Fixing apparatus for carrier for vehicles

• US 10,449,910 B2
• Filed: 11/15/2016
• Issued: 10/22/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Il Shik Yoon, Jun Chan Yoon
• Original Assignee: Il Shik Yoon, Jun Chan Yoon
• Inventors: Yoon, Il Shik, Yoon, Jun Chan
• Primary Examiner(s): Larson, Justin M
• Application Number:
  US16/085,468
• Publication Number:
  US 20190084489A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,071 Days
• Field of Search: 224309, 224924, D12407, D12408
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 9/058 characterised by releasable attaching means between carrier and roof
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 9/06 at vehicle front or rear rear luggage compartments within vehicle extensible externally of the vehicle body B60R5/041
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 9/10 for cycles

Abstract

The present invention relates to a fixing apparatus for quickly and simply fixing a carrier for vehicles to a vehicle, the fixing apparatus including: a female coupler which is installed in the vicinity of a rotating wheel at an end portion of an article mount; and a male coupler which is fixed to a roof of the vehicle and detachably coupled to the female coupler, in which when a trunk of the vehicle is opened in a state in which the carrier is installed, the article mount moves forward toward a front side of the vehicle, the female coupler is separated from the male coupler, and the rotating wheel rolls along a roof of the vehicle, and when the trunk is closed, the article mount moves rearward, and the female coupler engages with the male coupler, such that the carrier is fixed to the vehicle.

Claims

1. A fixing apparatus for a carrier for vehicles, which is configured to detachably fix a carrier for vehicles to a vehicle, the carrier comprising:

one or two vertical supports which are supported on a rear surface of a trunk of the vehicle;

a horizontal support which is connected to the vertical support while having a fixed angle with respect to the vertical support and supported on an upper surface of the trunk of the vehicle;

an article mount which is rotatably connected to the vertical support or the horizontal support, has a generally U shape, and has a rotating wheel installed at one end portion thereof to support an article; and

an article stand which is rotatably connected to the vertical support or the horizontal support and is fixed at a right angle with respect to the article mount to support the article, the fixing apparatus comprising;

a female coupler which is installed in the vicinity of the rotating wheel at the end portion of the article mount; and

a male coupler which is fixed to a roof of the vehicle and detachably coupled to the female coupler,

wherein when the trunk of the vehicle is opened in a state in which the carrier is installed, the article mount moves forward toward a front side of the vehicle, the female coupler is separated from the male coupler, and the rotating wheel 48 rolls along a roof of the vehicle, and when the trunk is closed, the article mount moves rearward, and the female coupler engages with the male coupler, such that the carrier is fixed to the vehicle.

2. The fixing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the female coupler includes a loop having an inlet opened to a rear side of the vehicle, the male coupler includes fixing stands installed at both sides of the roof of the vehicle at an interval, and a horizontal bar fixed to the two fixing stands so as to be spaced apart from the roof of the vehicle, and the loop engages with the horizontal bar.

3. The fixing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the female coupler includes a connecting bar horizontally fixed to the article mount, and a guide at an end portion of the connecting bar, the guide has a groove, the male coupler includes a loop fixing stand in the form of a loop fixed to the roof of the vehicle, and the groove of the guide engages with the loop of the loop fixing stand.

4. The fixing apparatus of claim 1, wherein a U-shaped angle fixing stand is slidably installed at a right angle on the article mount, an angle stand is slidably installed on the horizontal support, a fixing groove, to which the angle fixing stand is coupled, is formed in an upper surface of the angle stand, one end portion of a first fixing strap, which holds the angle fixing stand engaging with the fixing groove so that the angle fixing stand is not moved, is connected to the angle fixing stand or the angle stand, and the other end portion of the first fixing strap is exposed to the outside of the carrier through the angle stand and the vertical support and then fixed manually.

5. The fixing apparatus of claim 4, wherein a second fixing strap having a loop, which is disposed at one end portion of the second fixing strap and fastened to an upper edge portion of the trunk of the vehicle, passes through the horizontal support, and the other end portion of the second fixing strapis exposed to the outside of the carrier and then fixed manually.

6. The fixing apparatus of claim 2, wherein a U-shaped angle fixing stand is slidably installed at a right angle on the article mount, an angle stand is slidably installed on the horizontal support, a fixing groove, to which the angle fixing stand is coupled, is formed in an upper surface of the angle stand, one end portion of a first fixing strap, which holds the angle fixing stand engaging with the fixing groove so that the angle fixing stand is not moved, is connected to the angle fixing stand or the angle stand, and the other end portion of the first fixing strap is exposed to the outside of the carrier through the angle stand and the vertical support and then fixed manually.

7. The fixing apparatus of claim 3, wherein a U-shaped angle fixing stand is slidably installed at a right angle on the article mount, an angle stand is slidably installed on the horizontal support, a fixing groove, to which the angle fixing stand is coupled, is formed in an upper surface of the angle stand, one end portion of a first fixing strap, which holds the angle fixing stand engaging with the fixing groove so that the angle fixing stand is not moved, is connected to the angle fixing stand or the angle stand, and the other end portion of the first fixing strap is exposed to the outside of the carrier through the angle stand and the vertical support and then fixed manually.