DE20104834U1 - Separating device, in particular loading space cover for separating a loading space of a motor vehicle - Google Patents

Description

The invention relates to a separating device, in particular a loading space cover for separating a loading space of a motor vehicle according to the preamble of claim 1.

Such a separating device, which can be, for example, a load compartment cover running horizontally relative to the motor vehicle, but can also be, for example, a safety net running essentially vertically relative to the motor vehicle, is known.

For example, a loading space cover according to the preamble of claim 1 is described in DE 100 388 42. Here, an end board or another type of end element, for example a tension rod, is located at the free end area of the material web. The tension rod

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Here, two guide bodies are assigned to the end, which are arranged so that they can be moved within a guide attached to the body. The guide has a substantially C-shaped profile, for example, and enables the material web to be transferred correctly from its wound-up position to its extended position. The pulling-out movement and the retracting movement are guided safely in this way, so that malfunctions can be largely ruled out.

The invention is based on the object of further developing a device according to the preamble of the claim in such a way that comfortable handling is possible while ensuring the greatest possible safety even with particularly bulky loads.

The invention solves this problem firstly with the features of claim 1 and is accordingly characterized in that at least one additional receiving seat is provided with a separate inlet opening accessible from the loading space.

The principle of the invention therefore essentially consists in providing the possibility of spanning a bulky load in a device with a fixed guide on the body side, which normally ensures a correct and safe pulling or pulling movement of the winding track. A bulky load is particularly a load which, when resting on the floor of the loading area, has a height that exceeds the distance between the loading area floor and the fixed guide.

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a freely configurable extension movement that can be carried out individually depending on the dimensions of the load, whereby even in the presence of bulky loads the possibility of fixing

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of the material web by fixing the guide body in the additional receiving seat. The separate inlet opening for the additional receiving seat is accessible from the loading area.

Since the entire rear area of the vehicle is referred to as the loading space within the meaning of the invention, the separate inlet opening can be directed vertically upwards, downwards, but also in and opposite to the direction of travel of the vehicle if the guide runs horizontally with respect to the vehicle.

According to the invention, it is now possible to use the material web to grip and secure a bulky load in a separating device with a guide attached to the body. The known separating device equipped with a guide can therefore now also function as a clamping and holding device according to the invention, which both prevents bulky loads from shifting in the vehicle while driving and also offers the vehicle's passengers increased safety during operation.

According to an advantageous embodiment of the invention, the additional receiving seat is arranged in the area of the rear of the vehicle. This design offers the possibility of reaching over and securely securing even very bulky loads that extend far into the rear area, for example, i.e., extend up to near the rear door.

In addition, this embodiment offers particular advantages with regard to the design of the guide and the allocation of the additional receiving seat to the guide.

According to a further advantageous embodiment of the invention, the second receiving seat is arranged in the area of the guide. This offers particular advantages with regard to the construction of the guide, so that in particular the second receiving seat can be arranged on the guide. In addition, the further receiving seat can be arranged in such a way

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so that a user can easily recognize it and reach it.

According to a further advantageous embodiment of the invention, the second receiving seat is arranged in the region of the first receiving seat. This embodiment offers the advantage that the guide can be constructed in a particularly simple manner. This also offers advantages in terms of material-saving production of the guide.

According to a further advantageous embodiment of the invention, the guide is essentially designed as a unearthing device and the second receiving seat is located in the end region of the guide. This also offers the possibility of designing the guide in a particularly simple manner and of manufacturing it in a particularly simple manner.

According to a further advantageous embodiment of the invention, the second receiving seat is integrally connected to the guide. This offers the possibility of a particularly simple manufacture of the guide and the second receiving seat.

According to a further advantageous embodiment of the invention, a partition wall is arranged within the guide, which separates the receiving seat and the second receiving seat from one another. This embodiment also offers the possibility of a particularly simple construction of the guide and an arrangement of the second receiving seat. In the simplest case, a linearly designed guide only needs to be interrupted by a partition wall and can be open towards the rear door.

According to a further advantageous embodiment of the invention, the guide runs essentially horizontally and the second receiving seat is arranged above the guide. This design offers the advantage of particularly easy accessibility for the user

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of the second receiving seat, since the second receiving seat is, so to speak, facing it.

The invention further achieves the above-mentioned object with the features of claim 9 and is accordingly characterized in that the guide has at least one second, separate inlet opening for the guide body, which is open towards the loading space.

The principle of this invention essentially consists in achieving the advantages described above with regard to the assessment of claim 1 by providing a second, separate inlet opening for the guide body in a continuous, essentially closed guide. The guide body can enter the guide through this separate inlet opening, which is preferably arranged in the area of the rear of the vehicle, without being moved through the existing first inlet opening to the receiving seat.

Here too, it is possible to span a particularly bulky load in a curved arrangement of the material web and to fix the end region of the material web, for example a special traction device such as a tension rod with guide bodies, by the guide body entering the guide through a separate inlet opening and reaching the receiving seat.
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In addition to the advantages described above when evaluating claim 1, there is also the advantage that the guide, in particular a guide rail, can be designed largely unchanged, so that no significant structural or design changes have to be made. Conventional components can thus be used to the greatest extent, with only an additional inlet opening having to be provided in the guide.

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In particular, the already existing receiving seat for the guide body can be used, so that a special additional receiving seat is not necessary.
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According to an advantageous embodiment of the invention, a flap element is provided for closing the separate inlet opening. Such a flap element offers the possibility of a particularly simple, at least partial closure, even an automatic closure of the inlet opening. For example, a type of switch function can be achieved in a simple manner.

According to a further advantageous embodiment of the invention, a flap element is designed in the manner of a switch, which prevents movement of the guide body within the guide when the guide body is in the receiving seat. In this way, a switch ensures, in a very simple design, that movement of the guide body within the guide is possible in a direct path towards the housing of the separating device if there is no bulky load in the loading space. On the other hand, this switch arrangement reliably ensures that, in the event that the material web is in a curved state stretched over a load and is therefore not aligned along the guide, a return movement, i.e. a winding-up movement of the material web, takes place properly by the guide body emerging from the guide through the separate inlet opening through which it found access to the receiving seat.

According to a further advantageous embodiment of the invention, the guide is essentially closed. Closed in this sense means that the guide, in the manner of a forced guide, has no further openings apart from the first inlet opening and the separate inlet opening and is in particular continuous.

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This offers the possibility of a particularly safe guided movement when pulling the material web in and out.

According to a further advantageous embodiment of the invention, it can be provided that the guide is designed as a positive guide. This offers the possibility of a safe guided movement without the guide body having the possibility of leaving the guide.

According to a further advantageous embodiment of the invention, the material web is loaded by a retraction force at least in the extended position. This offers the possibility of holding bulky loads in place under a clamping force.

According to a further advantageous embodiment of the invention, the receiving seat is designed as a locking seat. This offers the possibility of releasably securing the guide body within the receiving seat. The same can of course also be considered for the other receiving seat.

The type of design of the locking receptacle is arbitrary and can, for example, be carried out in a manner shown in DE 100 38 842, whereby, for example, a pivotably mounted locking pawl can engage in a corresponding recess in the region of the receiving seat and can be released from the locking recess via separate actuating means.

According to a further advantageous embodiment of the invention, the material web is arranged within a housing which can be detachably attached to the vehicle. In this way, the first inlet opening can be designed in a conventional manner and in particular can be designed in a structurally very simple manner, e.g. in the manner of an open transition from the receptacle for the housing of the

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Separating device for the guide. In addition, such a design increases the comfort and safety when pulling out the material web because the first inlet opening can always be reached safely.

According to a further advantageous embodiment of the invention,

The separate inlet opening is located in the area of the first receiving seat. This design offers the possibility of safely spanning particularly bulky loads, which, for example, reach close to the rear door.

Further advantages of the invention emerge from the uncited subclaims and from the following description of some embodiments shown in the figures. In them:

Fig. 1 shows a perspective view of the rear area of a motor vehicle with a loading area and a schematically indicated separating device according to the invention,

Fig. 2 shows a first embodiment of a separating device according to the invention in a schematic, partially sectioned view, comprising a wound material web stored within a housing and a rail arrangement,

Fig. 2a is a partially sectioned view through the guide approximately along section line Ha - Ha in Fig. 2,

Fig. 3 the embodiment according to Fig. 2 with an indicated load on the loading space floor, which is spanned by the material web in a curved arrangement,

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Fig. 4 shows a second embodiment of the invention with a separate additional receiving seat which is separated from the guide by a partition wall,

Fig. 5 shows a third embodiment of the separating device according to the invention, with a further receiving seat arranged above the guide,

Fig. 6 shows a fourth embodiment of the invention, with a separate inlet opening which can be closed by a pivotable flap, and

Fig. 7 shows the separating device according to Fig. 6 with the flap in the pivoted position.

Identical or comparable elements are provided with the same reference numbers in the following description of the figures.

Fig. 1 shows a perspective view of the rear area of a motor vehicle, as it appears to an observer when the rear door is open. A separating device 10 is arranged in the area of a loading area 11 above a loading area floor 12. The loading area 11 is delimited by the floor 12, side walls 13 of the motor vehicle, rear windows 14, a backrest 15 or headrests 16 and by two C-pillars 17 and two D-pillars 18 as well as by the rear door (not shown).

The separating device 10, which in the embodiment according to the figures is designed as a loading space cover, rests, as can be seen in particular from Fig. 2, in a body-fixed receptacle 19. The separating device 10 comprises a winding shaft 21 on which a material web 23 can be wound. The material web is usually loaded in the winding direction by a spring motor (not shown).

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The winding shaft 21 and the wound material web are located

within a housing 20, which in its outer contour corresponds to the shape of the holder 19 for the housing 20. If necessary, the housing 20 can be releasably secured to the holder 19 or on the vehicle side using fastening elements (not shown).

The housing 20 has a slot 22 through which the

Material web 23 can be pulled out. In the area of the free end 35 of the material web 23, a tension rod 24 is arranged in the embodiment, which can be surrounded, for example, in a loop-like manner by the end region of the material web 23. At each end of the tension rod

24, guide bodies 25 are arranged, which can be slidably received in a guide 29.

Such guide bodies 25, which are also referred to as sliding blocks, can be found in DE 100 38 842. In particular, it can also be provided to provide a locking pawl 26 in the area of the guide bodies 25, which can engage in a corresponding locking recess 27 in the guide 29 when the intended locking positions are reached and thus ensure secure locking of the guide body

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As can be seen in particular from Fig. 2a, the guide 29 can, for example, have a profile with a C-shaped cross section. In any case, as can be seen in particular from Figs. 1 and 3, the guide 29 is arranged horizontally with respect to the motor vehicle and its length k corresponds essentially to the length of the loading space 11. However, it can also be made shorter.

Usually, a load is placed in the loading space 11 and is spanned by the material web 23 in the extended position to protect the occupants during strong decelerations or accelerations or also for reasons of visual protection.

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For this purpose, starting from a position according to Fig. 2, the tension rod 24 or another comparable traction device of the material web 23 is grasped by a user, in particular manually, and pulled to the right with respect to Fig. 2. The guide body 25 thereby passes through the inlet opening 30 of the guide 29 into the interior I of the guide 29 and can now be moved along the entire length k of the guide 29 until the guide body 25 reaches a receiving seat 31 in which the guide body 25 is located at the right outer end of the guide 29 with respect to Fig. 1.

Advantageously, the receiving seat 31, as shown in the figures, is designed as a locking seat, so that a secure locking position is achieved and the guide body 25, and thus also the material web 23, is blocked against retraction in the winding direction.

Special actuating means, not shown, can be provided to release this locking position and, for example, to pivot the pawl 26 out of its locking recess 27.

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The guide 29 is located on both vehicle side walls

13, of which only the left side wall is shown in Fig. 1. Such guides 29 serve in a conventional manner to enable a safe, guided pulling out or pulling in of the material web 23, so that no operating errors can occur.

Fig. 3 now shows the situation in which a load 28 is placed on the floor 12 of the loading space 11 and has a height h that is greater than the distance a between the floor 12 of the loading space 11 and the guide 29 or its center plane. Pulling out the material web 23 with such bulky, high loads 28 would initially not be possible, so that the vehicle occupants are not protected and the load 28 is not secured against slipping during the journey.

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According to the invention, it is provided, for example, in the area of the first

Inlet opening 30 of the guide 29 is provided with an outlet opening 36 which allows the material bah &eegr; 23 to be pulled out of the housing 20 without the guide body 25 necessarily entering the interior I of the guide 29.

Alternatively, it may also be provided to provide a separate outlet opening 36 (not shown) in the region of the guide 29 in such a way that the guide body 25, when pulled out, first runs through a certain partial distance within the guide 29 and can then leave the guide 29 through the separate outlet opening 36.

Fig. 3 shows the state in which a high load 28 is spanned by the material web 23. After the guide body 25 has passed through the outlet opening 36, the material web is laid over the load 28. The guide body 25 can return to the interior I of the guide 29 through a separate inlet opening 32. In particular, it is possible in this way to reach the receiving seat 31, in which the guide body can again be locked in place.

The load 28 is held in place in a tensioned manner due to the tension in the material web 23, which is exerted by the spring motor (not shown) within the housing 20.

The material web 23 is released in the opposite way, whereby after actuation of a release means, if provided, the guide body 25 passes through the separate inlet opening 32 into the area of the loading space 11 and thus leaves the interior I of the guide 29. The material web can then be wound up largely automatically, whereby the load

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28 is released and can be removed, for example, from the loading space 11.

Fig. 4 shows an embodiment in which the further or second receiving seat 33 is arranged at the right end of the guide 29 with respect to Fig. 4. Here, a partition wall 37 is provided which separates the first receiving seat 31 from the second receiving seat 33.

The second receiving seat 33 has a separate opening 32 which, with respect to Fig. 4, is directed to the right, in relation to the vehicle, thus towards the tailgate (not shown). In this way, the material web 23 curved over a load 28 can be hung up comfortably and conveniently with its tension rod 24 or guide body 25.

The embodiment according to Fig. 4 offers particular design advantages, since with respect to guides 29 of the prior art only one partition 37 and one additional catch 27 have to be provided.

A further embodiment is shown in Fig. 5. Here, a second receiving seat 33 is arranged above the receiving seat 31 with respect to Fig. 5. For this purpose, a first vertical profile extension 38 is provided, which adjoins the upper section 39 of the guide 29 and merges into a substantially horizontal profile extension 40 to form the second receiving seat 33.

This embodiment can offer the user advantages in that the second receiving seat 33 faces the user, so to speak, and is therefore even easier for the user to reach. In addition, such an embodiment takes into account that the bulky, particularly high load 28 is arranged above the guide 29 with respect to the loading space 11, and the material web 23 has therefore already covered a certain height difference.

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Figures 6 and 7 show a further embodiment of a guide 29 in which the second receiving seat 33 coincides with the first receiving seat 31 as in the embodiment according to Fig. 2. Thus, in this embodiment, only a single, common receiving seat 31 is provided.

The special feature here is that a flap element 34 is provided which is arranged on the guide 29 so as to be pivotable about an axis 41. The flap element 34 can be pivoted between a substantially horizontal position shown in Fig. 7 and a substantially vertical position shown in Fig. 6.

The function of the flap element 34 as a switch is explained as follows: Starting from a situation according to Fig. 7, a guide body 25 for spanning a bulky load 28 can be introduced through the separate inlet opening 32 into the guide 29. When passing through the separate inlet opening 32, which is at least partially closed by the flap element 34, the guide body 25, but possibly also the tension rod 24, strikes the flap element 34 and pivots it as it passes through the separate inlet opening 32 into its position shown in Fig. 6. The guide body can then reach its receiving seat 31.

Advantageously, the guide body 25 is also releasably locked in the receiving seat 31. After releasing the locking means, the guide body 25 can only move in the direction of travel x until the guide body 25 hits the flap element 34. A further movement through the guide 29 towards the housing 20 cannot take place and is undesirable because the material web 23 can only be moved by a movement of the guide body 25 through the

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inlet opening 32 can be returned to its original position.

In its position shown in Fig. 6, the flap element 34 thus closes the path of movement of the guide body 25 within the guide 29 and ensures safe removal of the guide body 25 through the separate inlet opening 32. The flap element 34 thus prevents any incorrect operation.

In principle, it is also possible to pivot the flap element 34 into a position in which it does not assume a substantially vertical position as shown in Fig. 6, but forms a guide slope such that the guide body 25 automatically slides on a guide surface of the flap element 34 when released from the receiving seat 31 and is thus automatically moved through the inlet opening 32 of the guide 29 out into the loading space 11.

Claims (25)

1. Separating device ( 10 ), in particular a loading space cover, for separating a loading space ( 11 ) of a motor vehicle, in particular a station wagon, with a flexible material web ( 23 ) that can be pulled off a winding shaft ( 21 ) and can be transferred at least from a wound-up position into an extended position, wherein at least one guide body ( 25) is assigned to the free end region (35 ) of the material web ( 23 ), wherein at least one guide ( 29 ) fastened to the body side is provided for the guide body ( 25 ), wherein the guide ( 29 ) has an inlet opening ( 30 ) for the guide body ( 25 ) and a receiving seat ( 31 ) for the guide body ( 25 ), and wherein when the material web ( 23 ) is in the extended position, the guide body ( 25 ) is located in the receiving seat ( 31 ), thereby characterized in that at least one additional receiving seat ( 33 ) is provided with a separate inlet opening ( 32 ) accessible from the loading space ( 11 ). 2. Separating device according to claim 1, characterized in that the further receiving seat ( 33 ) is arranged in the region of the rear of the vehicle. 3. Separating device according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the second receiving seat ( 33 ) is arranged at least in the region of the guide ( 29 ). 4. Separating device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the second receiving seat ( 33 ) is arranged in the region of the first receiving seat ( 31 ). 5. Separating device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the guide ( 29 ) is essentially linear and the second receiving seat ( 33 ) is located in the end region of the guide ( 29 ). 6. Separating device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the second receiving seat ( 33 ) is integrally connected to the guide ( 29 ). 7. Separating device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that a partition wall ( 37 ) is arranged within the guide ( 29 ), which separates the receiving seat ( 31 ) and the second receiving seat ( 33 ) from one another. 8. Separating device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the guide ( 29 ) extends substantially horizontally and the second receiving seat ( 33 ) is arranged above the guide ( 29 ). 9. Separating device ( 10 ), in particular a loading space cover, for separating a loading space ( 11 ) of a motor vehicle, in particular a station wagon, with a flexible material web ( 23 ) which can be pulled off a winding shaft ( 21 ) and which can be transferred at least from a wound-up position into an extended position, wherein at least one guide body ( 25 ) is assigned to the free end region of the material web ( 23 ), wherein at least one guide ( 29 ) fastened to the body is provided for the guide body ( 25 ), wherein the guide ( 29 ) has an inlet opening ( 30 ) for the guide body and a receiving seat ( 31 ) for the guide body, and wherein when the material web ( 23 ) is in the extended position, the guide body is located in the receiving seat ( 31 ), characterized in that the guide ( 29 ) has at least one second, separate guide (31) which is connected to the loading space ( 11 ) has an inlet opening ( 32 ) for the guide body ( 25 ). 10. Separating device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that a flap element ( 34 ) is provided for closing the separate inlet opening ( 32 ). 11. Separating device according to claim 9 or 10, characterized in that a flap element ( 34 ) is designed in the manner of a switch, which prevents a movement of the guide body ( 25 ) within the guide ( 29 ) when the guide body ( 25 ) is located in the receiving seat ( 31 , 33 ). 12. Separating device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the receiving seat ( 31 , 33 ) is arranged in the region of the rear of the vehicle. 13. Separating device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the guide ( 29 ) is essentially closed. 14. Separating device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the guide ( 29 ) is designed as a positive guide. 15. Separating device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the material web ( 23 ) can be curved around bulky load ( 28 ). 16. Separating device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the material web ( 23 ) is loaded by a retraction force at least in the extended position. 17. Separating device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the receiving seat ( 31 , 33 ) is designed as a locking receptacle. 18. Separating device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the free end region ( 35 ) of the material web ( 23 ) has a traction means ( 24 ), in particular a traction rod, on which the guide body ( 25 ) is arranged. 19. Separating device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the material web ( 23 ) is arranged within a housing ( 20 ) which can be detachably attached to the motor vehicle. 20. Separating device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the device is essentially symmetrical and has two guide bodies ( 25 ). 21. Separating device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the separate inlet opening ( 32 ) is arranged in the region of the rear of the vehicle. 22. Separating device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the separate inlet opening ( 32 ) is arranged in the region of the receiving seat ( 31 ). 23. Separating device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that a partition wall ( 37 ) is arranged within the guide ( 29 ), which separates the separate inlet opening ( 32 ) and the receiving seat ( 31 ) from each other. 24. Separating device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the guide ( 29 ) extends substantially horizontally and the second separate inlet opening ( 32 ) is arranged in an upper guide profile ( 39 ) of the guide ( 29 ). 25. Separating device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the guide body ( 25 ) has a locking element ( 26 ).