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US-20260124994-A1 - STORAGE DEVICE AND STORAGE STRUCTURE

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Abstract

In an attachment state where a storage device 2 mounted in a vehicle compartment and located on a rear side in a first direction with respect to an attachment counterpart 5 integrated with a vehicle body is attached to the attachment counterpart 5 , a first fixing part 31 of the storage device 2 sandwiches a peripheral portion of a first fixing counterpart 51 of the attachment counterpart 5 in the first direction, a fastening hole 32 H of a second fixing part 32 of the storage device 2 faces a second fixing counterpart 52 of the attachment counterpart 5 in a second direction, and a peripheral portion of the fastening hole 32 H of the second fixing part 32 and a peripheral portion of the second fixing counterpart 52 are fastened together in the second direction by a fastener 4 .

Inventors

  • Kohei Yoshida

Assignees

  • TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.

Dates

Publication Date
20260507
Application Date
20251029
Priority Date
20241107

Claims (6)

  1. 1 . A storage structure mounted in a vehicle compartment, the storage structure comprising an attachment counterpart integrated with a vehicle body and a storage device located on a rear side in a first direction with respect to the attachment counterpart, wherein the storage device has a body part having a box shape, a fixing part protruding from a bottom wall, located on a front side in the first direction, of the body part, and a fastener, the fixing part has a first fixing part and a second fixing part spaced apart from the first fixing part in a second direction intersecting the first direction and having a fastening hole with an opening facing in the second direction, the attachment counterpart has a first fixing counterpart having a through hole shape with an opening facing in the first direction and a second fixing counterpart having a hole shape with an opening facing in the second direction and spaced apart from the first fixing counterpart in the second direction, and in an attachment state where the storage device is attached to the attachment counterpart, the first fixing part sandwiches a peripheral portion of the first fixing counterpart in the first direction, the fastening hole of the second fixing part faces the second fixing counterpart in the second direction, and a peripheral portion of the fastening hole of the second fixing part and a peripheral portion of the second fixing counterpart are fastened together in the second direction by the fastener.
  2. 2 . A storage device mounted in a vehicle compartment and located on a rear side in a first direction with respect to an attachment counterpart integrated with a vehicle body, wherein the attachment counterpart has a first fixing counterpart having a through hole shape with an opening facing in the first direction and a second fixing counterpart having a hole shape with an opening facing in a second direction intersecting the first direction and spaced apart from the first fixing counterpart in the second direction, the storage device has a body part having a box shape, a fixing part protruding from a bottom wall, located on a front side in the first direction, of the body part, and a fastener, the fixing part has a first fixing part and a second fixing part spaced apart from the first fixing part in the second direction and having a fastening hole with an opening facing in the second direction, and in an attachment state where the storage device is attached to the attachment counterpart, the first fixing part sandwiches a peripheral portion of the first fixing counterpart of the attachment counterpart in the first direction, the fastening hole of the second fixing part faces the second fixing counterpart of the attachment counterpart in the second direction, and a peripheral portion of the fastening hole of the second fixing part and a peripheral portion of the second fixing counterpart are fastened together in the second direction by the fastener.
  3. 3 . The storage device according to claim 2 , wherein the fixing part is integrally molded with the body part.
  4. 4 . The storage device according to claim 2 , wherein the second fixing part is located on a rear side in the second direction with respect to the second fixing counterpart in the attachment state, the first fixing part has a front portion extending in the second direction and located on the front side in the first direction with respect to the peripheral portion of the first fixing counterpart in the attachment state, and a rear portion extending in the second direction and located on the rear side in the first direction with respect to the peripheral portion of the first fixing counterpart in the attachment state, a distance between the front portion and the rear portion in the first direction gradually shortens from a front side in the second direction toward the rear side in the second direction, and the peripheral portion of the first fixing counterpart is elastically sandwiched in the first direction between the front portion and the rear portion in the attachment state.
  5. 5 . The storage device according to claim 4 , wherein the rear portion has a reinforcing rib extending in the first direction, and a protruding length of the reinforcing rib toward the front side in the first direction gradually shortens from the rear side in the second direction toward the front side in the second direction.
  6. 6 . The storage device according to claim 4 , wherein the fixing part has two said first fixing parts, a first front fixing part that is one of the two said first fixing parts is located on the front side in the second direction with respect to a first rear fixing part that is the other of the two said first fixing parts, and a length of the first front fixing part in the first direction is longer than a length of the first rear fixing part in the first direction.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD The present disclosure relates to a storage device and a storage structure mounted on a vehicle. BACKGROUND ART Various storage devices such as a console box are mounted on a vehicle. The storage devices are each a vehicular interior component for storing luggage therein and are each typically formed as a component separate from the vehicle body of a vehicle and installed in the interior of the vehicle by being attached to the vehicle body (see, for example, JP2021-79826 (A)). For example, when the vehicle travels on a rough road, when the vehicle is suddenly braked, or when an impact such as a collision occurs, a large external force acts on the vehicle. To withstand such an external force, storage devices such as a console box are firmly attached to the vehicle body. JP2021-79826 (A) introduces a console box as a storage device. In the console box introduced in JP2021-79826 (A), a rear center console 2 is directly fixed to a floor panel 1 of a vehicle body at a storage part 22, which is a part of the rear center console 2, using a fastener 24 and is fixed to the vehicle body at a front center console 21, which is another part of the rear center console 2, via a console bracket 3. Accordingly, the console box introduced in JP2021-79826 (A) is firmly fixed to the vehicle body. SUMMARY OF INVENTION TECHNICAL PROBLEM Meanwhile, as described above, storage devices such as a console box are required to be firmly attached to the vehicle body so as to withstand an external force when an impact occurs. Conventionally, in order to stably fix a console box to a vehicle body, as an attachment structure for attaching the console box to the vehicle body, fasteners such as a combination of a bolt and a nut are selected, and the console box is fastened and fixed to the vehicle body at many points. However, the console box is relatively large among vehicular interior components, thus the work of fastening the console box to the vehicle body at many points is cumbersome, and there is a problem of high cost for the attachment work for attaching the console box to the vehicle. For example, as for the console box introduced in JP2021-79826 (A), the console box is divided into multiple separate parts, and each separate part is fixed separately to the vehicle body. Specifically, the console box introduced in JP2021-79826 (A) is roughly divided into two separate parts, the rear center console 2 which is mainly responsible for a storage function and the console bracket 3 which is responsible for a function of serving as an attachment portion to the vehicle body. In this console box, the storage part 22, having a particularly large mass, of the rear center console 2 is directly fastened to the floor panel 1, which is a part of the vehicle body, using the fastener 24. In addition, in the console box, the front center console 21, which is another part of the rear center console 2, is fixed to the floor panel 1 via the console bracket 3. By attaching the separate parts of the console box (i.e., the storage part 22 and the console bracket 3 to which the front center console 21 is attached) separately to the vehicle body as described above, the work of attaching the console box to the vehicle body is considered to be easier compared to the case of attaching a large console box to the vehicle body. However, on the other hand, the work of fixing each separate part separately to the vehicle body is still cumbersome, and many attachment structures such as fasteners are required in order to fix each separate part separately to the vehicle body. In particular, in order to fix the front center console 21 to the floor panel 1 by the method in Cited Literature 1, many steps including fixing the front center console 21 to the console bracket 3 using clips 6 and then fixing the console bracket 3 to the floor panel 1 using bolts 4 and nuts 5, are required. As described above, conventionally, in order to stably fix the console box to the vehicle body, many attachment structures are required, and as a result, the attachment work of fixing the console box to the vehicle body is very cumbersome. The present disclosure has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present disclosure is to provide a technique for stably and easily fixing a storage device such as a console box to a vehicle body. SOLUTION TO PROBLEM A storage structure of the present disclosure for achieving the above object is a storage structure mounted in a vehicle compartment, the storage structure including an attachment counterpart integrated with a vehicle body and a storage device located on a rear side in a first direction with respect to the attachment counterpart, wherein the storage device has a body part having a box shape, a fixing part protruding from a bottom wall, located on a front side in the first direction, of the body part, and a fastener, the fixing part has a first fixing part and a second fixing part spaced apart from the f