CN115075681A

CN115075681A - Sliding door opening device and vehicle

Info

Publication number: CN115075681A
Application number: CN202210900064.1A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 施旭升; 郭春防; 郑楚强
Original assignee: Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co Ltd; Zhejiang LEVC R&D Co Ltd
Current assignee: Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co Ltd; Zhejiang LEVC R&D Co Ltd
Priority date: 2022-07-28
Filing date: 2022-07-28
Publication date: 2022-09-20

Abstract

The invention provides a sliding door opening device and a vehicle, and relates to the technical field of vehicles. The sliding door opening device of the present invention may include a center rail fixedly coupled at a vehicle body and two guide assemblies. The middle guide rail is in sliding fit with a hinge fixedly connected to the vehicle door, and the middle guide rail further comprises a bending part which is located at the position of the vehicle door and extends towards the middle position of the vehicle in a bending mode. The two guide assemblies are used for guiding the cable which is controlled to drive the hinge to slide, each guide assembly is arranged at a position close to one end of the middle guide rail, and part or all of the structure of the guide assembly at the end of the middle guide rail close to the bent part is positioned at a position between the two ends of the middle guide rail. The sliding door opening device can effectively reduce the size of the whole opening device in the X direction or the Y direction, save the size of the sliding door in the Y direction, improve the space utilization rate and further improve the comfort of passengers in the second row.

Description

Sliding door opening device and vehicle

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of vehicles, in particular to a sliding door opening device and a vehicle.

Background

Currently existing MPV models include a slidable sliding door. In the conventional sliding door, the guide rails are arranged on two sides of the guide rail, so that the X-direction and Y-direction sizes of the sliding door opening device are larger, particularly the Y-direction size. The space arrangement in the Y direction of the vehicle is crowded, so that the arrangement of other components is not reasonable, and the experience of two rows of passengers is poor. In addition, since the sliding door Y is large in size, the walking path left for the passengers in the third row is narrow, which also causes a problem of poor user experience.

Disclosure of Invention

An object of the first aspect of the present invention is to provide a sliding door opening device, which solves the problem of the prior art that the Y-direction arrangement space of the sliding door is short.

It is a further object of the first aspect of the invention to improve the problem of user experience.

It is an object of a second aspect of the present invention to provide a vehicle incorporating the sliding door opening device described above.

In particular, the present invention provides a sliding door opening device comprising:

a center rail fixedly attached to a vehicle body, the center rail slidably engaged with a hinge attached to a door, the center rail including a curved portion extending from the door toward a center of the vehicle; and

the guide assemblies are respectively arranged at a position close to one end of the middle guide rail, and part or all of the structures of the guide assemblies at the end position of the middle guide rail close to the bending part are positioned at a position between the two ends of the middle guide rail.

Optionally, the guide assembly at the location of the bend comprises:

the connecting plate is fixedly connected with the vehicle body; and

a guide box connected with the connection plate and located at a position between both ends of the center rail.

Optionally, the middle guide rail is hollow and tubular, a notch extending from an end of the middle guide rail close to the bending part to the other end of the middle guide rail is arranged at the end, and the guide box is partially arranged in the middle guide rail at the notch.

Optionally, the middle guide rail includes two first groove edges disposed oppositely and two second groove edges disposed oppositely, each of the second groove edges includes a first portion and a second portion, the first portion of one of the second groove edges is an opening whose extending direction is parallel to the extending direction of the guide rail, and the notch is disposed at the second portion of the other second groove edge of the middle guide rail.

Optionally, the size of the second part of the two second slot edges is adapted to the size of the guide box; the size of two second groove sides is 60-65 mm.

Optionally, the guiding box comprises a hollow disc-shaped box body and a roller arranged inside the box body and rotatably connected with the box body;

the box body department be provided with the tangential import of circumference and the export of box body, the cable by the import enters into after the box body twines in the roller department again by the exit extends away.

Optionally, the connecting plate is a bent plate, a through hole parallel to the extending direction of the middle guide rail is formed in the connecting plate, and the connecting plate is connected with the guide box at the through hole.

Optionally, part or all of the guide assembly of the centre rail, which is disposed at an end position remote from the bend, is located between the two ends of the centre rail. Optionally, the device further comprises a driving motor and a reel, wherein the driving motor is connected with the reel to drive the reel to rotate, and then the hinge is pulled to slide in the middle guide rail after passing through the roller through a pull rope on the reel.

In particular, the invention also provides a vehicle comprising the sliding door opening device.

The sliding door opening device of the scheme is to be arranged at the position between two ends of the middle guide rail, of the part or the whole structure of the guide assembly, close to the end part of the bent part, of the middle guide rail, so that the size of the whole opening device, in the X direction, of the sliding door, in the Y direction, can be effectively reduced, the size of the sliding door, in the Y direction, can be particularly saved, the space utilization rate is improved, and the comfort of passengers in a second row is further improved.

The middle guide rail and the guide assembly are fixedly connected with the automobile body, and the middle guide rail and the guide assembly are not connected but only have a position relation. The guide box is fixedly connected with the vehicle body through a connecting plate. The guide box is positioned between the two ends of the middle guide rail, so that the movement space at the right end of the middle guide rail is saved, and the use of the guide assembly is not influenced.

The above and other objects, advantages and features of the present invention will become more apparent to those skilled in the art from the following detailed description of specific embodiments thereof, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

Drawings

Some specific embodiments of the invention will be described in detail hereinafter, by way of illustration and not limitation, with reference to the accompanying drawings. The same reference numbers in the drawings identify the same or similar elements or components. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the drawings are not necessarily drawn to scale. In the drawings:

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural view of a sliding door opening device according to one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic structural view of another angle of the sliding door opening device according to one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of FIG. 2 at area A;

FIG. 4 is a schematic block diagram of a guide arrangement at a mid-rail position according to one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic sectional view taken along line B-B in FIG. 4;

FIG. 6 is a schematic block diagram of a guide assembly according to one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a center rail according to one embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 8 is a schematic structural view of a hinge provided in a center rail according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

As a specific embodiment of the present invention, referring to fig. 1, 2 and 3, the sliding door opening device 100 of the present embodiment may include a center rail 10 fixedly coupled at a vehicle body and two guide assemblies 20. Wherein, the middle guide rail 10 is fixedly connected at the vehicle body, and the middle guide rail 10 is in sliding fit with the hinge 30 fixedly connected on the vehicle door. The center guide 10 may include a curved portion 101 that extends from the door toward the vehicle center. Two guide assemblies 20 are used for guiding the cable 40 controlled to slide the hinge 30, each guide assembly 20 is respectively arranged at one end position close to the middle guide rail 10, and part or all of the structure of the guide assembly 20 at the end position of the middle guide rail 10 close to the bending part 101 is positioned between two ends of the middle guide rail 10.

In this embodiment, the extending direction of the middle rail 10 is the front-rear direction of the vehicle, i.e. the X direction, and the bending portion 101 extends toward the inside of the vehicle, i.e. the bending portion extends toward the Y direction, i.e. the left-right direction of the vehicle. In this embodiment, a part or the whole of the structure of the guide assembly 20 disposed at the end of the middle rail 10 close to the curved portion 101 is disposed at a position between the two ends of the middle rail 10, so that the size of the whole opening device in the X direction and the Y direction, especially the size in the Y direction, can be effectively reduced, the size in the Y direction of the sliding door can be saved, the space utilization rate can be improved, and the comfort of the second row of passengers can be further improved.

In the invention, because the two guide assemblies 20 are respectively arranged near the two ends of the middle guide rail 10, the space in the X direction can be reduced by arranging one or two of the two guide assemblies 20 between the two ends of the middle guide rail 10, and the space in the X direction and the space in the Y direction can be saved by arranging the guide assembly near the bending part 101 between the two ends of the middle guide rail 10, so that the arrangement space of the vehicle door body can be relatively reduced, the arrangement space of other parts can be increased, the space of two rows, three rows or passageways can be improved, and the use experience of a user can be improved. Specifically, the space includes the size of the guide assembly 20 itself and the distance between the guide assembly 20 and the center rail 10.

Specifically, in the actual center guide rail 10, the left end side thereof is generally a straight structure, and a bent structure (curved portion) is formed at a position close to the right end side, and the guide assembly 20 at the center guide rail 10 is hidden therein. And the guide assembly 20 near the left end portion is aesthetically impaired if it is disposed at a position between both end portions of the center guide 10, so that only the guide assembly 20 located near the right end portion of the center guide 10 is disposed between both end portions of the center guide 10 in this application. The left end guide assembly 20 may be selectively disposed at a position between both ends of the center guide rail 10 according to the requirements of an actual vehicle. When the guide assembly located at the left end of the center rail is disposed between both ends of the center rail 10, the structure thereof is consistent with that between the right end, and the improvement of the center rail 10 is also consistent. Hereinafter, the guide assembly 20 near the right end of the center rail 10 will be described in detail by way of example only, and is disposed between both ends of the center rail 10.

As a specific example, in this embodiment, the guide assembly 20 at the right end of the middle rail 10 may be disposed at a position between two ends of the middle rail 10, so that a Y-direction space may be saved by about 65mm to 75mm, for example, about 65mm, 70mm, or 75mm of the Y-direction may be saved, and further, a space of the second row of seats in the Y-direction may be increased, so as to improve user experience.

As a specific embodiment of the present invention, referring to fig. 4, 5 and 6, each guide assembly 20 of the present embodiment may include a connection plate 21 and a guide box 22. Wherein, the connecting plate 21 is fixedly connected with the vehicle body. The guide box 22 is connected to the connection plate 21, and the guide box 22 is located at a position between both ends of the center rail 10.

Specifically, the center rail 10 and the guide assembly 20 of the present embodiment are both fixedly connected to the vehicle body, and there is no connection relationship, only a positional relationship, between the center rail 10 and the guide assembly 20. The guide box 22 is fixedly connected with the vehicle body through the connecting plate 21. The guide box 22 is located between both ends of the center rail 10. So that the right end play space of the middle guide rail 10 is saved and the use of the guide assembly 20 is not affected.

As a specific embodiment of the present invention, the center rail 10 of the present embodiment has a hollow tubular shape, notches 11 are provided at end positions of the center rail 10, the notches 11 extending from the end portions toward the other end portions of the center rail 10, and the guide boxes 22 are partially placed in the center rail 10 at the positions of the notches 11.

As a specific embodiment of the present invention, referring to fig. 7, the middle rail 10 of the present embodiment may include two oppositely disposed first groove edges 12 and two oppositely disposed second groove edges 13, each of the second groove edges 13 includes a first portion 131 and a second portion 132, the first portion 131 of one of the second groove edges 13 is an opening 14, the extending direction of which is parallel to the extending direction of the middle rail, and the notch 11 is disposed at the position of the second portion 132 of the other second groove edge 13 of the middle rail 10.

Specifically, as shown in fig. 7, the cross section of the middle guide rail 10 forms a first groove side 12 arranged in parallel up and down and a second groove side 13 arranged left and right, and an opening 14 is arranged below the second groove side 13, and the opening 14 is used for the hinge and the guide connecting part to be placed and operated. The notch 11 is arranged at a position above the second slot edge 13 on the right side. Since the portion of the guide box 22 of the guide structure is required to be disposed within the center rail 10 in this embodiment, and the center rail 10 mainly provides a guide for the hinge 30 (see fig. 8), the hinge 30 is required to move back and forth therein, so that the guide box 22 is required to be disposed at an upper position, which is a retracted position for the hinge 30.

As a specific embodiment of the present invention, the second portions 132 of the two second slot sides 13 of the present embodiment are sized to fit the size of the guide box 22. The dimensions of the two second groove edges 13 are 60-65 mm. Specifically, the size of the second portion 132 of the second slot edge 13 is increased by approximately 10-15mm compared to the prior art by providing the guide box 22. For example, 10mm, 12mm, 13mm or 15mm may be added.

As an embodiment of the present invention, referring to fig. 5, the guide box 22 of this embodiment may include a hollow disk-shaped box 221 and a roller 222 disposed inside the box 221 and rotatably connected to the box 221. The box body 221 is provided with an inlet 223 and an outlet 224 which are tangential to the circumferential direction of the box body 221, and the cable 40 enters the box body 221 from the inlet 223, is wound on the roller 222 and then extends out from the outlet 224. The positions of the inlet 223 and the outlet 224 in this embodiment are schematically directed, and the positions thereof may be interchanged.

Specifically, in this embodiment, the cable 40 is redirected by the guide box 22 such that the cable 40 may extend from the power end to the hinge 30 end.

Specifically, referring to fig. 1, the sliding door opening device 100 of the present embodiment may further include a driving motor 50 and a reel 60, wherein the driving motor 50 is connected to the reel 60 to drive the reel 60 to rotate, so that the pull hinge 30 slides in the center rail 10 after passing through the roller 222 via the pull cable 40 on the reel 60.

Specifically, the reel 60 is rotated by the driving motor 50, and when rotated, moves back and forth around the cable 40 provided on the reel 60, and the cable 40 is connected to the hinge 30 through the guide assemblies 20 at both ends. When the pulling cable 40 moves back and forth, the hinge 30 is pulled to move back and forth, and the sliding door is driven to slide back and forth.

The design of the drive motor 50 and the reel 60 in the present embodiment enables the sliding door of the present embodiment to be controlled to open and close directly in an electrically controlled manner.

As a specific example of the present invention, the connection plate 21 of the present embodiment has a bent plate shape, a through hole parallel to the direction in which the center rail 10 extends is provided at the connection plate 21, and the connection plate 21 is connected to the guide box 22 at the through hole position.

Specifically, the connecting plate 21 of the present embodiment is mainly related to structures at other positions of the vehicle body, and may be curved or have other shapes that can meet the requirements.

In the embodiment, one part of the connecting plate 21 is parallel to the middle guide rail 10, the other part is bent at the end position of the middle guide rail 10, a through hole is arranged at the connecting plate 21, and the guide box 22 is connected with the connecting plate 21 at the through hole.

As a specific example of the present invention, the center guide rail 10 of the present embodiment is formed in a curved shape near one of the ends, a part or the whole of the structure of the guide assembly 20 disposed near the end having the curved shape is located between both ends of the center guide rail 10, and the guide assembly 20 disposed near the other end is located outside the center guide rail 10.

Specifically, the middle guide rail 10 of the present embodiment forms a curved structure at the right end position, so that the door can move like a curved position when the slide rail moves to the right end position, and the door is prevented from interfering with other parts of the vehicle. In practice, when the guide rail 10 is installed at a vehicle, the curved structure is curved toward the interior of the vehicle, and thus the guide assembly 20 can be hidden when it is disposed at the center guide rail 10. While the left end of the center guide rail 10 is a straight guide rail, in order to prevent the partial structure of the guide assembly 20 from being seen from the guide rail, the guide assembly 20 located at the left side is disposed at the left side of the center guide rail 10 and is not located at the center guide rail 10 as one embodiment. Therefore, the requirement of saving Y-direction space is met, and meanwhile, the appearance is not influenced.

As a specific embodiment of the present invention, the present embodiment provides a vehicle that may include the above-described slide door opening apparatus 100.

Thus, it should be appreciated by those skilled in the art that while a number of exemplary embodiments of the invention have been illustrated and described in detail herein, many other variations or modifications consistent with the principles of the invention may be directly determined or derived from the disclosure of the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Accordingly, the scope of the invention should be understood and interpreted to cover all such other variations or modifications.

Claims

1. A sliding door opening device, comprising:

2. The sliding door opening device according to claim 1,

the guide assembly at the location of the bend includes:

the connecting plate is fixedly connected with the vehicle body; and

3. The sliding door opening device according to claim 2,

the middle guide rail is hollow and tubular, a notch extending from the end part to the other end part of the middle guide rail is arranged at the end part of the bending part of the middle guide rail, and the guide box is partially arranged in the middle guide rail from the notch position.

4. The sliding door opening device according to claim 3,

the middle guide rail comprises two first groove edges and two second groove edges, wherein the first groove edges are arranged oppositely, each second groove edge comprises a first portion and a second portion, the first portion of one second groove edge is an opening, the extending direction of the opening is parallel to the extending direction of the guide rail, and the notch is formed in the second portion of the other second groove edge of the middle guide rail.

5. The sliding door opening device according to claim 4,

the size of the second part of the two second groove edges is matched with that of the guide box; the size of two second groove sides is 60-65 mm.

6. The sliding door opening device according to any one of claims 2 to 5,

the guide box comprises a hollow disc-shaped box body and a roller which is arranged in the box body and is rotationally connected with the box body;

7. The sliding door opening device according to claim 6,

the connecting plate is in a bent plate shape, a through hole parallel to the extending direction of the middle guide rail is formed in the connecting plate, and the connecting plate is connected with the guide box at the position of the through hole.

8. The sliding door opening device according to any one of claims 1 to 5,

the guide assembly of the center rail, which is disposed at an end position away from the bent portion, is partially or entirely located between both ends of the center rail.

9. The sliding door opening device according to claim 1,

still include driving motor and reel, driving motor with the reel is connected in order to drive the reel rotates, and then through cable on the reel is in through pull behind the gyro wheel the hinge is in slide in the well guide rail.

10. A vehicle characterized by comprising the sliding door opening device according to any one of claims 1 to 9.