Vehicle cover member

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11091209-B2
Application number	US-201916729907-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 30, 2019
Priority date	Jan 11, 2019
Publication date	Aug 17, 2021
Grant date	Aug 17, 2021

Abstract

A tray-like vehicle cover member has a flat bottom plate, an edge wall rising from a peripheral edge of the bottom plate, and a flange that is connected to an upper end portion of the edge wall and provided with a plurality of fastening portions to be fastened to a vehicle. In this vehicle cover member, the bottom plate has an annular groove formed in an intermediate portion between the peripheral edge and the center, and a plurality of radial grooves formed to extend radially from the annular groove toward the fastening portions.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A tray-like vehicle cover member comprising:
a flat bottom plate;
an edge wall rising from a peripheral edge of the bottom plate; and
a flange that is connected to an upper end portion of the edge wall and provided with a plurality of fastening portions to be fastened to a vehicle, wherein
the bottom plate has
an annular groove formed in an intermediate portion between the peripheral edge and a center, and
a plurality of radial grooves formed to extend radially from the annular groove toward the fastening portions.

2. The vehicle cover member according to claim 1 , wherein
a peripheral shape of the bottom plate and the peripheral shape of the flange are polygons,
the fastening portions are provided at corners of the flange,
a plane shape of the annular groove is a polygon analogous to the bottom plate, and corners of the plane shape of the annular groove are arranged to face corners of the bottom plate, and
the radial grooves respectively extend radially from the corners of the annular groove toward the corners of the flange at which the fastening portions are provided.

3. The vehicle cover member according to claim 2 , wherein
the peripheral shape of the bottom plate and the peripheral shape of the flange are quadrangles,
the fastening portions are provided at four corners of the flange,
the radial grooves respectively extend radially from the corners of the annular groove toward the four corners of the flange,
a length in a width direction between a side end of the bottom plate in the width direction and the annular groove is equal to a length in the width direction between the annular grooves of the bottom plate, and
a length in the longitudinal direction between a side end of the bottom plate in a longitudinal direction and the annular groove is equal to a length in the longitudinal direction between the annular grooves of the bottom plate.

4. The vehicle cover member according to claim 1 , wherein
the annular groove and the radial grooves have a groove-shaped cross-sectional shape recessed upward from an undersurface of the bottom plate, and
a side wall of the radial groove is connected to a side wall of the annular groove and the fastening portion of the flange, and a bottom wall of the radial groove is connected to a bottom wall of the annular groove and the fastening portion of the flange.

5. The vehicle cover member according to claim 2 , wherein
the annular groove and the radial grooves have a groove-shaped cross-sectional shape recessed upward from an undersurface of the bottom plate, and
a side wall of the radial groove is connected to a side wall of the annular groove and the fastening portion of the flange, and a bottom wall of the radial groove is connected to a bottom wall of the annular groove and the fastening portion of the flange.

6. The vehicle cover member according to claim 3 , wherein
the annular groove and the radial grooves have a groove-shaped cross-sectional shape recessed upward from an undersurface of the bottom plate, and
a side wall of the radial groove is connected to a side wall of the annular groove and the fastening portion of the flange, and a bottom wall of the radial groove is connected to a bottom wall of the annular groove and the fastening portion of the flange.

7. The vehicle cover member according to claim 4 , wherein
the vehicle cover member is attached to the vehicle lower side of a floor panel so as to extend across an open portion under a floor tunnel, the floor tunnel being a groove-shaped cross-sectional portion that is convex in a vehicle upward direction and provided in a center portion of the floor panel of the vehicle in a vehicle width direction so as to extend in a vehicle front-and-rear direction.

8. The vehicle cover member according to claim 5 , wherein
the vehicle cover member is attached to the vehicle lower side of a floor panel so as to extend across an open portion under a floor tunnel, the floor tunnel being a groove-shaped cross-sectional portion that is convex in a vehicle upward direction and provided in a center portion of the floor panel of the vehicle in a vehicle width direction so as to extend in a vehicle front-and-rear direction.

9. The vehicle cover member according to claim 6 , wherein
the vehicle cover member is attached to the vehicle lower side of a floor panel so as to extend across an open portion under a floor tunnel, the floor tunnel being a groove-shaped cross-sectional portion that is convex in a vehicle upward direction and provided in a center portion of the floor panel of the vehicle in the vehicle width direction so as to extend in a vehicle front-and-rear direction.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Nakagawa Takuya

Classifications

• B62D25/20 Primary

  Floors or bottom sub-units {(sub-frames for mounting engine or suspensions B62D21/11; drip trays F16N31/006)} · CPC title

• B62D25/2072 Primary

  Floor protection, e.g. from corrosion or scratching (floor mats B60N3/04, armour F41H7/042, insulation B60R13/08, streamlining B62D35/02) · CPC title

• B60R13/0838 Primary

  for engine compartments · CPC title

• B62D35/02

  Streamlining the undersurfaces {(B62D35/005, B62D35/007, B62D35/008 take precedence)} · CPC title