VARIABLE EXPANSION APPARATUS FOR ACTIVITY SPACE OF CAMPING CAR
20220001788 · 2022-01-06
Inventors
Cpc classification
Y02T10/90
GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
B60J5/0473
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
B60J5/0498
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
B60P3/34
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
B60K16/00
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
International classification
Abstract
The present disclosure provides a house expander for a camping car, in which residential activities are made in the activity space created by the variable member provided in the cargo box and a variable device when the camping car is used for camping or residence and the camping car travels as a wing body tower vehicle as the variable member is received in a variable member arranging space of the cargo box.
Claims
1. A house expander for a camping car, a caravan, or a mobile house, comprising: a cargo box including a ceiling, a bottom, a front wall connecting the ceiling and an end of a front surface of the bottom, and a rear wall connecting the ceiling and an end of a rear surface of the bottom; a left vertical support member hinge-coupled to front corners of the ceiling and the bottom to be rotatable, and configured to cover a side of the cargo box when being closed and expand a width of the front wall while contacting the front wall when being opened; a right vertical support member hinge-coupled to rear corners of the ceiling and the bottom to be rotatable, and configured to cover the side of the cargo box when being closed and expand a width of the rear wall while contacting the rear wall when being opened; an upper panel coupled to a side end of the ceiling in a foldable form and configured to expand the ceiling during an expansion operation; a lower panel coupled to a side end of the bottom in a foldable form and configured to expand the bottom during an expansion operation; and a front vertical member connected to ends of the upper panel and the lower panel to define a side wall.
2. The house expander of claim 1, wherein at least one of the upper panel configured to expand the ceiling during the expansion operation and the lower panel configured to expand the bottom during the expansion operation is configured to fold in a V-shape.
3. The house expander of claim 1, wherein at least one of the upper panel configured to expand the ceiling during the expansion operation and the lower panel configured to expand the bottom during the expansion operation is configured to fold in a W-shape.
Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
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[0040] Hereinafter, various embodiments of the present disclosure will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, those of ordinary skill in the art will recognize that modifications, equivalents, and/or alternatives on the various embodiments described herein may be variously made without departing from the scope and spirit of the present disclosure. With regard to the description of drawings, similar components may be denoted by similar reference numerals.
[0041] The present disclosure relates to a house expander for a camping car that further includes a variable member for making variable activity spaces for arranging furnishings, such as furniture that is necessary for residence and residential lives and household goods, which are necessary in life activities, in an interior space of a cargo box that constitutes a top of a vehicle, and for activities such as cooking, sleeping, rests, and businesses, in which residential activities are possible in the activity space formed by the variable member and a variable device provided in the cargo box when the camping car is used for the purpose of camping or residence and the camping car may travel as a wing body tower vehicle by receiving the variable member in a variable member arranging space of the interior space of the cargo box when the camping car moves, and, as illustrated in
[0042] In order to implement the house expander for the camping car of the present disclosure, first, as illustrated in
[0043] The cargo box 10 is formed in a form of a mounting type camping car integrally installed in the vehicle, the front, rear, upper, and lower sides of the cargo box 10 are connected by the front wall 11, the rear wall 12, the ceiling 13, and the bottom 14, and as illustrated in
[0044] As illustrated in
[0045] Furthermore, furniture used in the kitchen and kitchen furnishings of household goods are arranged in the kitchen space 92, furniture used in the living room and living room furnishings of household goods are arranged in the living room space 92, bathroom furnishings related to washing, relieving oneself, and shower which are made in the bathroom, are arranged in the bathroom space 91, and doors 54, through which users may enter or exit, are provided between the partitioned spaces.
[0046] Then, it is preferable that the doors 54 are installed on opposite sides of the bathroom space 91 to allow users to enter or exit the kitchen space 92 and the living room space 93 through the bathroom space 91, that is, the bathroom space 91 also has an activity space to perform a movement passage function. As illustrated in
[0047] Meanwhile, as illustrated in
[0048] Roller type awnings 72 which block direct light and rainwater by moving the movable wing bodies 20 and interwork with the movable wing bodies 20 to be inserted and extracted are provided on an inside of the movable wing bodies 20.
[0049] The opposite sides of the opened cargo box 10 are blocked by the side walls of the movable wing bodies 20. As illustrated in
[0050] The opening states of the left vertical support member 31 and the right vertical support member 32 are illustrated in
[0051] Furthermore, the front vertical members 45 that are arranged in the vertical side wall spaces 43 and are horizontally moved to the opposite sides of the interior space 15 of the cargo box 10 along the guide rollers on the inner surfaces of the left vertical support member 31 and the right vertical support member 32 after the left vertical support member 31 and the right vertical support member 32 are rotated by 90° to be opened are further provided. Movement rollers 35 that allow the front vertical members 45 to exit and enter easily are formed along the guiderails 34 unfolded from the left vertical support member 31 and the right vertical support member 32.
[0052] The horizontal variable members 40 are located on the insides of the front vertical members 45, the right vertical support members 32 are located on the outsides of the front vertical members 45, and the front vertical members 45 are included in the vertical side walls 30.
[0053] The front vertical members 45, as illustrated in
[0054] Each of the horizontal variable members 40, as illustrated in
[0055] The upper panel 41 is mounted on the ceiling 13 of the cargo box 10 and the lower panel 42 is mounted on the bottom 42 of the cargo box 10 by the hinges 37 that rotate by 90°, respectively.
[0056] Accordingly, when the front vertical members 45 are completely extracted to the opposite sides of the interior space of the cargo box 10 along the inner surfaces of the left vertical support members 31 and the right vertical support members 32, the lower panels 42 are unfolded horizontally, the guiderails 34 unfolded from the left vertical support member 31 and the right vertical support member 32 are inserted into the rail coupling grooves 177 on the bottom surfaces of the lower panels 42 so that the left vertical support members 31 and the right vertical support members 32 are coupled to the lower panels 42, and load of the lower panels 42 are transferred to the guiderails 34 of the left vertical support member 31 and the right vertical support member 32.
[0057] The upper panels 41 and the lower panels 42 of the horizontal variable member 40, as in
[0058] Then, the opening type guiderail receivers 178 and the guiderails 34 are further provided at facing inner lower portions of the left vertical support member 31 and the right vertical support member 32, the movement rollers 35 that allow the front vertical member 45 to be received and extracted along the guiderails 34 unfolded from the left vertical support member 34 and the right vertical support member 32 are provided on opposite sides of lower ends of the front vertical members 45, the rail coupling grooves 177 that are mounted on the guiderails 34 rotated from the guiderail receivers 178 of the left vertical support members 31 and the right vertical support members 32 to couple the vertical side walls 30 and the lower panels 42 are provided on the bottom surfaces of the sides of the lower panels 42, which are to be arranged in the horizontal variable member arranging spaces 44. Accordingly, the horizontal variable member 40 interworks with the front vertical member 45 by the hinges 37 mounted on upper and lower portions of the upper panels 41 and the lower panels 42 when the front vertical members 45 are moved by the movement rollers 35 slid in the guiderails 34.
[0059] Then, the guiderails 34 are formed on rotary members 172 coupled to hinges 171 in the guiderail receivers 178 to be rotated.
[0060] The vertical side walls 30 are arranged on inner surfaces of the movable wing bodies 20 that constitute the cargo box 10 of
[0061] It is preferable that the front vertical members 33 constituted by the vertical side walls 30 are walls that will form a wall on the front surface of the activity space 61 and most parts of the walls may be installed to have the windows 52 for shielding of light, ventilation, and views, and the left vertical support members 31 and the right vertical support members 32 are walls that will form the wall surfaces on the left and right sides of the variable activity spaces and the windows 52 for shielding of light and ventilation are installed.
[0062] The upper panels 41 constituted by the horizontal variable members 40 form the ceilings of the variable activity spaces 61, and the lower panels 42 form the bottoms of the variable activity spaces 61.
[0063] The front vertical members 45, the left vertical support members 31, and the right vertical support members 32 constituted by the vertical side walls 30 are manufactured to have lengths and heights that are the same as the length and the height of the cargo box 10, and are arranged on side surfaces of the cargo box 10 in the sequence of the front vertical members 45, the left vertical support members 31, and the right vertical support members 32 from the inner side.
[0064] The lengths and the widths of the upper panels 41 and the lower panels 42 constituted by the horizontal variable members 40 are the same as a value obtained by adding the length of the cargo box 10 and the width of the horizontal variable member 40 arranging spaces of the cargo box.
[0065] The widths of the spaces of the horizontal member 40 arranging spaces are arithmetically determined according to the thicknesses of the panels and the number of the continuously foldable panels that are divided in detail.
[0066] Accordingly, the horizontal members 40 are arranged in the horizontal variable member 40 spaces of the interior space 15 of the cargo box 10 to be symmetrical upwards and downwards, by dividing a panel having a large width, which has the same length as that of the cargo box, into a plurality of panels having a height that is less than half a height of the cargo box 10, manufacturing the continuous foldable upper and lower panels 41 and 42 having a Z shape with the hinges 171 that rotate by 180° such that the divided panels may be folded and unfolded such that surfaces thereof face each other, mounting the manufactured continuously foldable upper and lower panels 41 and 42 such that sides of the upper panels 41 are arranged at upper support stoppers 121 of the ceilings 13 of the horizontal variable member arranging space 44 of the cargo box and opposite sides thereof are disposed at upper portions of the front vertical members 45 to form a W shape downwardly with the hinges 171 that rotate by 90°, and mounting the lower panels such that sides of the lower panels 42 are arranged at the lower support stoppers 122 of the bottoms 14 at lower portions of the horizontal variable member upper panels 41 corresponding to the upper panels 41 and opposite sides thereof are arranged at lower portions of the front vertical members 45 to form an M shape downwardly with the hinges 171 that rotate by 90°.
[0067] In relation to the upper panels 41 and the lower panels 42 arranged in the horizontal variable member arranging spaces 44, when the movable wing bodies 20 are opened and the left vertical support members 31 and the right vertical support members 32 are opened to the outside of the cargo box to be rotated by 90°, the guiderails 34 inserted into the guiderail receiving spaces on the lower walls of the left vertical support members 31 and the right vertical support member 32 are rotated, and the front vertical members 45 of the cargo box are extracted, the movement rollers 35 at lower portions of the front vertical members 45 are extracted along the guiderails 34 on the inner surfaces of the left vertical support member 31 and the right vertical support member 32 whereby the upper panels 41 and the lower panels 42 constituted by the horizontal variable members 40 interwork with each other to be unfolded. Then, the movable wing bodies 20 are also extracted along the wing body movement rails 179 whereby the movable wing bodies 20 form the expanded activity space 61 having a pair of roofs on the left and right sides of the cargo box 10.
[0068] Then, when the upper panels 41 and the lower panels 42 are completely unfolded, the guiderails 34 formed by moving the front vertical members 45 on the inner surfaces of the lower sides of the left and right vertical support members 31 and 32 are inserted into and coupled to the guiderail inserts 43 of the lower panels 42 that are the horizontal variable members 40. Thus, the upper sides of the front vertical members 45 are fixedly coupled to the upper panels 41 and the lower sides of the front vertical members 450 are fixedly coupled to the lower panels 42. Accordingly, the vertical side walls 30 and the horizontal variable members 40 constituted by the variable extending devices 30 and 40 are coupled to each other and thus the activity space 61 of the present disclosure, in which the walls, the ceiling, and the bottom are integrally formed, is made.
[0069] The horizontal variable members 40 and the vertical side walls 30 are important structures for additionally expanding the activity space 61 of a specific size, which will be used for residential activities. It is preferable that they are formed of a urethane material that is easily carried, is conveniently manipulated, has a light weight, has an excellent strength, and is widely used for known buildings and freezing tower vehicles, of which the insulation according to cooling and heating has been verified. It is preferable that their thicknesses are the same thickness as that of the freezing tower vehicle of about 6.0 cm.
[0070] It is preferable that the materials of the panels of the front walls 11, the rear walls 12, the ceilings 13, and the bottoms 14 are also the same as those of the horizontal variable members 40 and the vertical side walls 30.
[0071] It is preferable that the outer surfaces of the horizontal variable members 40, the vertical side walls 30, the front walls 11, the rear walls 12, the ceilings 13, and the bottoms 14, which will be manufactured of the urethane material are formed of a metallic exterior materials in consideration of their strengths and external appearances and the inner surfaces thereof are formed of urethane composite panels such as decorative materials, including wood panels that are luxurious and splendid. It is preferable that the continuously foldable upper panels 41 and the continuously foldable lower panels 42 is formed by reinforcing a steel material having an excellent tensile force in the urethane composite panels.
[0072] Then, in order to realize the upper panels 41 and the lower panels 42 in continuously foldable forms, hinges 49 that rotate by 180° are mounted between the upper panels 41 and the lower panels 42.
[0073] Furthermore, as in
[0074] Meanwhile, the present disclosure includes a driver that operates the movable wing bodies 20, the front vertical members 45, and the horizontal variable members 40. Then, the driver may be implemented by a mechanical, electrical, or electronic driving device, and a user may directly operate them with hands without using the driving device.
[0075] The opened movable wing body 20, as in
[0076] Then, it is preferable that a stopper 74, as in
[0077] Meanwhile, as another embodiment, as in
[0078] As another embodiment, as in
[0079] In the present disclosure having the above configuration, the cargo box 10 is any one of a camping car, a caravan, and a mobile house that travels on a road, furnishings 19 such as furniture and household goods that are necessary for camping and residential activities are arranged in the interior space 15 of the cargo box 10, the variable expanded activity space 61 for cooking, sleeping, rests, and business activities is formed by expanding and installing the vertical side wall 30 and the horizontal variable member 40, the movable wing body 20 is closed when the cargo box 10 is moved such that the cargo box 10 travels as a wing body tower vehicle, and residential activities are possible through the expanded activity space 61 during camping or residence.
[0080] In order to help understanding by explaining the embodiment in the following, the present disclosure specifies the specifications of the wing body tower vehicle having a length of the vehicle of 5.0 m, a total width of the vehicle of 2.5 m, a length of the cargo box of 5.0 m, and a width of the cargo box of 2.1 m, and a height of the tower of 2.65 m, and other specifications also are possible.
[0081] The left and right side surfaces of the interior of the movable wing body 20 that constitutes the cargo box 10 of
[0082] A foldable awning 102 is further provided at an upper portion of the front vertical member 45 and the solar panel 106 is further provided on an upper surface of the foldable awning 102, and the foldable floor 104 is further provided at a lower portion of the front vertical member 45.
[0083] Among the specified width of 2.5 m of the cargo box 10 of the vehicle, the widths of 0.24 m of the left and right side surfaces become the horizontal variable member 40 arranging spaces. The space corresponding to the width of 1.62 m and the length of 5.0 m of the cargo box 10, except for the horizontal variable member 40 arranging space first is divided into two parts horizontally, and when the front surface of the cargo box 10 is divided into two parts to be divided into left and right side surfaces 92 and 93 after the front surface of the cargo box 10 is made to less than 3.5 m and the rear surface of the cargo box 10 is made to less than 1.5 m, the interior space 15 is partitioned into three parts 91, 92, and 93 as in
[0084] When the width of 0.9 m of one side of the front surface of the cargo box 10 is made as the kitchen furnishing arranging space 93, the width of 0.72 m of an opposite side of the front surface of the cargo box is made as a living room furnishing arranging space 92, the width of less than 1.5 m of the front surface of the interior space 15 of the cargo box 10 is determined as the bathroom space 91 such that the spaces are separated by installing the partition walls 98 and 99 on the border lines of the spaces, and walls are installed on the border surfaces 11 and 12, except for the opening 95 for receiving the horizontal variable member 40 on the outside of the horizontal variable member arranging space 40 to form the independent living room furnishing space 92, the kitchen furnishing space 93, and the bathroom space 91, the length and the width of the living room furnishing space 92 is 3.44 m and 0.87 m, the length and the width of the kitchen furnishing space 93 is 3.44 m and 0.69 m, and the length and the width of the bathroom space 93 is 0.69 m and 1.52 m.
[0085] The living room activity space 61 and the kitchen activity space 61 variably expanded by the vertical side wall 30 and the horizontal variable member 40 are the activity space 61 illustrated in the present disclosure, and two compartments having a length of 5.0 in, a width of 5.0 m, and an area of 25.0 m.sup.2 are formed on opposite side surfaces of the cargo box 10 so that new expanded activity spaces of 50.0 m.sup.2 are formed on the outside of the cargo box 10 whereby the activity space 61 of 400% of the space of the cargo box 10 is formed.
[0086] The width of the space, in which the horizontal variable member 40 formed by the ceiling and the bottom of the compartment is to be disposed, is 0.24 m, and the width of the continuously foldable upper panel 41 and the width of the continuously foldable lower panel 42 are a length of 5.24 m obtained by adding the width of the horizontal variable member arranging space 44 to the length of the cargo box, respectively, and a total width is 10.48 m.
[0087] A measure and means for arranging the continuously foldable upper panel 41 and the continuously foldable lower panel 42 corresponding to 21 times of the horizontal variable member arranging space 44 of the cargo box 10 that is as narrow as 4.6% of the width of the horizontal variable member arranging space 40 as the lengths of the upper panel 41 and the lower panel 42 divided by the horizontal variable member is 2,183% of the horizontal variable member arranging space 40 of the cargo box 10 are the most important objective and technology of the present disclosure.
[0088] Accordingly, according to the present disclosure, in order to form the activity space 61, in the camping car, in which the vertical side walls 30 that form the walls on the front wall surface and the walls on the left and right side surfaces and the horizontal variable members 40 that form the ceilings and the bottoms are disposed on the left, right, and outer sides of the interior space 15 of the cargo box 10, and the variable expanding devices for the activity spaces 61, in which convenience facilities such as the household goods according to the residential activities and furnishings are arranged, are provided on the inner side of the cargo box 10, an activity space corresponding to a house or an environment that is simple, is made wider promptly, is sanitary, and comfortable may be built when the left vertical support member 31 and the right vertical support member 32 constituted by the variable vertical side walls 10 arranged in the cargo box 10 and the front vertical members 45 are extracted without using special equipment and skilled technology by any one when a user does camping activities and residential activities at a destination, whereby the present disclosure can significantly contribute to provision of long-time, comfortable, and sanitary leisure activities and camping cultures.
[0089] According to the present disclosure having the above configuration, the furnishings that are necessary for activities and the vertical walls 30 and the horizontal variable members 40 for building the variable activity space 61 are provided in the interior space 15 of the cargo box 10 that constitutes the tower of the vehicle, and the activity space 61 made by the vertical side walls 30, the horizontal variable members 40, and the variable device provided in the cargo box 10 is used as the activity space 61 such as cooking, sleeping, rests, and business when the camping car is used for camping or residence, and the vertical side walls 30 and the horizontal variable members 40 area received in the vertical side wall spaces 43 and the horizontal variable member arranging spaces 44 of the interior space 15 of the cargo box 10 whereby the camping car travels as a wing body tower vehicle to realize the configuration of the interior and the activity space of the cargo box.
[0090] Although the present disclosure has been described with reference to the embodiments illustrated in the drawings, they are merely exemplary, and it is apparent that an ordinary person in the art can make various modifications and perform equivalent embodiments. Accordingly, the genuine technical scope of the present disclosure should be construed by the attached claims, and all the technical spirits within the equivalent ranges fall within the scope of the present disclosure.