Equipment mounting hardware

Abstract

The present invention provides an equipment mounting device that allows equipment to be easily and reliably attached to a mounting surface without the need for special mounting components. [Solution] The equipment mounting device (91) comprises a main body (1), an equipment support (2) integrated with the main body (1) and supporting the equipment (81), a base (31) fixed to the main body (1) and adjustable in position in a first direction relative to the main body (1) and adjustable in rotational position about an axis (CL4) extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and a fixing plate (33) provided at the tip of the base (31) and adjustable in rotational position about an axis (CL3) extending in a third direction perpendicular to the first and second directions, and a bracket (3) having such a bracket (3) can be fixed to the main body (1) in parallel in the third direction. Multiple brackets (3) can be fixed to the main body (1) in parallel in the third direction.

Description

Technical Field

[0001] The present invention relates to a device fixture.

Background Art

[0002] Patent Document 1 describes a technique for attaching a device to the front cowl of a motorcycle via an attachment stay serving as a fixture. Since the front cowl of a motorcycle has a curved outer shape, the attachment stay is usually prepared as a dedicated member adapted to the curvature of the mounting surface.

Prior Art Documents

Patent Documents

[0003]

Patent Document 1

Summary of the Invention

Problems to be Solved by the Invention

[0004] The operation of attaching a device to a front cowl as described in Patent Document 1 becomes substantially difficult without a dedicated attachment member. Therefore, a device fixture that can easily and surely attach a device to a mounting surface without using a dedicated attachment member for the mounting surface is desired.

[0005] That is, an object of the present invention is to provide a device fixture that can easily and surely attach a device to a mounting surface without using a dedicated attachment member.

Means for Solving the Problems

[0006] In order to solve the above-described problems, one aspect of the present invention has the following structure 1). 1) A main body portion, A device support portion that is integrated with the main body portion and supports a device, A bracket comprising: a base fixed to the main body, which is adjustable in position in a first direction relative to the main body and adjustable in rotational position about an axis extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; and a fixing plate provided at the tip of the base, which is adjustable in rotational position about an axis extending in a third direction perpendicular to the first and second directions; Equipped with, This is an equipment mounting device in which multiple brackets can be fixed to the main body in parallel in the third direction. [Effects of the Invention]

[0007] According to one aspect of the present invention, the equipment can be easily and reliably attached to the mounting surface without the need for a special mounting member. [Brief explanation of the drawing]

[0008] [Figure 1A] Figure 1A is a right side view of an equipment mounting fixture 91 according to one embodiment of the present invention. [Figure 1B] Figure 1B is a front view showing the equipment mounting bracket 91. [Figure 1C] Figure 1C is a rear view showing the equipment mounting bracket 91. [Figure 1D] Figure 1D is a top view showing the equipment mounting bracket 91. [Figure 2] Figure 2 is a perspective view showing the bracket 3 provided by the equipment mounting fixture 91. [Figure 3] Figure 3 is a first cross-sectional view showing an example of attaching the equipment mounting bracket 91 to the windshield 92. [Figure 4] Figure 4 is a second cross-sectional view showing an example of attaching the equipment mounting bracket 91 to the windshield 92. [Figure 5] Figure 5 is a perspective view showing an example of attaching the equipment mounting bracket 91 to the windshield 92. [Figure 6] Figure 6 is a rear view showing an modified equipment mounting fixture 90 of the equipment mounting fixture 91. [Modes for carrying out the invention]

[0009] An equipment mounting bracket 91, which is one embodiment of the present invention, will be described with reference to Figures 1A to 1D and Figure 2. Figure 1A is a right side view of the equipment mounting bracket 91 according to one embodiment of the present invention. Figure 1B is a front view showing the equipment mounting bracket 91. Figure 1C is a rear view showing the equipment mounting bracket 91. Figure 1D is a top view showing the equipment mounting bracket 91. Figure 2 is a perspective view showing the bracket 3 provided by the equipment mounting bracket 91. For convenience of explanation, the up, down, left, right, front, and rear directions are defined by the directions indicated by arrows in Figures 1A and 1B.

[0010] The equipment mounting bracket 91 is an intermediary member for attaching the equipment 81 to a flat or curved surface of the mounting member. The equipment 81 is, for example, a box-shaped in-vehicle device such as a navigation system or music player, as shown in Figure 1, and in the following example, it is attached to the windshield 92 of a motorcycle (see Figures 3 and 4) via the equipment mounting bracket 91.

[0011] As shown in Figures 1A to 1D, the equipment mounting fixture 91 comprises a main body 1, an equipment support 2, a plurality of brackets 3, and a plurality of screw fittings 4. The main body 1 has a flat base portion 1a extending vertically and horizontally, a left wall portion 1b bent at a right angle toward the rear from the left edge of the base portion 1a, and a right wall portion 1c bent at a right angle toward the rear from the right edge. Shafts 21 and 22 are provided at the lower parts of the left wall 1b and right wall 1c, respectively. The shafts 21 and 22 support and integrate the equipment support 2 so that it can rotate around the axis CL2 extending in the left-right direction (see arrow DR1 in Figure 1A). The shafts 21 and 22 have a friction torque generating mechanism (not shown), which allows an operator to adjust the equipment support 2 to any angle with a certain degree of rotational resistance. The shafts 21 and 22 maintain the equipment support 2 in the adjusted angle position.

[0012] The device support part 2 is formed in a flat box shape having a top plate 2a, a bottom plate 2b, a left side plate 2c, and a right side plate 2d. The internal space of the device support part 2 is a housing part 2S, and the device 81 is detachably attached thereto (see arrow DR2 in FIG. 1A). The lower part of the base part 1a of the main body part 1 is cut out so as not to interfere with the rotating device support part 2 and is a cut-in part 1a1.

[0013] As shown in FIG. 1B, a female screw group 11G is formed at approximately the center in the vertical direction of the base part 1a. Specifically, the female screw group 11G is a group of a plurality of female screw parts 11, and the female screw part 11 is a part where a female screw 11a is formed as shown in FIG. 2. In this example, the female screw group 11G is a group of five female screw parts 11 (111 to 115) formed at positions that generally equally divide the width in the left-right direction of the base part 1a, and are arranged on a straight line extending in the left-right direction.

[0014] The bracket 3 is a member that connects the main body part 1 and the attached member, and as shown in FIG. 2, has a base part 31, a shaft part 32, and a fixing plate 33. The base part 31 is an elongated plate-like member, and a long hole 31a extending in the longitudinal direction is formed at the center in the width direction. At one end of the base part 31, a shaft part 32 for connecting the fixing plate 33 is provided, and the fixing plate 33 is rotatably connected to the base part 31 around an axis CL3 extending in its width direction by the shaft part 32 (see arrow DR3 in FIG. 2). The shaft part 32 has a friction torque generating mechanism (not shown), and the fixing plate 33 can be adjusted to an arbitrary rotation angle by an operator. Also, the shaft part 32 maintains the fixing plate 33 in the adjusted angular posture. A through hole is formed in the fixing plate 33, and a rubber bush 34 is fitted into the through hole. A through hole 341 is formed in the bush 34.

[0015] The screw member 4 has a head portion 41 for pinching with a finger, a columnar stepped portion 42 having an outer diameter slightly smaller than the width of the long hole 31a in the base portion 31 of the bracket 3, and a shaft portion 43 extending axially from the stepped portion 42 and having a male thread formed thereon. As shown in FIG. 2, the screw member 4 passes the shaft portion 43 and the stepped portion 42 through the long hole 31a, and screws the shaft portion 43 onto the female thread 11a of the female thread portion 11 of the main body portion 1. Here, since the axial length of the stepped portion 42 is slightly smaller (thinner) than the thickness of the base portion 31, the bracket 3 can be fixed to the main body portion 1 by tightening the screw member 4 screwed onto the female thread 11a.

[0016] With the above-described configuration, in a state where the screw member 4 is slightly loosened, the bracket 3 is movable in the longitudinal direction of the base portion 31 (see arrow DR4), and is rotatable about the axis CL4 (see arrow DR5). That is, the bracket 3 can adjust the vertical position, which is the first direction of the base portion 31 with respect to the main body portion 1, the rotational position about the axis CL4 extending in the second direction, and the rotational position about the axis CL3, which is the third direction of the fixed plate 33. Thereby, the tilt posture of the fixed plate 33 with respect to the main body portion 1 can be adjusted three-dimensionally.

[0017] Since the equipment mounting fixture 91 has five female thread portions 11 as a female thread group 11G in the main body portion 1, brackets 3 can be attached to each of them, and a maximum of five brackets 3 can be mounted (fixed) in parallel to the main body portion 1. Also, when the five brackets 3 are sequentially designated as brackets 3A to 3E from the left side, the equipment mounting fixture 91 attaches the fixed plates 33 of the brackets 3A, 3C, and 3E in the same direction (backward in this example) to one side in the front-rear direction, and attaches the fixed plates 33 of the brackets 3B and 3D in the same direction (forward in this example) to the other side, alternately to the main body portion 1.

[0018] An example of attaching the equipment mounting bracket 91 having the above-described configuration to a mounting member will be explained with reference to Figures 3 to 5. In this example, the mounting member is the windshield 92 of a motorcycle, and the mounting surface has a three-dimensional curved shape. Specifically, the windshield 92 has a curved shape with a large degree of curvature in the left-right direction and a small degree of curvature in the front-back direction. As shown in Figures 3 and 4, the equipment mounting bracket 91 is fixed to the windshield 92 in such a position that the main body 1 extends in the up-down, left-right, and right directions. Figure 5, a perspective view, shows an example of how the equipment mounting bracket 91 is attached to the windshield 92 of a motorcycle, viewed from slightly below and to the left of the motorcycle.

[0019] For curvature in the left-right direction, as shown in Figure 3, bracket 3C, which is the middle of the five brackets 3, is adjusted and fixed so that it extends vertically and the position of the screw 4 is located below the elongated hole 31a. In addition, in accordance with the curvature of the windshield 92, the tips of brackets 3B and 3A are tilted to the left in that order with bracket 3C as the center, and the longitudinal position of the fixing plate 33, which is fixed with the screw 4, is adjusted to match the inner surface of the windshield 92. Brackets 3D and 3E are similarly adjusted to be symmetrical with respect to bracket 3C.

[0020] For curvature in the front-rear direction, as shown in Figure 4, the base 31 of the bracket 3 is positioned to extend in the vertical direction, and the angle of the fixing plate 33 of each bracket 3 around the axis CL3 is adjusted to align with the inner surface of the windshield 92.

[0021] These adjustments allow the inclination of the fixing plates 33 of the five brackets 3 to closely approximate the inclination of the area on the inner surface of the windshield 92 to which the fixing plates 33 are attached. Once the brackets 3 are adjusted, as shown in Figure 3 with bracket 3E as a representative, a fixing screw 82 is passed through the through hole 341 (see Figure 2) of the bush 34 of the fixing plate 33 of each bracket 3 from below (see arrow DR6), and a nut 83 is screwed onto the shaft that protrudes upward and tightened. This fixes the equipment mounting fixture 91 to the windshield 92.

[0022] Thus, the equipment mounting fixture 91 to which the equipment 81 can be attached comprises multiple brackets 3, each having a fixing plate 33 that is attached to the mounting member (windshield 92). The vertical position of each fixing plate 33 relative to the main body 1 can be adjusted independently, and the inclination angle of the fixing plate 33 can be adjusted independently around the first axis, which is the left-right axis CL3, and around the second axis, which is the front-rear axis CL4 perpendicular to the first axis. Therefore, the inclination angle of the fixing plate 33 of each of the multiple brackets 3 can be made to closely approximate the inclination angle of the mounting surface of the windshield 92 to which the equipment mounting fixture 91 is attached. As a result, the equipment 81 can be easily and reliably attached via the equipment mounting fixture 91, regardless of whether the mounting surface of the mounting member is inclined or in the direction of the inclination.

[0023] Furthermore, the equipment mounting fixture 91 has multiple brackets 3 arranged alternately, with the fixing plates 33 facing in one direction (forward) and the other direction (rearward). This allows the equipment mounting fixture 91 to be fixed more stably and securely to the mounting surface of the member to be mounted.

[0024] The embodiments of the present invention are not limited to the configurations described above, and may be modified without departing from the spirit of the invention.

[0025] The equipment mounting fixture 91 is not limited to having the positions of the multiple female threads 11G of the female thread group 11G on the main body 1 arranged on the straight line in the left-right direction as described above when viewed from the front-rear direction. If the shape of the mounting surface of the member to be mounted is limited to a curved surface that is convex upward, the positions of the multiple threads 4 may be arranged on a curve that is convex upward, for example, as in the modified equipment mounting fixture 90 shown in Figure 6. Similarly, if the shape of the mounting surface is limited to a curved surface that is convex downward, the positions of the multiple threads 4 may be arranged on a curve that is convex downward.

[0026] Furthermore, if the curvature of the mounting surface is large, the inclination angle of the outer bracket 3 may increase, potentially causing interference with adjacent brackets 3. For this reason, as shown in Figure 6, instead of multiple brackets 3, multiple brackets 30A to 30E may be used, such that the length of the bases 310A to 310E becomes shorter towards the center.

[0027] The material of each component of the equipment mounting bracket 91 is not limited and may be made of resin, metal, or the like. The fixing plate 33 is not limited to being attached to the member to be mounted using the fixing screws 82 described above. It may also be attached using other methods such as double-sided tape or adhesive. The shaft portion 32 that rotates the fixing plate 33 of the bracket 3 may have a structure that allows it to be locked after the angle of the fixing plate 33 has been adjusted. For example, it may have a structure that allows it to be locked by tightening it with an L-shaped wrench. The mounting member is not limited to the windshield 92. The mounting surface may be a curved surface that protrudes downwards, a flat surface, or an irregularly uneven shape. Furthermore, the device 81 is not limited to in-vehicle equipment. [Explanation of Symbols]

[0028] 1. Main body 1a Base 1a1 Cut section 1b Left wall 1c Right wall 11,111~115 Female thread section 11a Female thread 11G Female Thread Group 2 Equipment support part 21,22 Shaft section 2a Top plate 2b Bottom plate 2c Left side plate 2d right side plate 2S Storage Unit 3,3A~3E,30,30A~30E Bracket 31,310,310A~310E base 31a long hole 32 Shaft section 33 Fixing plate 34 Bush 341 Through hole 4 Screw tools 41 Head 42 Stepped section 43 Shaft section 81 Equipment 82 Fixing screws 83 Nuts 91,90 Equipment mounting hardware 92 Windshield CL2,CL3,CL4 Axis

Claims

1. The main body and A device support section, which is integrated with the main body and supports the device, A bracket comprising: a base fixed to the main body, which is adjustable in position in a first direction relative to the main body and adjustable in rotational position about an axis extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; and a fixing plate provided at the tip of the base, which is adjustable in rotational position about an axis extending in a third direction perpendicular to the first and second directions; Equipped with, A device mounting device in which a plurality of the brackets can be fixed to the main body in parallel in the third direction.

2. The equipment mounting device according to claim 1, wherein the fixing plates of each of the multiple brackets are adjustable to alternately face one side and the other side in the second direction.

3. The equipment mounting device according to claim 1, wherein the length of the base of each of the multiple brackets is longer so as to be located outward in the third direction.

4. The main body has a plurality of female threaded portions arranged in the third direction, Each of the brackets is fixed to the respective female threaded portion by screwing in a screw tool. The equipment mounting device according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of female threaded portions are arranged on a straight line, on an upwardly convex curve, or on a downwardly convex curve when viewed from the second direction.

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