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US 12,187,346 · App. 17/753,908 · Granted Jan 7, 2025

High-integration-level plastic tail door

Inventors: Yingguo Xian (Ningbo, CN); Yongtai Pu (Ningbo, CN); Guoqiang Ye (Ningbo, CN); Zhuozhi Liu (Ningbo, CN); Yidong Wang (Ningbo, CN); Zhijun Tao (Ningbo, CN); Zhiqing Du (Ningbo, CN)
Assignee: NINGBO SHINTAI MACHINES CO., LTD.
B62D25/12B62D25/105B62D35/007B60J5/107
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Patent No.
US 12,187,346
App. No.
17/753,908
Granted
Jan 7, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed is a high-integration-level plastic tail door, comprising a tail door upper outer plate, a tail light, a tail door lower outer plate, an inner plate, and a high brake light, wherein the tail door upper outer plate, as a whole, is integrated with a spoiler, a tail door windshield, a windscreen decorating member, and a high brake light cover; the tail door upper outer plate is of two layers and is formed by means of double-shot molding, with a first layer being a transparent layer and a second layer being a black non-transparent layer; a first open hole is provided at the position of the high brake light in a black non-transparent layer area; a second open hole is provided in the middle of the tail door windshield; and a hardened coating is arranged on the outer layer of the transparent layer.

Claims (14)

1. A high-integration-level plastic tail door, comprising a tail door upper outer plate, a tail light, a tail door lower outer plate, an inner plate and a high brake light, wherein the tail door upper outer plate, as a whole, is integrated with a spoiler, a tail door windshield, a windscreen decorating member and a high brake light cover; the tail door upper outer plate has two layers and is formed by double-shot molding, with a first layer being a transparent layer and a second layer being a black non-transparent layer; a first open hole is formed in a position of the high brake light in the black non-transparent layer area, and a second open hole is formed in a middle of the tail door windshield; and a hardened coating is arranged on an outer layer of the transparent layer;

wherein the inner plate is provided with a metal reinforcing plate which comprises a pillar reinforcing plate, a hinge reinforcing plate and a ball pin reinforcing plate,

wherein the hinge reinforcing plate and the ball pin reinforcing plate are electrically welded to an upper end and a lower end of the pillar reinforcing plate respectively,

wherein a first flange and a second flange for improving stiffness of the pillar reinforcing plate are disposed on two sides of the pillar reinforcing plate,

wherein a U-groove structure is formed by the first flange, the second flange and the pillar reinforcing plate, and

wherein the first flange extends to a tail end of an area where the hinge reinforcing plate is located from a position of the ball pin reinforcing plate.

2. The high-integration-level plastic tail door according to claim 1 , wherein the tail door upper outer plate comprises, from left to right, a windshield transparent area, an original windshield black-edge area and a windscreen decorating member area, the windshield transparent area only comprises a single layer with transparent layer, the second open hole is located in the windshield transparent area, an inner layer of the original windshield black-edge area and the windscreen decorating member area is the black non-transparent layer, the black non-transparent layer is located below the transparent layer, and the inner plate is adhered to the black non-transparent layer of the tail door upper outer plate through an adhesive layer.

3. The high-integration-level plastic tail door according to claim 2 , wherein in a spoiler area, the inner plate is adhered to the tail door upper outer plate the adhesive layer, the tail door upper outer plate is only provided with a single layer with transparent layer at a position of the high brake light, the first open hole is formed in the black non-transparent layer beside the high brake light, a high brake mounting structure is disposed on a periphery the black non-transparent layer, and the high brake light is mounted on the high brake mounting structure from an inner side of the tail door upper outer plate.

4. The high-integration-level plastic tail door according to claim 3 , wherein the transparent layer at a lower end of the tail door upper outer plate and the black non-transparent layer below the transparent layer extend below the tail light and are adhered to the tail door lower outer plate through the adhesive layer, and the tail door lower outer plate is adhered to the inner plate through the adhesive layer.

5. The high-integration-level plastic tail door according to claim 1 , wherein a YZ-direction positioning pin is disposed on a surface of the spoiler, a YZ-direction positioning hole is formed in the windscreen decorating member, the YZ-direction positioning pin on the windscreen decorating member matches the YZ-direction positioning hole in the windscreen decorating member for positioning, a Y-direction auxiliary positioning pin is disposed on a surface of the inner plate, the spoiler is adhered to the inner plate with an adhesive to form a tail door body, and the windscreen decorating member is assembled on tail door body formed by adhering the spoiler to the inner plate.

6. The high-integration-level plastic tail door according to claim 5 , wherein an upward bevel is formed between the YZ-direction positioning pin and the windscreen decorating member in a horizontal direction.

7. The high-integration-level plastic tail door according to claim 1 , wherein the hinge reinforcing plate and the ball pin reinforcing plate are both 2 mm galvanized steel sheets, and the first flange and the second flange have a width greater than 20 mm.

8. The high-integration-level plastic tail door according to claim 7 , wherein the hinge reinforcing plate is formed with a hinge mounting hole, an internal decorating member mounting hole is formed in a lower end of athe hinge reinforcing plate on the pillar reinforcing plate, a first auxiliary positioning hole is formed beside the internal decorating member mounting hole, a second auxiliary positioning hole is formed in an upper end of the pillar reinforcing plate, and the first auxiliary positioning hole and the second auxiliary positioning hole are located on a same plane.

9. The high-integration-level plastic tail door according to claim 8 , wherein the ball pin reinforcing plate is formed with a ball pin mounting hole, the ball pin reinforcing plate and the pillar reinforcing plate are of a triangular structure, and the second flange extends to a platform area where the first auxiliary positioning hole is located from an area where the second auxiliary positioning hole is located.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 17, 2022
From: XIAN, YINGGUO; PU, YONGTAI; YE, GUOQIANG; LIU, ZHUOZHI; WANG, YIDONG; TAO, ZHIJUN; DU, ZHIQING
To: NINGBO SHINTAI MACHINES CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 059299/0441 →
Priority Claims (3)
CN 201921559813.9 · Sep 19, 2019 · national
CN 201921559815.8 · Sep 19, 2019 · national
CN 201911053332.5 · Oct 31, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
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