JPS58189465A - Remote control apparatus of door lock for automobile - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a device in which a childproof lever in an automobile door lock having a childproof function can be locked and unlocked from a remote location.

In recent years, door locks equipped with a so-called child safety mechanism have been increasingly used on the rear doors of four-door automobiles to prevent the doors from being opened unexpectedly due to mischief by young children. ing. This type of door lock generally closes the door by operating the Child Blue (-) that protrudes from the end of the door.
The doors 7b) can be opened from outside the vehicle, but the structure is such that they cannot be opened from inside the vehicle, no matter how much the knob or inside handle is operated.

However, such a conventional door lock with a childproof roof mechanism requires a childproof lever, which is troublesome to operate.
If the driver realizes that he or she has forgotten to turn on the Childproof Freno while driving, the driver must stop the car, get out of the car, open the rear door, and operate the Childproof Freno. It was inconvenient.

To solve these drawbacks, child-proof levers are used.In this case, conventional door locks are equipped with child-proof levers to provide a sense of moderation when operating the child-glue levers, and to prevent malfunctions caused by vibrations when driving. Since the lever is held in the locked and unlocked positions, if the Child Blue 7 lever is connected to the operating lever located near the driver's seat using the linking means, the moderation during operation of the operating lever will be lost due to the loss of the linking means. I feel less sensitive,
It was difficult to clearly tell whether the childproof lever was in the locked or unlocked position just by feeling the lever.

The present invention was made in order to solve the problems of the conventional technology, and an object of the present invention is to provide a child-proof remote control device that allows you to clearly know whether to lock or unlock the child-proof door just by feeling the operation lever. There is.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention operatively connects a childproof lever in a door lock of an automobile equipped with a childproof mechanism, an operating lever provided near the driver's seat, and the child blue 7 lever and the operating lever. and elastic holding means provided on the operating lever side and holding the lever in positions corresponding to the locked and unlocked positions of the childproof lever on the operating lever.

The present invention will be described below based on embodiments shown in the accompanying drawings.

In addition, this example uses the child blue 7 door lock.
A lever remote control mechanism and a door lock knob lever remote control mechanism are installed side by side.

As shown in FIG. 1, a door lock (2) is provided at the middle portion of the rear end of a rear left door (1) of an automobile. Also, although not shown, there is a door lock similar to door lock (2) on the rear right door of the car.
They are arranged so that they form a bilaterally symmetrical structure.

Door lock (2) as clearly shown in Figures 2 and 6.
The bracket (4) fixed to the board (6), the board (
3), a knob lever (6) pivotally mounted with a shaft (5);
A child-proof lever (hereinafter simply referred to as a child lever) (8) is pivotally attached to the substrate (5) with a shaft (7).
) etc.

Therefore, when the knob lever (6) is in the unlocked position shown by the imaginary line in FIG. 2 and the child lever (8) is in the unlocked position shown by the solid line in FIG. The door can be opened from either inside or outside the vehicle using the inside handle or outside handle (both not shown), but if the knob lever (6) is in the unlocked position and the child lever (8) is in the When the door is in the locked position shown by the imaginary line, the door can be opened from outside the car, but it cannot be opened from inside the car, and the knob lever (6) is in the locked position shown by the solid line in Figure 2, and the child lever is not open. (8) is in the unlocked position, and the knob lever (6) is in the locked position,
When the child lever (8) is in the locked position, the door cannot be opened from either inside or outside the vehicle.

The structure of the door lock itself having such a child-proof mechanism is already known, and the present invention is not directly related to the structure of the door lock itself, so a detailed explanation of the structure will be omitted. do.

Returning to FIG. 1, a console box (11) is provided in the vehicle body between the driver's seat (9) and the passenger seat (10).
1) As shown in Figures 4 to 7, the vehicle body (1)
2) is provided with a base play 1 (13) fixed to it.

Base play) (13) left and right side pieces (13a)
Inside the (1 lobe) is a pair of louvers (14a).
The lower ends of (14b) and (15a) (15a)
b) are respectively pivotally connected. Each ruber (1
4a) In the middle part of (14b) there is an axis (isa) (15
Arc-shaped long hole (16a) (16b) centered at b)
are drilled into the elongated holes (16a) (16b), and each side piece (15a) (1 lobe) in the base plate (see) is bored.
) by engaging the pins (17a) (17b) protruding from the inner surfaces of the respective first levers (14a) (1
4b) are rotated by the axis (15a) at a required angle independently of each other.
(15b) It is designed to be able to rotate around.

Elongated hole (16) in each louver (14a) (14b)
a) Locking pins (19a) (19b) fixed to the base ends of flexible cables (18a) (18b) made of piano wire or the like are locked to the upper part of (16b). . Each cable (18a) (18b) has a side piece (13a) (13b).
The proximal end is secured to the front part of the flexible cable conduit (21a) (21b) with appropriate clasps (20a) (20b).
), respectively, and the cable conduit (21a) (2
1b).

As shown in FIG. 1, the left cable conduit (21a) exits the console box (11), passes under the passenger seat (1o), enters the left door (1), Its tip is fixed to the bracket (4) of the door lock (2) of the left door (1) with an appropriate clasp (22) (see Figure 2). The tip of the cable (18a) protruding from the cable conduit (21a) is fixed to the free end of the knob lever (6) of the door lock (2).

Further, the right cable conduit (21b) is the above-mentioned cable conduit (21b).
Place the console box (1) symmetrically with a).
1), pass under the driver's seat (9) and enter the right door, and attach the tip to the right door lock in the same way as the cable conduit (21a) described above. , and the tip of the cable (18b) guided by the cable conduit (21b) is fixed to the knob lever of the right door lock (path shown).

Thus, the left louver (14a) is connected to the cable (18a).
) with the knob lever (6) of the left door lock (2), and the right lever (14b) is linked with the knob lever (6) of the right door lock with the cable (18b). , are linked so as to interlock with each other, and by operating the respective levers (14a) and (14b), the door locks (
The knob levers (6) in 2) can be remotely operated independently of each other.

That is, each of the 6th levers (14a) (14b)
By setting the knob lever (6) of each door lock (2) to the locked position shown by the solid line in the figure, the knob lever (6) of each door lock (2) can be set to the locked position, and by setting it to the unlocked position shown by the imaginary line in Fig. 6. Knob lever (for each door lock (2))
6) can be set as the unlocked position.

The upper part of each louver (14a) (14b) protrudes upward through a pair of long holes (23a) (2 lobes) cut in the upper surface of the console box (11) in the longitudinal direction. At the upper end, each louver (14a) (14b
) are fitted, and by operating the handles (24a) (24b), each lever (14a) (14b) can be moved to a locked position and an unlocked position. can be moved to

(25) is the second lever which is the operating lever of the present invention,
This second lever (25) has left and right leg pieces (25b) (25C) whose upper parts are connected to each other with a rear piece (25a).
Holding the lower ends of the left and right shafts (26a) (26b), hold the left and right side pieces (i5a) of the base plate (1).
(13b), each leg piece (25b) (
Step part (25d) (25C) bent at the middle part of (25C)
5e) into fan-shaped notches (27a) (27b) centered on the shafts (26a) (26b) cut into the upper edges of each side piece (13a) (1 b). ,
The shafts (26a) (26b) can be rotated by a required angle.

As the linking means of the present invention, in this embodiment, a cable made of piano wire or the like and a cable conduit into which the cable is inserted are used.
Locking pins (29a) (29b) fixed to the base ends of the cables (28a) (28b) are locked to the upper parts of both leg pieces (25b) (25C) of the second lever (25). There is.

Each cable (28a) (28b) has a side piece (13a) (
ISb) Appropriate stopper (3Da) at the front of the (rob)
) A flexible cable conduit (31a) whose proximal end is fixed with
(51b) respectively inserted into the cable conduit (31a).
) (31b).

The left cable conduit (31a), as shown in FIG.
a), enter the left door (1) in the same way as the cable conduit (21a), hold the end of the cable conduit (21a) together with the stopper (22), and It is fixed to the bracket (4) on the door lock (2). The cable (
The tip of 28a) is fixed to the free end of the child lever (8) in the above-mentioned door lock (2).

In addition, the right cable conduit (31b) is the same as the left cable conduit (filter 1).
Place the console box (1) symmetrically with a).
1), it is bundled together with the cable conduit (21b), enters the door on the right, and connects its tip to the cable conduit (21b).
) is fixed to the right door lock in the same manner as the cable (28b) and guided by its cable conduit (si b).
The tip of is fixed to the child lever of the right door lock (not shown).

Thus, the second lever (25), cable (28a) (28
b) The left and right door locks (2) are linked together with the child levers (8), and by operating the second lever (25), the child levers (8) in the left and right door locks (2) are engaged. ) can be remotely controlled at the same time. That is, the second lever (25
) to the unlocked position shown by the solid line in Figure 6, both child levers (8) can be set to the unlocked position,
And by setting it to the locked position shown by the imaginary line in Figure 6,
Both child levers (8) can be placed in the locked position.

(62) is an over-seventer type coil spring (see Fig. 9) which is the elastic holding means of the present invention, and one end is attached to the middle part of one leg (25C) of the second lever (2p).
The other end of the base plate (1) is locked at a proper position on one side piece (13b), and the second lever (2)
5) can be stably and elastically held in either the locked position or the unlocked position, giving a sense of moderation when operating the second lever.

At the upper end of one leg piece (25C) of the second lever (25), there is a rondo (66) that slopes downward toward the front.
The rear end of is locked. The front end of this rondo (Roro) is pivotally attached to the sliding plate (Roro 4) with left and right pins (65) (see Figure 8), and this sliding plate (34) U, the console box (11) A frame member (
36) so as to be slidable in a direction substantially equal to the axis of the rond (36).

A second lever (25) is provided on the outer surface of the central part of the sliding plate (64).
) is fixed to the handle (37) that forms the operating part of the handle (
37) protrudes from the frame member (36) toward the driver's seat (9).

Thus, by sliding this handle (37) in the front and back direction, the second lever (25) is
can be moved to the locked and unlocked positions.

(38) ld is a hand brake provided so as to protrude forward from the console box (11).

The present invention provides a childproof lever in a door lock of an automobile having a childproof function, an operating lever provided near the driver's seat, a linking means for operatively connecting the childproof lever and the operating lever, and a linking means for operatively connecting the childproof lever and the operating lever. Because the structure is similar to the elastic holding means that holds the operating levers in the positions corresponding to the locked and unlocked positions of the Childproof Blue 7 lever, the driver does not have to get out of the car each time to operate the childproof lever. The childproof lever can be easily controlled remotely from the driver's seat without the need to go to the door to lock or unlock it.Furthermore, the childproof lever can be remotely controlled while the car is in motion without having to stop, making it extremely convenient. It is.

Further, since an elastic holding means is provided to stably hold the operating lever in the locked position and the unlocked position, it is possible to give a sense of moderation to the operation of the operating lever and improve operability. If the elastic holding means is provided on the operating lever side in this way, compared to the case where the elastic holding means is provided on the door lock side, that is, between the childproof lever and the board,
It is possible to reduce the negative effects caused by the sliding resistance between the cable, which is a linking means, and the cable conduit, and the elongation of the cable, which affect the operation feeling of the operating lever, and it has the effect that smooth and reliable operation can be performed.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view showing the interior of an automobile equipped with an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a side view of the door lock, and FIG. 6 is a view of the door lock shown in FIG. 2 from the opposite side. 4 is a perspective view showing the inside of the console box, 5 is a plan view, 6 is a side view, and 7 is taken along line X-X in 5. 8 is a sectional view taken along the line Y--Y in FIG. 6, and FIG. 9 is an exploded perspective view of the mounting portion of the coil spring. (2) Door lock (8) Childproof lever (11) Console box (16) Base plate (25) Second lever (operation lever) (28aX281)) Cable (31a) (311)) Cable conduit (coupling means) ( 67
) Handle (operation part) (32) ? Bar center type coil spring t! lI3 Figure 6 Figure 9

Claims (1)

[Claims] A childproof lever in a door lock of an automobile having a childproof mechanism, an operating lever provided near the driver's seat, a linking means for operatively connecting the childproof lever and the operating lever, and a linking means provided on the operating lever side. A remote control device for a door lock for an automobile, comprising elastic holding means for holding the operating lever in positions corresponding to the locked and unlocked positions of the childproof lever.