JP4123738B2 - Scooter type article storage device - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to an article storage device provided below a seating seat of a scooter type vehicle.
[0002]
[Prior art]
A general scooter type vehicle is provided with an article storage chamber below a seating seat, and the seating sheet is opened upward to put an article in and out of the article storage chamber. Further, in a scooter type vehicle having a fuel tank refueling port provided below the seating seat and behind the article storage chamber, the stored items in the article storage chamber are concealed from the outside when the seating seat is opened and fueled. In some cases, an inner cover that opens and closes only the upper opening of the article storage chamber is provided in order to prevent fuel droplets from adhering to the stored items and fouling (for example, utility model registration publication No. 2529779).
[0003]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
However, when the inner cover is provided separately from the seating sheet in this way, it is necessary to open the seating sheet and the inner cover each time an article is taken in and out of the article storage room, which is more troublesome than when the inner cover is not provided. It takes.
[0004]
In addition, since the rotation hinge of the seating seat and the rotation hinge of the inner cover must be provided separately, a space is required in which two rotation hinges are arranged in front of and behind the upper opening of the article storage chamber. Therefore, the front opening in the front-rear direction of the upper opening is narrowed, which makes it difficult to put in and out the article.
[0005]
The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and eliminates the trouble of opening the inner cover and facilitates the insertion and removal of articles by expanding the front-rear direction opening of the upper opening of the article storage chamber. An object of the present invention is to provide an article storage device for a scooter type vehicle.
[0006]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
In order to achieve the above object, an article storage device for a scooter-type vehicle according to the present invention is provided with an article storage chamber below a seating seat, as described in claim 1 of the claims. In an article storage device for a scooter type vehicle in which an inner cover that opens and closes the upper opening of the vehicle is provided, and the seat and the inner cover are opened and an article is taken in and out of the article storage chamber. The rotating shaft is coaxial, and the inner cover is engaged with the seating seat so that the inner cover is rotated around the rotating shaft integrally with the seating seat, and the inner cover is opened at the upper opening of the article storage chamber. is a state releaseably rotate only seating seat kept covering the, and, after seating seat opened individual that can be opened and closed separately from the sitting seat to the inner cover Selective engagement means for the dynamic mode can be selected provided, that the operating portion of the selected engaging means formed on the tension lever shape extending downward and arranged the operation portion on the peripheral wall inner side of the seating sheet Features.
[0007]
When the article storage device for a scooter type vehicle is configured as described above, the inner cover is opened integrally with the seating seat if the selective engagement means is set to the integral rotation mode, so that the trouble of opening the inner cover can be saved. If the selective engagement means is set to the individual rotation mode, the inner cover can be used for its original purpose. In addition, since the rotation shafts of the seating seat and the inner cover are made coaxial, there is no space for arranging two rotation hinges in front of and behind the upper opening of the article storage chamber. The frontage in the direction can be expanded. Further, the operation portion of the selective engagement means is formed in a pulling lever shape extending downward, and this operation portion is disposed inside the peripheral wall of the seating seat. Thereby, the opening of the seating seat and the operation of the selective engagement means can be performed simultaneously with one hand, and the operability is improved.
[0008]
The scooter-type vehicle article storage device according to the present invention is the scooter-type vehicle article storage device according to claim 2, wherein the selective engagement means includes an inner cover side engagement piece, a seating seat side engagement piece, and a lever-like operation. And a return spring that urges the lever shaft to always engage the cover-side engagement piece and the seating-sheet-side engagement piece. The lever shaft is engaged with the cover side engaging piece and the seating seat side engaging piece by a spring biasing force to set the inner cover and the seating seat to the integral rotation mode, and the lever-like operating portion is set to the biasing force of the return spring. The inner cover and the seating seat are configured to be in the individual rotation mode when the cover side engaging piece and the seating seat side engaging piece are disengaged against each other. In this way, unless the selective engagement means is operated, the seating seat and the inner cover rotate integrally, and it is only necessary to operate the selective engagement means only when refueling occasionally. Get better.
[0009]
Alternatively, as described in claim 3, the selective engagement means includes an engagement piece having an engagement hole provided on the inner cover side, and a lever-like operation portion on one end provided on the seating seat side. An engagement lever that forms an engagement protrusion and whose intermediate portion is swingable by a support shaft, and the engagement protrusion of the engagement lever is always biased in a direction away from the engagement piece on the cover side. The return spring biasing force biases the engagement protrusion of the engagement lever in a direction away from the engagement hole of the cover side engagement piece when the operation portion of the engagement lever is not operated. The inner cover and the seat are in the individual rotation mode, and the engagement protrusion of the engagement lever is made into the engagement hole of the cover side engagement piece against the biasing force of the return spring when the engagement lever operation portion is operated. Engage inner cover and seating seat The may be configured to be integrally rotating mode. In this way, even if the seating seat is inadvertently opened (when opened) during refueling or the like, the contents stored in the article storage chamber will not be exposed to the outside.
[0011]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a left side view showing an example of a scooter type vehicle to which an article storage device according to the present invention is applied.
[0012]
In this scooter type vehicle 1, a front fork 3 holding a front wheel 2 is pivotally supported together with a handlebar 4 on the front head of the vehicle body so as to be rotatable left and right, while a power unit 6 is provided below a middle portion of the vehicle body via a link 5. Is provided so as to be swingable up and down.
[0013]
The power unit 6 is an engine 7 and a swing case 8 that are well-known for scooters. The swing case 8 is connected to the engine 7 and extends rearward. 9 is pivotally supported. The swing case 8 accommodates a continuously variable transmission using a V-belt, a deceleration transmission device, and the like, and the power of the engine 7 is automatically shifted and decelerated and transmitted to the rear wheel 9.
[0014]
Auxiliary equipment such as a carburetor 11 and an air cleaner (not shown) is installed above the engine 7, and the rear cushion unit 12 is connected between the rear part of the swing case 8 and the rear part of the vehicle body. Further, the entire vehicle body is covered with a synthetic resin frame cover 13 and a leg shield 14 is formed on the front of the vehicle body, while a rear body 15 is formed on the rear half of the vehicle body and a seating seat 16 is installed on the upper part thereof. ing.
[0015]
A portion between the handle bar 4 and the seating seat 16 is lowered into the lower portion, and a low floor type step board 17 is provided in this portion. The rider of the scooter-type vehicle 1 straddles the seating seat 16, grasps the handlebar 4, and rides with both feet on the step board 17.
[0016]
A bottomed container-shaped article storage chamber 19 that opens upward is provided below the seating seat 16 and inside the rear body 15 to constitute an article storage apparatus. The capacity of the article storage chamber 19 can store a full-face helmet 20.
[0017]
The seating seat 16 is pivotally supported in front of the upper part of the article storage chamber 19 by a rotary hinge 22 and the article seating chamber 19 is accessed by jumping up and opening the seating seat 16 in the direction of the arrow. You can put in and out the goods. A locking mechanism 23 that locks the closed seating seat 16 is provided near the rear end of the seating seat 16.
[0018]
In addition, a fuel tank 25, an oil tank (not shown), and the like are disposed behind the article storage chamber 19 and inside the rear body 15, and a fuel filler port 26 of these tanks is exposed to the outside when the seating seat 16 is opened. It is provided at the position. The refueling operation is performed with the seating seat 16 opened.
[0019]
An inner cover 28 formed of synthetic resin or the like is provided at the upper opening of the article storage chamber 19. The inner cover 28 opens and closes only the upper opening of the article storage chamber 19 separately from the seating seat 16, and its front end is pivotally supported by the rotating hinge 22 of the seating seat 16. That is, the rotation axis of the seating seat 16 and the rotation axis of the inner cover 28 are coaxial.
[0020]
When an article is taken in and out of the article storage chamber 19, both the seating seat 16 and the inner cover 28 are opened to access the article storage chamber 19. Further, if only the seating seat 16 is opened and the inner cover 28 is kept closed at the time of refueling or the like, the stored items in the article storage chamber 19 can be concealed from the outside, and at the same time, the stored items are contaminated by the adhering fuel droplets. Can be prevented.
[0021]
The article storage device is provided with selective engagement means. FIG. 2 shows a first embodiment of the selective engagement means by a longitudinal section along the line II-II in FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of part III in FIG.
[0022]
The selective engagement means A includes, for example, a tongue-like cover-side engagement piece 31 that is positioned near the free end of the inner cover 28 and leftward in the vehicle width direction and extends upward, and the seating seat 16. And a tongue-like sheet-side engagement piece 32 that is provided so as to extend downward from the bottom plate. The seat-side engagement piece 32 is positioned so as to overlap the cover-side engagement piece 31 in a side view when the seating seat 16 is closed, and to be separated from the cover-side engagement piece 31 to the left by about several centimeters in a front-rear direction view. It has been.
[0023]
The seat-side engagement piece 32 is integrally formed with a cylindrical holding sleeve 33 extending in the vehicle width direction, and a lever shaft 34 is slidably held in the axial direction on the holding sleeve 33. A stopper flange 35 and a stopper flange 36 are provided at an intermediate portion of the lever shaft 34 with the holding sleeve 33 interposed therebetween, and the lever shaft 34 has a dimension S obtained by subtracting the length of the holding sleeve 33 from the distance between the flanges 35 and 36. It can slide in the direction.
[0024]
A return spring 37 is elastically mounted between the stopper flange 36 of the lever shaft 34 and the seat side engagement piece 32, and the lever shaft 34 is always urged inward in the vehicle width direction by the urging force thereof, so that the stopper flange 35 is seated. The side engaging piece 32 is in contact with the left side surface.
[0025]
Further, the end surface of the inner end 34a of the lever shaft 34 is a slope inclined inward in the vehicle width direction, and the outer end portion (left end portion) of the lever shaft 34 is formed in a pulling lever shape that extends downward as the operation portion 34b. It is arranged at a distance of S or more inside the peripheral wall 16a of the 16 bottom plate.
[0026]
On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 3 in an enlarged manner, the cover-side engagement piece 31 has a slope 31a whose upper end is inclined inward (right side) in the vehicle width direction, and a lever shaft insertion hole 31b is formed below the slope 31a. ing. The slope 31a and the inner end 34a of the lever shaft 34 are located at the same position in the vehicle width direction.
[0027]
In the state where the seat 16 is closed as shown in FIG. 2, unless the lever shaft 34 is operated, the inner end 34 a of the lever shaft 34 is pushed by the lever shaft insertion hole of the cover side engagement piece 31 by the urging force of the return spring 37. The cover side engaging piece 31 and the sheet side engaging piece 32 are engaged with each other by the lever shaft 34, and the selective engaging means A enters the integral rotation mode.
[0028]
In this integral rotation mode, since the inner cover 28 is integrally connected to the seating seat 16, as shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, when the seating seat 16 is lifted, the inner cover 28 also rotates together with the seating seat 16. It rotates around the rotation axis of the moving hinge 22 and the upper opening of the article storage chamber 19 is opened. Thus, since the inner cover 28 opens integrally with the seating seat 16, the trouble of opening the inner cover 28 individually can be saved.
[0029]
As shown in FIG. 6, when the seating seat 16 is lifted and opened by hand, if the seating seat 16 is lifted while pulling the operation portion 34 b of the lever shaft 34 toward the front with the same hand, the inner end 34 a of the lever shaft 34. Is removed from the lever shaft insertion hole 31b of the cover-side engagement piece 31, the engagement between the seating seat 16 and the inner cover 28 is released, and the selective engagement means A enters the individual rotation mode.
[0030]
In this individual rotation mode, as shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, only the seating sheet 16 is opened, and the inner cover 28 is kept in a state of covering the upper opening of the article storage chamber 19. Since the inner cover 28 can be opened and closed separately from the seating seat 16, the inner cover 28 can be opened and closed along the original purpose, that is, when the seating seat 16 is opened during refueling. It can be effectively used for concealing and preventing contamination of stored items.
[0031]
When only the seating seat 16 is opened in this individual rotation mode and then the seating seat 16 is closed again, the end surface (slope) of the inner end 34a of the lowering lever shaft 34 is on the slope 31a of the cover side engagement piece 31. The lever shaft 34 is pressed outward (left side) in the vehicle width direction by the thrust cam action generated by the contact between the inclined surfaces, and the return spring 37 is compressed. When the lever shaft 34 is further lowered, the inner end 34a of the lever shaft 34 matches the position of the lever shaft insertion hole 31b of the cover side engagement piece 31, and the lever shaft 34 is moved by the repulsive force of the compressed return spring 37. The inner end 34a engages with the lever shaft insertion hole 31b by sliding inward in the width direction (right side), and returns to the state shown in FIG. For this reason, when closing the seating seat 16, there is no need to bother pulling the operation part 34b of the lever shaft 34, and the operability is good.
[0032]
As described above, the selective engagement means A is integrated with the seating sheet 16 by engaging the seating sheet 16 with the individual rotation mode for individually rotating the seating sheet 16 and the inner cover 28. An integral rotation mode for rotating around the rotation axis of the rotation hinge 22 can be selected. The integral rotation mode is selected when the operation is not performed, and the individual rotation mode is configured when the operation is performed. ing.
[0033]
With this configuration, the seating seat 16 and the inner cover 28 rotate together as long as the selective engagement means A (the operating portion 34b) is not operated. Therefore, the inner cover 28 is individually opened when the normal article storage chamber 19 is used. Since it is only necessary to operate the selective engagement means A so that the inner cover 28 is not opened only when refueling occasionally, it is possible to reduce the frequency of operating the selective engagement means A and to reduce the normal article storage chamber. Usability when using 19 can be improved.
[0034]
FIG. 9 shows a second embodiment of the selective engagement means. The selective engagement means B includes a tongue-like cover-side engagement piece 41 which is positioned near the free end of the inner cover 28 and leftward in the vehicle width direction and extends upward, and the cover-side engagement piece B. An engagement lever 42 provided inside the peripheral wall 16 a of the bottom plate of the seating seat 16 is provided in accordance with the position of the joining piece 41.
[0035]
An engagement hole 41a is formed in the cover side engagement piece 41, while an intermediate portion of the engagement lever 42 is pivotally supported on the lever bracket 44 by a support shaft 43 and is swingable in the vehicle width direction. An engagement protrusion 42a is formed in the vicinity of the upper end of the engagement lever 42, and the lower half of the engagement lever 42 is formed as a pulling lever that extends downward as an operation portion 42b, and is formed on the inner side of the peripheral wall 16a of the bottom plate of the seating seat 16. They are arranged at a distance.
[0036]
The engagement lever 42 is provided with a return spring 45, and the engagement protrusion 42a always moves away from the cover side engagement piece 41 in the vehicle width direction outer side (left side), and the operation portion 42b moves in the vehicle width direction inner side (right side). The engaging lever 42 is urged so as to approach.
[0037]
In the state where the seating seat 16 is closed as shown in FIG. 9, the engagement protrusion 42 a is not engaged with the engagement hole 41 a of the cover side engagement piece 41 unless the operation portion 42 b of the engagement lever 42 is operated. The selective engagement means B is in the individual rotation mode. In this individual rotation mode, even when the seating seat 16 is opened upward, the inner cover 28 is kept in a state of covering the upper opening of the article storage chamber 19 (state shown in FIG. 8). The inner cover 28 can be opened and closed separately from the seating seat 16.
[0038]
As shown in FIG. 10, when the seating seat 16 is lifted and opened by hand, if the seating seat 16 is lifted while pulling the operating portion 42b of the engaging lever 42 with the same hand, the return spring 45 is attached. The engagement lever 42 rotates about the support shaft 43 against the force, the engagement protrusion 42a engages with the engagement hole 41a of the cover side engagement piece 41, and the selective engagement means B operates in the integral rotation mode. It becomes.
[0039]
In this integral rotation mode, the inner cover 28 is integrally connected to the seating seat 16 as in the case of the first embodiment. Therefore, when the seating seat 16 is lifted, the inner cover 28 is also integrally pivoted with the seating seat 16. It rotates about the rotation axis of 22 and the upper opening part of the article storage chamber 19 is opened. For this reason, the trouble of opening the inner cover 28 can be saved.
[0040]
As described above, the selection engagement means B can select the individual rotation mode and the integral rotation mode in the same manner as the selection engagement means A described above. However, in contrast to the selective engagement means A, the selective engagement means B is configured to be in the individual rotation mode when not operated and in the integral rotation mode when operated. In this way, even if the seating seat 16 is inadvertently opened (opened) at the time of refueling or the like, there is no fear that the stored items in the article storage chamber 19 are exposed to the outside.
[0041]
Further, in both the case of the selective engagement means A of the first embodiment and the case of the selective engagement means B of the second embodiment, the operation portions 34b and 42b are formed in a pulling lever shape extending downward, and these operations are performed. Since the portions 34b and 42b are disposed inside the peripheral wall 16a of the seating seat 16, the seating seat 16 can be opened and the selective engagement means A and B can be operated simultaneously with one hand, and the operability is very good. .
[0042]
Furthermore, in either embodiment, the seat 16 and the inner cover 28 are pivotally supported by the same pivoting hinge 22, and the pivoting axis is coaxial. There is no space for two rotating hinges arranged side by side in front of the upper opening of the chamber 19, so that the front opening in the front and rear direction of the upper opening can be expanded so that articles can be taken into and out of the article storage chamber 19. Can be.
[0043]
The present invention is not limited to a two-wheeled scooter type vehicle, and can be widely applied to a three-wheeled scooter type vehicle and other types of straddle-type vehicles.
[0044]
【The invention's effect】
As described above, according to the article storage device for a scooter type vehicle according to the present invention, the inner cover is provided with an inner cover that opens and closes the upper opening of the article storage chamber provided below the seating seat. The opening of the upper opening portion of the article storage chamber in the front-rear direction can be expanded to facilitate loading and unloading of articles.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a left side view showing an example of a scooter type vehicle to which an article storage device according to the present invention is applied.
2 is a longitudinal sectional view showing a state of the first embodiment of the selective engagement means and its integral rotation mode along the line II-II in FIG. 1; FIG.
FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of part III in FIG. 2;
FIG. 4 is a longitudinal sectional view showing a state in which the seating seat is opened in the integral rotation mode.
FIG. 5 is a left side view showing a state in which the seating seat is opened in the integral rotation mode.
FIG. 6 is a longitudinal sectional view showing a state where the selective engagement means is operated to enter an individual rotation mode.
FIG. 7 is a longitudinal sectional view showing a state in which the seating seat is opened in the individual rotation mode.
FIG. 8 is a left side view showing a state in which the seating seat is opened in the individual rotation mode.
FIG. 9 is a longitudinal sectional view showing a second embodiment of the selective engagement means and the state of the individual rotation mode.
FIG. 10 is a longitudinal sectional view showing a state in which the selective engagement means is operated to enter an integral rotation mode.
[Explanation of symbols]
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Scooter type vehicle 16 Seating seat 16a Peripheral wall 19 of seating seat 19 Goods storage chamber 22 Turning hinge 28 as a rotating shaft Inner cover 34b, 42b Operation part A, B Selective engagement means

Claims (3)

A scooter type vehicle in which an article storage chamber is provided below the seating seat, an inner cover that opens and closes the upper opening of the article storage chamber is provided, and the seating sheet and the inner cover are opened to put an article in and out of the article storage chamber In the article storage device, the rotation axis of the seating seat and the rotation shaft of the inner cover are coaxial, and the inner cover is engaged with the seating seat so that the seating seat and the seating seat rotate together about the rotation shaft. Rotation mode , keep the inner cover covering the upper opening of the article storage chamber, rotate only the seating seat so that it can be opened, and open and close the inner cover separately from the seating seat after the seating seat is opened selective engagement means for enabling selection of the individual rotation modes that can be provided to form the operating portion of the selected engaging means pulling the lever type extending downward, Article storage device for scooter type vehicle of the operation unit, characterized in that arranged on the peripheral wall inner side of the seating sheet. The selective engagement means includes an inner cover side engagement piece, a seating sheet side engagement piece, a lever shaft having a lever-like operation portion, and a lever shaft that always has a cover side engagement piece and a seating sheet side engagement piece. The return spring biasing force engages the lever shaft with the cover side engagement piece and the seating seat side engagement piece when the lever-like operation portion is not operated. The inner cover and the seating seat are set to the integral rotation mode, and the lever-like operation portion is disengaged from the cover-side engagement piece and the seating-sheet side engagement piece against the urging force of the return spring. The article storage device for a scooter type vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the inner cover and the seating seat are configured to be in the individual rotation mode during operation . The selective engagement means includes an engagement piece having an engagement hole provided on the inner cover side, a lever-like operation portion on one end provided on the seating seat side, an engagement protrusion on the other end, and an intermediate portion supported The engaging lever is swingable by a shaft, and the return spring is always biased in a direction in which the engaging protrusion of the engaging lever separates from the engaging piece on the cover side. When the operation portion is not operated, the return spring biasing force biases the engagement protrusion of the engagement lever in a direction away from the engagement hole of the cover side engagement piece, and the inner cover and the seating seat rotate individually. Mode, and when the engagement lever operation portion is operated, the engagement protrusion of the engagement lever is engaged with the engagement hole of the cover side engagement piece against the biasing force of the return spring, and the inner cover and the seating seat are integrated with each other. Configure to be in rotation mode Article storage device for scooter type vehicle according to claim 1 which is.

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