INTERIOR COMPONENT FOR VEHICLE

• US 20140132025A1
• Filed: 10/29/2013
• Published: 05/15/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: USAMI, Katsuhiko
• Granted Patent: US 9,132,717 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 296/97.8
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 1/2063 Mounting arrangements for roller blind or its storage box, e.g. integration into beltline or window frame

Abstract

A vehicle interior component to which a shade assembly, which includes a shade and a shaft, is mounted includes an interior component body including a top wall, and a protruding member. The top wall is arranged such that a longitudinal direction thereof corresponds to an axial direction of the shaft. The top wall has an opening through which the shade is drawn. The top wall has exterior and interior opening edges at the opening. The interior opening edge includes a straight section and a raised section having a different shape from the straight section. The protruding member is arranged below the raised section and having a protruded edge extending straight in the longitudinal direction and on which the shade leans from an exterior side of the vehicle such that the shade bends toward an interior of the vehicle at the protruded edge when the shade is unrolled.

Claims

1. A vehicle interior component to which a shade assembly is mounted, the shade assembly including a flexible shade and a shaft configured to roll up the shade, the interior component comprising:

an interior component body including a top wall

positioned above the shaft,

having an elongated shape,

arranged such that a longitudinal direction thereof corresponds to an axial direction of the shaft,

having an opening through which the shade is drawn upward above the top wall, the opening extending through the top wall in a thickness direction thereof and along the longitudinal direction thereof, and

having an exterior opening edge and an interior opening edge at the opening, the interior opening edge including a straight section extending straight in the longitudinal direction of the top wall and a raised section having a different shape from the straight section; and

a protruding member

arranged below the raised section, and

having a protruded edge extending straight in the longitudinal direction of the top wall and on which the shade leans from an exterior side of the vehicle such that the shade bends toward an interior of the vehicle at the protruded edge when the shade is unrolled from the shaft.

2. The vehicle interior component according to claim 1, wherein the protruded edge of the protruding member is located more exterior of the vehicle than the raised section.

3. The vehicle interior component according to claim 2, wherein the opening curves toward the interior of the vehicle while extending from the straight section to the raised section.

4. The vehicle interior component according to claim 1, wherein the protruding member includes a projecting rib having a plate-like shape and projecting from the interior component body toward an exterior of the vehicle and the projecting rib has the protruded edge extending straight in the longitudinal direction of the top wall.

5. The vehicle interior component according to claim 1, wherein the protruded edge of the protruding member extends straight along an extension line of the straight section of the interior opening edge.

6. The vehicle interior component according to claim 4, further comprising a connection rib, the connection rib being arranged to connect the interior component body and one of an upper surface and a lower surface of the projecting rib.

7. The vehicle interior component according to claim 1, further comprising a skin covering a surface of the interior component body and the protruded edge of the projecting member.

8. The vehicle interior component according to claim 1, wherein the protruded edge of the protruding member extends along the longitudinal direction of the top wall over an area substantially corresponding to the raised part.

9. The vehicle interior component according to claim 1, wherein the raised section extends gradually upward from the straight section.

10. The vehicle interior component according to claim 3, wherein the opening has a constant width over its entire length.

11. The vehicle interior component according to claim 1, wherein the interior component body includes a door trim, the door trim includes a main wall and the top wall extending at an angle with the main wall.

12. The vehicle interior component according to claim 1, wherein

the interior component body further includes a shade cover, the door trim and the shade cover defining a storage space in which the shade assembly is placed,

the top wall includes a first top wall and a second top wall, the door trim including the first top wall and the shade cover including the second top wall, and

the first top wall and the second top wall are spaced apart from each other with a predetermined distance therebetween, thereby providing the opening in the interior component body.

13. A vehicle interior assembly comprising:

an interior component body including a top wall having an elongated shape;

a shade assembly including;

a flexible shade; and

a shaft configured to roll up the flexible shade, the shaft being located below the top wall such that an axis of the shaft extends along a longitudinal direction of the top wall; and

a protruding member having a protruded edge, wherein

the top wall has an opening through which the shade is drawn upward above the top wall, the opening extending through the top wall in a thickness direction thereof and along the longitudinal direction thereof,

the top wall has an exterior opening edge and an interior opening edge at the opening, the interior opening edge including a straight section extending straight in the longitudinal direction of the top wall and a raised section having a different shape from the straight section, and

the protruding member is arranged below the raised section, and the protruding edge of the protruding member extending straight in the longitudinal direction of the top wall and on which the shade leans from an exterior side of the vehicle such that the shade bends toward an interior of the vehicle at the protruded edge when the shade is unrolled from the shaft.