JP6705137B2 - Carrier plate - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a carrier plate of a window regulator that automatically raises and lowers a window glass of a vehicle door.

Conventionally, as this type of window regulator, a carrier plate that supports the lower end of the window glass is provided slidably along a guide rail, and the driving force of the motor is transmitted to the carrier plate through a wire or the like, so that the window is There is known one that automatically raises and lowers glass (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

Generally, the window regulator is housed in a door main body having a hollow structure composed of an outer door panel and an inner door panel below the window glass.

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By the way, in some cab-over type vehicles such as trucks, a side view window is provided on the outer door panel and the inner door panel on the passenger side in order to secure the side view of the driver. In such a vehicle, the guide rail and the carrier plate are arranged adjacent to the side view window due to a space limitation in the door body.

For this reason, for example, if water enters through the gap between the windshield and the glass run, the water that has reached the carrier plate along the lower edge of the windshield may drop inside the door body and adhere to the side-view window. Therefore, there is a problem that the lateral visibility of the driver is disturbed.

An object of the present invention is to effectively prevent water falling from the carrier plate from adhering to the side view window.

The disclosed carrier plate is a carrier plate of a window regulator for automatically raising and lowering a window glass of a vehicle side door, and a front end side of the carrier plate is inclined with respect to a plate surface of at least one of the carrier plates. It has ribs protruding from it.

The front lower end of the carrier plate is arranged in the vicinity of the glass front edge of the side view window provided below the window glass or is arranged in front of the glass front edge, and the front end of the rib is the carrier plate. It may be extended to the lower end on the front side.

The window regulator has a guide rail that slides the carrier plate in the vertical direction of the window glass, and a guide protrusion that is guided by the guide rail is provided on one plate surface of the carrier plate. The front end may be extended to the vicinity of the guide protrusion.

According to the present invention, it is possible to effectively prevent water falling from the carrier plate from adhering to the side view window.

It is a typical side view showing one row of the door for vehicles concerning one embodiment of the present invention. It is the sectional view on the AA line of FIG. It is a typical whole block diagram showing the window regulator concerning one embodiment of the present invention. It is a typical perspective view showing the outside surface of the career plate concerning one embodiment of the present invention. It is a typical perspective view which shows the inner surface of the carrier plate which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention.

Hereinafter, a carrier plate according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. The same parts are designated by the same reference numerals, and their names and functions are also the same. Therefore, detailed description thereof will not be repeated.

As shown in FIG. 1, the vehicle door of this embodiment is, for example, a side door 10 of a cab-over type vehicle such as a truck. The side door 10 includes a door main body 11, a window frame 12 provided on the upper part of the door main body 11, a glass run 13 provided along the wind frame 12, and a window guided by the glass run 13 to move up and down. The glass 14 is provided with a waist seal 15 that seals a gap between the upper edge of the door body 11 and the surface of the window glass 14, and a side view window 16A (16B) disposed below the window glass 14. Note that reference numeral 16C indicates a printing layer (hereinafter referred to as a black ceramic portion) in which a black ceramic paint or the like is printed on the peripheral portion of the side view window 16A.

As shown in FIG. 2, the door body 11 is configured as a hollow structure in which a peripheral edge of the outer door panel 11A and a peripheral edge of the inner door panel 11B are joined to each other, and a window regulator 20 is housed inside thereof. The outer door panel 11A and the inner door panel 11B are provided with a pair of side view windows 16A and 16B facing each other.

As shown in FIG. 3, the window regulator 20 is slidably provided on a pair of front and rear guide rails 21A and 21B arranged in parallel with each other with the up-and-down direction of the window glass 14 being the longitudinal direction, and the front guide rail 21A. A front carrier plate 30 that supports the front lower end of the window glass 14, a rear carrier plate 23 that is slidably mounted on the rear guide rail 21B and supports the rear lower end of the window glass 14, and each guide rail. 21A and 21B, a plurality of pulleys 24 respectively arranged at the upper and lower ends, a wire cable 25 wound in a cross shape between the pulleys 24 and fixed to the carrier plates 30 and 23, and driven by the wire cable 25. An electric motor 26 for applying a force to raise and lower each carrier plate 30, 23 integrally with the window glass 14 is provided. The front guide rail 21A is within the range of the black ceramic portion 16C (shown only in FIG. 1) on the front end side of the side-view windshields 16A and 16B so as not to hinder the side-view of the driver or the black. It is arranged on the front side of the cera portion 16C.

Next, details of the front carrier plate (hereinafter, simply referred to as carrier plate) 30 will be described with reference to FIGS. In the following description, the plate surface of the carrier plate 30 facing the outer door panel 11A (see FIG. 2) is referred to as an outer surface 31A, and the plate surface of the carrier plate 30 facing the inner door panel 11B (see FIG. 2) is referred to as an inner surface 31B. Further, the ascending/descending direction of the windshield 14 is referred to as a vertical direction or a vertical direction, and the vehicle front-rear direction is simply referred to as a front-back direction or a lateral direction.

The carrier plate 30 is formed of, for example, a synthetic resin material or the like, and includes a plate body portion 31, a glass holding portion 40, and a guide protrusion portion 44 (only shown in FIG. 5).

The glass holding portion 40 is provided with a holding groove 41 having a substantially U shape, and holds the window glass 14 by inserting and holding the front lower end portion of the wind glass 14 into the holding groove 41. The glass holding portion 40 is fixed to the rear upper end portion of the plate body 31 by a bolt 42 and a nut (not shown) formed in the glass holding portion 40 by insert molding. The glass holder 40 may be formed integrally with the plate body 31.

The guide protrusion portion 44 (see FIG. 5) includes a first protrusion portion 45 and a second protrusion portion 46 that are formed so as to protrude from the inner surface 31B of the plate body portion 31 to the inside of the vehicle. The first protrusion 45 is inserted into the concave groove of the front guide rail 21A (see FIG. 3), and the groove 47 for attaching the wire cable 25 (see FIG. 3) is concave in the longitudinal direction on the top surface thereof. It is set up. Further, the first protrusion 45 is provided with a through hole 48 that penetrates the plate body 31 and the first protrusion 45 in the plate thickness direction. The second projecting portion 46 is bent and formed in a substantially L shape with its projecting end facing the first projecting portion 45, and the front side guide rail 21A (between the inner curved surface and the side surface of the first projecting portion 45). The side wall (see FIG. 3) is slidably inserted.

The plate body 31 is a plate member having a predetermined thickness, and is formed in a substantially pentagonal shape in a side view. More specifically, the peripheral edge of the plate body 31 has an upper edge 31C curved along the lower edge of the window glass 14, a front edge 31D linearly extending downward from the front end of the upper edge 31C, and an upper edge. A rear side edge portion 31E that linearly extends downward from the rear end of the portion 31C, a linear lower edge portion 31F that is inclined with the front end side positioned below the rear end side, and the rear side edge portion 31E. The lower edge 31F is connected to the lower edge 31F to incline. In the present embodiment, the front lower corner FC where the front edge 31D and the lower edge 31F of the plate body 31 intersect is within the range of the black ceramic portion 16C (shown only in FIG. 1) or the black ceramic portion 16C. It is arranged in front of the portion 16C.

As shown in FIG. 4, the outer surface 31A of the plate body 31 is provided with a first inclined rib 33 protruding from the outer surface 31A to the outer door panel 11A (see FIG. 2) side at a predetermined height. The first inclined rib 33 is provided so that the front end side is located lower than the rear end side and is inclined at a predetermined angle. More specifically, the first inclined rib 33 extends from the vicinity of the glass holding portion 40, the vicinity of the through hole 48, to the vicinity of the front lower corner portion FC so as to be inclined obliquely downward. As described above, by providing the first inclined rib 33 on the outer surface 31A, the water flowing on the outer surface 31A can be effectively collected in the front lower corner portion FC. Further, a part of water is introduced into the front guide rail 21A (see FIG. 3) on the back surface side through the through hole 48.

As shown in FIG. 5, the inner surface 31B of the plate body 31 is provided with second inclined ribs 36 protruding from the inner surface 31B toward the inner door panel 11B (see FIG. 2) at a predetermined height. The second inclined rib 36 extends from directly below the glass holding portion 40 toward the vicinity of the guide protrusion 44 at a predetermined angle. A minute clearance (gap) is secured between the front end of the second inclined rib 36 and the side wall of the guide protrusion 44 to avoid interference with the front guide rail 21A (see FIG. 3). As described above, by providing the second rib 36 that is inclined toward the guide protrusion 44 on the inner surface 31B, the water flowing on the inner surface 31B is effectively collected on the side wall of the front guide rail 21A (see FIG. 3). Will be available.

As described above in detail, according to the carrier plate 30 of the present embodiment, the outer surface 31A is provided with the first inclined rib 33 extending from the vicinity of the glass holding portion 40 to the vicinity of the front lower corner portion FC through the vicinity of the through hole 48. As a result, the water flowing on the outer surface 31A is effectively collected in the front lower corner portion FC. Further, a part of the water is introduced into the front guide rail 21A on the back surface side through the through hole 48. As a result, the water flowing from the windshield 14 through the glass holding portion 40 on the outer surface 31A does not drop directly from the lower edge portion 31F or the inclined edge portion 31G but from the lower front corner portion FC or the front guide rail 21A. As a result, it is possible to effectively prevent water from adhering to the side view windows 16A and 16B.

Further, according to the carrier plate 30 of the present embodiment, the inner surface 31B is provided with the second inclined ribs 36 extending from immediately below the glass holding portion 40 toward the vicinity of the guide protrusion 44, and thus, The flowing water is effectively collected in the front guide rail 21A and the guide protrusions 44. Thereby, the water flowing on the inner surface 31B from the windshield 14 via the glass holding portion 40 does not fall directly from the lower edge portion 31F or the inclined edge portion 31G and enters the side wall of the front guide rail 21A or the guide groove. As a result, the water drops can be effectively prevented from adhering to the side view windows 16A and 16B.

It should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and can be appropriately modified and carried out without departing from the spirit of the present invention.

For example, the vehicle is not limited to the cab-over type vehicle, but can be widely applied to other vehicles such as passenger cars. Further, the number and the angle of inclination of the first inclined ribs 33 and the second inclined ribs 36 are not limited to the example shown in the figure, and can be set appropriately according to the shape and size of the carrier plate 30.

10 Side Door 11 Door Main Body 12 Wind Frame 13 Glass Run 14 Wind Glass 15 Waist Seal 16A, B Side View Window 16C Black Cera 20 Wind Regulator 21A, B Guide Rail 23 Rear Carrier Plate 24 Pulley 25 Wire Cable 26 Electric Motor 30 Front carrier plate 31 Plate body 31A Outer surface 31B Inner surface 31C Upper edge 31D Front edge 31E Rear edge 31E Lower edge 31F Lower edge 31G Inclined edge 33 First inclined rib 36 Second inclined rib 40 Glass holding Portion 44 Guide protrusion 48 Through hole

Claims (2)

A carrier plate for a window regulator that automatically raises and lowers a window glass of a vehicle side door,
The window regulator has a guide rail for slidingly moving the carrier plate in a vertical direction of the window glass, and a guide protrusion that is guided by the guide rail is provided on one plate surface of the carrier plate,
On the plate surface of the carrier plate on which the guide protrusion is provided, a rib that projects with the front end side lower than the rear end side is provided so as to project, and the front end portion of the rib extends to the vicinity of the guide protrusion. The extended carrier plate. The front lower end portion of the carrier plate is arranged in the vicinity of the glass front edge of the side view window provided below the window glass or in front of the glass front edge, and is provided on the other plate surface of the carrier plate. The carrier plate according to claim 1, wherein a front end portion of the formed second rib extends to a front lower end portion of the carrier plate.

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