JPH0129151Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to an article storage box structure for a vehicle that improves assembly efficiency and reduces costs, and particularly to an article storage box structure with shelves.

Usually, the instrument panel located in front of the driver's seat of a car is equipped with a glove box that stores various meters, various switches, and other necessary small items.

By the way, some glove boxes are equipped with shelves that divide the storage space into upper and lower sections in order to effectively and efficiently utilize the storage space, but generally this requires the addition of separate shelves, and the assembly based on this requires the addition of separate shelves. This is not preferable because it increases the number of man-hours and the cost of parts due to the addition of the fixing member.

In view of the above circumstances, the present invention aims to provide a box structure that can improve the ease of assembly and reduce the cost of an article storage box for a vehicle equipped with shelves, such as this type of glove box.

In order to achieve this purpose, the main components of the present invention are particularly a glove box with shelves, generally an article storage box, and a main body of the article storage box with a continuous opening on the top and front side; The main body is combined with at least a back plate and a shelf having a shelf provided at the lower part of the back plate, and a thin hinge part connecting the rear upper part of the main body and the rear upper part of the shelf, and The main body, the shelf part, and the hinge part are integrally molded, and if necessary, the shelf part is provided with a locking part for regulating the position relative to the main body.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

In the drawings, Fig. 1 is a vertical cross-sectional view in the vehicle width direction of an instrument panel including a glove box to which the present invention is applied, Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view in the same direction extracting only the glove box in Fig. 1, and Fig. Figure 3 is the second
Each figure represents a cross-sectional view taken along line A-A'.

First, in order to clarify the present invention, an overview of the instrument panel and its surroundings will be explained with reference to FIG. Reference numeral 1 denotes an instrument panel having, for example, a storage recess 2 formed on its upper surface, and an instrument panel safety pad or the like is attached if necessary.
An instrument panel frame 3 is fitted into the lower part of this instrument panel 2, for example at the front part a.
However, the rear part is connected and fixed by a connecting part 5 using a screw 4. In Fig. 1, the instrument panel 1 shows a cross section cut at the position of the glove box, but it also extends toward the back of the drawing (vehicle width direction), including various switches, various meters, etc. It is equipped with

The instrument panel 1 and the frame 3 are assembled with a certain gap between them, and the frame 3 in particular has a substantially horizontal plate shape and also serves as a box cover (roof) of a glove box, which will be described later.

On the other hand, reference numeral 6 designates a glove box (article storage box body) to which the present invention is applied; Bottom plate 9
It is fixed to a protrusion 10 formed on the rear part with a screw 11. This bottom plate 9 is constructed by integrally connecting the frame 3 and a side portion with a side plate 12.

Further, a box slide 14 is connected to the front part of the bottom plate 9 via a hinge 13 so as to be openable and closable.
The box slide 14' is shown in the closed state shown by the solid line in the figure, and then rotated in the direction of the arrow B to open the box slide 14' shown in the phantom line. The front lower part of the bottom plate 9 is supported and fixed to the vehicle body by a bracket 15.

Therefore, the glove box 6, frame 3, bottom plate 9, side plate 12, and lid 14 form a storage space S that is substantially sealed. Note that reference numeral 16 indicates a shelf provided within the glove box 6.

Next, regarding the glove box 6, the second
This will be explained in detail with reference to the drawings and FIG. The glove box 6 includes a glove box main body 17 and the shelf portion 16, and the main body 17 has at least the top and front surfaces continuously open. That is, in the embodiment, a pair of left and right side plates 17a, 17a, a bottom plate 17b, and a rear plate 17
In particular, to explain the shape of each plate, the side plate 17a has a substantially horizontal upper side 17d, a front lower side 17e that slopes backward and downward from the front, and a lower side that curves upward from the middle from the approximate center of the lower part to the rear. The lower rear side 1 curves backward from
7f and a substantially vertical rear side 17g. The bottom plate 17b is approximately rectangular and curved along the rear lower side 17f, and the rear plate 17c is also approximately rectangular and curved along the rear lower side 17g.
along.

On the other hand, the shelf section 16 is used in combination with the main body 17 to form a predetermined shelf on the main body 17,
It consists of at least a back plate 16a and a shelf board 16b provided below the back plate 16a. The embodiment further includes a pair of left and right side plates 16c, 16c, and as shown in FIG.
are provided, and these locking portions 16d, 16d are connected to the main body 1.
The position can be easily regulated by being locked to the upper side 17d of 7. This shelf portion 16 has a rectangular parallelepiped shape as a whole, and when it is locked, the shelf board 16b is approximately horizontal, and the back plate 16a is approximately vertical.

In addition, in the embodiment, the shelf portion 16 has a relatively small shape.
are configured to be housed in a relatively large main body 17, for example, by making both of them approximately the same size,
The shelf portion 16 may be placed on top of the main body 17 so as to be stacked in two tiers. Further, if necessary, the side portions of the main body 17 and the side portions of the shelf portion 16 may be fixed with clips to prevent the shelf portion 16 from wobbling.

On the other hand, the rear upper part of the main body 17, that is, the rear plate 17c
The upper side and the rear upper part of the shelf section 16, that is, the back plate 16
It is connected to the upper side of a by a thin hinge part 18, and the shelf part 16 is formed so as to be freely rotatable using this as a fulcrum.

Note that a mounting piece 1 is provided approximately in the center of the lower part of the main body 17.
9 is provided, and a mounting portion 20 is provided on the upper portion of the rear plate 17c, a portion of which bulges rearward. In addition, a notch 21 is formed in the shelf part 16 at a position corresponding to the mounting part 20, which is a part of the back plate 16a, so that the protrusion 7 (FIG. 1) can pass through the shelf part 16b. The front end 16e is bent slightly diagonally downward to make it easier to take in and out the stored items.

What is particularly noteworthy about the present invention is that the glove box 6 can be molded extremely easily. That is, when the shelf section 16 is located at the shelf section 16' indicated by the imaginary line in FIG. The glove box 6 can be integrally molded as a whole with the die-cutting direction (perpendicular to the plate 16b). In addition,
As the molding material, a predetermined synthetic resin material such as polypropylene (PP) is used. Therefore, the shelf section 16 can be easily assembled into the main body 17 by simply rotating the shelf section 16' in the direction of arrow E after molding. Note that the front lower side 17e is substantially parallel to the direction of arrow D, and the inclinations of the mounting piece 19 and the mounting portion 20 are substantially perpendicular to the same direction, both of which take into consideration ease of mold removal.

In the above embodiments, the present invention is applied to a glove box provided in an instrument panel, but it can also be applied to other general article storage boxes such as tool boxes.

As is clear from the above description, the vehicle article storage box structure according to the present invention includes an article storage box body,
Since the shelf part and the thin hinge part that connects the two parts are integrally molded, assembly efficiency is greatly improved, such as reducing the number of assembly steps for this type of storage box with shelves, and the fixing member for the shelf part can also be omitted, reducing parts costs. It is possible to provide an article storage box structure for a vehicle that is practical and has high economical value, such as reducing the amount of waste.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a vertical sectional view in the vehicle width direction of an instrument panel including a glove box according to the present invention, Fig. 2 is a sectional view in the same direction extracting only the glove box in Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a sectional view in the same direction as shown in Fig. 2. It is a sectional view taken along the line A-A' in the middle. In the drawing, 6 is a glove box (item storage box), 16 is a shelf, 16a is a back plate, 16b is a shelf board,
16d is a locking part, 17 is a glove box body,
18 is a thin hinge portion.

Claims (1)

[Claims for Utility Model Registration] (1) An article storage box main body with continuous openings at least on the top and front surfaces, and a shelf portion combined with the main body and having at least a back plate and a shelf provided at the bottom of the back plate; An article storage box structure for a vehicle, comprising: a thin hinge part connecting the rear upper part of the main body and the rear upper part of the shelf part, and the main body, the shelf part, and the hinge part are integrally molded. (2) The article storage box structure for a vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the shelf portion is provided with a locking portion for regulating the position relative to the main body.