VEHICLE DOOR HAVING A RESONANT BODY COMPONENT FOR A LOUDSPEAKER, AND ASSEMBLY METHOD
20230271485 · 2023-08-31
Assignee
Inventors
- Michael Jahn (Bad Staffelstein, DE)
- Norman HÜMMER (Ebensfeld, DE)
- Hans Herzog (Strullendorf, DE)
- Stephanie WURPES (Bamberg, DE)
- Joachim MÜLLER (Werneck, DE)
Cpc classification
B60J5/0418
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
H04R1/025
ELECTRICITY
H04R1/028
ELECTRICITY
B60J5/0416
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
B60J5/0413
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
International classification
H04R1/02
ELECTRICITY
Abstract
A vehicle door includes a wet space provided within the vehicle door, which is separated from a dry space on the vehicle door, wherein the vehicle door includes at least a door skin that borders the wet space and dry space, a speaker, and a resonance body component configured to form a resonance space for the speaker, wherein the resonance body component defines a closed volume for the resonance space in the wet space of the vehicle door.
Claims
1. A vehicle door, comprising: a wet space provided within the vehicle door, wherein the wet space is separated from a dry space on the vehicle door, wherein the vehicle door includes at least: a door skin which borders the wet space and the dry space, a speaker, and a resonance body component configured to form a resonance space for the speaker on the vehicle door, wherein the resonance body component defines a closed volume for the resonance space in the wet space of the vehicle door.
2. The vehicle door of claim 1, wherein with at least one component portion the resonance body component is arranged on a first side of a door skin portion of the door skin facing the wet space.
3. The vehicle door of claim 2, wherein the vehicle door includes a carrier component fixed to the door skin for separating the wet space from the dry space on the vehicle door, and the resonance body component is connected to the carrier component.
4. The vehicle door of claim 3, wherein with the at least one component portion the resonance body component is arranged on the first side of the door skin portion of the door skin facing the wet space, and with at least one carrier portion the carrier component is arranged on a second side of the door skin portion facing the dry space.
5. The vehicle door of claim 4, wherein the door skin portion on which, on different sides facing away from each other, portions of the resonance body component and of the carrier component are arranged, is formed by an edge that borders an opening in the door skin, which is at least partly closed by the carrier component for separating the wet space from the dry space.
6. The vehicle door of claim 5, wherein the door skin portion is at least partly arranged between the at least one component portion of the resonance body component and the carrier component portion.
7. The vehicle door of claim 6, wherein the carrier portion rests against the second side of the door skin portion, on whose first side the at least one component portion of the resonance body component is arranged, and includes a speaker opening for the speaker.
8. The vehicle door of claim 7, wherein the speaker opening of the carrier component is aligned with a door skin-side speaker opening of the door skin.
9. The vehicle door of claim 8, wherein at least one component portion of the resonance body component directly rests against a wet-space side of the carrier component facing the wet space.
10. The vehicle door of claim 9, wherein at least one fastening point the carrier component and the resonance body component are connected to the door skin and fixed to the same via at least one common fastening element.
11. The vehicle door of claim 1, wherein the vehicle door includes a carrier component fixed to the door skin configured to separate the wet space from the dry space, an opening in the door skin is at least partly closed, and a speaker opening on the speaker at the door skin at a distance to the opening at least partly closed by the carrier component.
12. The vehicle door of claim 11, wherein the resonance body component includes first and second component portions, wherein in a first component portion at least part of the speaker is received and a second component portion extends along the door skin portion of the door skin away from the first component portion.
13. The vehicle door of claim 12, wherein the first and second component portions of the resonance body component are arranged on the door skin away from the opening at least partly closed by the carrier component and hence at a distance to the carrier component.
14. The vehicle door of claim 13, wherein a bass reflex box or a transmission line housing is formed with the resonance body component.
15. The vehicle door of claim 14, wherein the resonance body component includes an opening for the speaker and at least one reflex tube or a transmission line tube with an additional tube opening that is arranged at a distance to the opening for the speaker.
16. The vehicle door of claim 15, wherein the transmission line tube of the resonance body component includes two tube portions which define a tube channel for sound waves propagating within the resonance body component, which has a course bent at least once by 180°.
17. The vehicle door of claim 16, wherein a tube end of the reflex tube or of the transmission line tube including the tube opening is received in a carrier opening of a carrier component that is fixed to the door skin for separating the wet space from the dry space.
18. The vehicle door of claim 17, wherein at least one component portion of the resonance body component forms at least part of a crash pad within the vehicle door, which is adapted and provided for absorbing deformation forces that act on the vehicle door due to an accident.
19. The vehicle door of claim 18, wherein at least one component portion of the resonance body component is adapted and provided for guiding and/or supporting an adjustable window pane of the vehicle door in at least part of a provided adjustment range of the window pane.
20. The vehicle door according to claim 19, wherein the door skin bordering the wet space and the dry space is a door inner skin of the vehicle door, opposite which a door outer skin of the vehicle door bordering the wet space is at least sectionally arranged, and the resonance body component comprises a supporting portion via which at least one portion of the door outer skin is supported on the resonance body component.
21. The vehicle door according to claim 20, wherein the resonance body component comprises a functional portion by means of which a cutout in the door skin is at least partly closed.
22. The vehicle door according to claim 21, wherein on an outer shell surface located within the wet space the resonance body component forms at least one water drain via which liquid can be discharged from the shell surface of the resonance body component.
23. A method for mounting a door assembly for a vehicle door, comprising: providing the vehicle door, wherein the vehicle door includes a wet space within the vehicle door that is separate from a dry space of the vehicle door; providing a door skin for the vehicle door, which borders the wet space-NO and the dry space; providing a speaker; and providing a resonance body component for forming a resonance space for the speaker, wherein the resonance body component is arranged within the wet space and for the resonance space a closed volume is defined in the wet space of the vehicle door.
24. The method of claim 23, wherein with at least one component portion the resonance body component is arranged on a first side of a door skin portion of the door skin facing the wet space.
25. The method of claim 24, wherein a carrier component to be fixed to the door skin is provided on the vehicle door for separating the wet space from the dry space.
26. The method of claim 25, wherein the resonance body component is arranged with the at least one component portion on the first side of the door skin portion of the door skin facing the wet space, before the carrier component is arranged with at least one carrier portion on a second side of the door skin portion facing the dry space.
27. The method of claim 26, wherein the door skin portion is formed by an edge bordering an opening in the door skin and the resonance body component is arranged on the first side of the door skin portion, before the opening is at least partly closed by the carrier component for separating the wet space from the dry space.
28. The method of claim 27, wherein the resonance body component initially is arranged in a mounting position on the first side of the door skin portion and is fixed in an end position only after mounting the carrier component to the door skin.
29. The method of claim 28, wherein for taking its end position at least one fastening point the resonance body component is fixed to the door skin via at least one fastening element, via which the carrier component is also fixed to the door skin.
Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0043] The attached Figures by way of example illustrate possible design variants of the proposed solution.
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0060] With a view to different sides of a carrier component in the form of a flat door module carrier 1,
[0061] In the present case, the door module carrier 1 with the functional components pre-mounted thereon is mounted to the door inner skin TI at several fastening points proceeding from the dry space TR and is fixed to the door inner skin TI at an edge R circumferentially bordering the mounting opening O, which forms a door skin portion of the door inner skin TI. On a dry-space side 1B of the door module carrier 1 facing the dry space TR, functional components of the vehicle door can likewise be arranged. These include for example functional components of the window regulator drive to be protected from moisture.
[0062] To be able to provide a defined resonance space 20 within the wet space NR for the speaker 4 held on the door module carrier 1, the vehicle door shown in
[0063] The resonance body component 2 forms two component portions 20 and 21. A first component portion 20 is arranged directly opposite a door skin-side speaker opening LO. Thus, on the wet-space side of the door inner skin TI the first component 20 completely covers the speaker opening LO of the door inner skin TI provided at the edge R. The speaker opening 104 provided on the side of the door module carrier, on which the speaker 4 is held, is aligned completely with the door skin-side speaker opening LO. Hence, when the door module carrier 1 is mounted to the door inner skin TI via the door skin-side speaker opening LO, the speaker 4 pre-mounted to the wet-space side 1A of the door module carrier 1 can protrude into the wet space NR and into the resonance space 200 of the resonance body component 2 mounted already to the door inner skin.
[0064] The second component portion 21 extends away from the first component portion 20 of the resonance body component 2, namely along the edge R of the door inner skin TI. In the present case, an elongate extension of the second component portion 21 is provided along the edge R, without the second component portion 21 protruding beyond the edge R into the module opening O. On the one hand, an increase of the resonance space 200 is achieved via the second component portion 21. On the other hand, the second component portion 21 can be used for fixing the resonance body component 2 to the door inner skin TI.
[0065] In principle, as is illustrated with reference to an exemplary flow diagram of
[0066] For fixing the door module carrier 1 to the door inner skin TI, a plurality of fastening points at the edge R are used. Individual fastening points 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3 may be provided in a region of the edge R of the door inner skin TI, on which the resonance body component 2 is arranged. One or more (at least two) of these fastening points 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3 then can be used for example for jointly fixing the door module carrier 1 and the resonance body component 2 to the door inner skin TI. Then, for example, the resonance body component 2 initially present in a mounting position then is also transferred into an end position and fixed to the door inner skin TI only via the fixation of the door module carrier 1 to the door inner skin TI. At a fastening point 3.1, 3.2 or 3.3 a common fastening element thus can be used for fixing the door module carrier 1 and the resonance body component 2 at the same time, which rest on different sides of the edge R of the door inner skin TI extending around the module opening O.
[0067] Via the resonance body component 2 of the vehicle door of
[0068] In individual views and on an enlarged scale,
[0069] Via an outside of the resonance body component 2 facing the door outer skin of the vehicle door, a guidance and/or support of a window pane to be adjusted within the wet space NR (at least into its lowered bottom end position) furthermore can be provided. In addition, the resonance body component at least sectionally protruding in the direction of the door outer skin can form a crash pad or at least part of a crash pad within the vehicle door. Such a variant is shown in
[0070] In addition,
[0071] The elongate second component portion 21 of the resonance body component 2 in principle can be configured as a reflex tube for the speaker 4 and can be dimensioned correspondingly. In the design variant of
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[0073] In principle, when inserted with a functional portion 24 into a cutout A of the door inner skin TI, the resonance body component 2 can absorb loads occurring in operation or also in the event of a crash via its attachment to the door inner skin TI—and possibly to a door module carrier 1—and transmit such loads into the components and structures connected thereto. Correspondingly, it may be recommendable to mold the resonance body component 2 from a plastic material whose strength substantially corresponds to or exceeds the strength of that material from which a door module carrier 1 of the vehicle door is made.
[0074] In all illustrated exemplary embodiments, the sound transmission properties of the vehicle door or a door system formed therewith can be improved by decoupling a speaker membrane in the wet space NR by means of the resonance body component 2. This also improves a transfer path for sound waves generated. At the same time, an excitation of components of the vehicle door, such as a door outer skin and components present in the wet space NR by the sound pressure of the speaker 4, can be reduced. This in turn involves a reduction of disturbing noises with an increase in audio quality at the same time via audio signals output by the speaker 4.
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[0076] The longitudinally extending component portion 21 of the resonance body component 21 therefor configures the reflex tube 25 with a reflex tube opening 250. A portion of the reflex tube 25 is received in a carrier opening 105 of the door module carrier 1 configured as a through opening so that the reflex tube opening 250 is accessible in the dry space TR and sound waves can be emitted into the dry space TR. In the exemplary embodiment shown in
[0077] In the design variant of
[0078] The tube length of the tube channel K moreover is dimensioned in such a way that the tube length λ/4 respectively corresponds to a multiple of a quarter of the wavelength of a fundamental wave defined with the transmission housing of the resonance body component 2.
[0079] Furthermore, in both design variants of
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[0081] For separately fixing the resonance body component 2 to the door inner skin TI the resonance body component 2 in the design variant of
[0082] Furthermore, the resonance body component 2 can also include a supporting portion for supporting a door outer skin TA located opposite the door inner skin TI and bordering the wet space NR. Then, at least one portion of the door outer skin TA facing the wet space NR—in
[0083] To avoid an accumulation of liquid on an outer shell surface of the resonance body component 2, and in a region of transition to the supporting plate 28, such as in the case of the resonance body component 2 extending across the entire width of the wet space NR between the two lateral fastening tabs 27, a plurality of water drains 20 are formed on the resonance body component 2 of
[0084] Such a configuration moreover can also be provided in a resonance body component 2 of
[0085] The design variants of
LIST OF REFERENCE NUMERALS
[0086] 1 door module carrier (carrier component) [0087] 10 carrier surface [0088] 102 drive carrier portion [0089] 103 rail carrier portion [0090] 104 speaker opening [0091] 105 carrier opening (for reflex tube) [0092] 106 carrier opening (for tube end of the transmission line tube) [0093] 1A wet-space side [0094] 1B dry-space side [0095] 2 resonance body component [0096] 20, 21 component portion [0097] 200 resonance space [0098] 201.1-201.4 fastening point [0099] 22 opening [0100] 23 crash pad [0101] 24 functional portion [0102] 25 reflex tube [0103] 250 reflex tube opening [0104] 260 open tube end [0105] 26a, 26b tube portion [0106] 27 lateral fastening tab (fastening portion) [0107] 28 supporting plate (supporting portion) [0108] 280 supporting surface [0109] 29 water drain [0110] 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 fastening point [0111] 4 speaker [0112] A cutout [0113] FS1, FS2 guide rail [0114] K tube channel [0115] L fastening tab [0116] LO (door skin-side) speaker opening [0117] NR wet space [0118] O module opening [0119] R edge (door skin portion) [0120] S window pane [0121] TA door outer skin [0122] TI door inner skin [0123] TR dry space [0124] Y mounting direction