license garnish provided on the rear part of the vehicle body to improve appearance. It is also known that the cost is reduced.

By the way, the license plate is illuminated by a lamp from above in order to improve visibility at night, but it is necessary to cover the periphery of the lamp with a light shielding rib so that the light does not leak to a direction other than the license plate. Therefore, conventionally, a light shielding rib formed separately is fixed to the front surface of the license garnish by adhesion.

[0004]

However, when the structure in which the light shielding rib formed separately is adhered to the license garnish as described above, there is a problem that the number of parts and the number of processing steps increase. Therefore, it is conceivable to integrally form the light shielding rib when the synthetic resin license garnish is injection-molded, but if the light shielding rib is projected on the front side of the license garnish, the above-mentioned rear side of the license garnish visible from the outside can be seen. There is a problem that a sink mark is generated at a position corresponding to the light shielding rib, and the unevenness reduces the appearance.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and it is an object of the present invention to reduce the number of parts and processing man-hours of a license garnish having a light-shielding rib and to prevent unevenness due to sink marks during molding of the license garnish. And

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, the invention described in claim 1 is a license garnish made of a synthetic resin, which is provided in a rear portion of a vehicle body of a vehicle and extends in a substantially vertical direction. And a license plate supporting wall for supporting the license plate on the rear surface, an eaves portion extending substantially rearward from the upper end of the license plate supporting wall, and a peripheral wall extending substantially upward from the rear end of the eaves portion, and the eaves portion is formed. In a license garnish in which a lighting means is provided on the front surface of a peripheral wall to illuminate a license plate through an opening, a light-shielding rib integrally protruding forward from the front surface of the peripheral wall is provided to cover an upper portion and both left and right sides of the lighting means. The light shielding rib is connected to the front surface of the peripheral wall via a thin portion having a small thickness.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in addition to the structure of the first aspect, a boss for screwing a bolt for fixing the illumination means to the front surface of the peripheral wall is integrally formed at the front portion of the thin portion. It is characterized by being formed.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described based on embodiments of the present invention shown in the accompanying drawings.

1 to 8 show an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a vehicle, FIG. 2 is an enlarged sectional view taken along line 2-2 of FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is three directions of FIG. View from the arrow, FIG. 4 is 4-4 of FIG.
6 is an enlarged sectional view taken along the line 5-5 in FIG.
Is a partial perspective view of the license garnish, FIG. 7 is an enlarged view in the direction of arrow 7 in FIG. 2, and FIG. 8 is a sectional view taken along line 8-8 of FIG.

As shown in FIG. 1, the rear opening 1 of the vehicle V is shown.
A license garnish 3 made of synthetic resin is provided below the rear surface of the tailgate 2 that opens and closes, and the license plate 4 is supported by the license garnish 3. As shown in FIG. 2, the tailgate 2 includes an inner panel 5 which is a front panel of the vehicle body and an outer panel 6 which is a rear panel of the vehicle body. An inner material 7 is stretched on the front surface of the inner panel 5, and the outer panel 6 is also provided.
The license garnish 3 is fixed to the rear surface of the license garnish support plate 8 welded so as to close the central opening 6 ₁ .

Next, the structure of the license garnish 3 will be described with reference to FIGS.

A license gar integrally molded of synthetic resin
The outer peripheral portion of the niche 3 has a relatively wide upper peripheral wall 3
₁And the upper peripheral wall 3₁Relatively extending downward from both ends of
Narrow side wall 3_Two, 3_TwoAnd the left and right side peripheral walls 3_Two, 3
_TwoRelatively narrow lower peripheral wall 3 that connects the lower ends of the_ThreeAnd
It is composed of Licensee supporting the license plate 4
Plate support wall 3_FourAnd the upper peripheral wall 3₁, Side wall
3_Two, 3_TwoAnd lower peripheral wall 3 _ThreeIs the horizontal extension
Part connection wall 3_FiveAnd lean so that the front sides of the vehicle body approach each other.
Left and right side connecting walls 3₆, 3₆And extend horizontally
Lower connection wall 3₇Connected by and.

Five mounting portions 3 ₈ are integrally formed on the front surface of the license garnish 3, and the license garnish 3 is fixed to the license garnish support plate 8 by clips 9 mounted on these mounting portions 3 ₈ . To be done.

Upper peripheral wall 3 _{1 of the} license garnish 3
Front side, and the formed on the upper surface side of the upper connecting wall ₃₅ space, a pair of right and left lighting means 10, 10 are mounted. The illuminating means 10 includes a container-shaped lamp housing 11 formed of an opaque synthetic resin, and a lens 12 formed of a transparent synthetic resin and covering the lower surface opening of the lamp housing 11.
And a socket 13 provided in the lamp housing 11.
And a lamp 14 attached to the socket 13.
The upper connecting wall ₃₅ of the license garnish 3 lens 12 faces is opening 3 ₉ is opened, thus light from the lamp 14, the license plate through an opening 3 ₉ of the lens 12 and the upper connecting wall ₃₅ 4 is illuminated (see FIG. 4).

As best shown in FIGS. 4 and 6, in order to prevent the light of the lamp 14 from leaking in directions other than the downward direction, which is the direction in which the license plate 4 is illuminated,
The light shielding rib 15 is formed integrally with the license garnish 3. The light-shielding rib 15 is provided with an upper light-shielding rib 15 ₁ projecting forward from the front surface of the upper peripheral wall 3 ₁ so as to cover the upper part of the lighting means 10. The upper light-shielding rib 15 ₁ is connected to the upper peripheral wall 3 ₁ . Band-shaped part is thin part 1 with small thickness
Are 5 _2.

As best shown in FIGS. 5 and 6.
And the upper light-shielding rib 15₁So that it connects to the left and right ends of
Upper wall 3₁3 thin-walled parts that continue from the front of the staircase
Fifteen _Three... is projected forward. The three thin portions 15_Three
The boss support wall 15 at the front end of _FourAre connected together
And further the boss support wall 15_FourIs the upper light-shielding rib 15₁of
Side light-shielding ribs 15 connected to the ends_FiveThrough
Upper wall 3₁Connected to. And the boss support wall 15_FourOr
For screwing in the bolt 16 described later toward the front.
Boss 15₆Are integrally provided.

As is apparent from FIG. 6, bolt holes 11 ₂ and 11 ₂ are formed in flanges 11 ₁ and 11 ₁ that are integrally formed on both left and right sides of the lamp housing 11 of the lighting means 10, and these bolt holes are formed. 11 _2, 11 ₂ 2 penetrating the
The bolts 16 and 16 are attached to the bosses 15 ₆ and 1 of the light-shielding rib 15.
The lighting means 10 is fixed to the license garnish 3 by being screwed into 5 ₆ . Then, in this state, the light from the lamp 14 of the illuminating means 10 allows the light to be emitted from the upper light-shielding ribs 15.
_{It is} blocked by ₁ and the side light-shielding ribs 15 ₅ and 15 ₅ and prevented from leaking upward and sideward.

As described above, the upper light shielding rib 15 ₁ is connected to the upper peripheral wall 3 ₁ of the license garnish 3 through the thin portion 15 ₂ and the side light shielding ribs 15 ₅ , 1 are provided.
5 ₅ and the boss support wall 15 ₄ are thin parts 15 _{3 on} each of the left and right sides.
Since it is connected to the upper peripheral wall 3 ₁ of the license garnish 3 via ..., When the license garnish 3 is injection-molded with a synthetic resin, the thin-walled portions 15 ₂ , 15 ₃ ...
When the upper light-shielding rib 15 ₁ , the boss support walls 15 ₄ and 15 ₄ , the side light-shielding ribs 15 ₅ and 15 ₅ , and the bosses 15 ₆ and 15 ₆ have a large heat mass, they are cooled and solidified at an early stage. Even if the volume is reduced, the thin portion 15 ₂ and the thin portion 1
It is possible to prevent sink marks from being generated on the rear surface of the upper peripheral wall 3 ₁ (see part a in FIG. 4 and part b in FIG. 5) facing 5 ₃ .

Thus, the light-shielding rib 15 is formed integrally with the license garnish 3 to reduce the number of parts and the number of assembling steps, and the license garnish 3 due to the occurrence of sink marks.
It is possible to prevent the deterioration of the appearance.

Next, the structure of the tailgate handle 17 will be described with reference to FIGS. 2, 7 and 8.

A tailgate handle 17 is provided above the license garnish 3 so as to be sandwiched between the left and right lighting means 10, 10. Tailgate handle 1
The base plate 18 of 7 is a metal plate in plan view (see FIG. 7).
And a rear wall 18 ₁ arranged in parallel with the front surface of the upper peripheral wall 3 ₁ of the license garnish 3, and a left and right extending forward from both left and right ends of the rear wall 18 _1. Side walls 18 ₂ and 18 ₂ . Mounting portions 18 ₄ and 18 ₄ having bolt holes 18 ₃ and 18 ₃ are provided on the left and right upper portions of the rear wall 18 _{1 so} as to project upward, and
A plate-shaped mounting flange 18 ₅ is provided on the lower portion of the rear wall 18 _{1 so} as to project rearward. The right and left side walls 18 _2, 18 ₂ of the front end of which mounting portions 18 _6, 18 ₆ outwardly bent to be formed, the stud bolts 19, 19 are implanted in the mounting part 18 _6, 18 ₆ .

A handle grip 20 made of synthetic resin is pivotally supported by a pivot shaft 21 installed between the left and right side walls 18 ₂ and 18 _{2 of the} base plate 18. One end of the torsion spring 22 wound around the pivot 21 is locked to the spring seat 18 ₇ provided in the base plate 18, the other end is engaged with the handle grip 20. As a result, the handle grip 20 is biased in the direction of arrow A in FIG.

The handle grip 20 is a finger extending downward.
Hanging 20₁It is equipped with one and this finger rest 20₁Is la
Upper connection wall 3 of Isense Garnish 3_FiveOpen formed
Mouth 3 _TenIs facing.

A tip end of an arm 20 ₂ extending forward from the handle grip 20 and a lock means 23 provided at a lower end of the tailgate 2 so as to face the rear opening 1 of the vehicle V are vertically moved inside the tailgate 2. It is connected by a rod 24 which is movably housed (see FIG. 2). Thus, FIG.
In, the finger is inserted from the opening 3 ₁₀ of the license garnish 3 and the finger hook 20 ₁ of the handle grip 20 is indicated by the arrow B.
When pulled in the direction, the rod 34 is pressed in the direction of the arrow C, the operation of the lock means 23 is released, and the tailgate 2 can be pivoted upward and opened.

The tailgate handle 17 is attached to the tailgate 2 in the following manner.

The tailgate handle 17 in which the base plate 18 and the handle grip 20 are integrated is assembled in advance as a unit. The rear edge of a plate-shaped mounting flange 18 ₅ extending rearward from the base plate 18 is provided so as to project on the front surface of the upper peripheral wall 3 ₁ of the license garnish 3.
The slits 3 ₁₂ formed in the mounting ribs 3 ₁₁ are engaged from the front. Then, two bolts 25, 25 penetrating through the bolt holes 18 ₃ , 18 ₃ of the mounting portions 18 ₄ , 18 ₄ extending upward from the base plate 18 are projectingly provided on the front surface of the upper peripheral wall 3 ₁ of the license garnish 3. Boss 3
_The tailgate handle 17 can be assembled to the license garnish 3 by being screwed into ₁₃ , 3 ₁₃ .

Since the five mounting ribs 3 ₁₁ are formed to be extremely thin, sink marks may occur on the rear surface of the upper peripheral wall 3 ₁ corresponding to the mounting ribs 3 ₁₁ when the license garnish 3 is injection-molded. To be prevented.

In this way, the tailgate handle 17
The license garnish 3 assembled with the two stud bolts 19 and 19 planted in the base plate 18 penetrates the license garnish support plate 8 and is fastened with the nuts 26 and 26, and the five license garnishes It is fixed by press-fitting the clips 9 ... Into the license garnish support plate 8. Finally, the tip of the arm 20 ₂ of the handle grip 20 and the lock means 23 are connected by the rod 24.
At this time, the length of the rod 24 is finely adjusted so that the locking means 23 can be operated smoothly.

As described above, since the unitized tailgate handle 17 is assembled to the license garnish 3 in advance and the license garnish 3 is fixed to the license garnish support plate 8,
At the same time, it is not necessary to fasten three or more members together, and the workability of assembly work is improved. In particular, the base plate 18
Since the mounting flange 18 ₅ is temporarily assembled by engaging the mounting flange 18 ₅ with the slit 3 ₁₂ of the mounting rib 3 ₁₁ of the license garnish 3, the bolts 25, 25 are screwed into the bosses 3 ₁₃ , 3 ₁₃ . Not only can the base plate 18 be accurately positioned with respect to the license garnish 3, but also the bolts 25 can be easily screwed.

Further, when the tailgate handle 17 is assembled to the license garnish 3 or when the license garnish 3 is assembled to the license garnish support plate 8, no special member such as a mounting bracket is used, so that the number of parts can be reduced. Can contribute. Moreover, since the base plate 18 of the tailgate handle 17 is directly coupled to the license garnish support plate 8 via the two stud bolts 19, 19, the tailgate handle 17 is attached to the license garnish support plate 8, that is, the tail. The gate 2 can be correctly positioned and fixed. Thereby, the workability of the assembling work can be improved by minimizing the adjustment of the length of the rod 24.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail above, the present invention can be modified in various ways without departing from the scope of the invention.

For example, although the license garnish 3 provided in the tailgate 2 is illustrated in the embodiment, the present invention can be applied to the license garnish provided in the trunk lid.

[0033]

As described above, according to the invention described in claim 1, the light-shielding ribs integrally projecting forward from the front surface of the peripheral wall are provided so as to cover the upper portion and the left and right side portions of the illumination means. Since the light shielding rib is connected to the front surface of the peripheral wall through the thin portion having a small wall thickness, the number of parts and the number of processing steps can be reduced as compared with the case where a separate light shielding rib is bonded to the front surface of the peripheral wall. It is possible to prevent the sink resin from occurring on the rear surface of the peripheral wall by cooling and solidifying the synthetic resin in the thin portion at an early stage when the license garnish is molded with the synthetic resin.

According to the second aspect of the present invention,
Since the boss for screwing the bolt for fixing the lighting means to the front surface of the peripheral wall is formed integrally with the front portion of the thin portion, the boss having a large heat mass is prevented from directly contacting the front surface of the peripheral wall. Occurrence can be prevented.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a vehicle

FIG. 2 is an enlarged sectional view taken along line 2-2 of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a view in the direction of arrows in FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is an enlarged sectional view taken along line 4-4 in FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is an enlarged sectional view taken along line 5-5 of FIG. 3;

FIG. 6 is a partial perspective view of a license garnish.

FIG. 7 is an enlarged view of the direction 7 in FIG.

8 is a sectional view taken along line 8-8 in FIG. 7;

[Explanation of symbols]

3 License garnish 3 ₁ Upper peripheral wall (peripheral wall) 3 ₄ License plate support wall 3 ₅ Upper connection wall (overhang) 3 ₉ Opening 4 License plate 10 Lighting means 15 ₁ Upper light-shielding rib (light-shielding rib) 15 ₂ Thin portion 15 ₃ Thin wall Part 15 ₅ Side light-shielding rib (light-shielding rib) 15 ₆ Boss 16 Bolt V Vehicle

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A license garnish (3) made of synthetic resin, which is provided at a rear portion of a vehicle body of a vehicle (V), the license plate supporting wall extending substantially vertically and supporting a license plate (4) on a rear surface thereof. (3 ₄ ), an eaves portion (3 ₅ ) extending substantially rearward from the upper end of the license plate support wall (3 ₄ ), and a peripheral wall (3 ₁ ) extending substantially upward from the rear end of the eaves portion (3 ₅ ). In the license garnish, which is provided with an illumination means (10) on the front surface of the peripheral wall (3 ₁ ) to illuminate the license plate (4) through the opening (3 ₉ ) formed in the eaves (3 ₅ ), the illumination means (10 ) Is provided with light-shielding ribs (15 ₁ , 15 ₅ ) that integrally project from the front surface of the peripheral wall (3 ₁ ) toward the front so as to cover the upper part and the left and right side portions of the light-shielding rib (1).
5 ₁ , 15 ₅ ) are thin-walled parts (15 ₂ , 1 ₅ ) with small wall thickness.
The light-shielding rib structure in the license garnish, which is connected to the front surface of the peripheral wall (3 ₁ ) via 5 ₃ ). 2. A boss (15) into which a bolt (16) for fixing the lighting means (10) to the front surface of the peripheral wall (3 ₁ ) is screwed.
_6), characterized in that formed integrally on the front portion of the thin portion (15 _3), the light-shielding rib structure in the license garnish according to claim 1, wherein.