JPH11344014A - Clip mount seat of interior component for vehicle - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make easy insertion of a clip into a clip lock hole even though the clip is aligned with the center of the clip lock hole at all times and allow the clip to move easily in follow-up after the position of a mounting boss lock hole inside a vehicle body panel when interior compenents are to be mounted on the panel. SOLUTION: A clip mount seat 11 is furnished in the clip seating part 13 with a clip lock hole 14 in which a clip 21 having a swollen lock head 25 on the neck part 22 is locked by insertion of the neck part 22 and a guide groove 15 to guide the neck part 22 toward the clip lock hole, wherein a plurality of resilient protrusive pieces 16 to hold the neck part of clip 22 resiliently holding toward the center of the clip lock hole are protruded on the inside surface of the hole 14, and an elastically deformable part 17 to deform the pieces 16 at the roots is provided at the root of each protrusive piece 16 on the bore side of the clip lock hole. The part 17 is formed thinner than the other part of the piece 16.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a clip mounting seat provided on a rear surface of an interior part of a vehicle.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art When an interior part for a vehicle is mounted on a vehicle body panel, for example, when a door lining is mounted on a door panel, a rear surface of the door lining is mounted on a rear surface of the door lining as shown in FIG.
The clip 2 is provided on the clip mounting seat 1 with the mounting structure shown in FIG. FIG. 8 shows a conventional clip mounting structure, in which a clip 2 and a clip mounting seat 1 are exploded.

[0003] First, a clip mounting seat 1 formed integrally (or separately) on the back side of a door lining (not shown).
Has a clip engaging hole 1c in the clip seating portion 1b on the rising peripheral wall 1a which is partially open. A part of the clip locking hole 1c is opened by the expanding side guides 1d, 1d, and the opening 1e is smaller than the diameter of the neck 2a of the clip 2. The clip 2 is attached to the neck 2
It has flange portions 2b and 2c above and below a, and has a bulged locking head 2d above it. This locking head 2
d is elastically deformed and fitted into a locking hole of a mounting boss provided inside a door panel (not shown).

[0004] The above-described clip 2 has a clip seating portion 1b with respect to the clip mounting seat 1 on the back side of the door lining.
The upper and lower surfaces are sandwiched between the flange portions 2b, 2c, and the neck portion 2 is passed through the open portion 1e from the side guide portions 1d, 1d.
a is inserted into the clip locking hole 1c to be mounted. After the door lining provided with the clip 2 on the back side is stocked, it is conveyed to a predetermined assembly line, and the locking head 2d is inserted into the locking hole of the mounting boss provided inside the door panel. , Attached to the door panel.

When the vehicle is in use, the clip seating portion 1 is provided with a clip locking hole 1c in which the clip 2 is fitted and a clip neck portion thereof in order to release the door lining mounted on the door panel due to thermal deformation. 2a is formed with a play 1f in the circumferential direction. However, since there is a circumferential play 1f between the clip engaging hole 1c and the clip neck 2a, when the door lining is mounted on the door panel as described above, the circumferential play 1f is formed. As a result, the position of the clip 2 is moved, and the position of the clip 2 does not match the position of the locking hole of the mounting boss inside the door panel, which causes a problem that it is difficult to mount the clip.

As a technique for solving such a problem, a plurality of elastic projections for elastically holding a neck portion of a clip at the center of the clip locking hole are provided on an inner peripheral surface of the clip locking hole in a clip seating portion. The one with a protruding piece is
This is known from Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 63-60709.

[0007]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
As disclosed in Japanese Patent Publication No. 709, the clip seating portion has a plurality of elastic projections projecting from the inner peripheral surface of the clip locking hole to elastically hold the neck of the clip at the center of the clip locking hole. The clip can be always centered on the clip locking hole center. However, since the elastic projection on the inner peripheral surface of the clip locking hole is not always sufficiently flexible,
When the clip is inserted into the clip locking hole from the guide portion, the elastic protruding piece acts as a resistance, making it difficult for the clip to be inserted. When the door lining is attached to the door panel, the position of the clip is not always sufficiently moved, and the position of the clip easily moves following the position of the locking hole of the mounting boss inside the door panel. I didn't.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to easily insert a clip into a clip engaging hole while always centering the clip on the center of the clip engaging hole, and to mount a vehicle interior part to a vehicle body panel. In this case, it is an object of the present invention to provide a clip mounting seat in which the position of the clip can easily move following the position of the locking hole of the mounting boss inside the vehicle body panel.

[0009]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, according to the present invention, there is provided a clip in which a clip having a bulging locking head on a neck is locked by inserting the neck. A clip mounting seat for an interior part for a vehicle, comprising a locking hole and a guide groove for guiding the clip neck toward the clip locking hole, wherein the clip mounting seat is an inner periphery of the clip locking hole. On the surface, a plurality of elastic protruding pieces that elastically hold the clip neck portion toward the center of the clip locking hole are protruded, and at the root portion of the elastic protruding piece on the inner peripheral surface side of the clip locking hole, It is characterized in that an elastically deformable portion is provided from the root portion to allow the elastic protrusion to be elastically deformable.

Here, the clip is made of synthetic resin having elasticity, the neck of which is inserted from the guide groove and locked in the clip locking hole, and the locking head is formed inside the door panel. And the like, and is elastically deformed and fitted into the locking hole of the mounting boss provided at the same position. The clip mounting seat is provided integrally or separately on the back side of an interior component such as a door lining. Examples of the vehicle interior parts include a door molding, a side molding, a center pillar garnish, and the like, but other interior parts may be used.

As described above, according to the first aspect of the present invention, first, in the clip mounting seat of the vehicle interior part,
A plurality of elastic projections are provided on the inner peripheral surface of the clip locking hole to elastically hold the clip neck toward the center of the clip locking hole. The projections allow the clip to be constantly centered and held toward the center of the clip locking hole. And, at the root portion of the above-mentioned elastic projection piece on the inner peripheral surface side of the clip locking hole, an elastically deformable portion which makes the elastic projection piece elastically deformable is provided, so when inserting a clip into the clip locking hole, The elastic protruding piece is easily elastically deformed by the elastically deformable portion at the base portion by being pushed by the clip. Furthermore, when the vehicle interior parts are mounted on the vehicle body panel, the elastic projections that hold the clips are easily elastically deformed at the elastically deformable portion at the base thereof,
The position of the clip easily moves following the position of the locking hole of the mounting boss inside the vehicle body panel.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided the clip mounting seat according to the first aspect, wherein the elastically deformable portion is formed to be thinner than a general portion of the elastic projection. It is characterized by.

As described above, according to the second aspect of the present invention, since the elastically deformable portion of the first aspect is formed thinner than the general portion of the elastic protrusion, the elastic protrusion that holds the clip is formed. , Easily elastically deform at a portion formed thinner than the general portion at the base.

[0014]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Embodiments of a clip mounting seat for a vehicle interior part according to the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS.
It will be described based on.

First Embodiment FIG. 1 is a schematic front view of a door lining as an example of a vehicle interior part to which the present invention is applied, as viewed from the back side, and FIG. 2 is a clip mounting seat thereof. Is an enlarged view of the first embodiment.
It is the perspective view which decomposed | disassembled and showed the clip. And FIG.
Is a plan view of the clip mounting seat, and FIG. 4 is an enlarged view of an elastic protruding piece in the clip mounting seat.

First, as shown in FIG. 1, inside the door lining 10 made of resin, a plurality (six in the illustrated example) is provided.
Are integrally formed, and these clip mounting seats 11, 11, 11,.
Are provided with clips 21, 21, 21,. The clip 21 is an integrally molded product made of a flexible synthetic resin, and has a lower flange portion 23 and an upper flange portion 24 above and below a neck portion 22 as shown in an enlarged view in FIG. On the flange portion 24, a locking head 25 having a bulging shape is provided.

As shown in FIG. 2 and FIG. 3, the clip mounting seat 11 has a partially open peripheral wall 12.
The upper clip seating portion 13 has a clip locking hole 14 and a guide groove 15. Here, the clip locking hole 14
Is larger in diameter than the neck portion 22 of the clip 21 and smaller in diameter than the lower flange portion 23 and the upper flange portion 24. The width of the guide groove 15 gradually increases from the clip engagement hole 14 toward the open end. It has a tapered shape.

A plurality (four in the illustrated example) of elastic protrusions 16, 16, 16, 16 are integrally formed on the inner peripheral surface of the clip locking hole 14 at substantially equal intervals in the circumferential direction. It is projected. These four elastic projections 16, 16, 16,
Numeral 16 is a tapered tip portion, which elastically holds the periphery of the neck 22 of the clip 21 toward the center of the clip locking hole 14. The above elastic protrusion 16
In FIG. 7, the root portion on the inner peripheral surface side of the clip locking hole 14 is an elastic deformation easy portion 17 that allows the elastic projection 16 to be elastically deformable from the root portion. That is, in the illustrated example, the root portion of the above-mentioned tapered elastic protruding piece 16 is formed as an elastically deformable portion 17 having a considerably thinner shape than the other general parts, such that a rectangular recess is cut off from one side. I have. In addition, the square concave portion from one side is, as shown in the figure,
The adjacent elastic protrusions 16 may be formed so as to face each other or to be aligned in the same direction. Further, the shape of the concave portion is also arbitrary, and further, the base portion may be formed smoothly and thinly regardless of the concave portion.

Next, how to attach the clip 21 will be described.
First, the user holds the locking head 25 of the clip 21 with his / her finger, and places the neck 2 of the clip 21 on the open end side of the guide groove 15 with respect to the clip seating portion 13 of the clip mounting seat 11.
2, the clip seating portion 13 is sandwiched between the lower flange portion 23 and the upper flange portion 24. Thus, simultaneously with the insertion of the neck portion 22 into the guide groove 15, the clip 21 is aligned with the guide groove
Insert up to 4.

When the clip 21 is inserted into the clip engaging hole 14, the elastic protrusions 1 on both sides with respect to the guide groove 15 are provided.
The clips 21 and 16 are pushed by the neck portion 22 of the clip 21 and are easily elastically deformed at the elastically deformable portions 17 and 17 at the base portion, respectively, so that the clip 21 can be easily inserted. After the insertion, the four elastic protruding pieces 16, 16, 16, 16 on the inner peripheral surface of the clip locking hole 14 are used to form
The clip 21 is always centered and held toward the center of the clip locking hole 14. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the clip 21 from dropping out of the clip mounting seat 11 (clip locking hole 14) even by the action of vibration or external force during transport.

As described above, the clip 21 can be mounted on the clip mounting seat 11 with one touch, and the four elastic projections 1
6, 16, 16 and 16, the clip 21 can always be centered and held toward the center of the clip locking hole 14, and the clip 21 can be prevented from falling off. Accordingly, in the assembly line, a predetermined number of clips 21 are inserted into the locking holes of the mounting boss provided inside the door panel (not shown).
The door lining 10 can be assembled by elastically deforming the locking heads 25 and inserting them. At this time, the four elastic protruding pieces 16, 16, 16,
16 is an elastically deformable portion 17, 1 having a considerably thinner shape than other general portions formed by a rectangular recess from one side of the root portion.
Each of the clips 17, 17, 17 is easily elastically deformed, and the position of the clip 21 easily moves following the position of the locking hole of the mounting boss inside the door panel, so that the door lining 10 is easily and securely attached to the door panel. it can.

The position of the clip 21 can be changed not only to the center of the clip locking hole 14 but also to an arbitrary position by freely changing the shape of the elastically deformable portion at the base of the elastic protruding piece. Thus, the degree of freedom in design can be increased. For example, after the clip seating portion is commercialized, the initial state of the clip can be changed to an arbitrary position by adjusting the shape of the elastically deformable portion at the base of the elastic protruding piece.

<Second Embodiment> FIG. 5 is an enlarged perspective view of the clip mounting seat 11 of FIG. 1 showing a second embodiment of the present invention. FIG. FIG. 6 is a plan view of the clip mounting seat 11, and FIG. 7 is an enlarged view of the elastic projection 16 in the clip mounting seat 11.
In the second embodiment, the shape of the elastic protrusion 16 and the elastically deformable portion 1 at the base of the elastic protrusion 16 are different.
The shape of 7 is different from that of the above-described first embodiment, and the other configuration is the same. Therefore, only different points will be described here.

That is, in this embodiment, as shown in the figure, the elastic protruding piece 16 is an elongated end having a uniform width, and the periphery of the neck 22 of the clip 21 is centered on the clip locking hole 14. Is held elastically. Then, the root portion of the elongated elastic protruding piece 16 having such a uniform width is cut off from a semicircular recess from one side,
Elastic deformable portion 17 having a thinner shape than other general portions
And The semicircular concave portions from one side may be formed so as to face each other between the adjacent elastic protruding pieces 16 as shown in the figure, or may be formed so as to be aligned in the same direction. As described above, the elastic protruding piece 16 having a uniform width and an elongated shape, and the base portion of the elastic protruding piece 16 having a thin shape in which a semicircular concave portion is cut off from one side, can be used as the first embodiment described above. The same operation and effect as those of the embodiment can be obtained.

In each of the above embodiments,
Although the clip mounting seat is provided on the vehicle door lining, the present invention is not limited to this, and a clip provided for mounting other vehicle interior parts and other parts such as side moldings and center pillar garnishes. It may be a mounting seat. In addition, the size and the cross-sectional shape of the elastic protruding piece are arbitrary. Further, the elastically deformable portion may be a thin shape portion or a hinge shape such as a hinge pin. Can of course be changed as appropriate.

[0026]

As described above, according to the clip mounting seat of the vehicle interior component according to the first aspect of the present invention, the clip is clipped by the plurality of elastic projections projecting from the inner peripheral surface of the clip locking hole. In addition to being able to always hold the centering toward the center of the locking hole, when inserting the clip into the clip locking hole, the elastic protrusion is pushed by the clip and the elastic protruding piece is easily elasticized at the elastically deformable portion at the base part The advantage is obtained that the clip can be easily inserted into the clip locking hole by being deformed. When the vehicle interior part is mounted on the vehicle body panel, the elastic projections holding the clip are easily elastically deformed at the elastically deformable portion at the base of the clip. The position of the clip moves easily following the position of the hole, and therefore, there is also obtained an advantage that the vehicle interior component can be easily and reliably mounted on the vehicle body panel.

According to the clip mounting seat of the interior part for a vehicle according to the second aspect of the present invention, as in the first aspect of the invention, the elastic protruding piece for holding the clip is formed to be thinner than the general portion at the base thereof. The elastically deformed portion is easily deformed.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic front view of a door lining as an example of a vehicle interior component to which the present invention is applied, as viewed from a back surface side.

FIG. 2 is an enlarged perspective view of the clip mounting seat of FIG. 1 showing the first embodiment, and is an exploded perspective view of the clip.

FIG. 3 is a plan view of the clip mounting seat of FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is an enlarged view of an elastic protrusion in the clip mounting seat of FIG. 3;

5 is an enlarged perspective view of the clip mounting seat of FIG. 1 showing the second embodiment, and is an exploded perspective view of the clip; FIG.

FIG. 6 is a plan view of the clip mounting seat of FIG. 5;

FIG. 7 is an enlarged view of an elastic projection in the clip mounting seat of FIG. 6;

FIG. 8 is an exploded perspective view of a clip and a clip mounting seat, showing a conventional clip mounting structure.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Door lining (interior parts) 11 Clip mounting seat 12 Peripheral wall 13 Clip seating part 14 Clip locking hole 15 Guide groove 16 Elastic protruding piece 17 Elastic deformation part 21 Clip 22 Neck 23 Lower flange 24 Upper flange 25 Locking head Department

Claims (2)

[Claims] A clip having a swelling-shaped locking head on a neck is inserted into the neck to lock the clip, and the clip neck is guided toward the clip locking hole. A clip mounting seat for a vehicle interior component having a guide groove in a clip seating portion, wherein the clip neck is elastically directed toward the center of the clip locking hole on an inner peripheral surface of the clip locking hole. A plurality of elastic protruding pieces to be retained are protruded, and an elastically deformable portion that elastically deforms the elastic protruding piece from the root portion on the inner peripheral surface side of the clip engaging hole of the elastic protruding piece is provided. A clip mounting seat for an interior part for a vehicle, which is provided. 2. The clip mounting seat according to claim 1, wherein the elastically deformable portion is formed thinner than a general portion of the elastic projection.