Fixing device for detachably fixing a body to a motor vehicle, and luggage-carrying device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12202565-B2
Application number	US-201917252895-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 11, 2019
Priority date	Jun 26, 2018
Publication date	Jan 21, 2025
Grant date	Jan 21, 2025

Abstract

A fixing device for detachably fixing a body to a vehicle, such as a tilting vehicle, includes: at least one first fixing device which can be fixed or is fixed to the body; at least one second fixing device which can be fixed or is fixed to a load-bearing vehicle component of the motor vehicle and which is detachably joined to the first fixing device in a coupled arrangement in order to fix the body to the vehicle component; and at least one electrical line which can be guided from the vehicle component to the body and can be fixed to the body in order to supply an electrical load. The fixing device is characterized in that the first fixing device has a first conductor of the electrical line and the second fixing device has a second conductor of the electrical line. The first conductor and the second conductor can be electrically conductively connected or are electrically conductively connected to one another in the coupled arrangement of the fixing devices.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An apparatus comprising:
at least one fixing device that includes at least one first fixing half and at least one second fixing half, wherein the at least one first fixing half is fixed to a luggage container, and the at least one second fixing half is fixed to a load-bearing vehicle component of a motor vehicle and which is detachably joined to the first fixing half in a coupled arrangement in order to fix the luggage container to the vehicle component; and
at least one electrical line which is guided from the vehicle component to the luggage container and is fixed to the luggage container in order to supply an electrical load, wherein
the first fixing half comprises a first conductor of the electrical line and the second fixing half comprises a second conductor of the electrical line, and
the first conductor and the second conductor are electrically conductively connectable or are electrically conductively connected to one another in the coupled arrangement of the first and second fixing devices, wherein
the first fixing half includes a first coupling element, and the second fixing half includes a second coupling element,
the first coupling element comprises a snap-in member, which is configured to join the second coupling element to the first coupling element,
the snap-in member being movable across the wire at an angle to the joining direction,
the snap-in member being configured to fit into a recess of the second coupling element, at which location the snap-in member is snapped transversely or obliquely to the joining direction,
an end of the first fixing half forms a rear grip and accommodates therein the first conductor of the electrical line, and
the luggage container is fixed to the motor vehicle exclusively via the at least one fixing device.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the first conductor and the second conductor are cables and are formed as components that are separate or can be separated from the first fixing device half and the second fixing half, or
the first conductor and the first fixing half or the second conductor and the second fixing half each comprise a common component.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the first fixing half comprises at least one section that can be bent flexibly transversely to the longitudinal direction, which is rigid or elastically deformable in the longitudinal direction, or
the second fixing half comprises at least one section that can be bent flexibly transversely to the longitudinal direction, which is rigid or elastically deformable in the longitudinal direction.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the first fixing half comprises a mechanical first coupling element at its end facing the second fixing device, to which mechanical first coupling element the second fixing half is detachably fixed by a second coupling element, which is arranged at that end of the second coupling element which faces the first coupling element.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the at least one fixing device detachably fixes the luggage container to a tilting vehicle.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the first coupling element comprises a first contact section of the first conductor and the second coupling element comprises a second contact section of the second conductor, which, in the coupled arrangement of the first and second fixing devices halves are joined to one another so as to make contact.

7. The apparatus according to claim 6 , further comprising:
at least one first seal which, is configured to seal off the first conductor, or
at least one second seal which, is configured to seal off the second conductor.

8. The apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein
the at least one first seal seals off the first contact section; or
the at least one second seal seals off the second contact section.

9. The apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein
the first seal or the second seal is fixed detachably or non-detachably to the first fixing half and to the second fixing half.

10. The apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein
the first contact section, the first coupling element, and the at least one snap-in member of the first coupling element comprise a common component or
the second contact section, the second coupling element, and the at least one snap-in member of the second coupling element comprise a common component.

11. The apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein
the common component is an injection/molded part.

12. A luggage-carrying device for arrangement on a motor vehicle, comprising:
a luggage container;
a load-bearing vehicle component of the motor vehicle on which the luggage container is arranged;
at least one first fixing device, wherein
the at least one fixing device includes a first fixing half that is fixed to the luggage container, and a second fixing half that is fixed to the load-bearing vehicle component of the motor vehicle,
the first and second fixing halves are couplable to one another in order to fix the luggage container to the load-bearing vehicle component,
the first fixing half comprises a first conductor of an electrical line guidable from the vehicle component to the luggage container,
the second fixing half comprising a second conductor of the electrical line,
the first conductor and the second conductor are electrically conductively connected to one another in a coupled arrangement of the first and second fixing-devices halves, wherein
the first fixing half includes a first coupling element, and the second fixing device half includes a second coupling element,
the first coupling element comprises a snap-in member, which is configured to join the second coupling element to the first coupling element,
the snap-in member being movable across the wire at an angle to the joining direction,
the snap-in member being configured to fit into a recess of the second coupling element, at which location the snap-in member is snapped transversely or obliquely to the joining direction,
an end of the first fixing half forms a rear grip and accommodates therein the first conductor of the electrical line, and
the luggage container is fixed to the motor vehicle exclusively via the at least one fixing device.

Assignees

• Bayerische Motoren Werke Ag

Inventors

• Golling Adrian

Classifications

• H01R13/627

  Snap or like fastening · CPC title

• B62J9/00

  Containers specially adapted for cycles, e.g. panniers or saddle bags · CPC title

• B62J11/19

  specially adapted for electric wires · CPC title

• B62J9/27

  characterised by mounting arrangements, e.g. quick release arrangements · CPC title

• A44B11/266

  with at least one push-button acting parallel to the main plane of the buckle and perpendicularly to the direction of the fastening action · CPC title