JP3012773B2 - Automotive lamp intake device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a lamp intake device which is mounted on a vehicle and has a lamp function unit such as a turn signal lamp and an air intake function unit.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In an automobile, an air intake section for introducing outside air to the engine room as the vehicle travels, a turn signal lamp for notifying another vehicle of a turning direction of the own vehicle, and a vehicle width of the own vehicle at night. Lamps such as side lights for informing the car are provided individually.

[0003]

As for a bumper located at the forefront of a conventional automobile, for example, a bumper is provided with a lamp unit such as a turn signal lamp and a vehicle width light unit and an air intake unit separately. For this reason, a number of small vehicle-body-side openings serving as a vehicle-body-side opening for mounting the lamp unit and an air intake portion are separately arranged in one bumper, and the structure of a molding die of the bumper is complicated.
The problem is that it is difficult to manufacture.

Accordingly, the present invention provides a lamp intake device in which a lamp unit and an air intake can be provided in a vehicle body with respect to one vehicle body side opening formed in a vehicle body component such as a bumper or a side fender. It is intended to provide.

[0005]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a vehicle lamp intake device having a front open shape in which a device body made of a synthetic resin can be inserted into a vehicle body side opening formed in a vehicle body component. An air vent having a horizontally long housing portion and a closed annular rim projecting outward from the front opening of the housing portion so as to surround the housing portion, wherein one half of the housing portion has a bottom wall removed from the housing portion; In addition to being formed as an entrance, the other half of the housing is formed as a lamp housing having a wiring hole formed in the bottom wall of the housing. The wiring extending from the lamp unit with the light bulb housed inside the unit cover, which is combined with the unit cover, is drawn out from the inside of the housing part to the outside. By attaching the unit base of this lamp unit to the bottom wall of the housing portion, the lamp unit is mounted in the lamp accommodating portion, and substantially the entire back surface of the rim portion is inserted in the housing portion into the vehicle body side opening. A vehicle body mounting part for mounting via a bonding material around the vehicle body opening part of the vehicle body component part, and further, the housing part is formed on the outer surface of the housing part on the side of the air intake part on the vehicle body side opening part. A latch member is provided for bending and attaching the vehicle body component around the vehicle body opening when inserted into the vehicle body component.

[0006]

According to the lamp intake device of the present invention, the housing of the device main body is inserted into the vehicle body side opening formed in the vehicle body component, and the lamp intake device is mounted by the vehicle body mounting portion and the latch member. The vehicle body side opening formed in the vehicle body component has a ramp function part and an air intake function part. Then, as the vehicle travels, outside air flows into the engine room from the air intake portion, and the cooling effect on the engine room can be improved. In addition, the outside air accompanying the traveling of the vehicle flows smoothly to the air inlet without receiving resistance such as a partition from the lamp housing. Further, rainwater, car wash water, and the like flowing along the vehicle body components flow along the edge surface of the vehicle body attachment portion and the edge surface of the edge portion.

[0007]

1 to 7 show an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 1 shows an external view of the disassembled lamp intake device A as viewed from the front, FIG. 2 shows a cross section of the assembled lamp intake device A cut along the line aa in FIG.
4 shows the appearance of the assembled lamp intake as viewed from the back, and FIG. 4 shows the hook members 8, 9 of the lamp intake device A.
5 shows an external view of the vehicle body to which the ramp intake device A is attached, as viewed from the front, and FIG. 6 shows a cross section of a portion of the vehicle body to which the ramp intake device A is attached. FIG. 7 shows the operation of the ramp intake device A when the vehicle is running.

In FIG. 1, a lamp intake device A has an apparatus main body 1 made of a constituent resin. The device body 1 has a housing portion 2 and a rim portion 3 such as FRP.
It is formed integrally with a synthetic resin as described above. The housing portion 2 is formed in a horizontally long shape which can be inserted into a vehicle body side opening portion C formed in a bumper B as a vehicle body component shown in FIG. 6, and one half of the housing portion 2 has an air intake from which a bottom wall 2a of the housing portion 2 is removed. It is formed as an inlet 4 and the other half as a lamp housing 5. A wiring hole 6 is formed in the bottom wall 2 a of the housing 2 as the lamp housing 5. That is, in the housing part 2, no partition is provided between the lamp housing part 5 and the air inlet part 4, and one lamp housing part 5 and one air inlet part 4 are provided side by side. Therefore, the air flow from the lamp housing 5 to the air inlet 4 is smoothly generated.

In this embodiment, the lamp housing 5 has
As the lamp unit 7, a turn signal lamp unit 7 indicating a turning direction of the vehicle is used. The turn signal lamp unit 7 is commercially available, but is roughly formed on a metal unit base 7a formed in a flat plate shape having a shallow depth with a flange formed by bending the entire periphery of a rectangular or round bottom. And a unit cover 7b made of a translucent yellow translucent synthetic resin having a light transmitting property and formed in a bowl shape such as a rectangle or a circle having the same shape as the unit base 7a.
It has a structure attached at c. Unit cover 7
b, a lamp socket (not shown) to which a light bulb (not shown) is attached is attached to the inner surface of the unit base 7a, and two electric wires 7d extending from the lamp socket.
Is led out through a through hole (not shown) formed in the unit base 7a, and the electric power is intermittently supplied from an in-vehicle battery (not shown) to these electric wires 7d. Flashing light emission of unit cover 7b
, And emits yellow light.

The apparatus main body 1 is molded by, for example, inserting an FRP impregnated with a meltable polyester resin into a glass mat woven like a cloth with glass fibers into a molding die. After the molding, the wiring hole 6 is formed in the bottom wall 2a of the housing portion 2 as the bottom of the lamp housing portion 5 by drilling. The perforated front surface of the apparatus main body 1, that is, the inner side surface of the housing portion 2 and the front side surface of the rim portion 3 are removed with a polishing material such as a sound vapor to remove the release material and adhere to the paint. After the surface properties are improved so as to improve the color, a filling paint for the base is applied at least once, and then a finish paint such as a vehicle color such as white is applied. A plurality of locking members 8 and 9 made of a metal plate material such as aluminum, iron, copper, or brass are adhered to the upper and lower outer surfaces of the housing portion 2 of the apparatus main body 1 by retrofitting corresponding to the air intake portion 4. It is provided individually in the material 10. These hanging members 8 and 9 are members to be bent and attached around the vehicle body side opening C of the bumper B when the housing part 2 is inserted into the vehicle body side opening C. A to bumper B
Until it is attached to the air inlet, it extends parallel to the outside from the air inlet 4 in a substantially straight line.

In FIG. 2, when the ramp intake device A is mounted on a vehicle body component such as a bumper B or a side fender, the rim 3 is formed around a vehicle body side opening C of the vehicle body component to which the lamp intake device A is mounted. It is configured in a plate shape having a rectangular shape having a curved surface or a flat surface that comes into contact with a rectangular shape. Also, the turn signal lamp unit 7
Is used to connect the electric wire 7d from the front side of the lamp housing 5 to the wiring through hole 6
And the unit base 7a is attached to the bottom wall 2a of the housing 2 with an adhesive 11 such as a double-sided adhesive tape.

2 and 3, a double-sided adhesive tape 12 as an adhesive is provided along substantially the entire back surface of the edging portion 3, and substantially the entire back surface of the edging portion 3 has the housing portion 2 on the vehicle body side. The bumper B is formed as a vehicle body attachment portion for mounting around the vehicle body side opening portion C via the double-sided adhesive tape 12 when the bumper B is inserted into the opening portion C.

In FIG. 4, one end of each of the hook members 8 and 9 has a through hole 13, and the adhesive 10 has a melting property obtained by mixing a short glass fiber glass chip or glass powder with a polyester resin. It is composed of FRP. And
In order to attach the hook members 8 and 9 to the housing portion 2 with the adhesive 10, the adhesive members 8 and 9 having the through holes 13 are overlapped with the outer surface of the housing portion 2 while the one end portions of the hook members 8 and 9 are overlapped. 10 is provided over one end of the hook members 8 and 9 and the outer surface of the housing portion 2 located therearound. By this embedding, a part of the adhesive material 10 is
9 to the outer surface of the housing part 2 through the through holes 13.
Then, when the adhesive 10 is solidified, the locking members 8,
9 is firmly fixed to the apparatus main body 1.

FIGS. 5 and 6 show a case where the lamp intake device A constructed as described above is mounted on a vehicle body.
This will be described with reference to FIG. In this embodiment, since the lamp intake device A is mounted on the bumper B as shown in FIG. 5, the bumper B is formed with a vehicle body side opening C as shown in FIG. . The vehicle body side opening C has a size that allows the housing 2 of the lamp intake device A to be inserted, and has a shape smaller than the outer shape of the rim 3. Therefore, in order to attach the lamp intake device A to the bumper B, the electric wire 7d protruding to the rear side of the lamp intake device A shown in FIG. On the other hand, the protective paper (not shown) present on the front surface side of the double-sided adhesive tape 12 of the lamp intake device A is peeled off by hand, the lamp intake device A is held by hand, and the housing portion 2 is connected to the vehicle-side opening C The operator presses the rim portion 3 against the front surface of the bumper B around the vehicle body side opening C while checking the consistency of the mounting posture of the lamp intake device A to the bumper B. By this pressing, the rim portion 3 is attached to the bumper B with the double-sided adhesive tape 12. Subsequently, the operator inserts a finger of the hand into the air inlet portion 4 from the front, and presses the extended portion of the upper latch member 8 upward with the finger to form the vehicle body side opening C of the bumper B. While being bent along the upper wall C1, the finger is used to press the extended portion of the lower hooking member 9 downward to bend along the lower wall C2 constituting the vehicle body side opening C of the bumper B. By these bending operations, the hooking members 8 and 9 change from the phantom line to the solid line in FIG. 6, and the ramp intake device A is attached to the bumper B.

As shown in FIG. 5, the lamp intake device A is mounted on the bumper B, and the air intake portion 4 is disposed inside the vehicle width direction as shown in FIG.
Although not shown, other than the configuration in which is disposed on the outside in the vehicle width direction, a configuration may be employed in which the air intake portion 4 is disposed on the outside in the vehicle width direction and the turn signal lamp unit 7 is disposed on the inside in the vehicle width direction.

In the embodiment in which the lamp intake device A is mounted on the bumper B, the vehicle travels during running.
As shown in FIG. 7, the turn signal lamp unit 7 can blink by the turning direction instruction operation by the driver to surely inform other vehicles of the turning direction, while the air intake unit 4 indicates the outside air to the arrow X in FIG. 7. As shown by the arrow, the air is taken in from the front of the air intake part 4 and supplied to the engine room E located behind the bumper B, and the engine room E is air-cooled.

On the other hand, in a commercial vehicle provided with a turn signal lamp unit 7 using the same vehicle side opening C as the vehicle side opening C, the turn signal lamp unit 7 attached to the commercial vehicle is removed, and the vehicle side opening is removed. As described above, the lamp intake device A can also be attached to the vehicle.

In short, according to this embodiment, since the ramp intake device A is configured as a single unit having both the turn signal function unit and the air intake function unit, the ramp intake device A is used as a vehicle body component such as a bumper B. The turn signal lamp unit 7 and the air inlet 4 are attached to the vehicle body by being attached to the one vehicle body side opening C formed in the vehicle body. As a result, it is not necessary to separately form the vehicle body side opening for mounting the turn signal lamp unit on the bumper and the air intake part as in the related art. Also, the structure of the molding die of the bumper B is simpler and easier to manufacture than in the case of separate arrangement.

Further, according to this embodiment, the apparatus main body 1 has a housing portion 2 which can be inserted into the vehicle body side opening portion C and a closing portion which projects outward from the opening portion in front of the housing portion 2 so as to surround the housing portion 2. An annular rim 3 and the rim 3
Since the double-sided adhesive tape 12 is provided on substantially the entire back surface of the housing 2 and the hook members 8 and 9 are provided on the outer surface of the housing portion 2, the housing portion 2 is inserted into one vehicle body side opening C, and the lamp intake device A Can be firmly attached to the vehicle body component such as the bumper B with the double-sided adhesive tape 12 and the hooking members 8 and 9. Moreover, since the hooking members 8, 9 are provided vertically, the hooking members 8, 9 reliably bear the vibration during the running of the vehicle, and the mounting posture of the lamp intake device A is stabilized.

Further, according to this embodiment, since the double-sided adhesive tape 12 is present over substantially the entire back surface of the edging portion 3, rainwater and car wash water flowing along the bumper B are removed from the bumper B by the edge of the double-sided adhesive tape 12. Since it flows along the end face and the edge face of the rim portion 3, rainwater and car wash water are less likely to enter between the overlapping surfaces of the rim portion 3 and the bumper B, and the adhesive holding force of the double-sided adhesive tape 12 can be secured soundly. it can.

According to this embodiment, the locking members 8, 9
Is provided on the outer surface of the housing part 2 on the side of the air intake part 4, so that the operation of bending the hooking members 8, 9 with a finger to attach the lamp intake device A to the bumper B is easy.

According to this embodiment, the lamp housing 5
Since there is no partition between the air inlet 4 and the outside, the outside air smoothly flows from the lamp housing 5 to the air inlet 4 as the vehicle travels, and the cooling action of the turn signal lamp unit 7 is reduced. Can increase.

Further, according to this embodiment, since one lamp accommodating portion 5 and one air intake portion 4 are provided side by side in the housing portion 2, the two lamp accommodating portions and the one
Compared to the case where two air intake portions are provided, even if the size of the housing portion 2 is the same, it is possible to improve the air cooling of the engine room E by making the air intake portion 4 as large as possible. it can.

[0024]

As described above, according to the present invention, the lamp housing portion and the air intake portion are provided side by side in the horizontally long housing portion of the apparatus main body, so that the housing portion is formed as a vehicle body component. By inserting the lamp intake device into the side opening and attaching the lamp intake device with the vehicle body mounting portion and the hook member, the vehicle body side opening formed in the vehicle body component can have both the lamp function portion and the air intake function portion. Further, the apparatus main body has a housing portion that can be inserted into the vehicle body side opening portion, and a closed annular rim portion protruding outward so as to surround the housing portion from the opening portion in front of the housing portion. Formed as a vehicle body mounting portion to be mounted around the vehicle body side opening of the vehicle body component via an adhesive, and a latch member is provided on the outer surface of the housing portion, so that the housing portion is inserted into the vehicle body side opening, and the lamp is inserted. The intake device can be firmly attached to the vehicle body component by the vehicle body attachment portion and the hook member so as not to drop. In addition, since the adhesive of the vehicle body mounting portion is present in substantially the entire back surface of the rim portion, rainwater and car wash water flowing along the vehicle body components flow along the edge surface of the vehicle body mounting portion and the rim portion of the rim portion. Rainwater and car wash water are less likely to enter between the overlapping surfaces of the rim and the bumper, and the adhesive holding force of the adhesive can be secured for a long time. In addition, since the hooking member is provided on the outer surface of the housing portion on the side of the air intake portion, the operation of bending the hooking member with a finger in order to attach the lamp intake device to the vehicle body component is easy. Further, since there is no partition between the lamp accommodating portion and the air intake portion, outside air flows smoothly from the lamp accommodating portion to the air intake portion as the vehicle travels, and the cooling effect of the lamp unit is reduced. Can increase. Further, since one lamp accommodating portion and one air intake portion are provided in the housing portion in parallel, compared with a case where two lamp accommodating portions and one air intake portion are provided in the housing portion, the housing portion has a smaller size. Even if the size is the same,
The cooling effect on the engine room can be improved by making the air intake portion as large as possible.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view of a lamp intake device according to an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken along the line aa along FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a rear perspective view of the lamp intake device of the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of a mounting structure of the locking member of the embodiment to an apparatus main body.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a vehicle using the lamp intake of the embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a sectional view of the mounting structure of the hook member to the bumper of the embodiment.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram of the operation of the embodiment when the vehicle is running.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Apparatus main body 2 Housing part 3 Edge part 4 Air intake part 5 Lamp accommodation part 6 Wire penetration hole 7 Lamp unit 7a Unit base 7b Unit cover 7d Electric wire 8, 9 Hanging member 12 Adhesive material

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] An apparatus body made of synthetic resin is a vehicle body component.
Front opening that can be inserted into the body side opening formed in the product
Shaped housing part and opening in front of housing part
Closed annular projecting outward to surround the housing part more
A rim and a half of the housing
When the bottom wall of the section is formed as a removed air intake section
Then, the other half of this housing part is attached to the bottom wall of the housing part.
It is formed as a lamp housing with a wiring hole,
The unit base and the wiring base
A light bulb is contained inside the combined unit cover.
Electric wire extending outside from the installed lamp unit
Into the housing so that it can be pulled out of the housing.
The unit base of this lamp unit
By mounting the lamp unit on the bottom wall of the
While being mounted in the pump housing,
The entire area of the car when the housing part is inserted into the body side opening
Attach around body opening of body component via adhesive
As a vehicle mounting part for the air intake
The housing part opens on the vehicle body side on the outer surface of the housing part on the part side.
Around the opening of the vehicle body components when inserted into the mouth
A lamp intake device for a vehicle, comprising a latch member for bending and attaching along a side .