JP6908407B2 - Carrier device for bicycles - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a carrier device used for mounting a bicycle in a luggage compartment or the like of a vehicle.

In order to mount a bicycle in the luggage compartment of a wagon type, box type, van type, etc., the bicycle must be lifted from the road surface to the luggage compartment floor.
In addition to mounting a bicycle when going out for leisure, it is necessary to load and unload this bicycle on the luggage compartment floor when picking up and dropping off children together with the bicycle.
For example, in Patent Document 1, a guide rail is laid on the rear floor of an automobile, the front wheel and the rear wheel of the bicycle are placed on the carrier body, the front wheel is fixed to the carrier body, and the frame is further fixed. Disclosed is a bicycle mounting device mounted so as to be guided by the guide rail using a slider attached to the front end of the carrier body.
However, it is difficult to fix the bicycle to the carrier body before mounting it on the vehicle, and it may be rainy or late at night, especially in situations where the bicycle is picked up with children, so it is easy to ride the bicycle. A carrier device that can be loaded and unloaded in the luggage compartment is desired.

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 11-198710

An object of the present invention is to provide a carrier device that makes it easy to lift the front wheel of a bicycle and load it into a luggage compartment or the like of a vehicle.

The carrier device for a bicycle according to the present invention includes a holder for mounting the front wheel of the bicycle and a rail for holding the holder in a slidable manner, and the holder has a flapper that temporarily receives the front wheel before mounting the front wheel on the holder. It is rotatably connected, and the height of the flapper temporarily received is lower than the height of the holder.

Here, the rail is laid on the floor of the luggage compartment of the vehicle, and the holder is slidably held on the rail. Therefore, in order to directly mount the front wheel of the bicycle on the holder, the road surface It is quite high from the rails and it is difficult to lift the front wheels of the bicycle.
Therefore, in the present invention, a flapper capable of temporarily receiving the front wheel is provided in front of the holder, and the flapper is rotatably connected to the holder so as to follow the movement of the holder.

In the present invention, the flapper may have a contact portion that comes into contact with the end portion of the rail when the front wheel is temporarily received.
In this way, when the front wheel is temporarily received by the flapper, the contact portion of the flapper hits the end of the rail, so that the flapper rotatably connected to the holder is stabilized, and then the front wheel is moved from the flapper. When it moves to the holder and advances the holder, the contact part of the flapper separates from the end of the rail and follows the movement of the holder.
Here, since the height at which the flapper temporarily receives the front wheels is lower than the holder, it becomes easy to lift the front wheels of the bicycle.
The temporary receiving portion for temporarily receiving the front wheel of the flapper is preferably formed on a slope portion whose front side is lower than the connecting portion with the holder so that the flapper can be easily moved to the holder next time.
Further, it is preferable that the end portion of the rail has a flat portion so that the contact portion of the flapper is stably contacted.

In the present invention, the rail has an outer rail and an inner rail that is slidable to the outer rail, and the contact portion of the flapper abuts on the outer rail and / and the end portion of the inner rail. It may be something.
By doing so, the total length of the rail portion can be shortened, and the rail portion becomes compact.
The inner rail may be further divided into a plurality of stages of rails that slide on each other.
Here, the purpose of the flapper is to bring the contact portion provided on the flapper into contact with the end of the rail so that the flapper does not move forward when temporarily receiving the front wheel of the bicycle, and slides when the front wheel is temporarily received. It may be the end of the inner rail as long as it is locked so that it does not.
Further, as long as the flapper is stable when the front wheels are temporarily received, the flapper may be brought into direct contact with the end of the rail or indirectly via other parts.

The carrier device according to the present invention may have a fixing bracket at the front end of the holder.
As a result, the front wheel of the bicycle is abutted against the fixing bracket to facilitate the positioning of the bicycle and prevent the bicycle from coming off the holder.

In the carrier device according to the present invention, a tire fixing portion that comes into contact with the front wheels when the front wheels are moved from above the flapper to the front of the flapper may be provided at the front end of the flapper.
This facilitates the positioning of the bicycle and prevents the bicycle from coming off the holder.

The carrier device according to the present invention has a flapper that temporarily receives the front wheel of the bicycle at a position lower than the mounting height of the front wheel of the holder in front of the slidable holder on which the front wheel of the bicycle is mounted. Easy loading and then pushing.
Further, since the flapper is rotatably connected to the holder, the flapper rotates when the holder moves and follows the movement of the holder as it is, so that the structure is simple and compact.

The perspective view of the carrier apparatus which concerns on this invention is shown. (A) shows a plan view of a carrier device, and (b) shows a side view thereof. Shows the movement of the flapper as the holder moves forward. (A) to (c) show the movement of the flapper with the movement of the front wheel of the bicycle. (A) to (d) show the flow of loading the bicycle into the luggage compartment of the vehicle.

A structural example of the carrier device according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings, but the present invention is not limited thereto.

FIG. 1 shows an external perspective view of the carrier device according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 shows a plan view and a side view.
The carrier device 10 has an outer rail 11 and an inner rail 12 slidable on the outer rail.
A slidable holder 13 is attached to the inner rail 12.
The holder 13 is for mounting and holding the front wheel of the bicycle.
The holder 13 has frame-shaped arm portions 13b and 13b that are erected from the left and right slide portions 13a and 13a that move along the inner rail 12, and is held between the pair of arm portions on the front side of the front wheel. Has a fixing bracket 13c for positioning the.
Before the front wheel of the holder 13 is placed, the flapper 14 is rotatably connected to the connecting portion 13d via a hinge member 13e or the like.
The flapper 14 has recessed temporary receiving portions 14b formed by side wall portions 14c and 14d on both sides and frame portions 14e and 14f at both ends in the front-rear direction so that the tires of the front wheels of the bicycle can be mounted, and the frame on the holder side. The portion 14e is rotatably connected to the connecting portion 13d on the holder side by a hinge member 13e.
On the back surface side of the flapper 14, there is an abutting portion 14a that abuts on one or both ends 11a, 12a of the outer rail 11 or the inner rail 12, and when the holder 13 moves forward as shown in FIG. The contact portion 14a is separated from the outer rail and the end portions 11a and 12a of the inner rail as they are, and follows along the upper surface of the inner rail 12a.
Here, the contact portion 14a of the flapper has a substantially triangular shape in a side view, and is easily separated from the end portion of the rail when the flapper 14 rotates.
Further, by providing the tire fixing portion 14g with which the front wheels come into contact with the front end of the flapper 14 as shown in FIG. 4, the rear side of the front wheels can be positioned, and the positioning of the bicycle can be facilitated.
In this embodiment, in order to lay the outer rail 11 on the floor of the luggage compartment of the vehicle, the legs 15 and 16 made of a pair of front and rear bar members are connected and fixed in parallel to each other in the direction orthogonal to the outer rail 11. However, if the outer rail 11 can be stably fixed to the floor, the structure is not limited to this.
The legs 15 and 16 have fixtures 15a and 16a for the floor at both ends, respectively.

Figures 4 and 5 show the flow of loading bicycles.
The carrier device 10 is laid on the luggage compartment floor 1a of the vehicle 1.
As shown in FIG. 5A, the handle 2c of the bicycle 2, the vehicle body frame, the saddle, and the like are held by both hands, and the tires of the front wheels 2a are temporarily received by the temporary receiving portion 14b of the flapper 14.
The temporary receiving portion 14b is located on the front side of the holder 13, and its height is set lower than the mounting height on the holder 13 as shown in FIGS. 4 (a) and 5 (a). ..
In addition, the slope portion is lower on the front side than the connecting portion with the holder so that the front side can be easily received from the lower end of the tire.
Further, since the contact portion 14a provided on the lower surface side of the flapper 14 is in contact with the end portion of the rail, it is stably held.
When the front wheel tire is moved to the holder 13 from this state as shown in FIG. 4 (b), the flapper 14 rotates in the horizontal direction as it is, as shown in FIGS. 4 (c) and 5 (b). It moves along the upper surface of the inner rail 12.

When the bicycle 2 is pushed into the luggage compartment as it is, the holder 13 slides along the inner rail 12, and the holder 13 is a stopper provided at the front end of the inner rail 12 as shown in FIG. 5 (c) (not shown). When it hits (omitted), the inner rail 12 then moves to the back side (front) of the luggage compartment along the outer rail 11.
Along with this, the rear wheel 2b of the bicycle is placed in the concave portion on the upper surface of the outer rail 11.
The rear end portion of the inner rail 12 is regulated by a stopper (not shown) provided between the rear end portion of the inner rail 12 and the front end portion of the outer rail, and the mounting of the bicycle is completed as shown in FIG. 5 (d).

10 Carrier device 11 Outer rail 11a End 12 Inner rail 12a End 13 Holder 13d Connecting part 14 Flapper 14a Abutment part 14g Tire fixing part 15 Leg part 16 Leg part

Claims (4)

It is equipped with a holder on which the front wheel of the bicycle is placed and a rail that holds the holder in a slidable manner.
A flapper that temporarily receives the front wheel before being placed on the holder is rotatably connected to the holder.
The height of the flapper temporarily received is lower than the height of the holder.
The flapper is a carrier device for a bicycle, which has a contact portion that comes into contact with an end portion of the rail when the front wheel is temporarily received. The rail has an outer rail and an inner rail that is slidable to the outer rail, and the contact portion of the flapper is in contact with the outer rail and / or the end portion of the inner rail. The carrier device for a bicycle according to claim 1. The carrier device for a bicycle according to claim 1 or 2 , wherein the holder has a fixing bracket at its front end. One of claims 1 to 3 , wherein the flapper has a tire fixing portion at its front end, which comes into contact with the front wheels when the front wheels are moved from above the flappers to the front of the flappers. Carrier device for bicycles as described in.

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