JPH09301100A - Grill guard - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a grill guard which can be moved when necessary in front of the front grille of an automobile to easily open the front space of the front grille. SOLUTION: A grill guard 1 comprises separately a pair of left and right fitting parts 4, 4 fitted to the body of an automobile, and a guard part' 5 disposed between the fitting parts for protecting a front grille 3. The guard part 5 is provided at its center with a grille protection piece. The fitting parts 4, 4 and the guard part 5 are clamped with each other at two locations with connection bolts and nuts. The grille protection piece is normally raised in front of the front grill, and is provided with a connection hole 6A to permit its bending down in the horizontal direction, to the front of the automobile, when necessary such as in cleaning the grill, which permits the front space of the front grille 3 to be easily opened.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a grill guard for protecting a front grill of an automobile, and more particularly to a movable grill guard.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art With the rise of outdoor life in recent years,
Many types of four-wheel drive vehicles are under development. In particular, this type of car is scheduled to run in places with many trees and rocks as well as paved roads, so it is necessary to protect the front grill on the front of the car from damage and for aesthetic reasons. A grill guard is often installed in front of the front grill.

[0003]

However, the above grill guard has the following points to be solved. That is, the grille guard located in front of the front grille and the grille on the front of the automobile are fixedly provided with a very narrow space. For this reason, for example, when cleaning the rear surface of the grill guard or the vicinity of the grill, it is necessary to use a special tool having a narrow shape or force the cleaning tool into this space. Was very troublesome.

The present invention has been devised and developed in view of the above-mentioned conventional problems, and an object thereof is to provide a grill guard capable of easily opening the space in front of the grill as needed. It is to be.

[0005]

The invention according to claim 1 for achieving the above object is a grill guard for protecting a front grill of an automobile, which is normally located in front of the front grill. It is a grill guard characterized in that it can be retracted to a position where the front space of the front grill is opened when necessary. According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a mounting portion for mounting on the vehicle body side and a guard portion for the front grill, and the guard portion is provided on the front portion with respect to the mounting portion. The grill guard is attached so as to be rotatable toward the front of the grill.

[0006]

According to the invention of claim 1, the grille guard is normally located in front of the front grille to protect the grille. However, for example, when cleaning is required, the grille guard can be moved to the retracted position. For example, the front of the front grill can be opened. By doing so, the front grill can be easily cleaned and the like.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, since the grill guard can open the front space of the grill by rotating only the guard part, not the whole, the operability is excellent.

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of the present invention.
~ It demonstrates based on FIG. FIG. 6 shows the vicinity of a front grill 3 of an automobile equipped with the grill guard 1. As shown in the figure, the grill guard 1 is attached to a bumper 2. Further, the entire grill guard 1 is formed by a metal pipe, and the bumper 2
And a guard part 5 for the front grill 3 are separated from each other. The mounting portion 4 is divided into left and right parts, and the guard portion 5 is interposed between them to connect the both mounting portions 4 and 4. The connection procedure will be described later in detail.

The mounting portion 4 has a left-right symmetrical structure. As shown in FIG. 2 etc., each of the mounting portions 4 is a horizontal branch pipe 4C which is substantially horizontal to the bumper 2 and one end of the horizontal branch pipe 4C (guard). A vertical branch pipe 4A is connected to the lower surface of the portion 5 (close to the portion 5) by welding in a substantially vertical posture. Also,
At the lower end of the vertical branch pipe 4A, a bumper connection piece 4B crushed into a flat plate shape is formed. The bumper connecting piece 4B is able to sneak into the lower surface of the bumper and come into contact with the lower surface of the bumper (see FIG. 1). The entire guard 1 is fixed.

An end portion of the horizontal branch pipe 4C on the guard portion 5 side is opened to form an insertion opening 6 for the joint portion 7 on the guard portion 5 side. Also, this insertion port 6
A total of four connecting holes 6A penetrate through the surrounding surface at 90 ° intervals. These allow the connecting bolt 8 to be inserted between the pairs facing each other. Therefore, two insertion positions are set with respect to the connecting bolt 8 from the vertical direction and the horizontal direction. Furthermore, each connection hole 6
A nut 9 is welded to the outer surface side of each of A located on the back side (corresponding to the front grill 3) and A located on the lower side. Therefore, the connecting bolt 8 can be tightened into the corresponding nut 9 at each of the above-mentioned two insertion positions.

Next, the guard section 5 will be described. The guard part 5 is composed of a central branch pipe 5A connected to the horizontal branch pipe 4C and a grill protection piece 5B standing upright in an arch shape at the center of the upper surface thereof. The central branch pipe 5A has small-diameter joint portions 7, 7 at both ends thereof, and these can be fitted into the corresponding horizontal branch pipe 4C in a state in which they are allowed to rotate. By this fitting, both the horizontal branch pipes 4C and 4C and the central branch pipe 5A are arranged on the same axis. Further, the joint holes 7A are pierced through both the joint portions 7 and 7 from the radial direction, and the joint holes 6A and 6A are located at the above-mentioned two insertion positions when the insertion port 6 and the joint portion 7 are connected. In order to correspond, the guard portion 5 is aligned with the coupling hole 7A and can be inserted with the connecting bolt 8 regardless of whether the guard portion 5 has a normal posture or a posture in which the guard is tilted forward.

Next, the function and effect of the present embodiment configured as described above will be specifically described. The grill guard 1 is shown in FIG.
In the normal state as shown in Fig. 5, the grill protection piece 5B is located in front of the front grill 3 to protect the grill. However, the gap between the grill and the grill should be inserted into the cleaning tool. It is the same as in the past that it is not sufficiently secured. However, in the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 7, the grill protection piece 5B is tilted forward to open the front space of the front grill 3 widely, and cleaning is facilitated. The operation procedure therefor will be described. The normal state, that is, the insertion state of the connecting bolt 8 when the grill protection piece 5B is in the standing posture is as shown in FIG. Joint hole 7A of joint 7
Are positioned on the vertical axis and aligned with the corresponding connection holes 6A, whereby the connecting bolt 8 is inserted vertically and tightened with respect to the nut 9 fixed to the lower surface.

From this state, first, both connecting bolts 8, 8 fixing the guard portion 5 are loosened and both are removed from the grill guard 1. Then, when the entire guard portion 5 is rotated forward around both joint portions 7 and 7, the grill protection piece 5B falls forward, and as a result, the front of the front grill 3 is largely opened. Simply front grill 3
For the purpose of cleaning only, the guard part 5 may be laid down as it is without being fixed to the mounting part, but in the present embodiment, the guard part 5 is intentionally fixed to the mounting part 4. It can be held in a horizontal position. By doing so, the guard portion 5 can be used as a step, and can also be used for inspection in the engine room or cleaning work of the vehicle roof.

The operation for this is to rotate the guard part 5 forward until the entire guard part 5 is in a substantially horizontal posture. Then, in the state shown in FIG. 5 in which the coupling hole 7A of the joint portion 7 is aligned with the corresponding connection hole 6A, the connecting bolt 8 may be inserted from the front and tightened into the nut 9 at the rear. Thus, the guard part 5
When the work such as cleaning is completed in the laid-down state, the guard part 5 can be erected and returned by the reverse operation to the above, and can be returned to the normal grill guard 1 by fixing it again with the connecting bolt 8. As described above, according to the present embodiment, the guard portion 5 is laid down so that the front of the front grill 3 can be opened, which facilitates the work such as cleaning. Further, in the operation in that case, since the front space of the front grill 3 can be opened by rotating only the guard portion 5 instead of the entire grill guard 1, the operability is also excellent. Moreover, when the guard portion 5 is laid down, the guard portion 5 can be fixed even in that state, so that a new function as a step can be added to the guard portion 5.

The present invention can be modified in various ways,
The following modifications are also included in the technical scope of the present invention. The entire grill guard 1 may have a structure capable of falling to the front of the vehicle. The guard part 5 does not necessarily have to fall forward,
For example, it may be rotated laterally, or the guard portion 5 may be configured to slide along the bumper 2, and the point is to open the front of the front grill 3 when necessary. The form of movement does not matter. The guard part 5 may have a structure that can be detached from the mounting part. In the present embodiment, the guard portion 5 is fixed and released by the connecting bolt 8 and the nut 9, but, for example, at the position corresponding to the above-mentioned two positions of the normal position and the fall position, the guard portion 5 side is provided. Form two holes,
A method may be adopted in which a protrusion that is pushed out by a spring is formed on the mounting portion side, and the protrusion engages with both holes in a disengageable manner.

In this embodiment, the joint portion 7 is fitted in the insertion port 6, but this may be reversed. Further, in the present embodiment, two sets of joint holes 6A are provided in the insertion port 6, and one set of joint holes 7A is provided in the joint portion 7.
However, the number of holes may be reversed. At that time, the number of the welded nuts 9 may be one.

[Brief description of drawings]

1 is a side view of the front of the vehicle

[Fig. 2] Right side partial view of grill guard

FIG. 3 is a bottom view of the connecting portion between the mounting portion and the guard portion.

FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view showing a combined state of the mounting portion and the guard portion in a normal state.

FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view showing a state in which a mounting portion and a guard portion are connected to each other during work.

FIG. 6 is a front view of the vehicle in a normal state

FIG. 7 is a front view of the automobile during work.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 ... Grill guard 4 ... Mounting part 5 ... Guard part 6 ... Insertion port 7 ... Joint part 8 ... Connecting bolt 9 ... Nut

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A grill guard for protecting a front grill of an automobile, which is normally located in front of the front grill and can be retracted to a position for opening a space in front of the front grill when necessary. A grill guard that is characterized by being. 2. The structure according to claim 1, comprising a mounting portion for mounting on the vehicle body side, and a guard portion for the front grill, the guard portion being located in front of the front grill with respect to the mounting portion. Grill guard characterized by being attached so that it can be turned toward.