JPH01164623A - Hood device for automobile - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enable a hood cloth to be extended without generating a sag by securing a front end part of the hood cloth to an awning pipe, swivelably supported to a car body, while connecting a crank-shaped arm, additionally provided in a swivel supporting point of the awning pipe, to a rear end part of the hood cloth by a tension belt. CONSTITUTION:A car body 1 provides a front glass 2 and a hood cloth 3 coating a roof total unit. Here the hood cloth 3 secures its front end part to an awning pipe 4 while provides the rear end part to be extended to an L-shape in two or more awning pipes 5, turnably supported to the car body 1, forming a rear wall part of the car body 1. The awning pipe 4 provides a plate-shaped member 6 to be arranged in the central part, while its both end parts are tiltably supported in the longitudinal direction to a bracket 7, supported to the car body 1, through a crank-shaped arm 9. The hood cloth 3 mounts to its central part a reinforcing cloth 10 by welding 11, while the reinforcing cloth 10 is connected to the arm 9 by a tension belt 12.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] (Industrial Application Field) The present invention provides the following features: When a part of the hood is opened to the vehicle body,
This invention relates to an automobile hood device 22 that prevents sagging in other parts of the hood cloth.

(Prior art) Among automobiles, especially those that can be driven off-road, a part of the roof or the front part is formed of a hood cloth, and can be removed, rolled up, or folded as necessary. (As a conventional example,
(See Publication No. 13). If the entire roof is made of canopy,
It would be extremely convenient in actual use if only a part of the seat, for example the upper part of the driver's seat, could be separated from the vehicle body independently of the other parts. From this point of view, I! The entire A-root is made of hood cloth, and on both sides of the upper part of the driver's seat there is a U-shaped hood rib that tilts toward the rear with respect to the vehicle body. )The bent end of the hood cloth is attached to the 6th section, and by tilting the hood rib toward the rear of the car body, this part of the hood cloth can be opened and closed with respect to the car body. Conceivable.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) With such a configuration, the hood can be opened and closed by tilting it to one side, but here... One problem arises.

In other words, in this case, since the entire part of the roof is made of hood cloth, if only the upper part of the driver's seat (which is -FX4) is facing the rear, the hood cloth covers the entire roof. 5 - Two things that happen when the rear part of the car body is covered are sagging.If sagging occurs, dust tends to adhere there, and the appearance is also not desirable. This was done with the aim of solving the problem.

(Means for Solving the Problems) As a means for solving the problems mentioned above, the present invention provides hood ribs 4 on both sides of the intermediate portion of the vehicle body 1 that are inclined in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle body 1.
A hood cloth 3 whose rear end is fixed to the vehicle body 1 side is provided on the hood rib 4.
At the same time, a crank-shaped arm 7 that rotates together with the hood rib 4 is attached to the pivot point of the hood rib 4, and the tip of the arm 7 and 1) 1) of the hood cloth 4 are attached. The rear end is connected with a tension belt IO.

(Function) With such a configuration, by appropriately setting the direction of the crank-shaped arm 7, when the top cloth 3 above the driver's seat is opened, the top cloth 3 at the rear of the driver's seat can be pulled by the tension belt 10. Since it can be pulled, an appropriate tension can be applied to the rear part of the hood cloth 3. When the top cloth 3 above the driver's seat is closed, the tension belt 10 will be loosened, but at this time, the top cloth itself will pull the rear part, so no slack will occur in the rear part.

(Example) Below, one example of the present invention will be explained with reference to the drawings.
In the figure, 1 is a car body, 2 is a windshield, and 3 is a hood cloth that covers the rest of the root part.
The front end portion is attached to a canopy bone 4, which will be described later, and the rear end portion is stretched in a 1-shape by a plurality of canopy bones 5 whose proximal ends are rotatably supported by the iris body 1. its end (rear end)
1) (forms the rear wall of the rest I. A window made of transparent material is provided in this hanging part. The hood frame (front frame of the hood) 4 is located at the rear as shown in Figure 2. A plate member 6 made of hard cloth, resin, or metal plate is attached to the center of the core.The driver's seat of the vehicle body 1 is located at both ends of the core.
It is supported by brackets 7 provided on both side portions (roof site rails) of the vehicle body 1 so as to be tiltable in the longitudinal direction.

The structure of this part is as shown in FIGS.
A crank-shaped arm 9 which also serves as a 4-gauge is passed through the frame, and the arm 9 is fixed to the canopy 4, which is the rt-passing portion of the bracket 7, by welding. Therefore, when the hood cloth 3 is rotated together with the hood rib 4, which is the portion above the driver's seat, the crank-shaped portion of the arm 9 will have its tip end positioned above or behind the position of the hole 8 of the bracket 7. As shown by the broken line in FIG. 1, a reinforcing cloth (PVC sheet) 10 is fixed to the inner side of the hood cloth 3 by lava (welder) 1), and a tension belt is attached to the front end of the reinforcing cloth 10. The rear ends of 12 are joined by sewing. As shown in FIG. 15, a female hook 13 is fixed to the tip of the reinforcing cloth 10, and is attached at an appropriate distance from this tip (a distance larger than the outer circumference of the canopy rib 4).
It goes without saying that the male and female hooks may be reversed, with the male hook 14 being fixed at the end of the hook.

In this device configured in this way, the lower end of the hood rib 4 is pivoted to the bracket 7 attached to both sides of the upper part of the driver's seat of the vehicle body 1, and the front part of the hood cloth 3 is fixed to the hood rib 4. use. As described in +iii, the canopy bone 4 is pivoted to the bracket 7 by the arm 9 passed through the hole 8 of the bracket 7.
Furthermore, the hood rib 3 is fixed to the hood rib 4 by wrapping the front end portion of the hood cloth 3 around the hood rib 4 and connecting the female hook 13 and the male hook 14 in a male-female manner. One end of the tension belt 12 is hooked onto the crank portion of the arm 9.

If you want to change the state in which the canopy cloth 3 covers the entire roof to the state in which only the -L section of the driver's seat is opened, the locking state of the locking device (not shown) provided at the -L section of the windshield 2 will be changed. , and the top frame 4 is attached to the bracket 7.
It can be rotated backwards around the hole 8. If you rotate the canopy bone 4 backwards, you can create a canvas with the front end hooked together:
3 is bent at the part between the brackets 7 on both sides of 1, and the part 1) overlaps with the rear part from the -L side. At this time, the rear part of the hood cloth 3 would sag if there was no tension mechanism according to the present invention, but the crank-shaped part of the arm 9 would pull the rear part of the hood cloth 3 via the tension belt 10. Therefore, no slack occurs in the rear portion of the hood cloth 3. When the arm 7 tilts the hood rib 4 toward the vehicle body 1) and covers the entire vehicle body with the hood cloth 3, the crank-shaped portion of the arm 7 is positioned at the rear, and the tension belt 12 pulls the rear portion of the hood cloth 3. However, since the hood cloth 3 itself is under tension at this time, no sagging occurs in the hood cloth 3.

(Effects of the Invention) Since the present invention is a hood device for a zero-motion vehicle configured as described above, when the hood is opened rearward in the portion above the driver's seat of the vehicle body, an arm having a crank-shaped portion and a front end of this arm are connected to each other. There is an advantage in that the rear part of the hood cloth is automatically pulled by the tension belt to which the hood cloth is attached, thereby effectively preventing the sagging of the hood cloth in the rear part which would occur in a natural state.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the canopy, FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the lower shaft of the canopy in FIG. 1, and FIG.
The figure is a partial sectional view of Figure 3 viewed from the direction of arrow 10, and Figure 5.
The figure is a side view of the end portion of the hood cloth fiiii. 1--Vehicle body 3--Top cloth 4--Top rib 7--Bracket 9--Arm 12--Tension belt patent Applicant
Suzuki Motor Co., Ltd. Figure 3 ■ Figure 4 Figure 5

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) A hood rib that tilts in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle body is provided on both sides of the intermediate portion of the vehicle body, and the front end of a hood cloth whose rear end is fixed to the vehicle body side is attached to the hood rib, and the rotation fulcrum of the hood bone is provided. A hood device for an automobile, characterized in that a crank-shaped arm that rotates integrally with the hood rib is attached to the hood, and the tip of the arm and the rear end of the hood cloth are connected by a tension belt.