JPS636371B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a terminal holding structure for a door waist molding of an automobile door.

In automobile doors, a door waist molding is attached to the waist portion of the door outer panel to decorate the area around the door waist opening. This door waist molding is fixed exclusively with clips, and its general structure will be explained using Figures 1 to 4 using a suspensionless door as an example. ―
(There are some disclosed in Publication No. 61615).

1 in the figure shows a door consisting of a door outer panel 2 and a door inner panel 3, and the door outer panel 2
A flange 5 is bent inwardly toward the waist opening 4 on the waist portion W of the belt. The door waist molding 6 has leg portions 7 which are brought into contact with the flange 5 and secured with clips 8 at a plurality of locations. This door waist molding 6 is placed in close contact with the door glass surface G in the shoulder portion of the vehicle interior.
It has an integral seal lip 9 for sealing the outside. Furthermore, an end cap 10 made of an elastic material such as rubber or resin is attached to the end of the door waist molding 6.
It has been fitted to give it a nice appearance.

By the way, since the door body 1 is constructed by joining the front, rear, and lower edges of the door outer panel 2 and the door inner panel 3 by tightening, the upper edge of the end surface 11 in the front and rear direction of the door inner panel 3 is shown in FIG. As shown, it has entered the lower side of the waist portion W of the door outer panel 2. Therefore, the front and rear end surfaces 11 of the door inner panel are provided at the front and back ends of the flange 5.
A notch 5a is formed to avoid interference with the upper edge, and a leg 7 of the door waist molding 6 is formed.
For the same reason, cutouts 7a are provided at the front and rear ends of the front and rear ends to make them shorter and shorter. As a result, in such a conventional structure, it is impossible to fix the front and rear ends of the legs 7 of the door waist molding 6 to the flange 5 with the clips 8, and the overhang from the fixing point of the clip 8 of the door waist molding 6 to the terminal end becomes impossible. The amount l is relatively large, and if you touch the front and rear ends of the waist molding 6, it will easily shift toward the inside of the vehicle or outside, degrading the sense of quality, and in some cases, the waist molding 6 may There was a problem in that the front and rear ends were permanently deformed in the same direction, deteriorating the appearance, and the seal lip 9 rose above the surface of the door glass G, impairing sealing performance. Note that 12 in FIG. 2 is an opening provided in the end face 11 of the door inner panel for escape when the door glass is raised and lowered.

In view of the conventional situation, the present invention provides a door that can structurally fix the front and rear ends of the door waist molding with a simple structure without strain, suppress its displacement, and further improve the sense of quality. The purpose of this invention is to provide a terminal holding structure for a waist mall.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention has a structure in which the legs of the door waist molding are clip-fixed to a flange formed by bending inward from the waist part of the door outer panel. A leg holding piece is formed on either the door outer panel waist edge or the upper edge of the end surface of the door panel, facing the door outer panel waist edge, and the terminal leg of the waist molding is attached to the leg holding piece and the door outer panel waist edge. It is maintained between.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings, in which the same parts as those of the conventional structure are denoted by the same reference numerals.

That is, in the present invention, as shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, the leg part 7 of the door waist molding 6 is fixed to the flange 5 bent inward from the waist part W of the door outer panel 2 with clips 8. hand,
Door outer panel waist edge at the front and back ends of the door
Wa or the upper edge of the door inner panel end face 11, for example, in this embodiment, the outer side upper end edge of the door glass escape opening 12 of the door inner panel end face 11 is placed at an arbitrary distance from the waist edge Wa. δ
A leg holding piece 13 is formed facing the waist edge Wa, and the leg 7 at the end of the door waist molding 6 is held between this leg holding piece 13 and the waist edge Wa. ing. In this embodiment, the end cap 10 extends to the leg portion 7 of the end portion of the waist molding 6.
Therefore, the waist edge Wa is formed with a stepped portion 5b for receiving the leg end cap 10a. Further, the leg holding piece 13
The distance δ between the leg end cap 10a and the waist edge Wa is made slightly smaller than the thickness of the leg end cap 10a, so that the leg 7 can be firmly held with the end cap 10a elastically deformed. Also,
The leg holding piece 13 extends so as to protrude beyond the waist edge Wa so as to hold the leg 7 close to the molded base of the seal lip 9 and sufficiently resist the movement of the molding 6 toward the passenger compartment.

According to the above embodiment structure, the waist mall 6
The leg part 7 of the terminal part is the edge of the door outer panel waist.
Wa and the leg holding piece 13 extending on the upper edge of the door inner panel end surface 11, so that the worker does not touch the end of the waist molding when wiping and cleaning the door 1, etc. It does not shift easily. In addition, since the leg holding piece 13 extends from the upper edge of the door glass relief opening that is approximately parallel to the door outer panel waist edge Wa, it is structurally reasonable and does not require an increase in the number of parts. It has the advantage of being able to be fixed.

In the embodiment shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, a leg holding piece 13A is provided on a part of the door outer panel waist edge Wa extending upward from the lower end thereof.
The leg portion 7 of the terminal portion of the waist molding 6 is held between the waist edge Wa and the waist edge Wa.

Therefore, in the case of this embodiment, as shown in the figure, the door inner panel end surface 11 does not have an opening for escaping the door glass, and the door end structure makes it difficult to install a holding piece from the upper edge of the door inner panel end surface 11. It can be applied to It goes without saying that, as in the embodiments described above, the door inner panel end face 11 may have an opening for escaping the door glass.

In addition, in the above embodiment, the leg holding pieces 13 and 13A
Both extend integrally from the upper edge of the end face of the door inner panel and the waist edge of the door outer panel, but they can also be formed from separate members. Furthermore, although the embodiments disclose the case where the present invention is applied to a door without a door, it goes without saying that the present invention can also be applied to a door with a door. In addition, leg holding pieces 13, 13
A and the leg end cap 10a may be more firmly fixed using a fixing device such as a clip.

As described above, according to the present invention, the leg portion of the end portion of the door waist molding, which cannot be clipped due to the door structure, is formed on the door outer panel waist edge and the upper edge of the end face of the door inner panel, or on the waist edge. It is possible to firmly hold the end portion of the waist molding between the two pieces, and therefore, it is possible to reliably prevent the end portion of the waist molding from shifting in or out of the vehicle interior, or from being bent or deformed, which has the advantage of further improving the sense of quality. Further, since no special fixing members such as clips are required to hold the legs, there is no increase in the number of parts, man-hours, or cost, which is a great practical effect.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is an external side view of an automobile door, Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the conventional structure as seen from the passenger compartment side of the area in Fig. 1, and Figs. 3 and 4 are the - lines and - of Fig. 2.
5 is a perspective view showing one embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 6 is a sectional view taken along line - in FIG. 5; FIG. 7 is a perspective view showing a different example of the present invention;
FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line - in FIG. 7. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1...door, 2...door outer panel, 3...door inner panel, 5...flange, 6...door waist molding, 7...leg, 8...clip, 9...seal lip, 10...end cap, 11...door inner panel end surface, 13, 13A...Leg holding piece, W...Door outer panel waist part, Wa...Waist edge.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. In a structure in which the legs of the door waist molding are clip-fixed to a flange that is bent inward from the waist part of the door outer panel, the door outer panel waist edge at the front-rear end of the door or the upper edge of the end surface of the door inner panel A leg holding piece is formed on either side facing the door outer panel waist edge, and the terminal leg of the door waist molding is held between the leg holding piece and the door outer panel waist edge. The terminal holding structure of the door waist molding.