JP6173841B2 - Glove box - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a glove box that is assembled to an instrument panel of a vehicle.

  Patent Document 1 discloses a structure of a glove box having a storage space opened upward. This glove box can be opened from the state accommodated in the instrument panel to the state in which the accommodation space is opened by rotating the lower part as a fulcrum to the vehicle compartment side.

In recent years, there is a tendency to reduce the space of the instrument panel in order to ensure a sufficient space for the seated person's feet. As a result, the installation space for the glove box is reduced, and the storage space for the glove box is inevitably restricted.
As a countermeasure, it is conceivable to use the existing space on the upper side of the glove box in the instrument panel as a part of the storage space of the glove box.

JP 2007-290459 A

The configuration of the countermeasure plan described above has the following problems.
If the stored item is large enough to enter the space inside the instrument panel, open the glove box until the stored item interferes with the upper part of the instrument panel and the stored item can be removed even if you try to open the glove box. I can't. Considering this point, after all, the space in the instrument panel has not yet been utilized as a storage space for the glove box.

  The present invention is intended to solve such problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a glove box that can sufficiently secure a storage space in response to downsizing of an instrument panel. .

The present invention is for achieving the above object, and is configured as follows.
A glove box of a type constituted by an upper box having a storage space opened downward and a lower box having a storage space opened upward, and the upper box and the lower box have a mutual storage space. It can be rotated between the closed position where it is abutted and the open position where the storage space of each other is opened, and each rotation is interlocked by an interlocking mechanism. This interlocking mechanism is set to rotate both the upper box and the lower box to the closed position or the open position by rotating either the upper box or the lower box.

  More preferably, the interlocking between the upper box and the lower box by the interlocking mechanism is canceled during the rotation from the closed position of the lower box to the open position, and the rotation of the upper box is stopped at that position. It is that you are.

In the present invention, when either the upper box or the lower box is opened / closed, the other is opened / closed in an interlocked manner, so that even when the stored item enters the storage space of the upper box, With the same operation as before, the glove box can be opened while avoiding interference between the stored items and the upper box.
That is, in the present invention, an upper box is provided on the upper side of the instrument panel, and even when the storage space is used, the glove box normally operates without any trouble in the conventional opening and closing operation. The upper side of the instrument panel can be used as a storage space for the glove box. As a result, in the glove box of the present invention, the lower box can be made smaller to accommodate the downsizing of the instrument panel, and a sufficient storage space can be secured by the upper box and the lower box.

  If the lower box is opened halfway, the upper box stops rotating, and therefore the upper box does not open excessively.

It is a side view showing the state where the glove box concerning a 1st embodiment was closed. It is a side view showing the state in the middle of the opening of the glove box concerning a 1st embodiment. It is a side view showing the state in the middle of the opening of the glove box concerning a 1st embodiment. It is a side view showing the state where the glove box concerning a 1st embodiment was fully opened. It is a side view showing the state where the glove box concerning a 2nd embodiment was closed. It is a side view showing the state where the glove box concerning a 2nd embodiment opened.

Hereinafter, embodiments for carrying out the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
First, a first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.
As shown in FIG. 1, the glove box 1 includes an upper box 10 and a lower box 20. The upper box 10 is provided with a storage space 12 that opens downward. The lower box 20 includes therein a storage space 22 opened upward.
The glove box 1 is assembled to an instrument panel (not shown) provided in front of the front seat in the vehicle. The upper box 10 is assembled to the instrument panel so as to be rotatable about the rotary shaft 14 at the upper front side. The lower box 20 is assembled to the instrument panel so as to be rotatable about the rotation shaft 24 at the lower part on the front side. As a result, the upper box 10 and the lower box 20 have a closed position (see FIG. 1) where the storage spaces 12 and 22 are brought together, and an open position where the storage spaces 12 and 22 are opened (see FIG. 4). ).

The arm portion 16 of the upper box 10 is provided with a rail 18 penetrating the arm portion 16 in the thickness direction (see FIG. 1). The rail 18 is constituted by a straight rail 18a and a curved rail 18b continuous with the straight rail 18a. A pin 26 provided in the lower box 20 is slidably fitted into the rail 18.
The straight rail 18a is inclined downward from the rotation track P1 of the pin 26 accompanying the opening and closing of the lower box 20 (see FIG. 1). Therefore, when the upper box 10 is rotated when the pin 26 is positioned on the straight rail 18a, the lower box 20 rotates in an opposite direction to the upper box 10 due to the cam action of the pin 26 and the straight rail 18a ( 1 to 3). Similarly, if the lower box 20 is rotated when the pin 26 is positioned on the straight rail 18a, the upper box 10 rotates in conjunction with the lower box 20 in the opposite direction.
The arc shape of the curved rail 18b coincides with the arc shape of the pin rotation trajectory P1 (see FIGS. 3 to 4). Therefore, when the pin 26 is positioned on the curved rail 18b, the cam action does not work between the pin 26 and the curved rail 18b, and the upper box 10 and the lower box 20 do not interlock (see FIGS. 3 to 4). .
The rail 18 of the upper box 10 and the pin 26 of the lower box 20 correspond to the “interlocking mechanism” of the present invention.

It continues and the usage method and operation | movement of the glove box 1 are demonstrated.
In the glove box 1, as shown in FIG. 1, the stored item B can be stored in the storage spaces 12 and 22 that are continuous with the upper box 10 and the lower box 20. When the upper box 10 and the lower box 20 are in the closed position, the boxes 10 and 20 are locked in the closed position by a lock device (not shown). By releasing this lock, the glove box 1 can be opened.
In the initial stage of the opening operation in which the pin 26 is positioned on the straight rail 18a (see FIGS. 1 to 3), by rotating one of the upper box 10 and the lower box 20 from the closed position to the open position side, Rotates in conjunction with the open position. When the upper box 10 and the lower box 20 are rotated to the position of FIG. 3 where the pin 26 moves to the curved rail 18b, the rotation of the upper box 10 is stopped, and only the lower box 20 reaches the open position shown in FIG. Open by its own weight.
In the closing operation, when the lower box 20 is rotated from the open position shown in FIG. 4 to the closed position side, only the lower box 20 rotates while the pin 26 is positioned on the curved rail 18b (see FIGS. 3 to 4). . When the lower box 20 is further rotated to the closed position side and the pin 26 moves to the straight rail 18a, the upper box 10 rotates to the closed position in conjunction with the lower box 20 (see FIGS. 1 to 3).

As described above, in the glove box 1, when either the upper box 10 or the lower box 20 is opened / closed, the other is opened / closed in an interlocking manner, so that the stored item B enters the storage space 12 of the upper box 10. Even in such a storage state (see FIG. 1), the glove box 1 can be opened by avoiding interference between the storage item B and the upper box 10 by one operation as before.
That is, in the glove box 1, the storage space 12 of the upper box 10 can be used as a storage area without causing problems in the conventional opening / closing function. As a result, the lower box 20 can be reduced in size to accommodate the downsizing of the instrument panel, and a sufficient storage space can be secured by the storage space 12 of the upper box 10 and the storage space 22 of the lower box 20.
Moreover, in the glove box 1, when the lower box 20 is opened halfway, the rotation of the upper box 10 is stopped, so that the upper box 10 does not open excessively.

Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described mainly using FIGS.
In FIGS. 5 to 6, parts that are considered to have the same or equivalent configuration and function as those of the first embodiment are denoted by the same reference numerals as in FIGS. 1 to 4, and redundant description is omitted.
As shown in FIG. 5, in this embodiment, a linear rail 19 is provided in the upper box 10 instead of the rail 18 (see FIG. 1) in the first embodiment, and the lower box 20 The pin 26 is slidably fitted. The straight rail 19 is provided on the rear side of the arm portion 16, and is largely inclined downward than the rotation track P <b> 2 that accompanies opening and closing of the lower box 20.
As shown in FIGS. 5 to 6, the upper box 10 and the lower box 20 are always opened and closed in conjunction with each other by the cam action of the pin 26 and the linear rail 19. Therefore, in the present embodiment, the glove box 1 can be opened and closed only by opening and closing the upper box 10.

  In the two embodiments described above, the rail 18 or the straight rail 19 is provided in the upper box 10, and the pin 26 is provided in the lower box 20. However, the pin 26 may be provided in the upper box 10 and the rail 18 or the straight rail 19 may be provided in the lower box 20. In this case, the rail 18 or the straight rail 19 is configured in a shape that exhibits the same function as in the above-described embodiment.

1 Glove box 10 Upper box 12 Storage space 18 Rail 20 Lower box 22 Storage space 26 Pin

Claims (2)

A glove box of a type constituted by an upper box having a storage space opened below and a lower box having a storage space opened above,
The upper box and the lower box can be rotated between a closed position where the storage spaces are abutted with each other and an open position where the storage spaces are opened, and the respective rotations are interlocked by an interlocking mechanism. This interlocking mechanism is configured to rotate either the upper box and the lower box to the closed position or both to the open position by rotating either the upper box or the lower box .
The interlocking mechanism is composed of a linear rail that penetrates in the thickness direction in one of the upper box and the lower box, and a pin that is slidably fitted to the linear rail in the other of the upper box and the lower box. A glove box in which the upper box and the lower box are opened and closed in conjunction with the cam action of the pin and the straight rail . The glove box according to claim 1,
Furthermore, it has a curved rail that is continuous with the straight rail and coincides with the arc shape of the pin rotation locus,
The upper box and the lower box are linked by the linkage mechanism. The rotation of the lower box from the closed position to the open position is performed when the pin slides on the linear rail, and the upper box rotates together. A glove box that is set so that the upper box is disengaged when sliding and the upper box stops rotating at that position.

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