JPH0376253B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (1) Object of the Invention Industrial Application Field The present invention relates to a luggage room cover for a vehicle in which the luggage room at the rear of the vehicle interior is covered with a sheet-like tonneau cover.

Conventional technology This type of cover is, for example,
There is one as disclosed in Publication No. 111841. In this publication, as shown in FIG. 10, a trunk room 2 at the rear of a vehicle body 1 is communicated with a rear seat 4 at the rear of a vehicle interior 3, and the front part of this trunk room 2 is covered with a shielding member 5. is disclosed. A bar 6 having both ends fixed to both sides of the vehicle body is disposed near the upper part of the rear surface of the rear seat 4, and the intermediate portion of the aforementioned shielding member 5 is supported on this bar 6. The rear end of the shielding member 5 is attached to the rear parcel shelf 7 at the rear of the vehicle compartment 3, and the front lower end of the shielding member 5 is attached to the opening/closing device 8, which is connected to the rear seat 4 of the rear floor 9.
Fixed nearby.

In a car equipped with such a shielding member 5 as a cover, by removing the rear end of the shielding member 5 from the rear parcel shelf 7, the front part of the trunk compartment 2 is opened into the passenger compartment 3, and the trunk compartment 2 is opened.
You can take out the baggage inside.

Problems to be Solved by the Invention By the way, some automobiles have rear seats that can be reclined, and when the above-mentioned cover is applied to this automobile, since the bar 6 that supports the above-mentioned cover is fixed, the rear seat can be reclined. Even if you try to recline the reclining seat,
There was a problem that the rear reclining seat hit the bar 6 and could not be reclined.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a luggage room cover that does not inhibit the reclining operation even when a rear seat equipped with a reclining structure is reclined.

(2) Means for solving the structural problems of the invention In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention provides a side finisher on both sides of the luggage room at the rear of the passenger compartment, and an upper front end of the side finisher. A cover winding device is provided with a through bar in between, and is biased so that a sheet-like tonneau cover that covers the luggage room is always wound on either the lower front end or the upper rear end of the luggage room. A locking portion is provided on the other side of the lower front end or the upper rear end of the luggage room to lock the free end portion of the tonneau cover pulled out from the cover winding device against the winding force thereof. , a luggage room cover for a vehicle, wherein the tonneau cover is stretched between a lower front end of the luggage room and an upper rear end of the luggage room with an intermediate portion of the tonneau cover supported on the through bar, is provided with a support rod having a rotational fulcrum at a position corresponding to the front lower end of the luggage room, and the through bar is held at the free end of the support rod, and the through bar is used to recline the rear seat. The gist of this is that they can be linked together.

Function According to this configuration, the slew bar moves rearward in conjunction with the rearward reclining movement of the rear seat, and the tonneau cover expands and contracts.

Embodiments Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described based on FIGS. 1 to 9.

1 to 5 show an embodiment of the present invention.

1 to 4, 10 is the body of a hatchback vehicle, 11 is a cabin inside the vehicle body 10, 12 is an opening provided at the rear of the vehicle body 10, 13 is a back door that opens and closes the opening 12, and 14 is the vehicle body. This is the rear panel of the 10. Further, 15 is a rear floor of the vehicle body 10, 16 is a rear reclining seat (hereinafter simply referred to as a rear seat) attached to the rear floor 15, 16a is a seat cushion of the rear seat 16, and 16b is a seat back of the rear seat 16.

A luggage room 17 is formed between the rear seat 16 and the rear panel 14.
There are side finishers 18 and 19 on both sides of 7.
are provided as shown in FIG. An arcuate guide groove 20 is formed on the front side of the side finisher 18 and opens into the upper front end and the luggage room 17. The bottom wall of this guide groove 20 has a fourth
As shown in Fig. 5, the slit 2 extends back and forth.
1 is formed, and the upper end of a support rod 22 is inserted through this slit 21, and a bar holding portion 23 is integrally provided at the upper end of this support rod 22. As shown in FIG.
3c, the gripping pieces 23a and 23b have an elastic force. Moreover,
The distance a between the tips 23d and 23e of the clamping pieces 23a and 23b is smaller than the intermediate distance b.

The lower end of the support rod 22 is rotatably supported on a support shaft 24 at the lower front end in the side finisher 18, and the support shaft 24 is connected to a side trim 25 of the vehicle body 10 and a side wall 18a of the side finisher 18. is fixed. Moreover, a return spring 26 is held on the support shaft 24. One end of the return spring 26 is locked to the rear part of the support rod 22, and the other end is locked to a locking pin 27 protruding from the side trim 25. This return spring 26 biases the support rod 22 forward. Note that the center of curvature of the guide groove 20 is the support shaft 2.
It is the center of 4.

28 is a through bar held by the bar holding portion 23. The through bar 28 is composed of a rod 29 as a bar body and an auxiliary rod 30 whose one end is welded and fixed to the base of the rod 29. Moreover, the auxiliary rod 30 is provided parallel to the rod 29. The through bar 28 is held by the bar holder 23 by sandwiching the base of the rod 29 between the clamping pieces 23a and 23b of the bar holder 23, as shown in FIG. 5B. Incidentally, the diameter of the rod 29 is formed to be slightly larger than the interval b.

A locking fitting 31 is fixed to the upper bent portion 14a of the rear panel 14 with screws 32 as shown in FIG. Fixed. This cover winding device 3
3 extends in the width direction as shown in Fig. 4,
One end portion of a sheet-like tonneau cover 34 made of cloth is wound around the cover winding device 33 . Moreover, the cover take-up device 33 has a cover take-up spring (not shown), and this cover take-up spring biases the tonneau cover 34 in the direction of winding it into the cover take-up device 33. Also, the tonneau cover 34
The other end is pulled out from the opening A of the cover winding device 33, and the middle part is pulled out from the rod 2 of the through bar 28.
9 and the auxiliary rod 30. A locking metal fitting 35 is attached to the pulled-out end of the tonneau cover 34, and a locking hole 36 is bored in this locking metal fitting 35. This locking hole 36 is engaged with the tip of the locking metal fitting 31. The width of the tonneau cover 34 is formed to be approximately the same as the width between the side finishers 18 and 19. In the figure, reference numeral 33a indicates brackets fixed to both ends of the cover winding device;
3b is a long hole provided in the bracket 33a and extends in the vehicle width direction, and 33c is a mounting screw.

Next, the function of the luggage room cover of a vehicle having such a configuration will be explained.

In the above-mentioned automobile, the upper and front portions of the luggage room 17 are covered with a tonneau cover 34.
Therefore, the interior of the luggage room 17 is normally not visible from the outside, and the appearance is not impaired.

When the seat back 16b of the rear seat 16 is reclined rearward from such a device, the through bar 28 is pushed and displaced rearward by the seat back 16b. As a result, the through bar 28
At the same time, the bar holding portion 23 that holds the bar holding portion 23 is pushed and displaced rearward and downward within the guide groove 20, and at the same time, the support rod 22 is rotated rearward about the support shaft 24 against the spring force of the return spring 26. . Therefore, when the seat back 16b is reclined rearward as shown by the two-dot chain line in FIG. 1, the through bar 28 is rotated rearward about the support shaft 24. Moreover, in conjunction with this, one end side of the tonneau cover 34 is wound up within the cover winding device 33, and the tensioned state of the tonneau cover 34 is maintained as shown by the two-dot chain line.

On the other hand, when the seat back 16b of the rear seat 16 is raised, the support rod 22 is returned to its original state by the spring force of the return spring 26, the bar holding portion 23 and the through bar 28 are returned to their original state, and a portion of the tonneau cover 34 is covered. It is pulled out from the winding device 33.

Even when the rear seat 16 is reclined in this manner, the tonneau cover 34 is always maintained in a tensioned state by the action of the through bar 28 and the cover winding device 33. Therefore, even during the reclining operation described above, the luggage room 17 is always covered with the tonneau cover 34 and the interior cannot be seen from the outside, so that the appearance is not impaired.

Furthermore, when attempting to take out luggage in the luggage compartment 17 from the rear seat 16 side, the locking fittings 35 are removed from the locking fittings 31, and the tonneau cover 3 is removed.
4 by winding up a part of the cover winding device 33, the upper part of the luggage room 17 is turned into the vehicle compartment 11.
Open within. With this, luggage room 1
The luggage inside 7 can be easily taken out from the rear seat 16 side.

Furthermore, in order to make the rear seat 16 fully flat, the locking metal fitting 35 is first removed from the locking metal fitting 31. Next, attach the through bar 28 to the bar holding portion 23.
At the same time, remove the tonneau cover 34 from between the rod 29 of the through bar 28 and the auxiliary rod 30. Then, the tonneau cover 34 is wound up within the cover winding device 33. In this state, if there is luggage on the front side of the luggage room 17, the luggage is moved to the rear side of the luggage room 17. After such work, the rear seat 16 can be made completely flat by finally folding the seat back 16b of the rear seat 16 backward until it becomes substantially flat.

In the embodiment described above, the through bar 28
the bar holding part 23 on the side finisher 18 side.
Although the through bar 28 is supported only by the support rods 22, it is not necessarily limited to this. A similar bar holding structure may be provided on the side finisher 19 side, and both ends of the through bar 28 can be supported by the side finisher 18, 19 may be supported so as to be able to rotate rearward.

6 to 9 show other embodiments of the invention. In this embodiment, the rear seat 16
side finishers 18 and 19.
Guide step portions 37, 3 extending back and forth on opposite sides of the
8, and both ends of the through bar 39 are supported by the guide step portions 37 and 38 so as to be slidable back and forth. As shown in FIG. 8, this through bar 39 is composed of a plate-shaped body 40 as a bar body, and an auxiliary rod 41 whose bent end at the base is welded and fixed to one end of the plate-shaped body 40. A tonneau cover 34 is provided between this plate-shaped body 40 and the auxiliary rod 41.
The middle part is arranged.

According to this embodiment, one back seat 16b of the split-type rear seats 16, 16 is placed in the ninth seat.
By reclining rearward as shown in the figure, the through bar 39 is pressed and slid rearward in parallel. At this time, tonneau cover 34
Since a portion of the tonneau cover 34 is wound up by the cover winding device 33, the tonneau cover 34 is always maintained in a taut state. Therefore, the inside of the luggage room 17 is covered with the tonneau cover 34, and the appearance is not impaired.

Further, when the rear seat 16 is to be made fully flat, the locking metal fittings 35 are removed from the locking metal fittings 31, and the tonneau cover 34 is pulled out from between the plate-shaped body 40 of the through bar 39 and the auxiliary rod 41. Then, the tonneau cover 34 is wound up by the cover winding device 33, and the through bar 39 is slid rearward. In this state, by horizontally tilting the rear seat 16 backward, the rear seat 16 becomes fully flat.

(3) Effects of the Invention As explained above, this invention provides a side finisher on both sides of the luggage room at the rear of the passenger compartment, and a through bar is spanned between the upper front ends of the side finisher. A cover winding device that is energized to constantly wind up a sheet-like tonneau cover that covers the luggage room is provided at either the lower front end or the upper rear end of the luggage room. A locking portion is provided on the other side of the upper end to lock the free end portion of the tonneau cover pulled out from the cover winding device against the winding force, and the middle portion of the tonneau cover is held on the through bar. In the luggage room cover of a vehicle, the tonneau cover is stretched between a lower front end of the luggage room and an upper rear end of the luggage room, and the side finisher includes a front lower end of the luggage room. A support rod having a pivot point at a position corresponding to the shift is provided, and the through bar is held at the free end side of the support rod so that the through bar can be linked to the reclining operation of the rear seat. By reclining the seat back rearward, the through bar is moved rearward. Moreover, since the tonneau cover is tensioned as a result of this operation, the luggage inside the luggage compartment cannot be seen from the outside and the appearance is not impaired.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a rear sectional view of a hatchback vehicle showing an embodiment of the luggage room cover according to the present invention;
Figure 2 is a perspective view of the hatchback vehicle shown in Figure 1 seen from the rear top with the back door open, and Figures 3 and 4 are partial views of the hatchback vehicle shown in Figure 2 from different angles. 5A is a perspective view partially showing the arrangement of parts such as the side finishers and tonneau cover shown in FIG. 1, and FIG. 5B is a perspective view of the main parts shown in FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view of the rear of a hatchback vehicle showing another embodiment of the luggage room cover according to the present invention, and FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view of the hatchback vehicle shown in FIG. 6 with the back door open. FIGS. 8 and 9 are perspective views of the main parts of the hatchback vehicle shown in FIG. 6 seen from different angles. FIG. 10 is a cross-sectional view of the rear of an automobile equipped with a conventional trunk compartment cover. It is a diagram. 10...Vehicle body, 14...Rear panel, 15...
Rear floor, 15a... Luggage room floor, 16... Rear seat, 16a... Seat cushion, 16b... Seat back, 17... Luggage room, 18, 19... Side finisher, 20... Guide groove, 21 ...Slit, 22
...Support rod, 23...Bar holding part, 24...
Support shaft, 28... Thru bar, 29... Rod, 3
0... Auxiliary rod, 31... Locking metal fitting, 33...
Cover winding device, 34... Tonneau cover, 35...
Locking metal fittings, 37, 38... Guide stepped portion, 39...
Thru bar, 40... plate-shaped body, 41... auxiliary rod.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A side finisher is provided on both sides of the luggage room at the rear of the passenger compartment, and a through bar is provided between the upper front ends of the side finisher, and a through bar is provided between the lower front end or the upper rear end of the luggage room. A cover winding device is provided on one side of the luggage room and is energized to constantly wind up a sheet-like tonneau cover that covers the luggage room, and the other side of the lower front end or the upper rear end of the luggage room is provided with a cover winding device that is energized to constantly wind up a sheet-like tonneau cover that covers the luggage room. A locking portion is provided to lock a free end portion of the tonneau cover pulled out from the winding device against the winding force thereof, and the middle portion of the tonneau cover is supported on the through bar to secure the front end of the luggage room. In the luggage room cover of a vehicle in which the tonneau cover is stretched between the lower part and the upper rear end of the luggage room, the side finisher has a rotation fulcrum at a position corresponding to the front lower end of the luggage room. A luggage room cover for a vehicle, characterized in that a support rod is provided, the through bar is held at a free end side of the support rod, and the through bar can be linked to a reclining operation of a rear seat.