JPH09220970A - Headlamp installation structure of automobile - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a headlamp installation structure capable of improving workability as well as connecting and disconnecting a headlamp without connecting and disconnecting a bumper facia and a radiator grill. SOLUTION: Only a bracket 22 fixing a side part of a radiator grill 3 and an upper side part of a bumper facia 11 is connected to and disconnected from a lamp housing 4 but connection and disconnection of each of the radiator 3 and the bumper facia 11 is never required in case of connecting and disconnecting a headlamp 1 to and from a car body panel 6.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a vehicle headlamp mounting structure.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Among conventional headlamp mounting structures for automobiles, as disclosed in, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 7-192508, a rear portion integrally protruding rearward from a lamp housing of a headlamp. While the bracket is fastened and fixed to a radiator core support panel which is a vehicle body panel, a side bracket protruding toward the vehicle body center side is also integrally provided on a side portion of the lamp housing, and the bumper facer of the front bumper is attached to the side bracket. It is known that the upper part is fastened and fixed, and the side part of the radiator grill is fastened and fixed.

[0003]

In the above conventional structure, the upper side of the bumper fascia of the front bumper and the side part of the radiator grill are fastened and fixed to side brackets integrally provided on the lamp housing, and these bumper fascias are fixed. Since the upper part and the radiator grille can be installed with the headlamp as a mounting reference, it is possible to maintain a constant distance between the upper part of the bumper facia and the lower edge of the headlamp and the lower part of the radiator grille, and to match the upper edge of the radiator grille. The distance from the front edge of the engine hood can be made constant, and the appearance can be improved.

However, since the upper part of the bumper fascia and the side part of the radiator grill are fastened and fixed to the side brackets of the lamp housing in this way, when the headlamp is replaced, the radiator core support panel of the headlamp is not supported. Not only is the removal and installation of the bumper fascia and radiator grille to and from the headlamps carried out, but the reassembly of these bumper fascia and radiator grille also requires the installation adjustments of each, which deteriorates workability. I cannot deny that.

Therefore, according to the present invention, the work of attaching and detaching the headlamp does not involve the work of attaching and detaching the front bumper fascia and the radiator grille, and further, the reassembling work of the front bumper fascia and the radiator grille requires the installation adjustments thereof. The present invention provides a headlamp mounting structure for an automobile, which is capable of significantly improving workability.

[0006]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, a headlamp is fastened to a vehicle body panel by fastening the lamp housing to the vehicle body panel, and a single bracket is detachably attached to the lamp housing. It is characterized in that the upper part of the bumper faucet of the front bumper and the side part of the radiator grille are mounted with the headlamp as a mounting reference.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, the bracket according to the first aspect is detachably attached to a side portion of the lamp housing, while the bumper fascia has a head lamp and a radiator grill on a rear edge of an upper wall thereof. A partition is provided upright, and a partition fixing portion for fixing the upper end of the partition from the front is formed at the upper end of the bracket, and the partition is extended to the vehicle body center side from the partition. It is characterized by including a grill fixing part for fixing the side part of the radiator grille from the front.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, while the grill fixing portion of the bracket according to the second aspect is provided with a snap engaging hole, the side portion rear surface of the radiator grill is provided with a snap portion. It is characterized in that the snap portion is inserted into and engaged with the snap engaging hole to fix the side portion of the radiator grill to the grill fixing portion.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, the rear edge of the upper wall of the bumper fascia according to the first to third aspects is supported by a fascia retainer having both ends fixed to a vehicle body panel, and an intermediate portion of the fascia retainer. It is fastened and fixed on a retainer bracket mounted on the bumper skeleton member so that its position can be adjusted vertically and longitudinally, while the bracket attached to the lamp housing projects forward to lower the fascia retainer. It is characterized by having a supporting leg piece supported from.

A fifth aspect of the present invention is characterized in that the molded base portion of the supporting leg piece of the bracket according to the fourth aspect is formed with a groove portion for inserting and holding the rear edge portion of the facial retainer from the front side. There is.

[0011]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, the upper portion of the bumper fascia and the side portion of the radiator grill are attached to a single bracket which is detachably attached to the lamp housing, and is attached to the lamp housing via the bracket. ,
When the headlamp is replaced, the bracket may be attached to and detached from the lamp housing, and the attachment / detachment work of the headlamp does not involve the attachment / detachment work of the bumper fascia and the radiator grille.

When the headlamp is reassembled, the upper side of the bumper fascia and the side of the radiator grille are not fixed to the bracket, so that it is not necessary to adjust the building of the bumper fascia and the radiator grille. Workability can be significantly improved in combination with the fact that desorption work is not involved.

Further, the upper part of the bumper fascia and the side part of the radiator grille are attached to the lamp housing as a mounting reference through a single bracket that is detachable, so that the upper part of the bumper fascia and the lower edge of the headlamp are attached. You can keep the interval constant,
The distance between the upper edge of the radiator grille and the front edge of the engine hood can be made constant, and the appearance can be improved.

According to claim 2, in addition to the effect of claim 1, the partition of the bumper fascia and the side portion of the radiator grill can be fixed to the bracket mounted on the side portion of the lamp housing from the front. It is possible to easily fix the partition and the side portion of the radiator grill.

According to the third aspect, in addition to the effect of the second aspect, the so-called one-touch in which the snap portion on the side rear surface of the radiator grill is pushed into the snap engaging hole formed in the grill fixing portion of the bracket from the front to engage the snap engaging hole. Since the grill can be fixed with, the work of fixing the side portion of the radiator grill can be performed more easily.

According to the fourth aspect, in addition to the effects of the first to third aspects, the rear edge of the upper wall of the bumper fascia can be wholly supported by the fascia retainer to prevent the corrugated deformation and the like. Since the intermediate portion of the facial retainer can be supported from below by the supporting leg piece of the bracket, it is possible to temporarily fix the intermediate portion of the facial retainer with the supporting leg piece when the bumper facia and the facial retainer are attached, and it is possible to improve the mounting workability.

Further, since the retainer bracket is positionally adjustable with respect to the bumper skeleton member in the up-down direction and the front-rear direction, it does not hinder the mounting of the bumper fascia with respect to the headlamp.

According to a fifth aspect, in addition to the effect of the fourth aspect, the rear edge portion of the facial retainer fixed to the bumper frame member through the retainer bracket is inserted into the groove portion of the bracket supporting leg piece forming base portion. Because I have
The temporary retainer of the facial retainer can be more reliably secured, and the side portion of the headlamp can be supported by the bumper frame member via these brackets, the facial retainer and the retainer bracket, and the mounting stability of the headlamp can be improved. it can.

[0019]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings.

1 to 4, 1 is a headlamp, 2 is
Is a front bumper, and 3 is a radiator grill arranged between the left and right headlamps 1, 1.

The headlamp 1 has a plurality of lamp brackets 5 integrally projecting from the rear surface of a resin housing 4 made of a resin material, and a radiator core support panel 6 which is a vehicle body panel side through the lamp brackets 5. It is fastened and fixed to the portion by bolts and nuts 7.

The front bumper 2 includes a bumper reinforcement 9 having a rectangular closed cross-section structure, and a box-shaped bumper stay 10 joined to the rear surfaces of both sides of the bumper reinforcement 9, and a metal bumper skeleton member 8 having a substantially cross-section. The bumper fascia 11 is made of a V-shaped resin and is covered.

In the front bumper 2, the rear edge flange 10a of the bumper stay 10 is butted against the front surface of the member coupling portion 13 of the radiator core support lower panel 12, and is fastened and fixed by bolts and nuts 14.

The front end of the front side member 33 is abutted and joined to the rear surface of the member fastening portion 13, and the front side collision load acting on the front bumper 2 is a front-rear direction vehicle body frame member. I am trying to bear it.

The bumper fascia 11 has an upper wall 11a.
The trailing edge is supported by a metallic face retainer 15.

The facial retainer 15 is formed in a substantially hat-shaped cross section, and its both side ends are fastened and fixed to both side ends of the radiator core support panel 6 together with the lower edge of the front end of the front fender 32 by bolts and nuts or the like. is there.

A holding piece 15a is cut and formed on the rear edge of the upper wall of the facial retainer 15, and a rear edge flange 11b of the upper wall 11a of the bumper fascia 11 is inserted below the holding piece 15a. State, the trailing edge flange 1
Clip 1b to the upper wall of the facial retainer 15
It is fastened by.

Further, bracket pieces 17 and 18 are provided on the lower front and rear edges of the intermediate portion of the facial retainer 15, and these bracket pieces 17 and 18 are attached to the bumper stay 1.
The bolts and nuts 21 are fixed on the retainer bracket 19 which is fixed to the side surfaces of 0 by the bolts and nuts 20.

The bolt insertion hole 19b provided in the leg portion 19a of the retainer bracket 19 is formed as a so-called stupid hole formed sufficiently larger than the outer diameter of the bolt to be inserted.
The position of the bumper stay 10 is adjustable in the vertical direction and the front-back direction.

The bracket piece 18 on the rear edge side of the facial retainer 15 is formed to have a larger area in the vehicle width direction and the front-rear direction than the bracket piece 17 on the front edge side, and can be inserted and held in a bracket 22 described later. Is done.

On the other hand, the upper wall 11 of the bumper fascia 11
At the rear edge of a, the headlamp 1 and the radiator grill 3
And a partition 11A disposed between the upper and the lower end of the engine hood 31, which is concealed by the front edge of the engine hood 31, is formed with a bracket piece 11c for fixing to a bracket 22 described later. .

Reference numeral 22 denotes a bracket made of a resin material which is detachably attached to the side portion of the lamp housing 4 of the headlamp 1 and fixes the side portion of the radiator grill 3 and the upper portion of the bumper fascia 11.

This bracket 22 is for the lamp housing 4
Boss engaging concave portions 23, 23 are formed on the rear side surface corresponding to the upper and lower boss portions 4a provided on the side surface of the concave portion 23,
Bolts 24 are inserted through bolt insertion holes 23a, 23a formed through 23 to be detachably attached to the boss portions 4a, 4a.

On the side surface of the upper end portion of the bracket 22,
A seat portion 25 for stabilizing the stationary posture of the bracket 22 with respect to the boss portions 4a, 4a is integrally projected.

On the front side of the upper end portion where the seat portion 25 is formed, a partition fixing portion 26 having a mounting hole 26a such as a screw hole or a clip hole protruding forward is formed, and the partition fixing portion 26 is formed. The upper end of the partition 11A of the bumper fascia 11 is abutted against the front surface of the bumper 26, and the bracket piece 11c is fixed by mounting a fastening member 27 such as a bolt or a clip in the mounting hole 26a.

On a side surface of the bracket 22 opposite to the seat portion 25, a pair of upper and lower grill fixing portions 28 projecting toward the vehicle body center side with respect to the partition 11A are integrally projected.

Snap engaging holes 28a, 28a are formed in these grill fixing parts 28, 28, while a pair of upper and lower snap parts 3a,
3a is integrally projected, and these snap portions 3a,
3a is pushed into the snap engaging holes 28a, 28a to engage the side parts of the radiator grill 3 with the grill fixing parts 28, 28.
It is fixed to.

Further, a supporting leg piece 29, which projects substantially horizontally toward the front, is integrally provided at the lower end of the bracket 22 so as to project.
An intermediate portion of the facial retainer 15 adjacent to the retainer bracket 19 is supported on the supporting leg piece 29.

A groove portion 30 is formed in the molded base portion of the support leg piece 29, and the rear end portion of the bracket piece 18 at the rear edge of the facial retainer 15 is inserted and held in the groove portion 30 from the front.

According to the structure of the above embodiment, the intermediate portion of the partition 11A of the bumper fascia 11 and the fascia retainer 15 supporting the rear edge flange 11b of the upper wall 11a of the bumper fascia 11 is the lamp housing of the headlamp 1. 4 is fixed to the partition fixing portion 26 of the bracket 22 which is detachably attached to the side portion of No. 4, the supporting leg piece 29 and the groove portion 30 of the molding base portion thereof, and the side portion of the radiator grill 3 is also attached to the bracket 22.
Since the headlamp 1 is fixed to the grill fixing portion 28 of the headlamp 1 when the headlamp 1 is attached to or detached from the radiator core support panel 6, the bracket 2
It is only necessary to attach and detach 2 to the lamp housing 4, and it is possible to avoid the attaching and detaching work of the headlamp 1 accompanying the attaching and detaching work of the bumper fascia 11 and the radiator grille 3.

When the headlamp 1 is reassembled after the replacement of the headlamp 1, the upper portion of the bumper fascia 11 and the side portion of the radiator grill 3 remain fixed to the bracket 22 as described above. There is no need to adjust each building, and the above bumper fascia 1
The workability can be remarkably improved in combination with the fact that the work of attaching and detaching the radiator grille 1 and the radiator grill 3 is not required.

Furthermore, as described above, the upper portion of the bumper fascia 11 and the side portion of the radiator grill 3 are detachably attached to the side portion of the lamp housing 4 by a single bracket 2.
Since the headlamp 1 fastened and fixed to the radiator core support panel 6 is attached as a mounting reference via the second, the distance between the upper wall 11a of the bumper fasher 11 and the lower edge of the headlamp 1 can be made constant. The gap between the upper edge of the radiator grill 3 and the upper edge of the engine hood 31 can be made constant, and the appearance can be improved.

In this embodiment, the partition 11A of the bumper fascia 11 and the side portions of the radiator grill 3 are connected to the partition fixing portion 2 of the bracket 22.
6 is fixed to the grill fixing portion 28 from the front, the bracket 22 is sub-assembled to the lamp housing 4 in the fitting and assembling process to fasten and fix the headlamp 1 to the radiator core support panel 6, and the bracket is fixed. Since the bumper fascia 11 and the radiator grille 3 can be attached to the front 22 from the front side, the assembling work of these front outfitting parts can be easily performed and the assembling work can be automated.

Particularly, since the radiator grill 3 can be fixed by pushing the snap portions 3a, 3a on the side thereof into the engaging holes 28a, 28a of the grill fixing portions 28, 28 from the front so that the grill can be fixed by one touch, the radiator grill 3 can be fixed. The work of fixing the side portion of 3 can be performed more easily.

On the other hand, in the bumper fascia 11, the rear edge of the upper wall 11a thereof can be wholly supported by the fascia retainer 15 to avoid waviness and deformation, and the intermediate portion of the fascia retainer 15 is supported by the supporting leg piece 29 of the bracket 22. Because it can be supported from below, bumper fascia 1
1 and the supporting piece 2 when the facial retainer 15 is attached.
9 can be temporarily stopped and the mounting workability can be improved.

Moreover, since the retainer bracket 19 for fixing the intermediate portion of the finisher retainer 15 is positionally adjustable in the vertical direction and the front-back direction with respect to the bumper stay 10 of the bumper skeleton member 8, the headlamp 1 of the bumper fascia 11 can be adjusted. It does not hinder the installation based on the above.

The facial retainer 15 fixed to the bumper stay 10 via the retainer bracket 19 has the bracket piece 18 at the rear edge thereof attached to the bracket 22.
Since it is inserted and held in the groove portion 30 provided in the molded base portion of the supporting leg piece 29 of the above, the temporary retainer of the facial retainer 15 can be more reliably performed, and the side portion of the headlamp 1 can be attached to the bracket 22, the facial retainer 15, and the retainer. Since it can be supported by the bumper stay 10 via the bracket 19, the mounting stability of the headlamp 1 can be enhanced.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an exemplary sectional view showing a main part of the embodiment;

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a bracket used in the same embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing the vicinity of a headlamp on the front of the vehicle body.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Headlamp 2 Front bumper 3 Radiator grille 3a Snap part 4 Lamp housing 6,12,13 Body panel 8 Bumper skeleton member 15 Face retainer 19 Retainer bracket 22 Bracket 26 Partition fixing part 28 Grill fixing part 28a Snap engaging hole 29 Support leg piece 30 Groove

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A headlamp having a lamp housing fastened to a vehicle body panel and fixed to the vehicle body panel, and a bumper fascia upper side portion of a front bumper and a radiator grill side via a single bracket which is detachably attached to the lamp housing. A headlamp mounting structure for an automobile, characterized in that the parts are mounted with the headlamp as a mounting reference. 2. The bracket is detachably attached to a side portion of the lamp housing, while the bumper fascia has a partition arranged uprightly on the rear edge of the upper wall thereof between the headlamp and the radiator grill. , A partition fixing portion for fixing the upper end of the partition from the front is formed on the upper end of the bracket,
2. The headlamp mounting structure for an automobile according to claim 1, further comprising a grill fixing portion that projects toward the vehicle body center side with respect to the partition and fastens the side portion of the radiator grille from the front. 3. The grill fixing portion of the bracket is provided with a snap engaging hole, while the radiator grill is provided with a snap portion projecting on a rear surface of the side thereof, and the snap portion is inserted and engaged in the snap engaging hole. The headlamp mounting structure for a vehicle according to claim 2, wherein the radiator grill side portion is fixed to the grill fixing portion. 4. A rear edge of an upper wall of a bumper fascia is supported by a fascia retainer having both ends fixed to a vehicle body panel, and an intermediate portion of the fascia retainer is vertically and longitudinally adjustable on a bumper frame member. It is fastened and fixed on the attached retainer bracket, and on the other hand, the bracket attached to the lamp housing is provided with a supporting leg piece projecting forward and supporting the facial retainer from below. The headlamp mounting structure for an automobile according to claim 1. 5. A headlamp mounting structure for an automobile according to claim 4, wherein the molded base portion of the supporting leg piece of the bracket is formed with a groove portion for inserting and holding the rear edge portion of the facial retainer from the front side. .