TWI476119B - Wheel cap and its manufacturing and packaging methods - Google Patents

Description

Wheel cover and its manufacturing and packaging method

The invention relates to a rim cover and a manufacturing and packaging method thereof, in particular to a wheel cover body of a rim cover integrally formed with a buckle body, and the buckle body can be bent to reduce the height of the overall rim cover and save The rim cover of the packaging material and its manufacturing and packaging methods.

According to the general automobile rim cover, it is usually used in the case where the tire adopts the traditional steel rim. Such rim cover used to have metal materials in the early stage, but based on cost considerations, a large number of plastics have been used and then painted or galvanized. The surface of the cover is formed; and because the cost of plastic injection molding is affected by the price of the material, the profit is meager, and the cost of the freight wheel caused by the high oil price is very high, so how to save the packaging material of the wheel cover becomes a space for the efforts of various industries. .

Taiwan Patent Publication No. 282738 "Rimage Cover Improvement Structure" Patent Case and Announcement No. 364463 "Rim Ring Cover Improvement Structure" patent case respectively provide a card body that can be inserted into the upper rim cover when the package is stacked The lower rim cover is designed to reduce the overall stack height. In addition, Bulletin No. 261958 "Plastic rim cover 掣 construction" also provides a rim that can reduce the overall stack height during packaging stacking. The cover design mainly designs the card body integrally formed with the rim cover surface into a separate structure, so that a click element is combined with a fixed seat of the rim cover body by a snap method, and The cassette element can be detached from the package to reduce the overall rim cover stack height.

It is customary to use the upper rim cover to fit into the rim of the lower rim cover to reduce the overall stack height. However, this design also limits the styling of the rim cover surface because The lower rim cover corresponding to the upper rim cover card body must have a boring hole for insertion; and the other type of card 掣 separate design is faced with the user's own installation trouble, reducing the user's adoption. Intention, at the same time, it is also necessary to face the inconvenience of forming a carcass with an additional mold.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a wheel cover cover surface of a rim cover integrally formed with a latch body, and the latch body can be constructed by a bent rim cover.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a method of manufacturing a rim cover that can bend a card body to reduce the overall height.

It is still another object of the present invention to provide a rim cover packaging method which can save packaging material.

According to the object of the present invention, the rim cover construction of the present invention comprises: a wheel cover body provided with a cover surface facing outward when installed, and a cover back facing inward when installed; the cover surface is provided with a predetermined pattern or The boring and the back of the cover are provided with a plurality of card body; the card body system is integrally formed on the cover back of the wheel cover body, and the card body is provided with a support body connecting a buckle seat and a cover back; the card body can be Bending at the support causes the portion including the buckle to be bent to lower the height of the entire body.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a method of manufacturing a rim cover of the present invention includes: forming a wheel cover body formed with a cover surface facing outward when installed, and a cover back facing inward when installed; the cover surface is formed with a predetermined The pattern or the pupil of the shape, the back of the cover forms a plurality of card body; the card body system is integrally formed on the back of the cover body of the wheel cover body, and the card body is formed with a support body connecting a buckle seat and a cover back; The body is formed with a support body connecting a buckle seat and a cover back; the card body formation can be bent at the support body to include the buckle seat This portion is bent to lower the height of the overall body.

According to still another object of the present invention, in a rim cover packaging method of the present invention, the rim cover includes a wheel cover body formed with an outwardly facing cover surface when installed, and an inwardly facing cover back when installed; the cover surface Forming a pattern or a boring of a predetermined shape, and the back of the cover is integrally formed with a card body which is connected with a support body of a buckle seat and a cover back; when packaging, the multi-body wheel cover is stacked up and down, and The latch body is bent at the support so that the portion including the buckle is bent to lower the height of the entire latch body.

The invention has the advantages that the wheel cover body of the rim cover is integrally formed with the latch body to avoid the cumbersomeness of the mold separation and molding, and the card body can be bent to reduce the stack height of the whole rim cover, thereby saving the packaging volume; The savings in packaging material is not from the insertion of the upper rim cover into the rim of the rim cover, so it does not limit the creativity of the surface of the rim cover, so that the shape of the rim cover has more creative space. .

1‧‧‧Roller body

11‧‧‧ Cover

111‧‧‧镂孔

112‧‧‧ hole edge

12‧‧‧ Cover back

13‧‧‧Carcass

131‧‧‧Inlay

132‧‧ ‧ coil

133‧‧‧deduction seat

134‧‧‧Support

135‧‧‧ front side

136‧‧‧ Back side

137‧‧‧ crease

2‧‧‧Carcass

21‧‧‧ Back side

22‧‧‧Support

23‧‧‧ reinforcing ribs

231‧‧‧ first part

232‧‧‧Part 2

24‧‧‧ crease

A‧‧‧ first part

B‧‧‧Part II

D‧‧‧thickness

The first figure is a perspective view of the cover surface of the wheel cover body in the embodiment of the present invention

The second figure is a partial perspective view of the back cover of the wheel cover in the embodiment of the present invention.

The third figure is a three-dimensional schematic diagram of the structure of the card body in the embodiment of the present invention.

The fourth picture: the enlarged view of the Y part in the third picture

Figure 5 is a schematic view showing the structure of the card body after bending in the embodiment of the present invention

Figure 6 is a schematic view of the rim cover after the card body is bent in the embodiment of the present invention

Figure 7: Schematic diagram of the stack height of the conventional wheel cover

Figure 8 is a schematic view showing the stack height of the rim cover according to the embodiment of the present invention

Figure 9 is a perspective view showing the structure of the cartridge body of the second embodiment of the present invention

Figure 10 is a perspective view showing the structure of the buckle body of the second embodiment of the present invention

Referring to the first and second figures, the rim cover in the embodiment of the present invention comprises: a wheel cover body (1) provided with a cover surface (11) facing outward when installed, and a cover facing inward when installed. The back surface (12); the surface of the cover surface (11) is provided with a pattern or a pupil (111) of a predetermined shape, and the cover back (12) is provided with a plurality of card body (13); wherein each of the cassette bodies (13) Between the appropriate spacings and the annular arrangement, the ring is arranged in a ring shape, and a metal coil (132) which is embedded in the groove (131) of each of the latch bodies (13) is disposed therebetween; wherein the cassette The body (13) is integrally formed on the cover back (12) of the wheel cover body (1), and the card body (13) includes a connection seat (133) for providing the inlay (131), and a connection body. The retaining seat (133) and the support (134) of the cover back (12); the bore (111) extends toward the cover back (12) with a hole edge (112) of a suitable height.

Referring to the third and fourth figures, the card body (13) provided by the embodiment of the present invention has a support body (134) including a front side (135) opposite to the opening of the recessed groove (131), and The recessed groove (131) is opposite to the rear side (136); a crease (137) is provided on the rear side (136) of the support (134), and the depth of the crease (137) is about 0.3 mm. It causes the thickness of the support (134) to have a thickness d of 0.7 to 0.8 mm at the crease (137).

Referring to the fifth and sixth figures, the crease (137) of the ferrule body (13) support body (134) divides the card body (13) to form a first portion A including the buckle seat (133), and a fold The second portion B of the other side of the mark (137), while the card body (13) is provided, can be bent at the crease (137) from the rear side (136) to the front side (135), so that the first portion A is bent to lower the height of the entire cassette body (13).

The rim cover design completed by the embodiment of the present invention can be stacked up and down with a plurality of rims during packaging, and the card body (13) is bent at the struts (134) to include the buckle seat ( The portion of 133) is bent to lower the height of the entire cassette body (13), so that the packaging volume is greatly reduced during stacking, and the conventional wheel cover stacking condition of the seventh figure and the eighth embodiment of the present invention The stacking condition of the rim cover can be known to the extent that the overall stack height is reduced in the embodiment of the present invention.

The structure of the wheel cover body (1) and the cassette body (13) of the embodiment of the present invention is formed by injection molding in a manufacturing manner, but the crease on the card body (13) can be formed at the time of molding. After completion or after forming, it can be achieved by other processing methods; and the material of the wheel cover body (1) and the cartridge body (13) can be achieved by using a plastic material having a relatively high flexibility, such as a polypropylene commonly known as PP. (Polypropylene) plastic material is a feasible implementation material, which has high softness and flexibility, and can provide the buckle body 13 without breaking when bent, and can be bent back to the original state.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the depth and shape of the crease (137) in the cassette body (13) may be changed according to the thickness and shape of the support body (134) in the card body (13), and the structure of the crease (137) It can increase the tidyness and ease of bending, but it is not an absolutely necessary structure for bending; if it is not required to be neat and easy to bend, it is not necessary to provide creases (137); please refer to the figure shown in Figure 9. a second embodiment, wherein the latch body (2) in the second embodiment is used to increase the supporting force of the pushing force in the direction of the rear side (21), in the body of the latch body (2) 22) The rear side (21) is provided with reinforcing ribs (23). Therefore, the crease (24) design on the card body (2) of this design will cover the reinforcing ribs (23), so that the shackles (2) When bent, as shown in the tenth figure, the reinforcing ribs (23) on both sides are also separated into the first part (231) and the second part (232) from the crease (24). .

The rim cover cassette structure provided by the embodiment of the invention has the advantages that the wheel cover body of the rim cover is integrally formed with the cassette body to avoid cumbersome mold separation and molding, and the cassette body can be bent to reduce the overall The stacking height of the rim cover is used to save the packaging volume; compared to the conventional wheel cover body and the card body, the carcass body cannot be bent, or the body of the wheel cover can be bent compared to the conventional card body. However, the present invention has substantial improvement in terms of both the separation and the formation of the cartridge body. At the same time, since the saving of the packaging material is not from the insertion of the upper body of the upper rim cover into the rim of the lower rim cover, it is not restricted. The creativity of the surface of the rim cover makes the shape of the rim cover more creative.

However, the above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, that is, the equivalent structure and method variations of the patent application scope and the content of the invention are generally changed. Modifications are still within the scope of the invention.

13‧‧‧Carcass

A‧‧‧ first part

B‧‧‧Part II

Claims (8)

A rim cover structure comprising: a wheel cover body provided with a cover surface facing outward when installed, and a cover back facing inward when installed; the cover surface is provided with a predetermined pattern or a boring hole, and the cover back is provided There is a majority of the card body; the card body system is integrally formed on the back of the cover body of the wheel cover body, and the card body is provided with a support body connecting a buckle seat and a cover back, the support body is provided with a fold, the fold The mark dividing card body includes a first portion of the buckle seat and a second portion of the other side of the fold; the latch body may be bent at a fold of the support body to enable the first portion including the buckle seat The parts are bent to reduce the height of the overall body. The rim cover structure of claim 1, wherein the material of the wheel cover body and the body of the card body can be achieved by using a plastic material having a relatively high flexibility, which is commonly known as a plastic material. Polypropylene material for PP. The rim cover construction according to claim 1, wherein the boring extends to the back of the cover for a hole having a proper styling height, and the distance of the crease from the back of the cover is smaller than the height of the adjacent side edge. The rim cover structure according to claim 1, wherein the ferrule body is provided with a reinforcing rib at the struts, and the ferrule body is also provided with a crease on the struts, and the crease design is Covering the reinforcing ribs, the reinforcing ribs are separated into the first part and the second part from the creases when the card body is bent. A method for manufacturing a rim cover, comprising: forming a wheel cover body, forming a cover surface facing outward when installed, and a cover The cover back facing in the installation; the surface of the cover surface is formed with a pattern or a boring of a predetermined shape, and the back of the cover forms a plurality of shackles; the shackle system is integrally formed on the back of the cover of the wheel cover body, and the body is formed Forming a support body connecting a buckle seat and a cover back, the support body is formed with a fold, the fold-dividing card body forming a first portion including the buckle seat and a second portion of the other side of the fold; The cassette body can be bent at the fold of the support so that the first portion including the buckle is bent to lower the height of the entire body. The method for manufacturing a rim cover according to claim 5, wherein the boring extends to the back of the cover for a hole having a proper styling height, and the distance of the crease from the back of the cover is smaller than the height of the adjacent side edge. The method for manufacturing a rim cover according to the fifth aspect of the invention, wherein the ferrule body is formed with a reinforcing rib at the support body, and the ferrule body is also formed with a crease on the support body, and the crease is formed. Covering the reinforcing ribs, the reinforcing ribs are separated into the first part and the second part from the creases when the card body is bent. A rim cover packaging method, the rim cover comprising a wheel cover body formed with a cover surface facing outward when installed, and a cover back facing inward when installed; the cover surface is formed with a predetermined pattern or a boring The cover back is integrally formed into a card body which is connected with a support body of a buckle seat and a cover back; when packaging, the multi-body wheel cover is stacked up and down, and the card body is bent at the support body. Folding so that the portion containing the buckle is bent to lower the height of the entire body.