JPH09142229A - Molding structure for upper part of automobile body - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate any connection point, and enhance quality in appearance by extending a pillar molding extended along a front pillar continuously to a drip molding extended along a roof side rail, and forming them into a single molding. SOLUTION: This invention is concerned with the molding structure for the upper part of an automobile body provided with a front pillar 10 and a roof side rail disposed in the longitudinal direction, and the structure is provided with a molding 18 which integrally combines a pillar molding part extended along a front pillar with a drip molding part extended along a roof side rail so as to form them in a body, and with a flush mount molding 20. The molding is formed out of a stationary part 44 which is fixed to the front pillar and the roof side rail, and of an ornamental part 46 representing an upper portion above the stationary part. The free peripheral portion of the ornamental part is formed as a wall surface 46 spaced from the end face of a pane of wind shield glass 22 in the pillar molding part, and the free peripheral portion of the ornamental part is formed while being overlapped in the drip molding part. A flush mount molding is also disposed in the spaced place.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a molding structure for an upper portion of a vehicle body of an automobile, and more particularly to a molding structure for an upper portion of a vehicle body of a passenger vehicle including a front pillar and a roof side rail disposed above the front pillar and arranged in the front-rear direction. .

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a passenger car, a side portion of a roof panel is joined to a roof side rail, and a drip channel for rainwater is formed along the roof side rail.
These are covered with drip molding. The front pillar may be covered with a pillar molding in order to improve appearance quality. In this case, since the pillar molding and the drip molding are formed as separate parts, a connecting part with a special shape may be interposed in the joint part (Shokai Sho 62-195).
515), the end of the pillar molding and the end of the drip molding are butted against each other (Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 63-18315).

[0003]

In any of the forms, a connecting line appears at the joint between the pillar molding and the drip molding, which affects the appearance.

The present invention can further improve the appearance quality,
Provide a molding structure on the upper part of a car body.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is directed to a front pillar in which an outer panel of a front pillar is located inside a vehicle interior side surface of a windshield glass and a door glass of a front side door, and above the front pillar. There is a molding structure on the upper part of the vehicle body of an automobile including a roof side rail arranged in the front-rear direction,
The flash mount molding includes a single molding in which a pillar molding portion extending along the front pillar and a drip molding portion extending along the roof side rail are continuously formed. The molding has a fixing portion fixed to the front pillar and the roof side rail, and a design portion located above the fixing portion. The free edge portion of the design portion is formed as a wall surface that faces the end surface of the windshield glass with a gap in the pillar molding portion, and is overlapped with the drip molding portion. The flush mount molding is disposed in the gap.

[0006]

[Operation and effect] When the fixed part of the molding is fixed to the front pillar and the roof side rail, the design part appears above. Since the wall surface provided at the free edge portion of the pillar molding portion of the design portion is located at a distance from the end face of the windshield glass, the flush mount molding is arranged within this distance and brought into close contact with the wall. On the other hand, since the free edge portion of the drip molding portion of the design portion is overlapped, the drip molding portion is reinforced.

Since the pillar molding portion extending along the front pillar and the drip molding portion extending along the roof side rail are continuously formed as a single molding, there is no connecting line and the appearance quality can be improved.

Since the flush mount molding is arranged between the end face of the windshield glass in the width direction of the vehicle body and the wall surface of the design portion of the pillar molding portion of the molding, the surface of the windshield glass and the design surface of the molding are separated from each other. Since the step between them is substantially eliminated or even if there is a step, the air flow from the surface of the windshield to the design surface of the molding becomes smooth, improving aerodynamic performance and reducing wind noise. be able to.

Since the front pillars are arranged so that the outer panels of the front pillars are located closer to the inside of the vehicle than the inside surfaces of the windshield glass and the door glass of the front side door, the overall size of the mall should be reduced. You can Also, since the front pillar is arranged so that the outer panel of the front pillar is located closer to the inside of the vehicle than the inside surface of the door glass of the front side door, the front pillar's molding mounting surface and the roof side rail's molding mounting surface are Can be located close to each other in the width direction of the vehicle body. As a result, it is possible to reduce the cross-sectional change from the pillar molding portion to the drip molding portion of the molding. This is a preferable performance in molding the molding.

[0010]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION A molding is formed of a steel plate or a stainless steel plate by roll forming or bender forming into a predetermined shape having a fixed portion and a design portion. in this case,
First, it is preferable that the entire molding is formed into the same cross-sectional shape as the pillar molding, and the free edge portion of the design portion is formed as a wall surface. Next, in the drip molding part, the wall surfaces are bent and overlapped. The design portion of the molding is defined so that the widths, that is, the heights of the pillar molding portion and the drip molding portion, which are visible from the outside, are substantially equal over the entire length of the molding. Since the fixing portion of the molding is attached with a weatherstrip that is in close contact with the door glass of the front side door, it can have substantially the same cross-sectional shape over the entire length of the molding.

[0011]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Referring to FIG. 1 showing a cross section of a front pillar, FIG. 2 showing a cross section of a roof side rail, and FIG. 4 showing a perspective view of a part of a vehicle body,
A molding structure of an upper portion of a vehicle body of an automobile including a front pillar 10 and a roof side rail 16 arranged in the front-rear direction above the front pillar 10. A single molding 18 and a flush mount molding 20 are provided. Prepare

The front pillar 10 has an outer panel 12
And an inner panel 13 and a reinforcing panel 14 interposed between the two panels, and the respective flanges are spot-welded and joined together to form a closed horizontal cross section. In the front pillar 10, the outer panel 12 of the front pillar 10 is a windshield glass 22.
Further, the door glass 26 of each of the front side doors 24 is arranged so as to be located inside the vehicle interior from the inside surface of the vehicle interior. That is, as shown in FIG. 1, when the sashless door glass 26 is closed, the outer panel 12 is closer to the inside of the vehicle than the inner side surface 23 of the windshield glass 22 and further to the inside of the vehicle than the inner side surface 27 of the door glass 26. There is one. As a result, it is possible to reduce the overall size of the molding 18 described later.

The roof side rail 16 is composed of an outer panel 30, an inner panel 31, and a reinforcing panel 32 interposed between the two panels, and the respective flanges are spot-welded and joined together to form a closed vertical structure. Is formed. The side portion of the roof panel 34 is spot-welded and joined to the drip channel panel 36,
The panel 36 is the outer panel 3 of the roof side rail 16.
It is joined by spot welding to 0. A drip channel 38 is formed by folding the free end of the panel 36 upward and joining with the roof panel 34.

The molding 18 includes a pillar molding 40 extending along the front pillar 10 and a roof side rail 1.
6 and a drip molding portion 42 extending along 6 are continuously and integrally formed. The molding 18 also has a fixing portion 44 fixed to the front pillar 10 and the roof side rail 16, and a design portion 46 located above the fixing portion 44. That is, the molding 18 has a form in which the drip molding part 42 is continuous to the rear of the pillar molding part 40 in the longitudinal direction, and a design part 46 is continuous to the upper side of the fixing part 44 in the vertical direction. The pillar molding portion 40 and the drip molding portion 42 are transitioned from the pillar molding portion 40 to the drip molding portion 42 at a position rearward from a position where the flush mount molding 20 described later is separated from the front pillar 10 along the upper edge of the windshield glass 22. To be formed.

In the pillar molding portion 40, the free edge portion of the design portion 46 of the molding is a wall surface 47 facing the end surface of the windshield glass 22 with a gap, as shown in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 2, the drip molding portion 42 is formed as a hemming portion 48 by overlapping.

In the illustrated embodiment, the molding fixing portion 44 is formed by roll forming, and the base portion 45A is used.
And rising parts 45B, 4 rising from the base part
5C, a rising portion 45D that is once narrowed from the rising portion 45B and further rises, and a rising portion 45E that rises from the rising portion 45C via the shoulder portion. The clamp pin 50 is inserted into the base portion 45A to fix the fixing portion 44 to the outer panel 12 of the front pillar at the pillar molding portion 40, and further to the outer panel 30 of the roof side rail at the drip molding portion 42. The weather strip 52 is held by the rising portions 45B, 45C, 45D and 45E of the fixed portion 44.

In the illustrated embodiment, the design portion 46 of the molding is connected to the rising portion 45D of the fixing portion 44 through the bent portion 47A having an acute angle, and the free edge portion is formed as the wall surface 47 or the hemming portion 48. ing. The design part 46 of the pillar molding part shown in FIG.
The design portion 46 of the drip molding portion, which is located on substantially the same plane as the above, covers the upper portion of the drip channel 38. Pillar molding 40 and drip molding 42
As shown in FIG. 4, the design portion visible from the outside has the same width, that is, height, over the entire length of the molding 18.

The fixed portion 44 of the pillar molding portion shown in FIG.
And the fixing portion 44 of the drip molding portion shown in FIG.
The shapes are substantially the same. On the other hand, the design portion 46
Has a wall surface 47 in the pillar molding portion of FIG. 1, while having a hemming portion 48 in the drip molding portion of FIG. However, it can be seen that when the wall surface 47 is bent upward from the state of FIG. 1 toward the intermediate portion of the design portion 46, the hemming portion 48 of FIG. 2 is obtained. This transition is behind the location where the flush mount molding 20 separates from the front pillar along the top edge of the windshield glass 22, as shown in FIG. The transition area is, for example, 10 to 20 mm
The wall surface 47 gradually becomes the hemming portion 48.

The flush mount molding 20 is arranged in the gap between the end surface of the windshield glass 22 and the wall surface 47 of the design portion 46 of the pillar molding portion 40 of the molding 18. In the illustrated embodiment, the flush mount molding 20 is formed by extruding rubber,
The windshield glass 2 is formed by the two lips 54, 55 provided on the side facing the windshield glass 22.
2 is sandwiched, and the two lips 56 and 57 provided on the opposite side are brought into close contact with the wall surface 47 of the design portion. As shown in FIG. 3, the flash mount molding 20 is cut along a top edge of the windshield glass 22 away from the front pillar, and is bent by cutting a suitable range, and heat-welded to a joining surface formed by cutting. And bend it by approximately 90 ° so that it follows the upper edge of the shield glass 22.

[Brief description of the drawings]

1 is a cross-sectional view of a molding structure of an upper portion of a vehicle body of an automobile according to the present invention, which is taken along line 1-1 in FIG.

2 is a cross-sectional view of a molding structure of an upper portion of a vehicle body of an automobile according to the present invention, which is cut along a line 2-2 in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a part of a flush mount molding, which is an enlarged view of three parts of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing a part of an automobile equipped with a molding structure of an upper portion of the automobile body according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 Front Pillar 12 Outer Panel 16 Roof Side Rail 18 Mold 20 Flush Mount Mold 22 Windshield Glass 26 Door Glass 40 Pillar Mold Part 42 Drip Mold Part 44 Fixing Part 46 Design Part 47 Wall Surface 48 Hemming Part

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An outer panel of a front pillar, which is located inward of a vehicle interior side surface of a windshield glass and a door glass of a front side door, and a front pillar disposed above the front pillar in a front-rear direction. A molding structure of an upper part of an automobile body including a roof side rail, wherein a pillar molding portion extending along the front pillar and a drip molding portion extending along the roof side rail are formed continuously. , A flush mount molding, wherein the molding has a fixed portion fixed to the front pillar and the roof side rail, and a design portion above the fixed portion, the free edge portion of the design portion, In the pillar molding part, a wall surface facing the end face of the windshield glass with a gap is provided. A molding structure of an upper portion of a vehicle body of an automobile, wherein the flush mount molding is arranged in the gap, and the drip molding portion is formed by overlapping.