KR101168479B1 - Headlight for a motorcycle - Google Patents

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to miniaturize the reflector of a headlight bulb in a headlight unit having a headlight and a position light, thereby miniaturizing the entire headlight unit.

The headlight unit of the present invention comprises a housing portion 26 which accommodates the headlight and the position light and whose front portion is opened, and a lens 22 provided on the front surface of the housing portion 26. The housing portion 26 is composed of a first portion accommodating the headlight bulb 23 and a second portion accommodating the position light bulb 24, and the first portion constitutes a reflector of the headlight bulb. The second portion constitutes the reflector of the position light bulb. In the first portion, a movable reflector 27 for the headlight bulb 23 provided to be swingable for aming.

Description

Headlight device for motorcycles {HEADLIGHT FOR A MOTORCYCLE}

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a headlight device of a motorcycle, and more particularly, to a headlight device of a motorcycle having an aiming (optical axis adjustment) function.

BACKGROUND ART A motorcycle having a headlight device attached to the front cover is known. Patent Literature 1 includes a headlight and a position light disposed below the headlight, and a headlight unit provided with an aming function is disclosed in the headlight (see FIG. 5 of Patent Literature 1). The reflector of this headlight unit consists of a reflector of a headlight part and a reflector of a position light part, and both reflectors are integrally formed. Thus, for the amming of the headlight, swinging the reflector of the headlight portion also tilts the reflector of the position light portion.

[Patent Document 1] Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2003-170876

In the headlight unit described in Patent Document 1, a large reflector member formed by integrally reflecting each of the headlight portion and the position light portion at the time of aming. Therefore, since the end part (front end) of the reflector member is greatly displaced during swinging for aming, a gap sufficient to enable this operation must be secured between the reflector member and the skin member such as a lens.

For this reason, there arises a problem that the size of the outer skin member, i.e., the entire headlight unit, becomes large, and the support structure of the reflector member, the boss for attaching the headlight device to the vehicle body cover, and the like must be made more robust.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a headlight device for a motorcycle, which can solve the above problems, miniaturize the aming mechanism, and thereby reduce the overall size of the device.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a headlight bulb, a position light bulb provided adjacent to the headlight bulb, a housing portion accommodating the headlight bulb and the position light bulb, and the front portion of which is open; A headlight device comprising a lens provided on a front surface of a housing portion, wherein the housing portion includes a first portion accommodating a headlight bulb and a second portion accommodating a position light bulb, wherein the first portion is a headlight. The reflector of the bulb is formed, the second part constitutes the reflector of the position light bulb, and the first part is provided with a movable reflector of the headlight bulb provided to be swingable for aiming. There is one feature.

Moreover, this invention has the 2nd characteristic that the wall part of the housing part which partitions the said 1st part and the 2nd part extends to the said lens.

Moreover, this invention has the 3rd characteristic that the width | variety of the reflector of the said position light bulb and the width | variety of the said movable reflector are substantially the same.

Moreover, this invention has a 4th characteristic in that the both ends of the reflector of the said position light bulb are arrange | positioned longitudinally at the edge part near the center of the vehicle body width direction of left and right wingers.

According to this invention which has a 1st characteristic, at the time of aming, the reflector of a headlight bulb and the whole housing part which comprises the reflector of a position light bulb are not rocked, but the movable reflector which concerns only a headlight bulb is provided, Only this movable reflector was made to swing. Since this movable reflector only needs to reflect light with respect to the headlight, it can be miniaturized and the movable range can be made small. As a result, the whole headlight device can be miniaturized.

In addition, according to the present invention having the second feature, since the boundary between the first and second portions, that is, the boundary between the headlight and the position light, becomes clear, the headlight front part in which the headlight and the position light are clearly distinguished is provided. Appearance design can be provided.

According to this invention which has a 3rd characteristic, the position light reflector can be made large like the movable reflector of a headlight, and light of a position light can be irradiated to a wide range. Moreover, even in this way, since the position light reflector is fixed even at the time of heading of the headlight, the light distribution property does not change significantly.

According to the present invention having the fourth feature, since both ends of the vehicle body center end portion of the left and right wingers and the reflector of the position light are aligned, continuity between the left and right wingers and the position light occurs in the vehicle body width direction, resulting in an appearance of the front surface of the vehicle body. It becomes good.

EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION Hereinafter, one Embodiment of this invention is described with reference to drawings. 2 is a front view of a motorcycle having a headlight device (winker unit) according to one embodiment of the present invention. Although the motorcycle 1 shown in FIG. 2 is a scooter type vehicle, it is not limited to this. The motorcycle 1 has a front fork 2 rotatably supported by a head pipe (not shown) provided at the foremost part of the vehicle body frame. The front wheel 3 is rotatably mounted with respect to the front axle 4 provided at the lower end of the front fork 2. The front fork 2 extends upwards from the head pipe, the upper end of which is connected to a steering handle (not shown). In FIG. 2, the handle grips 5 and 5 provided on the left and right sides of the steering handle and the brake levers 6 and 6 are shown.

The vehicle body of the motorcycle 1 is covered with a cover. First, the front cover 7 which covers the front fork 2 and the front wheel 3 is provided in the vehicle body front part, and the body cover 8 which covers a vehicle body frame is arrange | positioned behind this front cover 7. . Moreover, the steering wheel cover 9 which covers the steering wheel is provided above the front cover 7. As shown in FIG.

A headlight device (headlight unit) 10 is attached near the center upper portion of the front cover 7. The headlight unit 10 includes a headlight and a position light (to be described later). In addition, the headlight is provided with the movable reflector mentioned later, the position light is equipped with the position light reflector mentioned later, and as shown by the lines A and A, the both ends in the vehicle body width direction of both reflectors are matched. As a result, the width B is set to be substantially the same.

The left winger 11 and the right winger 12 which are arrange | positioned at a distance from each other in the vehicle body width direction left and right are attached to the steering wheel cover 9. The arrangement | positioning space of the left winger 11 and the right winger 12 is set substantially the same as the width | variety of the reflector of the said headlight. That is, edges near the center of the vehicle body in the width direction of the left winger 11 and the right winger 12 are aligned with the lines A and A, respectively. In addition, adjacent left ornaments 13 are provided at intervals near the vehicle body width direction center of the left winger 11, and right adjacent ornaments 14 are disposed adjacent to the vehicle body width direction center of the right winger 12 at intervals. ) Is provided.

The left winger 11 and the right winger 12 are attached to the left lens window 15 and the right lens window 16 formed in the handle cover 9 so as to face the front of the vehicle body. Similarly, the left side ornament 13 and the right side ornament 14 are fitted to the left side ornament window 17 and the right side ornament window 18 formed in the handle cover 9 so as to face the front of the vehicle body.

The headlight unit will be described. 3 is a front view of the headlight unit, FIG. 4 is a perspective view of the headlight unit viewed from the left rear, and FIG. 5 is a rear view of the headlight unit. 3 to 5, the headlight unit 10 includes a base member 21 and a lens 22 on the front surface of the base member 21, and between the base member 21 and the lens 22. The headlight bulb 23 and the position light bulb 24 are accommodated in the space formed in the space.

The base member 21 consists of the frame 25 which is a thick part, and the housing part 26 by which the outer peripheral shape was defined by the frame 25. As shown in FIG. The housing portion 26 pivotally supports the headlight bulb 23 in the vertical direction for aming. The housing portion 26 is divided into an upper portion (first portion) and a lower portion (second portion), and the front end 26c of the wall portion of the housing portion 26 that divides the upper portion and the lower portion is the lens 22. Extends to

The upper part 26a of the housing part 26 functions as a headlight reflector which reflects the light of the headlight bulb 23. In addition, the upper part 26a of the housing part 26 is provided with the movable reflector 27 which reflects the light of the headlight bulb 23 toward the front of a vehicle body, and oscillates together according to the amming of the headlight bulb 23.

Further, the lower portion 26b of the housing portion 26 constitutes the position light reflector 28 for the position light bulb 24. As described above, the movable reflector 27 and the position light reflector 28 have substantially the same width B, and both ends thereof are aligned with the line A. FIG. The reflector will be described later with reference to FIG. 1 and the like.

The housing part 26 is provided with the insulating cover 29 which covers the rear part of the socket (described later) for mounting the headlight bulb 23 in the center part. The harness 30 drawn out from the headlight bulb 23 is gathered together with the harness 31 drawn out rearward from the position light bulb 24. In the harness 33 collected as one, the harness 34 connected to the winkers 11 and 12 is also collected.

The stay 35 mounted on the rear of the housing part 26 is for mounting a winker relay (not shown), and a plug 36 connected to the winker relay is provided at the end of the winker harness 34. .

On the rear surface of the housing part 26, pivot support parts 37 and 38 for supporting the aiming pivot (described later) are formed on the upper left and right sides, respectively. The movable reflector 27 can rock in the up-down direction about this pivot. Aiming bolt 39 is provided below the pivot support portion 37. By turning this aiming bolt 39, the movable reflector 27 is rocked around the pivot.

The upper left and right sides of the base member 21 are equipped with breathers 40 and 41 for enabling circulation of the atmosphere and outside air of the bulb accommodation space. Furthermore, brackets 42, 43, 44, 45, 46 and hanger hooks 47 protruding out around the frame 25 of the base member 21 are formed. These brackets 42 and the like are used to fix the headlight unit 10 to the front cover 7 in connection with a bracket support (not shown) formed in the front cover 7. The hanger hook 47 is engaged with a hanger (not shown) formed in the front cover 7 and used for positioning the headlight unit 10 with respect to the front cover 7.

Next, the aiming structure of the headlight bulb 23 will be described. 8 is a sectional view of the right pivot part (8-8 sectional view in FIG. 5). In FIG. 8, the pivot shaft 55 fixed to the movable reflector 27 and extended to the rear side (FIG. 8 left and right) has the pivot 55a which is a partial sphere at the front-end | tip. On the other hand, the pivot support part 38 formed in the housing part 26 is equipped with the pivot sheet 57 fixed with the screw 56. As shown in FIG. The left pivot part including the pivot support part 38 is configured in the same way as the right pivot part. By this structure, the movable reflector 27 can rock in the up-down direction centering on the line which connects the left-right pivot part.

FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view at position 1-1 of FIG. 5, FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view at position 7-7 of FIG. 5, and FIG. 7 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of an essential part of FIG.

In Fig. 1, the socket 48 to which the bulb 23 is mounted is supported by a flexible member 50 made of a circular corrugated iron with respect to the socket retaining ring 49, and the socket retaining ring 49 is housed. (26) is hanging. The movable reflector 27 is attached to the socket 48 and is disposed at a position capable of reflecting the light of the headlight bulb 23 forward. The position light bulb 24 is fixed to the housing portion 26 via the position light socket 51.

6 and 7, the amming bolt 39 is held in the housing portion 26 in a state in which movement of the front and rear directions (FIGS. 6 and 7 left and right directions) is restricted by the stoppers 52 and 53. . The nut 54 is screwed to the distal threaded portion 39a of the aiming bolt 39. On the rear surface of the movable reflector 27, a bracket 55 extends, and the vertical portion 55a of the extended bracket 55 is engaged with the nut 54. The nut 54 has mountains 54a and 54b formed so that the vertical portion 55a is fitted at a position deviated from the threaded portion so as to be engaged with a small surface (line).

6 and 7, when the arming bolt 39 is turned, the nut 54 screwed with the threaded portion 39a is displaced from side to side, and the peaks 54a and 54b with respect to the nut 54. The headlight reflector 27 is displaced through the bracket 55 which is engaged by the.

Since the movable reflector 27 can be rocked about a line connecting two pivot parts by the above configuration, the irradiation direction of the headlight bulb 23 is rotated in the up and down direction by rotating the aiming bolt 39. I can regulate it. And this movable reflector 27 is provided so that it may act only on the headlight bulb 23, and since it is made small by operating separately from the housing part 26, the whole headlight unit can be miniaturized.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS Sectional drawing which shows the principal part of the headlight unit which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention.

2 is a front view of a motorcycle having a headlight unit according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a front view of a headlight unit according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a perspective view of the headlight unit according to one embodiment of the present invention seen from the left rear side;

5 is a rear view of the headlight unit.

6 is a cross-sectional view of the headlight unit including an aiming bolt.

7 is an enlarged view of a main part of FIG. 6;

8 is a cross-sectional view of the pivot unit.

<Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

1: motorcycle

9: handle cover

11: left winger

12: right linker

13: left side decoration

14: right side decoration

15: Left lens window

20: headlight unit

21: base member

22: lens

23: headlight bulb

24: Position Light Bulb

26: housing part

27: movable reflector

28: position light reflector

37, 38: pivot base

39: Aiming Bolt

Claims (4)

A headlight bulb, a position light bulb provided adjacent to the headlight bulb, a housing portion for receiving the headlight bulb and the position light bulb, the front portion of which is open, and a lens provided on the front surface of the housing portion; As the headlight device of a motorcycle, The housing part includes a first portion accommodating the headlight bulb and a second portion accommodating the position light bulb, The first portion constitutes the reflector of the headlight bulb, the second portion constitutes the reflector of the position light bulb, The first portion is provided with a movable reflector of the headlight bulb provided to be swingable for aming, Both ends of the reflector of the position light bulb are arranged in the longitudinal direction at the center portion of the vehicle body in the width direction of the left and right wingers. A front cover covering a front fork and a front wheel is provided at the front of the vehicle body, a handle cover covering a steering handle is provided above the front cover, and the headlight device is disposed at the center upper side of the front cover, The wall part of the housing part which divides a said 1st part and a 2nd part extends to the said lens, A width of the reflector of the position light bulb is equal to the width of the movable reflector. delete delete delete

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