JP2007131208A - Sun shade device for vehicle - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sun shade device capable of preventing generation of loosening without adjusting tension in a width direction of a shade member. <P>SOLUTION: A guide member 20 having a material or a shape for allowing passing of the sunlight transmitted through a sun roof panel 50 and curved to a predetermined shape is arranged along a lower surface of the sun roof panel 50 and a winding device 30 curved along the curved shape of the guide member 20 is provided on an upper surface of the guide member 20. The shade member 40 supported/drawn out so as to be curved along the guide member 20 from the winding device 30 is provided. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&amp;INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a sunshade device that is provided on a ceiling of a vehicle provided with a sunroof panel and blocks sunlight that passes through the sunroof panel, and in particular, a shade member that is curved so as to protrude upward along the ceiling of the vehicle. The present invention relates to a sunshade device provided.

On the ceiling of the vehicle provided with the sunroof panel, there is provided a sunshade device for blocking the sunlight passing through the sunroof panel as necessary. The sunroof panel is a translucent plate-like member made of glass or synthetic resin, and is attached so as to close an opening formed in the roof of the vehicle. The sunshade device includes a shade member made of a light shielding cloth and the like, and a winding device that winds up the shade member. By pulling the shade member from the winding device below the sunroof panel, the sunroof panel is moved by the shade member. It is configured to block the sunlight that passes through.
This take-up sunshade device has a problem that the overhead space of the occupant is narrowed because the shade member is pulled out in a plane even though the sunroof panel is curved so as to protrude upward. As a countermeasure against this problem, there is a technique disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2001-180278 (hereinafter referred to as “Patent Document 1”).

The “winding-type sunshade device” described in Patent Document 1 is a device in which a shade member is wound on a flexible winding shaft that is convex upward and on both the left and right sides of a frame having an inner opening on the inside. Both ends of the take-up shaft are supported by the bracket provided on the shaft, and a shape-retaining member is provided at the center of the take-up shaft, and the tension in the width direction of the shade member is adjusted by these left and right brackets and the central shape-retaining member. It tries to look good as possible.
JP 2001-180278 A

  However, in the technique described in Patent Document 1, in order to adjust the tension to be uniform in the width direction, the direction in which the shade member of the central shape-retaining member is wound and pulled out (vehicle longitudinal direction). The mounting position in the same direction and the mounting position in the left-right direction of the bracket must be finely adjusted.

  Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a sunshade device that can prevent the occurrence of sagging without adjusting the tension in the width direction of the shade member in order to solve such a problem.

  A vehicle sunshade device according to claim 1 according to the present invention is installed on a ceiling of a vehicle provided with a sunroof panel, and includes a sheet-like shade member and a winding device for winding up the shade member, A sunshade device for a vehicle that can block sunlight transmitted through a sunroof panel by a shade member drawn out from a winding device, the sunshade device being installed along a lower surface of the sunroof panel, and when the shade member is wound up It is provided with a guide member that is made of a material or shape that allows passage of sunlight transmitted through the panel and is curved into a predetermined shape, and the shade member can be pulled out from the winding device between the sunroof panel and the guide member. The shade member supported by the guide member is curved along the guide member. The features.

  Therefore, since the shade member pulled out from the winding device is supported by the guide member curved in a predetermined shape and is curved along the guide member, the shade member is curved without adjusting the tension in the width direction. Can be prevented.

A vehicle sunshade device according to a second aspect of the present invention is the vehicle sunshade device according to the first aspect, wherein the winding device and the shade member are wound on the guide member. A pull-out means for pulling out from the apparatus is attached.
Therefore, since the winding device, the shade member, and the pulling-out means thereof are attached to the guide member, the accuracy of these attachment positions is increased and the module can be modularized, so that it can be easily assembled to the vehicle.

A vehicle sunshade device according to a third aspect of the present invention is the vehicle sunshade device according to the first or second aspect, wherein the drawer end is connected to the guide end of the shade member. A reinforcing member is provided to be held in a curved state along the member, and the winding shaft of the winding device has flexibility and is held in a curved state along the guide member. It is characterized by.
Therefore, the front and rear of the shade member are curved along the guide member by the winding shaft of the winding device and the reinforcing member provided at the withdrawal end of the shade member, so that the bending of the winding device and the reinforcing member is performed using the guide member as a substrate. Since the shapes substantially coincide with each other, the drawn-out shade member has a constant curved shape, and the shade member can be smoothly drawn out and wound up.

A vehicle sunshade device according to a fourth aspect of the present invention is the vehicle sunshade device according to any one of the first to third aspects, wherein the end portion of the shade member in the width direction is used. A guide rail for guiding is provided.
Therefore, since the end portion in the width direction of the shade member is guided and slid at a predetermined position, the end portion of the shade member is unlikely to be wavy and the appearance of the shade member is improved.

  According to the present invention, a guide member that curves in a predetermined shape along the sunroof panel is provided on the lower surface of the ceiling provided with the sunroof panel, and the guide member is pulled out from the winding device between the sunroof panel and the guide member. Since the shade member that is supported by the member and is curved along the guide member is provided, it is possible to provide a vehicle sunshade device that can hold the shade member in a curved shape without sag without adjusting the tension.

  Next, an embodiment of a vehicle sunshade device according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. Here, FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a roof of a vehicle provided with a sunroof panel, and FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a sunshade device provided on an indoor ceiling.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 and 3 to 6, the roof of the vehicle includes a roof panel 70 provided with a daylighting opening 71, a roof side rail 80 that reinforces a side portion of the roof panel 70, and an opening 71. Are formed by a roof reinforcing member 90 or the like that reinforces the front and rear. The opening 71 is closed by a translucent sunroof panel 50 made of glass or synthetic resin.

The vehicle-side end portion of the roof panel 70 is folded so as to wrap the outer flange portion 81 of the roof side rail 80 to form a door or window opening 81.
A general surface of the roof panel 70 extends toward the opening 71, is connected to a flange portion 73 through a recess 75 in which the sunroof panel 50 is accommodated, and the flange portion 73 is formed around the opening 71.
The vehicle center side of the roof side rail 80 is overlapped with the flange portion 73 of the roof panel 70 by the flange portion 83 and spot welded to form the periphery of the opening 71.

The front and rear portions of the opening 71 are provided with a roof reinforcing member 90 having a hat cross section that is bridged in the left-right direction of the vehicle and is connected to the roof side rail 80 at both ends, as shown in FIG. It has been.
A sunshade device 10 that can block the sunlight that passes through the sunroof panel 50 as shown in FIG. 2 is attached to the vehicle interior side of the sunroof panel 50.

  The sunshade device 10 has a size that substantially covers the opening 71 and is curved so as to protrude upward along the sunroof panel 50. The sunshade device 10 is attached to the rear upper surface of the guide member 20. A winding device 30 that is curved so as to be convex upward, and winds up a shade member 40 to be described later, and a shade member 40 that is connected to the winding device 30 so as to be drawn out and wound. And a drawing means 60 for pulling out the shade member 40 from the winding device 30.

The guide member 20 is a light-transmitting synthetic resin panel having a size covering the opening 71, and is curved so as to protrude upward substantially along the sunroof panel 50. On the upper surface in the vicinity of the left and right ends of the guide member 20, a pair of left and right guide rails 25 having a U-shaped cross section are provided for guiding when a shade member 40 described later is pulled out.
The guide member 20 is screwed to the flange portions 73 and 83 around the opening 71 and the roof reinforcing member 90 by mounting holes 29 provided around the guide member 20.
4 to 6, a step is provided around a part of the periphery of the guide member 20 and is screwed. However, this step is omitted in the plan views of FIGS. 2 and 9. is there.

  A winding device 30 for winding a shade member 40, which will be described later, includes a winding shaft 31 made of a flexible hollow pipe that can be bent along the guide member 20, as shown in FIGS. The brackets 35, 35 erected on the left and right of the rear upper surface of the guide member 20 at intervals slightly larger than the length of the winding shaft 31, and the tangent line of the curved surface of the guide member 20 facing each other from the brackets 35, 35. A pin 37 erected at a predetermined length in the direction and inserted into the take-up shaft 31, and fitted into the take-up shaft 31, with one end at the take-up shaft 31 and the other end at the pin 37 or the bracket 35. And a spring member 33 fixed to.

  A holding member having a predetermined width and covering the upper half circumference of the winding shaft 31 and having an inner diameter slightly larger than the maximum outer diameter when the shade member 40 is wound is formed at the center in the width direction outside the winding shaft 31. 39 is attached to the guide member 20. The hold member 39 may be divided into three parts at the center in the width direction and the left and right sides of the winding shaft 31.

The shade member 40 is made of a light shielding cloth or the like that blocks the sunlight that passes through the sunroof panel 50, and one end of the shade member 40 is connected and fixed to the winding device 30 so as to be drawn out and wound up. A reinforcing member 43 is attached to the other free end of the shade member 40 and is formed in an upward convex curved shape with substantially the same width as the shade member 40.
A hole 437 for penetrating and fixing a belt 63 of a pull-out means 60 described later is provided at a substantially vehicle center position of the reinforcing member 43. As shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, the reinforcing member 43 is formed with a vertical wall 251 and shoes 431 that contact the upper and lower walls 253 and 255 in the guide rail 25.

  As shown in FIGS. 2, 9, and 10, the pulling-out means 60 for pulling out the shade member 40 from the winding device 30 is provided in pulley holes 27 and 27 provided approximately before and after the vehicle center position of the guide member 20. , A pair of first pulley 61 and second pulley 62 attached so as to cross the guide member 20, a belt 63 hung between the pulleys 61 and 62, and a lower surface of the guide member 20 (inside the vehicle interior) ), An operation knob 65 fixed to the belt 63, a guide plate 67 for guiding the operation knob 65 to slide along the front-rear direction of the guide member 20, both pulleys 61, 62 and the guide plate 67. And a cover 69 for covering. In addition, description of the shaft and bearing which both the pulleys 61 and 62 inclined is abbreviate | omitted.

  The belt 63 wound around the first pulley 61 and the second pulley 62 is passed through a hole 473 provided in the central portion in the width direction of the reinforcing member 43 on the side of the guide member 20 that protrudes from the upper surface. The side that exits the lower surface of the guide member 20 passes through a position that is eccentric from the central portion in the width direction of the reinforcing member 43 by the diameter of the pulleys 61 and 62, and is connected and fixed to the center of the operation knob 65. The attachment positions of the reinforcing member 43 and the operation knob 65 with respect to the belt 63 are shifted by the length of the shade member 40 pulled out.

The operation knob 65 is formed in a block shape having a reverse convex cross section. The guide plate 67 that guides the operation knob 65 has a U-shaped cross-sectional shape with one side longer than the other side and has a shape joined with the long side, and is formed on the lower surface of the guide member 20 so as to open downward. The belt 63 passing through the lower surface is attached in the vehicle front-rear direction so as to be in the center position.
A wide bottom portion of the operation knob 65 having a reverse convex cross section is inserted into the U-shaped cross section of the guide plate 67 so that the operation knob 65 can slide in the vehicle front-rear direction within the guide plate 67.

  As described above, the sunshade device 10 includes the winding device 30 on the guide member 20 of the guide member 20, the shade member 40 that is wound around the winding device 30, and a drawing unit that pulls out the shade member 40 from the winding device 30. 60 and the guide rail 25 that guides the drawn shade member 40 and the like are attached and modularized, so that it can be easily assembled to the vehicle.

The operation of the sunshade device 10 configured as described above will be described.
The shade member 40 shown in FIG. 2 is wound around a winding device 30 provided on the rear side of the guide member 20, and the reinforcing member 43 at the tip of the shade member 40 is engaged with the left and right guide rails 25, 25. 9, when the operation knob 65 at the front of the vehicle is moved backward as shown in FIG. 9, the belt 63 fixed to the operation knob 65 is pulled, and the belt 63 is rotated counterclockwise in FIG. Turn to.

  Then, the reinforcing member 43 fixed to the belt 63 is pulled forward and the left and right ends gradually move forward while being guided by the guide rails 25 and 25. Therefore, the shade member 40 connected to the reinforcing member 43 and wound around the winding device 30 is gradually pulled forward against the torsional force of the spring member 33 of the winding device 30, and finally the shade member 40 covers the opening 71 and blocks the sunlight transmitted through the sunroof panel 50.

When the shade member 40 is pulled out, the take-up shaft 31 of the take-up device 30 is formed of a flexible hollow pipe made of rubber or the like, and is bent along the curved shape of the guide member 20. Therefore, when the winding shaft 31 rotates, the length changes on the outer peripheral side and the inner peripheral side of the winding shaft 31 around which the shade member 40 is wound in a curved state, and elongation and compression are repeated. Since the winding shaft 31 is made of rubber or the like and can be expanded and contracted, it can rotate smoothly even if it is curved.
Similarly, since the shade member 40 is also formed of a soft member such as a light shielding cloth or net, the portion wound around the winding shaft 31 is repeatedly expanded and compressed in the same manner as described above, but is curved. But it can rotate smoothly.

Further, since the winding device 30 is always urged by the spring member 33 in the direction in which the shade member 40 is wound, when the shade member 40 is pulled out, a force for pulling the shade member 40 acts, and the shade member 40 Since the left and right ends pass through the guide rail 25, the shade member 40 does not generate undulation or the like, and is drawn flat while maintaining a curved state.
Further, as shown in the cross-sectional view of FIG. 3, since the lower surface of the shade member 40 is formed so as to contact the upper surface of the guide member 20 of the guide member 20, the shade member 40 further has a curved shape of the guide member 20. The shade member 40 is pulled out in a curved shape along, and the shade member 40 can be pulled out in a good-looking state in which undulations and the like are eliminated.
Then, the operation knob 65 is fixed to a fixing device (not shown) and the pulled-out state is maintained.

Next, when the shade member 40 is wound up to allow the sunlight from the sunroof panel 50 to pass through from the state in which the shade member 40 is pulled out, the operation knob 65 at the rear of the vehicle is removed from the fixing device and gradually moved forward. Move.
Then, the belt 63 fixed to the operation knob 65 rotates clockwise, and the reinforcing member 43 fixed to the belt 63 moves while being guided by the guide rails 25 and 25 toward the winding device 30 and at the same time. The member 40 is wound around the winding shaft 31 by the twisting force of the spring member 33 of the winding device 30, so that the sunlight from the sunroof panel 50 can be transmitted through the guide member 20.

Even when the shade member 40 is taken up by the take-up device 30, when the take-up shaft 31 rotates, the length changes on the outer peripheral side and the inner peripheral side of the curved take-up shaft 31, and the elongation and the compression are reduced. Again, since the take-up shaft 31 is made of rubber or the like and can be expanded and contracted, it can rotate smoothly even if it is curved.
Similarly, since the shade member 40 is also formed of a soft member such as a light shielding cloth or net, the portion wound around the take-up shaft 31 is repeatedly expanded and compressed in the same manner as described above, but may be curved. Can rotate smoothly.

  As described above, in the present embodiment, the guide member 20 that is made of a material or a shape that allows passage of the sunlight that has passed through the sunroof panel 50 and is curved into a predetermined shape is installed along the lower surface of the sunroof panel 50. A winding device 30 that bends along the curved shape of the guide member 20 is provided on the upper surface of the guide member 20, and a shade member 40 that is supported and pulled out from the winding device 30 so as to bend along the guide member 20 is provided. Therefore, the shade member 40 can be pulled out from the winding device 30 in a curved state without adjusting the tension, and the sunshade device 10 that does not require adjustment of the tension can be obtained.

In addition, this invention is not limited to the thing of the said embodiment, A various change is possible in the range which does not deviate from the meaning.
For example, in the above-described embodiment, the pull-out means is described as a combination of a pulley and a belt. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and a structure using a ball screw and a motor is also possible.
In addition, although the guide member has been described with a single panel made of a synthetic resin having translucency, a slit may be provided or a plurality of strip-shaped panels may be arranged.

  The present invention is installed on a ceiling of a vehicle provided with a sunroof panel, and includes a sheet-like shade member and a winding device for winding the shade member, and the sunroof panel is drawn by the shade member drawn out from the winding device. A sunshade device for a vehicle that can block sunlight that passes through the sunroof, and is installed along the lower surface of the sunroof panel, and is made of a material or shape that allows passage of the sun that passes through the sunroof panel when the shade member is wound up The guide member is curved into a predetermined shape, and the shade member can be pulled out from the winding device between the sunroof panel and the guide member, and the drawn-out shade member is supported by the guide member. So that it is curved along the guide member. It is possible to provide a vehicle shade device that can prevent the occurrence of sagging by bending the shade member along the guide member curved into a predetermined shape without adjusting the tension in the width direction. .

It is the perspective view which showed the roof of the vehicle provided with the sunroof panel provided with the sunshade apparatus for vehicles which concerns on one embodiment of this invention. It is a perspective view of the upper surface of the vehicle sunshade apparatus which concerns on one embodiment of this invention. It is sectional drawing which follows the III-III line of FIG. It is sectional drawing which follows the IV-IV line of FIG. It is sectional drawing which follows the VV line of FIG. It is sectional drawing which follows the VI-VI line of FIG. FIG. 3 is an enlarged plan view of a part A in FIG. 2. It is sectional drawing which follows the VIII-VIII line of FIG. It is the perspective view which reversed the sun shade device for vehicles concerning one embodiment of the present invention, and looked at the undersurface. It is sectional drawing which follows the XX line of FIG.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Sunshade apparatus 20 Guide apparatus 21 Base board 25 Guide rail 30 Winding apparatus 31 Winding shaft 33 Spring member 35 Bracket 37 Pin 39 Hold member 40 Shade member 41 Cross material 43 Reinforcement member 50 Sunroof panel 60 Pull-out means 61, 62 Pulley 63 Belt 65 Operation knob 70 Roof panel 71 Opening 80 Roof side rail 90 Roof reinforcing member

Claims (4)

Sunlight that is installed on the ceiling of a vehicle provided with a sunroof panel, includes a sheet-like shade member and a winding device for winding up the shade member, and is transmitted through the sunroof panel by the shade member drawn out from the winding device A vehicle sunshade device capable of blocking
A guide member that is installed along the lower surface of the sunroof panel and that is curved in a predetermined shape with a material or shape that allows passage of sunlight that has passed through the sunroof panel when the shade member is wound up,
The vehicle sunshade that can draw the shade member from the winding device between the sunroof panel and the guide member, and the drawn-out shade member is supported by the guide member and curved along the guide member. apparatus. The vehicle sunshade device according to claim 1,
The vehicle sunshade apparatus to which the said winding member and the drawing-out means for pulling out the said shade member from the said winding apparatus are attached to the said guide member. The vehicle sunshade device according to claim 1 or 2,
A reinforcing member is provided at the drawer end of the shade member to hold the drawer end in a curved state along the guide member.
A vehicle sunshade device in which a winding shaft of the winding device has flexibility and is held in a curved state along the guide member. The vehicle sunshade device according to any one of claims 1 to 3,
A vehicle sunshade device comprising a guide rail for guiding a width direction end of the shade member.

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