Be used to the vehicle that locks the equipment of telescopic roof and be furnished with this system
The present invention relates to be used to lock the equipment of the telescopic roof of forming by front roof parts and back roof parts, make the front roof parts to be locked onto on the roof parts of back.The invention still further relates to the system that is used to lock telescopic roof, described locking system comprises the locking device that makes on the fixed part front roof parts can be fixed on vehicle and is used for the front roof parts are locked in equipment on the roof parts of back.
The invention still further relates to the vehicle of being furnished with this type of locking system.
In the prior art, become known for locking the system of the telescopic roof of forming by roof parts behind at least one front roof parts and, make and front roof parts and back roof parts can be locked on the fixed part of vehicle body together.
In patent application FR2870788, this type systematic has been described more specifically with applicant's name.
Yet prior art system has some defectives.
In fact, be used for the equipment that the front roof parts lock onto on the roof parts of back is not allowed to apply big latching force.
In addition, these systems especially are unsuitable for being furnished with the telescopic roof of back roof parts, and described back roof parts comprise central authorities' back roof parts and the side member that forms vehicle body rear quarter panel (rear quarter).
In fact, the characteristics that lock this type of roof are that side member is movable with respect to central unit.Therefore, locking device should allow side member is locked in position accurately.In fact, importantly guarantee the relative positioning accurately of roof parts, so as the continuity of guaranteeing the roof profile with and the rigidity of structure.
In addition, known system is complicated, huge, and does not allow the fastening reliably locking of integral body.Therefore, when external force was applied to the movable part of locking, for example when telescopic roof was subjected to clashing into, the movable part of locking can move towards its unlocked position.
In addition, the power of actuator laterally is applied to telescopic roof usually, and the horizontal resistance of roof is very weak.Therefore, latching force is limited.
Therefore the present invention is intended to solve these problems by proposing easy and compact locking device and locking system, described locking device and locking system allow to apply very big latching force so that guarantee good roof resistance, and allow to guarantee the accurate location of roof parts.
The present invention also is intended to realize a kind of locking device and locking system, and described locking device and locking system can be with being reliably fastened in latched position, only make actuator have a mind to move the time, the movable part of locking just moves to its unlocked position.
At last, also be intended to the accurate location of telescopic roof according to locking device of the present invention with respect to vehicle.
According to first aspect, the present invention relates to a kind of equipment that is used to lock the telescopic roof of power actuated vehicle, described telescopic roof comprises roof parts behind at least one front roof parts and, described front roof parts are hingedly mounted on the roof parts of described back, and described back roof parts are hingedly mounted on the chassis of described vehicle, described front roof parts and back roof parts can be in the positions of the objective case that covers vehicle with towards movable between the position that the luggage boot of vehicle is regained, described back roof parts comprise central unit and two side members, and described side member is arranged on the both sides of central unit and is hingedly mounted on the central unit.
Described locking device comprises:
-dead bolt (strike), it is connected with side direction roof parts;
-lock pin (locking finger), its be hingedly mounted between unlocked position and the latched position with front roof parts bonded assembly support on, when latched position, described lock pin applies on dead bolt along roughly vertical Z axle power down, so that side direction roof parts are pressed to the covering position of described side direction roof parts, when covering the position, side direction roof parts are supported on central unit and/or the described forepiece.
Therefore, latching force can be very big and described locking device be particularly suited for being furnished with the telescopic roof of two side direction roof parts that form the vehicle body rear quarter panel.
Advantageously, locking device also comprises first and second align members, and described first and second align members are connected with side direction roof parts with the front roof parts respectively; Be in when covering the position at the roof parts, on the Support of first member, passed by the Z axle and be roughly vertical with the Z axle by described Support in the effect lower support of latching force for described second align member.
Therefore, first align member forms the stayed surface of side member on the front roof parts.
In addition, first and second align members allow the accurate relative positioning of roof parts.
At last, the Support of being passed and be approximately perpendicular to the Z axle by the Z axle makes and can guarantee good roof resistance and do not have any roof deformation.
Advantageously, the z axle is positioned at the center of the Support of first align member.
Advantageously, dead bolt forms second align member, and when lock pin was in the locked position, lock pin was pressed in dead bolt on described first align member.Therefore, the number of components of forming described equipment is limited.
In one embodiment, described dead bolt roughly has U-shaped, and the branch of described U-shaped is connected with back roof parts.First member has the bottom of the Support that forms described dead bolt and the side that outwards stretches, and described side allows the described dead bolt of lateral register, so that with respect to the described back of front roof parts lateral register roof parts.The Support of dead bolt allows vertically to locate back roof parts with respect to the front roof parts.
In first embodiment, lock pin is slidingly mounted on the described support.Described slip lock pin have slideway and described support have two the guiding bolts, described guiding bolt is engaged in the described slideway so that guide the motion of described slip lock pin.
Advantageously, described slip lock pin has the surface that bevelled contacts with described dead bolt.
In a second embodiment, lock pin is rotatably installed on the described support.Described lock pin has slideway and described support has at least one slideway, can be moved in the slideway of described lock pin and in the slideway of described support by the axle of described actuator control.
In one embodiment, described support comprises two plates, and described two plates are forwardly fixed to one another and separate at the rear portion, so that be formed for the depression of described lock pin.Therefore, described equipment is compact.
According to second aspect, the invention still further relates to a kind of system that is used to lock the telescopic roof of power actuated vehicle, comprising:
-the front roof parts are locked in back locking device on the roof parts of back, described back locking device comprises:
-after poppet, it is connected with the front roof parts, and is arranged to the lagging dege near described front roof parts;
-dead bolt, it is connected with back roof parts;
-lock pin, it is being hingedly mounted between latched position on unlocked position and the dead bolt on the described after poppet;
-the front roof parts are locked in the preceding locking device on the fixed part of vehicle, comprising:
-front frame, it is connected with the front roof parts, and is arranged to the front edge near described front roof parts;
-locking component, its unlocked position and be locked in and the fixed part bonded assembly dead bolt of vehicle on latched position between be hingedly mounted on the described front frame;
Preceding locking device or back locking device are furnished with single actuator, the feasible lock motion that can control locking component or lock pin, described locking system also comprises motion transmission equipment, and described motion transmission equipment is configured in the past locking device locking device or from the locking device motion of transmitting actuator forward of back locking device backward.
Advantageously, actuator is set at the inside of described front or rear locking device.Therefore, described locking device forms compact assembly.
Advantageously, locking device comprises the driving device that is used for the Motion Transmission of actuator is arrived locking component before described, described driving device is configured to be positioned at stable position, at described settling position, when described preceding locking device was in its latched position, described driving device only moved towards its unlocked position by the athleticism of actuator.
According to the third aspect, the invention still further relates to telescopic roof.Advantageously, described telescopic roof comprises two locking systems being arranged near the lateral edges of described telescopic roof.Like this, latching force can be very big, because the lateral edges of telescopic roof is firmer than the remainder of roof, and can be reinforced where necessary.
At last, according to fourth aspect, the invention still further relates to the power actuated vehicle of being furnished with according to the telescopic roof of third aspect present invention.
During when the specification sheets of reading the back and with reference to accompanying drawing, it is obvious that additional objects and advantages of the present invention will become.In the accompanying drawings:
-Fig. 1 is the lateral plan according to the locking system of first embodiment of the invention;
-Fig. 2 is the birds-eye view that illustrates according to Fig. 1 of the locking system of first embodiment of the invention;
-Fig. 3 is the detailed view that the front roof parts is locked in the equipment on the roof parts of back according to first embodiment of the invention;
-Fig. 4 is the section-drawing along the planar I V-IV of Fig. 3, and it shows in detail first align member, lock pin and dead bolt, and this moment, dead bolt formed second align member;
-Fig. 5 is a perspective diagram of being furnished with the power actuated vehicle of roof, and described roof comprises forepiece and back part, and described back part is made up of central unit and two side members that are arranged on described central unit both sides;
-Fig. 6 is the birds-eye perspective of being furnished with according to the telescopic roof of Fig. 5 of locking system of the present invention;
-Fig. 7 is the lateral plan according to the locking system of second embodiment of the invention;
-Fig. 8 is the birds-eye view that illustrates according to Fig. 7 of the locking system of second embodiment; And
-Fig. 9 is the detailed side view that the front roof parts is locked in the equipment on the roof parts of back according to third embodiment of the invention; And
-Figure 10 is according to the slip lock pin of third embodiment of the invention and the detailed view of dead bolt;
With reference to Fig. 1-8, describe and to be used to the power actuated vehicle 2 that locks the system 1 of telescopic roof and have the telescopic roof that has been equipped with this type systematic 1.
Power actuated vehicle 2 shown in Figure 5 is furnished with the telescopic roof that comprises front roof parts 3 and back roof parts 4.Forepiece 3 is hingedly mounted on the back roof parts 4 along S. A. A, and then roof parts 4 are hingedly mounted on the chassis of vehicle 2 along S. A. B.Therefore, front roof parts 3 and back roof parts 4 can and be stowed between the position in the luggage boot 5 movablely in the position of the objective case that covers vehicle 2, and front roof parts 2 fold on the back roof parts 3 in described baggage container.
Moving by two unshowned side arm controls of roof parts 3,4, described side arm is hingedly mounted on the chassis of vehicle 2 on the one hand, is installed on the other hand on the forepiece 3, near lateral edges.
In the illustrated embodiment, back roof parts 4 are made up of central unit 6 and side member 7a, 7b.Back roof parts 4 are hingedly mounted on the front roof parts 3 by central roof parts 6, and side member 7a, 7b are hingedly mounted on the central unit 6.When roof parts 3,4 are in the covering position (with reference to Fig. 5), side member 7a, 7b are set at the both sides of central roof parts 6, and when roof parts 3,4 were in the stowed position, central roof parts 6 were moved upward the free space of depositing one's luggage with increase with respect to side member 7a, 7b.With the International Patent Application WO 2006/013249 of applicant's name this type of telescopic roof has been described.Among the embodiment of the invention of describing in french patent application FR2872456, side member 7a, 7b are hingedly mounted on the central roof parts 6 by articulated linkage 35 (see figure 9)s.Articulated linkage is hingedly mounted on side direction roof parts 7a, the 7b at 38 places on the one hand, is hingedly mounted on the central roof parts 6 at 39 places on the other hand.
For telescopic roof is maintained static when being in the covering position, roof is furnished with locking system 1.
Advantageously, locking system 1 is locked in the preceding locking device 8 on the fixed part (such as the crossbeam 10 of windscreen) of vehicle with roof and is used for the back locking device 9 that front roof parts 3 are locked on the back roof parts 4 is formed by being used for.
Be used for front roof parts 3 are locked in back locking device 9 on the back roof parts 4 by forming with lower member: with back roof parts 4 bonded assembly dead bolts 11, be hingedly mounted on front roof parts 3 bonded assembly after poppets 13 on lock pin 12 and be connected respectively to front roof parts 3 and afterwards first align member 14 and second align member 11 of roof parts 4.
Among the embodiment that is shown specifically in Fig. 4, dead bolt 11 has U-shaped, and its branch is fixed on one of side direction roof parts 7a, 7b.In order to improve fixing from dead bolt 11 to side member 7a, 7b, described branch has the upper end of extending towards the rear portion of side member 7a, 7b.
Lock pin 12 is being hingedly mounted between unlocked position and the latched position on the support 13, does not contact with dead bolt 11 at unlocked position lock pin 12, in the bottom of latched position lock pin 12 at U-shaped dead bolt 11 is applied along the power of Z axle.Advantageously, the Z axle is roughly vertical.
In fact, when side member 7a, 7b were hingedly mounted on central authorities' back roof parts 6, these parts 7a, 7b were configured to a little on back roof parts 6 when roof parts 3,4 approaching covering positions.Therefore, importantly locking device 9 applies the power of approximate vertical from top to bottom to side direction parts 7a, 7b, so that drive side member and side member pressed to the covering position of described side member, when covering the position, side member is supported on the central rear part 6 and/or on the lagging dege of forepiece 3.
Advantageously, when roof parts 3,4 were in the covering position, second align member 11 was supported on the Support of first member 14.First member 14 forms the stayed surface that is approximately perpendicular to the Z axle.Therefore, second align member 11 and first align member 14 allow the accurate location of roof parts 2,3, so that guarantee the continuity of described roof profile.In addition, second member 11 is supported on the very big latching force of permission on first member 14.First align member 14 is fixed on the support 13, and is supported on the upper limb of plate of support 13.
Therefore, can notice that locking device 9 according to the present invention is particularly suitable for comprising the telescopic roof of the side member 7a, the 7b that form the vehicle body rear quarter panel.
Advantageously, dead bolt 11 forms second member 11, and when lock pin 12 was in latched position, lock pin 12 was pressed in dead bolt 11 on first align member 14.
First align member 14 is made up of bottom 15 and two side 16a, 16b.The Support of second align member 11 (being dead bolt 11 in an illustrated embodiment) is formed on bottom 15.Advantageously, side 16a, the 16b of first align member 15 are flared, and therefore allow the accurate lateral register of second member 11 with respect to first member 14.Therefore, back roof parts 4 are accurately with respect to the lateral register of front roof parts 3.
Support 13 is made up of two hardboards of being made by pressing sheet material.In first front portion, two plates are fixed to one another and penetrated by eyelet 17, and described eyelet 17 allows to introduce stationary members, so that locking device 9 is fixed on the telescopic roof.At second rear portion, two plates separate, and lock pin 12 is positioned between two plates of support 13.Therefore, locking device 9 forms compact assembly.In addition, described plate is set to roughly lean against vertically on the side of telescopic roof.Therefore, the side direction volume of locking device 9 is limited.This is positioned at hinged on the front roof parts 3 at actuator arm under near the back side edge of front roof parts 3 the situation and is even more important.
In first embodiment shown in Fig. 1, Fig. 2, Fig. 3 and Fig. 6, lock pin 12 is rotatably installed on the support along the axle C of approximate horizontal.
Lock pin 12 has the slideway 18 that extends along the length of lock pin 12, and support 13 also has at least one slideway 19.Advantageously, each support has the slideway 19 of symmetry with respect to the axis of symmetry of support 13.Actuator shaft 20 is engaged in the slideway 19 of the slideway 18 of lock pin 12 and support 20.Actuator shaft 20 is driven in the slideway 18,19 by actuator, swings with respect to axle C to allow lock pin.In the embodiment shown, the motion of actuator 21 transmits as pull bar by drive apparatus 22.
When lock pin 12 was in the unlocked position, as shown in Figure 1, actuator shaft 20 was positioned at the front end of slideway 19 and is positioned at the upper end of slideway 18.When lock pin 23 is in latched position (Fig. 3), actuator shaft is positioned at the rear end of slideway 19 and is positioned at the lower end of slideway 18.
The slideway 19 of support has the stable given shape of latched position that allows to make lock pin 12.In fact, in the front portion of slideway 19, slideway 19 has and allows to order about the gradient of lock pin to its latched position rotation, and when near the rear end of slideway, the gradient is reverse.Therefore, under the situation of the motion that does not have actuator, lock pin 12 is fastened to its latched position.
In second embodiment shown in Fig. 7 and Fig. 8, lock pin 12 is slidingly mounted on the support 13.
For this reason, slip lock pin 12 is furnished with the slideway 23 of the length extension of prolonging lock pin 12.Support 13 has two guiding bolts 24,25, and described guiding bolt is engaged in the slideway 23, and allows the motion of guiding lock pin 12.Similarly, can consider that also lock pin 12 has two activity-oriented bolts, these two activity-oriented bolts are arranged in and support 13 bonded assembly slideways.
In one embodiment, the surface that contacts with dead bolt 11 of lock pin 12 is bevelleds, so that when lock pin 12 slided, the latching force that lock pin 12 is applied on the dead bolt 11 increased gradually.
In order to obtain same effect, can consider that also the slideway 23 that forms is bevelleds in lock pin 21.The front edge of described slideway 23 is positioned on the lagging dege of slideway 23, when locking with box lunch, applies power from the top down on dead bolt 12.
Actuator 21 or the drive apparatus 22 that is used for transmitting movement are installed into the front end of lock pin 12 and are connected, and slide so that order about lock pin 12.In an illustrated embodiment, motion transmission equipment 22 (as pull bar) allows Motion Transmission with actuator 21 to lock pin 22.
In Fig. 9 and the 3rd embodiment shown in Figure 10, dead bolt 11 is installed into connecting rod 35 and is connected, and described connecting rod 35 is used for side member 7a, 7b are hinged on central unit 6.Lock pin 12 can slide on support 2 as in a second embodiment, and has conical studs 36 in its back-end, and this conical studs 36 joins in the hole 37 with complementary shape, forms dead bolt 11.This specific embodiment allows the accurate location of side member 7a, 7b.
Below, to describe in detail front roof parts 3 are locked in preceding locking device 8 on the fixed part 10 of vehicle body, described locking device 8 is illustrated in greater detail among Fig. 2 and Fig. 8.This type of locking device is also being described among the undocumented french patent application FR650881.
Shown in embodiments of the invention in, described equipment allows to keep front roof parts 3 to lean against on the vehicle windscreen crossbeam 10.
For this reason, the preceding locking device 8 that front roof parts 3 are locked on the windscreen crossbeam 12 comprises: with telescopic roof bonded assembly support 26, movable hook 27, actuator 21 and be used for the Motion Transmission of actuator 21 motion gear to hook 27.Hook 27 around primary shaft D with can unlocked position and be locked in and the crossbeam bonded assembly dead bolt (not shown) of windscreen on latched position between the mode of rotating be installed on the support 26.
When hook 27 was in the locked position, the latching force that hook 27 is applied on the dead bolt allowed to keep the front edge of front roof parts 3 to be pressed against on the windscreen crossbeam 10.Therefore, realized the leak tightness between roof and the crossbeam 10 satisfactorily, and made roof motionless with respect to vehicle stationary.
Motion gear is made up of two connecting rods 28,29.First connecting rod 28 is rotatably installed on the support around second E on the one hand, is hingedly mounted on the second connecting rod 29 around third axle F on the other hand.Second connecting rod 29 is rotatably installed on the hook 27 around the 4th G.
The line style actuator that actuator 21 for example is made up of bar, described bar can be with respect to the main bodys of actuator 21 and translation.The main body of actuator 21 is rotatably installed on the support around the 5th H, and described bar is rotatably installed on the first connecting rod around the 6th I.
Registration device 30 allows roof laterally and is vertically guided towards the covering position of supporting the windscreen crossbeam.
The bar of actuator 21 is driven to respect to the main body of actuator and translation, and therefore first connecting rod 28 is produced thrusts.Therefore, first connecting rod 28 is driven to around second E rotation.The rotation of first connecting rod 28 is passed to hook 27 by second connecting rod 29, and hook 27 is driven to the rotation around primary shaft D, and moves towards its latched position.
When hook 27 from its unlocked position when its latched position moves, third axle F moves to the opposite side by the plane of second E and the 4th G.In this position, drive hook if power is applied on the hook 27 to its unlocked position rotation, then first connecting rod 28 and second connecting rod 29 be driven to the direction of its release reverse movement on rotate.Yet drg 31 allows to stop the motion of first connecting rod 28 or second connecting rod 29.For allowing release, must on first connecting rod 28, apply power by actuator 21, so that make third axle F move back to the opposite side on above-mentioned plane.
Therefore, when locking device was in latched position, driving device was in stable position.
Advantageously, support 26 is made up of a pressed sheet that is installed on another.Described two plate holders are held pivot D to I, hook 27 and two connecting rods 28 and 29 of actuator 21.Described two plates form a kind of shell so that constitute the compact assembly with elongated profiled.The structure of this uniqueness allows to obtain undersized locking device 8.In an illustrated embodiment, the plate level setting of support 26, and fix against the inwall of front roof parts 3.
In one embodiment of the invention, locking system 1 comprises single actuator 21, and it allows to make the lock pin 21 of back locking device 9 and the locking component 27 of preceding locking device 8 to lock.
Therefore, motion transmission equipment 22 is configured in the past locking device 8 locking device 9 or from locking device 8 motion of transmitting actuators 21 forward of back locking device 9 backward.
In an illustrated embodiment, on the support 26 of locking device 8, drive apparatus 22 allowed to transmit motion to the lock pin 12 of back locking device 9 before actuator 21 was installed in.Drive apparatus 22 is made up of " just " transfer device such as the pull bar of the whole motion that allows transmission actuator 21.
In first embodiment of Fig. 1, Fig. 2 and Fig. 3, pull bar 22 one side and actuator shaft 20 connections of locking device 9 afterwards are hingedly mounted on the first connecting rod 28 on the other hand.In this embodiment, first connecting rod 28 has at the outstanding end 32 in the opposite end of the jointed shaft E of first connecting rod 28 on support 26.Pull bar 22 is arranged on the described end 32 at the pivot on the first connecting rod 28 33.When locking device 8 locked before therefore, motion transmission equipment was provided in the lower end of lock pin 12 is moved forward.
In the Fig. 7 and second embodiment shown in Figure 8, pull bar 22 is hingedly mounted on the first connecting rod 28 on the one hand and lock pin 12 connections on the other hand.In this embodiment, first connecting rod 28 has end 34, described end 34 the opposite side of the jointed shaft E of first connecting rod 28 and support 26, with respect to actuator 21 on first connecting rod 28 jointed shaft I and give prominence to.Therefore, promote slip lock pin 12 to vehicle rear during equipment 8 releases before motion transmission equipment is provided in.
Locking system 1 can easily be installed on the side direction part of front roof parts 3.It shall yet further be noted that locking system can be advantageously used in the telescopic roof of being furnished with or not being furnished with side member.
Advantageously, power actuated vehicle 2 is furnished with two according to locking system 1 of the present invention, and described locking system 1 is configured near the side of roof and roughly along the roof setting.