JPH10258711A - Rear car body structure for vehicle - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate any necessity of providing a cover member, reduce the cost, and improve fitting workability and the outer appearance by integrally forming a recessed part for covering the upper end part of a wiper pivot or a swinging shaft of a rear wiper to an outer handle having a holding part for opening/closing a lift gate. SOLUTION: A rear wiper 5 is so formed that a wiper arm 5A is fitted to a wiper pivot 17 or a drive shaft fixed to an inner panel 1A via a nut 18. An outer handle 6 which is provided with a holding part 21 for opening/closing a lift gate 1 is fixed to an outer panel 1B by a nut 23. A recessed part 26 is formed in an upper extension part 25 so as to cover the nut 23 for fixing a wiper pivot 17 and the wiper arm 5A in its fitted state to the lift gate 1. This constitution can eliminate any necessity of providing a cover member, etc., separately keeping up appearances, reduce the cost, and improve fitting workability and the outer appearance.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a rear body structure of a vehicle having an opening at a rear portion of the vehicle body and covering the opening with a lift gate so as to be opened and closed.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a wagon type vehicle in which an opening provided in a rear portion of a vehicle body is covered by a lift gate, a rear wiper is generally provided for a rear window glass fixed to the lift gate. In this rear wiper, a drive motor and a wiper pivot are mounted in a lift gate, and a wiper arm is detachably fixed to the wiper pivot via a nut. Further, conventionally, a cover member for concealing the nut is separately provided on the wiper pivot for hiding the rag, so that the appearance is not impaired. Further, in this type of wagon type vehicle, an outer handle provided with a grip portion for opening and closing the lift gate is provided.

[0003]

However, in the conventional structure as described above, since a cover member for concealing a nut for fixing the wiper pivot and the wiper arm is separately provided, there is a problem in terms of cost and mounting workability. And there wasn't enough to look good.

Further, in order to prevent the deformation of the lift gate due to the reaction force of the outer handle for opening and closing the heavy lift gate and to prevent the outer handle from wobbling, it is necessary to strengthen the lift gate around the outer handle support. There was a problem.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to improve the appearance around the wiper pivot without providing a separate concealment or the like for a nut for fixing the wiper pivot and the wiper arm. It is an object of the present invention to provide a rear body structure capable of strengthening the structure around the outer handle without significantly strengthening the lift gate.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object,
The solution taken by the present invention is to provide a lift gate having a lift gate that can open and close an opening provided at the rear of the vehicle body, wherein the lift gate is swingable with respect to a rear window glass provided in the lift gate. A rear wiper supported by a lift gate or rear window glass,
An outer handle fixed to the lift gate and configured with a gripper for opening and closing the lift gate,
The outer handle is integrally formed with a recess for concealing an upper end of a wiper pivot, which is a swing axis of the rear wiper.

[0007]

According to the present invention, the following effects can be obtained based on the above configuration.
The nut for fixing the wiper pivot and the wiper arm does not need to be separately provided with a cover member for concealing the rag, so that cost, mounting workability, and appearance can be significantly improved.

Further, when opening and closing a heavy lift gate, a load is transmitted to the wiper pivot in response to the deformation of the lift gate caused by the reaction force of the outer handle and the wobbling of the outer handle. It is possible to obtain a practically excellent effect that there is no need to strengthen the

[0009]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 shows a rear body structure of a wagon vehicle to which the present invention is applied. The vehicle is provided with a lift gate 1 that opens and closes an opening 2 provided in a rear portion of the vehicle body via a hinge (not shown) so as to be freely opened and closed. Have been.

The lift gate 1 is provided with a rear window glass 3 in an upper half thereof, and a rear wiper 5 swingable with respect to the rear window glass 3 is provided with the rear window glass 3 and the lift window. It is supported by the gate 1. Further, an outer handle 6 is vertically fixed to the lift gate 1 so as to cover a wiper pivot which is a swing axis of the rear wiper 5.

A detailed structure around the outer handle 6 will be described below with reference to FIGS. Lift gate 1
The inner panel 1 </ b> A and the outer panel 1 </ b> B have a closed cross-sectional shape, and the upper and lower spaces 7, 8 are formed.
Are formed. In addition, the upper and lower spaces 7,
The rear window glass 3 is firmly fixed through a predetermined adhesive over eight spaces.

A hinge (not shown) is provided in the upper space portion 7, and the lift gate 1 can swing up and down with respect to a rear header 9 provided at the rear end of the roof panel via the hinge. I support it. On the other hand, the lower space portion 8 is provided therein with a lock device 12 which is detachably engaged with a striker 11 fixed to the rear floor cross member 10, thereby opening the lift gate 1 to the vehicle body. , And is configured to perform locking.

The lock device 12 includes a hook 13 swingably supported by the inner panel 1A so as to be detachable from the striker 11, a key cylinder 14 fixed to the outer panel 1B, and a movement of the key cylinder 14. And a link mechanism 16 that converts the motion of the hook 13 into a motion appropriate for the hook 13 via the transmission rod 15. The key cylinder 14 has a well-known structure.
Each link mechanism is configured so that the hook 13 is opened by pressing the key insertion portion.

In the drawing, reference numeral 5 denotes a rear wiper having a well-known wiper configuration. The rear wiper 5 is a wiper pivot 1 which is a drive shaft fixed to an inner panel 1A.
The wiper arm 5A is fixed to the rear window glass 3 by a nut 18 so as to be swingable with respect to the rear window glass 3. Reference numeral 19 denotes a driving device for the wiper 5, and thereby, the wiper pivot 17
Is rotated reciprocally around the axis thereof to drive the wiper 5 so as to be swingable.

The outer handle 6 shown in FIG. 3 has a grip portion 2 which a user grips when opening and closing the lift gate 1.
The outer handle 6 is fixed to an outer panel 1B via a reinforcing bracket 22 with a nut 23 as shown in the figure. The outer handle 6 is provided with a through-hole 24 into which the key cylinder 14 is inserted, and is integrally formed with an extension 25 extending upward from the through-hole 24.

A recess 26 is formed in the extension 25 so that the inside of the vehicle body is open. This recess 26
In a state where the wiper pivot 17 and the wiper arm 5A are fixed to each other in a state where the wiper pivot 17 is attached to the lift gate 1, the nut 23 is provided so as to hide the nut 23.

In this embodiment, the outer handle 6 is disposed in the vertical direction. However, the present invention is not limited to this. The outer handle 6 is disposed in the vehicle width direction, and the wiper arm 5A is inserted into the upper surface. Needless to say, the nut 23 may be configured to be hidden by forming an insertion hole.

In the figure, reference numeral 27 denotes a rear bumper. With the above configuration, it is not necessary to separately provide a cover member or the like for concealing the rags with respect to the nut 23 for fixing the wiper pivot 17 and the wiper arm 5A. It can be improved. In addition, the wiper 5 and the outer handle 6 have a continuous design, so that the appearance can be improved.

Furthermore, the reaction force from the outer handle 6 generated when the heavy lift gate 1 is opened and closed causes deformation of the lift gate 1 and wobbling of the outer handle 6, which can be surely performed without much strengthening. Can be prevented. That is, with respect to the load from the outer handle 6, the concave portion 2 is formed in the wiper pivot 17 strongly supported by the lift gate 1 and the rear window glass 3.
This is because the load can be transmitted through the cable 6.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a rear perspective view of a vehicle to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken along line AA in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a single perspective view of an outer handle.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1: lift gate 3: rear window glass 5: rear wiper 6: outer handle 11: striker 12: locking device 13: hook 14: key cylinder 17: wiper pivot 23: nut 26: recess

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A lift gate having a lift gate provided on the rear side of a vehicle body to open and close freely, wherein the lift gate or the rear is swingable with respect to a rear window glass provided on the lift gate. A rear wiper supported by a window glass; and an outer handle fixed to the lift gate and having a grip portion configured to open and close the lift gate. The outer handle is a swing shaft of the rear wiper. A rear body structure of a vehicle, wherein a concave portion for concealing an upper end portion of a wiper pivot is integrally formed.