Storage system and motor vehicle

Abstract

The invention relates to a storage system for storing an article in a trim element, and to a motor vehicle comprising the storage system. The storage system (1) serves for storing an article (50) in a trim element (10) and comprises a trim element (10) having a cavity (12) and an article (50) accommodated or to be accommodated in the cavity (12) of the trim element (10), wherein the trim element (10) has at least one spring element (30) on at least one wall portion (13, 14) delimiting the cavity (12), which spring element has an elastically deformable abutment side (31) for abutting against the article (50), and wherein the article (50) is designed at least partially as a corner-shaped element (70), and the spring element (30) is arranged and designed in such a way that, in the state in which the article (50) is accommodated in the cavity (12), a spring force (32) is exerted on the article (50) by means of the spring element (30) in order to fix the article (50) in the event of a deformation of the abutment side (31) of the spring element (30) due to the spring force, so that the abutment side (31) of the spring element (30) at least in a partial section wraps around the corner-shaped element (70).

Description

Technical Field

[0001] The present invention relates to a storage system for storing articles in decorative parts and a motor vehicle including the storage system. Background Technology

[0002] In many countries, certain equipment and items are required to be carried in motor vehicles for security reasons. In addition, customers often also wish to have certain equipment and items carried in their vehicles.

[0003] A typical piece of equipment here is a warning triangle. When folded up, the warning triangle should occupy only a small space in the vehicle and should be easily and reliably accessible so that it can be used quickly in the event of a dangerous situation.

[0004] It is known that the warning triangle can be incorporated, for example, into the trim of a passenger car's tailgate.

[0005] One embodiment of this type of housing for a warning triangle specifies, for example, that the warning triangle is held in place by a fixed abutment element. Here, the fixedly arranged abutment element abuts against the warning triangle or its housing. However, a disadvantage is that this type of housing is not suitable for accommodating warning triangles with different geometric dimensions and / or tolerances.

[0006] Furthermore, this design does not preclude the possibility that a gap may develop between the warning triangle and the trim piece, particularly during the extended service life of the warning triangle or the trim piece that houses it. This gap could potentially cause an unwanted clicking sound when vibrations occur within the vehicle.

[0007] This drawback can be eliminated by adjusting or retrofitting the affixes to the triangular warning sign, but this requires corresponding manpower and time.

[0008] WO2018114146A1 discloses another embodiment with a means for securing an article to a vehicle interior trim piece, wherein the trim piece forms a recess for receiving the article, and the means has a retaining member for securing the article in the recess. Advantageously, at least two oppositely arranged protrusions serving as the first retaining member and narrowing the loading opening of the recess are configured and arranged such that, during the insertion of the article to be secured into the recess, the article can only be introduced into the recess by passing through the protrusions with its narrow side as the front end, and is subsequently surrounded or can be surrounded in the recess, particularly on all sides, by a rotational movement about its longitudinal axis. Summary of the Invention

[0009] The technical problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a storage system and a motor vehicle equipped with the storage system, wherein the storage system and the motor vehicle can arrange items in or on the trim of the motor vehicle in a simple, cost-effective and space-saving manner.

[0010] This technical problem is solved by the storage system according to claim 1 and by the motor vehicle according to claim 10. Advantageous embodiments of the storage system are given in dependent claims 2 to 9.

[0011] A first aspect of the invention is a storage system for storing articles in a decorative piece, the storage system comprising a decorative piece having a cavity and articles to be accommodated or to be accommodated in the cavity of the decorative piece, wherein the decorative piece has at least one spring element on at least one wall defining the cavity, the spring element having an elastically deformable abutting side for abutting the articles, and wherein the articles are designed to have at least a portion of edge-shaped elements, and the spring element is arranged and designed such that, by means of the spring element, when the articles are accommodated in the cavity, a spring force is applied to the articles to secure them in the event that the abutting side of the spring element is deformed due to spring force, such that the abutting side of the spring element wraps around the edge-shaped elements at least in a partial section.

[0012] Here, a decorative element can be, for example, an interior trim piece, such as the tailgate trim of a passenger car. Therefore, a decorative element is a solid object that extends substantially in a main extending plane.

[0013] In one alternative embodiment, the decorative element is specified as a component of the vehicle body structure.

[0014] The cavity is a hollow space that is open on at least one side, wherein the opening for making the hollow space accessible may extend parallel to the main extension plane of the decorative element, or may extend at an angle to the main extension plane, up to a perpendicular extension relative to the main extension plane.

[0015] The main extending plane of the visible surface of the trim piece is the following plane: the side of the trim piece visible when mounted on a motor vehicle extends along this plane.

[0016] The article may be, for example, a foldable triangular warning sign, which itself forms the angular element or multiple angular elements. In one embodiment, the triangular warning sign includes a housing, which itself forms the angular element or multiple angular elements. The walls of the cavity do not necessarily have to be continuous; rather, the walls may have interruptions or openings. The angular element is an integral part of the article. In embodiments where the article is constituted by the foldable triangular warning sign itself, the angular element is an integral part of the triangular warning sign. In embodiments where the triangular warning sign includes a housing for housing the triangular warning sign holder, the angular element is an integral part of the housing. The deformable abutment side of the spring element may be formed by the soft body of the spring element, which, if necessary, also determines the elasticity of the soft body and thus the elastic restoring force of the spring element.

[0017] By wrapping around an edge-shaped element, two translational degrees of freedom of the article in the plane of introduction motion when the article is introduced into the cavity are restricted. Furthermore, this also restricts the rotational degree of freedom of the article about an axis extending perpendicular to the plane of introduction motion when the article is introduced into the cavity. Along this axis, the wrapping contact of the spring element's contact side with the article causes a frictional fit connection. Depending on the magnitude of the resulting spring force and the surface characteristics of the article and the contact side, this frictional fit connection can also cause a frictional fixation of the article in the translational degree of freedom along this axis.

[0018] This allows items to be secured in or on the decorative piece in their most important degrees of freedom, while ensuring that items are placed simply and space-savingly in or on the decorative piece, and that items can be easily removed from or on the decorative piece manually.

[0019] By using a spring element with a soft abutment side, it is possible to adapt to items with different profiles and / or compensate for tolerances, and thus lock items that differ in shape and / or size when necessary. Here, the item is held in preload, so that it remains reliably fixed in the cavity even in the event of a collision. Therefore, there is no need for adjustments or post-adjustments to the position of the abutment element at the item's location to secure it.

[0020] In an advantageous embodiment of the storage system, the decorative element has at least one support rib on at least one wall portion of the cavity opposite the spring element. This support rib is used to support the spring force applied to the article by the spring element through its abutting side. Depending on the spatial arrangement of the article and the support rib, the support rib may also be configured to bear part of the weight of the article. Here, the shape of the support rib is not limited to a narrow element, but the support rib can also be implemented to be wider, for example, up to 1 / 3 of the length of the article.

[0021] Furthermore, the storage system can be designed such that the decorative piece has at least one additional spring element on at least one wall portion of the cavity opposite the spring element. This additional spring element supports the spring force applied to the article by the spring element through its abutting side. This additional spring element can be designed and function as the spring element mentioned above. Depending on the spatial arrangement of the article and the additional spring element, the additional spring element can also be configured to bear part of the weight of the article.

[0022] The cavity may be open on one side, extending in an opening plane that is substantially perpendicular to the main extending plane of the visible surface of the trim piece. In the case where the cavity is formed in the trim piece of a passenger vehicle's tailgate, the main extending plane of the visible surface of the trim piece extends transversely to the direction of travel of the passenger vehicle. Accordingly, the cavity may form a downwardly oriented pocket for accommodating items.

[0023] The storage system can be designed such that multiple spring elements are arranged on multiple edge-shaped elements on the same side of the article. Here, the article may also be equipped with at least one longer edge having multiple edge-shaped elements spaced apart from each other along that edge, on which the spring elements rest. Here, the individual edge-shaped elements spaced apart from each other do not necessarily need to be clearly defined relative to each other.

[0024] For an article contained in a cavity, spring elements and / or support ribs arranged laterally offset relative to the direction of extension of the article on opposite sides of the article can be arranged at different positions parallel to the direction of extension. This means that the spring elements and / or support ribs are not arranged opposite each other.

[0025] Therefore, when an article undergoes elastic bending due to the force being introduced onto the article at intervals by means of spring elements and / or support ribs, the elastic restoring force of the article can increase the clamping force between the corresponding spring element and the article, or between the corresponding support rib and the article, thereby enhancing the frictional fit connection between the article and the spring element, or between the article and the support rib.

[0026] At least the contact side of the spring element can be formed of an elastomer. This elastomer can be a thermoplastic elastomer. The flexibility and elastic deformation capability of the elastomer allow it to wrap around edge-shaped elements. If only the contact side is designed to be soft or elastic, the element forming the contact side can be fastened to a harder plastic part, for example, injection molded onto another component of the spring element; thus, the spring element is a multi-component component.

[0027] Here, at least the contact side of the spring element, and if necessary the entire spring element, may have a hardness of up to 50° Shore A and / or an elastic modulus of up to 1 GPa, such that the contact side of the spring element is prone to elastic deformation and can accordingly be elastically deformed in a simple manner under the action of the edge-shaped element, thereby the contact side wrapping around the edge-shaped element.

[0028] An object's edge-shaped element can be formed by two mutually perpendicular faces. However, this does not preclude the possibility of achieving rounded corners at the vertices between these two faces.

[0029] Depending on whether the warning triangle has a housing or not, the two mutually perpendicular extending surfaces are either part of the foldable frame or the housing of the warning triangle.

[0030] Therefore, the edge-shaped element is wrapped around the abutting side to achieve abutment on these two mutually perpendicularly extending surfaces, so that the article is embedded in the abutting side like a wedge with its edge-shaped element, and the article is correspondingly partially covered by the abutting side at the wedge formed by the article.

[0031] The basic concept of the invention also includes minor deviations therefrom, for example, the faces of the edge-shaped elements may extend at angles slightly different from 90° to each other if necessary, and / or the faces forming the edge-shaped elements may not be in full contact with the abutting side of the spring element in the abutting area.

[0032] The item could be, for example, a triangular warning sign. Here, the edge-shaped element can be formed by the folded-up triangular warning sign itself, or it can be formed by the shell of the triangular warning sign.

[0033] Another aspect of the invention is a motor vehicle that includes at least one of the aforementioned storage systems. The motor vehicle may be, for example, a passenger car capable of being at least partially driven by an electric motor, and, if necessary, a motor vehicle capable of at least partially autonomous operation. Attached Figure Description

[0034] The invention is illustrated below with reference to the embodiments shown in the accompanying drawings.

[0035] In the attached diagram: Figure 1 Showing a front view of the decorative components of the storage system; Figure 2 Show Figure 1 Detail A in the text; and Figure 3 The storage system is shown along Figure 1 The cross-sectional view of the section line BB in the diagram. Detailed Implementation

[0036] First refer to Figure 1 The decorative element 10 of the storage system is described. The decorative element 10 shown here is the interior trim of the passenger vehicle's tailgate, and therefore extends primarily along a main extension plane, which in... Figure 3 As shown in the image.

[0037] The decorative element 10 forms an upwardly opening cavity 12. Therefore, the opening 20 of the cavity 12 is located on its upper side, such that the opening plane 21 is substantially perpendicular to the main extending plane, which extends parallel to the illustrated plane, and the through direction 22 of the opening extends parallel to the main extending plane. In the embodiment shown here, the cavity 12 is defined by a first wall portion 13 and opposite to it by a second wall portion 14. Figure 1 The outer side of the first wall portion 13 can be seen. In the embodiment shown here, a support rib 23 and at least one spring element 30 are arranged on the partially visible second wall portion 14.

[0038] Figure 2 by Figure 1 The enlarged view of detail A shown in the figure illustrates the support ribs 23 and the spring element 30. It can be seen that the spring element 30 has a raised area that forms a contact side 31 for abutting against an object (not shown). Furthermore, it can be seen that the support ribs 23 have a bent orientation, thus adapting to surround corner areas.

[0039] Figure 3 Along Figure 1 The cross-sectional view along section line BB shown in the figure illustrates the entire storage system 1. It can be seen that item 50 is arranged in cavity 12; this item could be, for example, a folded triangular warning sign, only its casing shown here.

[0040] The cutting line BB extends here in the area where another spring element 40 is arranged, which is arranged on the inner side of the first wall portion 13.

[0041] The other spring element 40 is based on the Figure 2 The spring element 30 design is shown and described herein. Therefore, several aspects of the invention will now be explained with reference to another spring element 40.

[0042] The additional spring element 40 abuts against the article 50 in the area of ​​the edge-shaped element 70 formed by the rounded edge 60. The edge-shaped element 70 is formed by two mutually perpendicularly extending surfaces, namely a first surface 71 and a second surface 72, wherein rounded corners are achieved at the vertices between the two surfaces 71 and 72.

[0043] Here, the abutting side 31 of the additional spring element 40 surrounds the edge-shaped element 70 and abuts against the surfaces 71, 72 forming the edge-shaped element 70 in the surrounding area 80, so that the edge-shaped element 70 is embedded in the abutting side 31 of the additional spring element 30.

[0044] On opposite sides of the diagonal, the item 50 is supported by support ribs 23.

[0045] Accordingly, the article 50 is restricted in its first translational degree of freedom 81 and its second translational degree of freedom 82, which extends perpendicularly thereto, by means of enclosure or wrapping achieved by additional spring elements 40 and by opposing support achieved by support ribs 23. The rotational degree of freedom 83 of the article 50 is also restricted.

[0046] In implementation Figure 3 When the introduced motion 91 is shown, the introduced motion is located at Figure 1 In the introduced motion plane 90, the article 50 enters the cavity 12 through the opening 20, where, in a corresponding positioning, the article 50 abuts against the spring elements 30, 40 with at least one edge-shaped element 70, such that the spring element presses its abutting side 31 against the edge-shaped element 70 with a corresponding spring force 32 and thereby partially surrounds the edge-shaped element, thus fixing the aforementioned degrees of freedom 81, 82, 83 in a form-fit manner. Other degrees of freedom of the article 50 may also be fixed by friction fit, depending on the magnitude of the corresponding spring force 32 and the surface characteristics of the article 50 or the edge-shaped element 70, if necessary.

[0047] List of reference numerals

[0048] 1. Storage System

[0049] 10 Decorative Items

[0050] 11. Main Extension Plane

[0051] 12 Cavities

[0052] 13 First wall section

[0053] 14 Second wall section

[0054] 20 Opening

[0055] 21 Opening Plane

[0056] 22. Direction of passage through the opening

[0057] 23 Supporting ribs

[0058] 30 Spring elements

[0059] 31. Close to the side

[0060] 32 Spring force

[0061] 40 Other spring elements

[0062] 50 items

[0063] 60 edge

[0064] 70 Edge-shaped components

[0065] 71 First Page

[0066] 72 Second page

[0067] 80 surrounding area

[0068] 81 Restricted First Translational Degree of Freedom

[0069] 82 Restricted Second Translational Degree of Freedom

[0070] 83 Restricted rotational degrees of freedom

[0071] 90. Introducing the plane of motion.

[0072] 91. Introduction of Movement

Claims

1. A storage system (1) for storing articles (50) in a decorative element (10), comprising a decorative element (10) having a cavity (12) and articles (50) contained in or to be contained in the cavity (12) of the decorative element (10), wherein, The decorative element (10) has at least one spring element (30) on the wall (13, 14) of at least one defined cavity (12), the spring element having an elastically deformable abutment side (31) for abutting an article (50), wherein the article (50) is designed to have at least a partial edge-shaped element (70), and the spring element (30) is arranged and designed such that, by means of the spring element (30), when the article (50) is contained in the cavity (12), a spring force (32) is applied to the article (50) to fix the article (50) in such a state that the abutment side (31) of the spring element (30) is deformed due to the spring force, thereby the abutment side (31) of the spring element (30) wraps around the edge-shaped element (70) at least in a partial section.

2. The storage system according to claim 1, characterized in that, The decorative element (10) has at least one support rib (23) on at least one wall portion (13, 14) of the cavity (12) opposite to the spring element (30), the support rib being used to support the spring force (32) applied to the article (50) by the spring element (30) through its abutment side (31).

3. The storage system according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that, The decorative element (10) has at least one additional spring element (40) on at least one wall portion (13, 14) of the cavity (12) opposite to the spring element (30), the additional spring element being used to support the spring force (32) applied to the article (50) by the spring element (30) through its abutting side (31).

4. The storage system according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that, The cavity (12) is open on one side, which extends in an opening plane (21) that is substantially perpendicular to the main extension plane (11) of the visible surface of the decorative element (10).

5. The storage system according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that, Multiple spring elements (30) are arranged on multiple edge-shaped elements (70) on the same side of the article (50).

6. The storage system according to any one of claims 2 to 5, characterized in that, At least with respect to the extension direction of the article (50), the spring elements (30) and / or support ribs (23) arranged laterally offset relative to the extension direction are arranged at different positions parallel to the extension direction.

7. The storage system according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that, At least the contact side (31) of the spring element (30) is formed of an elastomer.

8. The storage system according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that, The edge-shaped element (70) of the item (50) is formed by two mutually perpendicularly extending faces (71, 72).

9. The storage system according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that, Item (50) is a triangular warning sign.

10. A motor vehicle comprising at least one storage system (1) according to any one of claims 1 to 9.

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