JP2512383Y2 - Plate material fixed structure - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the device]

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an improvement in a fixing structure for fixing a plate material such as an automobile part such as a garnish to a predetermined panel.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a conventional fixing structure of this kind, for example,
There is one disclosed in Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 60-7309. Although not specifically shown, the conventional fixing structure has a plurality of circular hole-shaped mounting holes formed in a plate material such as a garnish at regular intervals and also has a plurality of circular hole-shaped mounting holes at corresponding portions of the panel. The plate material is fixed to the panel by forming mounting holes and mounting the following clip bodies between the mounting holes. The clip body is an integrally molded product made of synthetic resin, and has a disk-shaped flange that abuts on the surface side of the plate material, a base shaft that is hung from the lower surface of the flange, and a base shaft that extends upward and outward from the lower end of the base shaft. It is composed of a pair of locking leg pieces that stand up in a V shape, and a shoulder portion that locks to the edge of the mounting hole of the panel and a peripheral surface of the mounting hole at the tip of each locking leg piece. It is configured to integrally form a neck portion that contacts.

Therefore, when the plate member is actually fixed to the panel, the mounting holes of the plate member are aligned with the corresponding mounting holes of the panel, and the pair of locking leg pieces are bent inward. If the clip body is inserted into both mounting holes, the flange of the clip body contacts the surface of the plate material, and at the same time, the contact state of the neck portion with the peripheral surface of the mounting hole is obtained, and the shoulder portion of each locking leg piece is Since it is firmly locked to the hole edge of the mounting hole of the panel, by the clamping action from the inside and outside of this locking leg piece and flange,
The plate material will be fixed to the panel.

[0004]

However, when fixing a plate material in such a conventional fixing structure, the plate material mounting hole must be aligned with the panel mounting hole in the preceding step. Although it has to be done, a complicated work is required to match the mounting holes with each other. Therefore, improvement in actual work is highly desired. Moreover, this problem in operation becomes more significant as the size of the plate material is increased and the number of mounting holes is increased.

Further, when the plate material is once fixed to the panel through the clip body under the conventional fixing structure, even if it is necessary to remove the plate material from the panel due to replacement or the like, the V of the clip body is removed. Since the shoulder of the V-shaped locking leg piece is firmly locked to the edge of the mounting hole of the panel, not only can the plate material not be easily removed from the panel, but when the plate material is forcibly removed from the panel, This time, the locking leg of the clip body is damaged, and the clip body itself cannot be reused.

[0006]

The present invention was developed in order to effectively solve the problems of the conventional structure. A plate material having a mounting hole is provided with a mounting hole. A clip body to be mounted between both mounting holes when fixing to a fixed panel, the clip body including a flange that abuts on a front surface side of the plate member, a base shaft that is hung from a lower surface of the flange, It consists of a pair of locking leg pieces that rise upward and outward from the lower end of the base shaft, and the flange of the clip body is premised on the plate material fixing structure that fixes the plate material to the panel by the clamping action of the flange and the locking leg pieces. A groove for rotation is provided on the outer surface of the clip body, and a recess is provided on the outer surface of the tip of each locking leg of the clip body. Forming a taper guide surface on the upper edge side of the
A pair of temporary fixing groove portions are formed on diagonal lines on both sides of the base axis of the clip body, while the mounting holes of the plate member are provided with engaging edge portions for engaging the pair of temporary fixing groove portions and a pair of locking leg pieces. Surface of the mounting hole having the hole shape, the hole shape having the engaging edge part to be engaged in the concave part of and the pressing edge part to press the pair of locking leg pieces inwardly face each other. A structure in which a tapered surface is formed on the side edge is adopted.

[0007]

Therefore, in fixing the plate member to the panel in the present invention, first, the locking leg pieces of the clip body are inserted into the mounting holes of the plate member and the clip body is rotated in a predetermined direction. To engage the pair of temporary fixing groove portions formed on the base shaft of the clip body with the engaging edge portions of the mounting holes, and at the same time, insert the engaging edge portions of the mounting holes into the respective recesses of the pair of locking leg pieces. Before fixing the plate member to the panel by engaging with, the clip body itself is temporarily fixed to the plate member. In the temporarily fixed state, the engagement of the pair of temporary fixing grooves with the engaging edge of the mounting hole and the engagement of the engaging edge of the mounting hole with the recess of the pair of locking leg pieces. The clip body is securely and temporarily fixed to the plate material.

Then, if each locking leg piece of the clip body temporarily fixed is inserted into the mounting hole of the panel as it is, each locking leg piece passes through the mounting hole while bending inward. However, at this point, due to the sliding guide action of the taper surface of the plate side mounting hole and the taper guide surface of the locking leg piece side,
While automatically moving the engagement edge of the plate-side mounting hole upward from the recess, this time, the hole edge of the panel mounting hole enters the recess of each locking leg piece, and the panel-side mounting hole Since the shoulder portion of each locking leg piece is elastically locked to the hole edge, the plate member is fixed to the panel.

When it becomes necessary to remove the plate material from the panel, the tip end of a screwdriver or the like is inserted into the groove for rotation provided in the flange of the clip body.
When the clip body itself is rotated in the direction in which the pair of temporary fixing groove portions formed on the base shaft of the clip body are disengaged from the engaging edges of the plate-side mounting holes, the pair of locking leg pieces are also moved in the same direction accordingly. As the locking leg pieces rotate, the locking leg pieces move from the engagement edge portions of the plate-side mounting holes to the pressing edge portions and are locked in a state of being largely bent inward. The shoulder portion of will automatically come off from the hole edge of the panel side mounting hole. Therefore, after that, since the clip body can be easily pulled out from the mounting hole of the panel simply by pulling the plate material away from the panel, the plate material can be easily removed from the panel without damaging the clip body.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will now be described in detail with reference to an embodiment shown in the drawings. The fixing structure according to this embodiment is basically a synthetic resin clip body 1 as shown in FIG. make use of,
A plate material P1 such as a garnish having a mounting hole H1
Was developed on the premise that it is fixed to the panel P2 in which the mounting hole H2 is also formed. The characteristic point is as follows.

That is, the clip body 1 made of synthetic resin to be used
As shown in FIGS. 2 to 4, the disk-shaped flange 2 is in contact with the front surface side of the plate material P1, the base shaft 3 is hung from the bottom surface of the flange 2, and the base shaft 3 extends downward from the bottom end of the base shaft 3. And a pair of locking leg pieces 4 that stand up in a V shape. But,
In this embodiment, a rotation groove 5 is provided in the center of the upper surface of the flange 2 of the clip body 1 for allowing the tip of a driver or the like to be engaged, and the tip of the pair of locking leg pieces 4 is provided. The U-shaped concave portions 6 are provided on the outer surface, the shoulder portion 7 that engages with the hole edge of the panel side mounting hole H2 is formed on the lower edge side of the concave portion 6, and the tapered guide surface 8 is formed on the upper edge side of the concave portion 6. Formed,
Further, while the protrusion 9 is continuously formed on the upper part of the tapered guide surface 8, the presence of the recess 6 defines the neck 10 that abuts the peripheral surface of the mounting hole at the tip of each locking leg piece 4. It is said to be composed. And in this embodiment, further,
On one diagonal line on both sides of the base shaft 3 of the clip body 1, a pair of temporary fixing groove portions 11 to be engaged with engaging edge portions of a plate material side mounting hole H1 described later are formed, and on the other diagonal line, an arc shape is formed. The structure which forms each guide wall part 3a is employ | adopted.

Further, in this embodiment, as shown in the drawing,
The mounting hole H1 formed on the plate member P1 side is provided with a pair of linear engagement edge portions 12 that individually engage the temporary fixing groove portions 11, respectively.
A pair of arcuate engagement edges 13 that are individually engaged in the recesses 6 of each locking leg piece 4 and a linear pressing edge portion 14 that presses the protrusion 9 of each locking leg piece 4 inwardly face each other. The mounting hole H1 having the hole shape, and
A configuration is adopted in which a tapered surface 15 that contacts the tapered guide surface 8 of each locking leg piece 4 is formed. Therefore, the mounting hole H1 on the plate side has a substantially gourd shape, and the engaging edge portion 12, the engaging edge portion 13, and the pressing edge portion 14 are successively connected in a state of facing each other. The distance between the edge portions 13 is set to be longest and the distance between the pair of pressing edge portions 14 is set to be shortest. In this embodiment, the mounting hole H2 formed on the side of the panel P2 is simply the same as the conventional round hole.

Therefore, when the plate member P1 is fixed to the panel P2 by using the clip body 1 having the above structure, first,
In the present embodiment, unlike the prior art, each locking leg piece 4 of the clip body 1 is inserted into the mounting hole H1 of the plate material P1, and the clip body 1 is rotated in a predetermined direction to be formed on the base shaft 3. The pair of temporary fixing grooves 11 are engaged with the corresponding engaging edges 12 of the mounting hole H1, and at the same time, the corresponding engaging edges of the mounting hole H1 are provided in the respective recesses 6 of the pair of locking leg pieces 4. Before the plate member P1 is fixed to the panel P2 by inserting 13 and fixing the plate member P1 to the panel P2 as shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, the clip body 1 itself is temporarily fixed to the plate member P1 in advance.

However, in this temporarily fixed state, the engagement edge portion 12 of the mounting hole H1 is engaged with the pair of temporary fixing groove portions 11, and the mounting hole H1 is formed in the recess 6 of the pair of locking leg pieces 4.
Since the clip body 1 is supported at four places by the engagement of the engaging edge portion 13 and is firmly and temporarily fixed to the plate material P1, there is a concern that the clip body 1 may accidentally fall off from the plate material P1. Disappears at all. Further, the tapered guide surface 8 on the side of each locking leg piece 4 is in contact with the tapered surface 15 on the side of the mounting hole H1.

Therefore, after the clip body 1 is temporarily fixed to the plate P1, as shown in FIG. 7, the respective locking leg pieces 4 of the clip body 1 which are temporarily fixed are placed in the round hole mounting holes H2 of the panel P2. , The locking leg pieces 4 pass through the mounting holes H2 while bending inward. At this point, the tapered surface 15 of the plate side mounting hole H1 and the tapered guide surface of each locking leg piece 4 are inserted. By the sliding guide action with 8, the engaging edge portion 13 of the plate-side mounting hole H1 is automatically moved upward from the recess 6, and this time, the panel side mounting is performed in the recess 6 of each locking leg piece 4. The hole edge of the hole H2 is inserted, and the shoulder portions 7 of the locking leg pieces 4 are elastically locked to the hole edge of the mounting hole H2.

Therefore, even in this embodiment, finally, the plate member P1 is securely fixed to the panel P2 by the clamping action from the inside and outside of the flange 2 and the pair of locking leg pieces 4. However, it is not necessary to match the mounting holes H1 of the plate material P1 with the mounting holes H2 of the panel P2 as in the prior art, so that workability can be greatly improved and the clip body 1 is temporarily fixed to the plate material P1. In this state, it is possible to transport the assembly line to the assembly line. From this point as well, improvement in workability can be expected. In addition, as shown in the drawing, a projecting portion 9 formed at the tip of each locking leg piece 4 is provided on the peripheral surface of the mounting hole H1 of the plate member P1 fixed to the panel P2.
Due to the elastic pressure contact, the backlash of the plate material P1 can be effectively prevented.

When it is necessary to remove the plate material P1 from the panel P2 for the reason of replacement or the like, the tip portion 16 of the driver is inserted into the rotation groove portion 5 provided in the flange 2 of the clip body 1. Alternatively, when coins are inserted and the clip body 1 itself is rotated in a direction in which the temporary fixing groove portion 11 formed in the base shaft 3 of the clip body 1 is disengaged from the engaging edge portion 12 of the plate material side mounting hole H1, FIG. As shown in FIG. 9, accordingly, the pair of locking leg pieces 4 also rotate in the same direction, and the projecting portions 9 of the respective locking leg pieces 4 correspond to the engaging edge portions of the plate-side mounting hole H1. 13 is moved to the pressing edge portion 14 side, respectively, and is locked in a state of being largely bent inward, whereby the shoulder portion 7 of each locking leg piece 4 is attached to the round hole-shaped mounting hole H2 of the panel P2. It will automatically come off from the hole edge. Therefore, after that, the plate material P
Since the clip body 1 can be easily pulled out from the mounting hole H2 of the panel P2 simply by pulling 1 away from the panel P2, unlike the conventional case, the clip body 1 is not damaged and the plate material P1 is not damaged.
Can be easily removed from the panel P2.

Moreover, in this embodiment, since the plate member P1 can be removed while the clip body 1 is temporarily fixed, there is no fear of losing the clip member 1 and when the clip member 1 is removed from the plate member P1. If each locking leg piece 4 in the mounting hole H1 is bent inward, the clip body 1 can be easily removed from the mounting hole H1 of the plate member P1. The reuse is fully guaranteed. Further, in the present embodiment, the width of the base shaft 3 and the diameter of the plate-side mounting hole H1 are appropriately determined so that the center of the panel-side mounting hole H2 and the center of the base shaft 3 are aligned with each other to make the clip body 1 Since it is possible to rotate, the smooth removal of the plate material P1 is guaranteed.

[0019]

As described above, according to the present invention, by adopting the above-mentioned constitution, it is possible to temporarily fix the clip body to the plate member independently. Therefore, before fixing the plate member to the panel as in the conventional case, Since there is no need to perform the complicated work of matching the plate mounting holes with the panel mounting holes, improvement in workability can be expected greatly. Moreover, when the clip body is temporarily fixed, the pair of temporary fixing groove portions are engaged with the engaging edges of the plate material side mounting holes and the plate material side mounting holes are engaged with the recesses of the pair of locking leg pieces. By engaging the edges, the clip body can be supported at four places and firmly and temporarily fixed to the plate material, and there is no fear of the clip body accidentally falling off the plate material.

Further, when it becomes necessary to remove the plate material from the panel, the rotation groove portion provided in the flange of the clip body is used to rotate the clip body in a predetermined direction, and each member is rotated. Since the shoulder part of the stop leg piece will automatically come off from the hole edge of the panel mounting hole, unlike the past, it was possible to easily remove the plate material from the panel without damaging the clip body. .

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view of essential parts showing a fixing structure according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a vertical sectional view of a clip body.

FIG. 3 is a side view of a clip body.

FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of a clip body.

FIG. 5 is a longitudinal sectional view of an essential part showing a state where a clip body is temporarily fixed to a plate material.

FIG. 6 is a horizontal cross-sectional view of the relevant part.

FIG. 7 is a longitudinal sectional view of an essential part showing a state where a plate member is fixed to a panel.

FIG. 8 is a longitudinal sectional view of an essential part showing a state in which a plate material is removed from a panel.

FIG. 9 is a transverse sectional view of the same main part.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Clip 2 Flange 3 Base 4 Locking Leg 5 Rotating Groove 6 Recess 7 Recess 7 Shoulder 8 Tapered Guide Surface 11 Temporary Fixing Groove 12 Engagement Edge 13 Engagement Edge 14 Press Edge 15 Tapered Surface P1 Plate H1 Plate mounting hole P2 Panel H2 Panel mounting hole

Claims (1)

(57) [Scope of utility model registration request] 1. When fixing a plate member having mounting holes to a panel having mounting holes, a clip body is provided between both mounting holes, and the clip body has a front surface side of the plate member. A flange that abuts against, a base shaft that is hung from the lower surface of the flange, and a pair of locking leg pieces that rise upward and outward from the lower end of the base shaft, and by the holding action of the flange and the locking leg piece, In the plate material fixing structure for fixing the plate material to the panel,
The flange of the clip body is provided with a groove for rotation, and a recess is provided on the outer surface of the tip end portion of each locking leg of the clip body, and a shoulder is provided on the lower edge side of the recess to engage with the hole edge of the mounting hole of the panel. To form a taper guide surface on the upper edge side of the recess and to form a pair of temporary fixing groove portions on the diagonals on both sides of the base axis of the clip body, while the mounting holes of the plate member The engaging edge portion that engages the groove portion, the engaging edge portion that engages in the recess of the pair of locking leg pieces, and the pressing edge portion that presses the pair of locking leg pieces inwardly face each other. The plate material fixing structure is characterized in that a taper surface is formed at a peripheral edge on the surface side of the mounting hole having the hole shape.