Storage compartment

• US 20040140685A1
• Filed: 12/15/2003
• Published: 07/22/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fischer Automotive Systems GmbH & Co., KG (Fischerwerke GmbH & Company KG)
• Original Assignee: Fischer Automotive Systems GmbH & Co., KG (Fischerwerke GmbH & Company KG)
• Inventors: Gebrehiwet, Tsehaye, Frederking, Uwe, Peters, Hans-Georg, Schierling, Inge, Leopold, Gunter, Bieck, Torsten
• Application Number:
  US10/735,984
• Publication Number:
  US 20040140685A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 296/37.12
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/02 for radio sets, television sets, telephones, or the like; Arrangement of controls thereof
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0205 for radio sets B60R11/0211 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0211 for record carriers apparatus, e.g. video recorders, tape players or CD players
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0005 Dashboard
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0082 collapsible, e.g. for storing after use
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0094 characterised by means for covering after user, e.g. boxes, shutters or the like
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0096 Theft prevention of articles
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 7/06 mounted on or below dashboards

Abstract

A storage compartment assembly has a first storage compartment having a housing and an opening, an internal compartment arranged in the first storage compartment and having an access face, the internal compartment being mounted on the housing of the first storage compartment so as to be pivotable between a closed position in which the access face is unaccessible and an open position accessible via the opening of the first storage compartment, a lever mechanism, and a guide track means having a control curve, the lever mechanism and the guide track being formed so to couple the cover, the internal compartment and the housing so that when the first compartment is closed, the internal compartment is likewise pivoted from the open position into the closed position.

Claims

1. A storage compartment assembly, comprising a first storage compartment having a housing and an opening;

an internal compartment arranged in said first storage compartment and having an access face, said internal compartment being mounted on said housing of said first storage compartment so as to be pivotable between a closed position in which said access face is unaccessible and an open position accessible via said opening of said first storage compartment;

a lever mechanism; and

a guide track means having a control curve, said lever mechanism and said guide track being formed so to couple said cover, said internal compartment and said housing so that when said first compartment is closed, said internal compartment is likewise pivoted from said open position into said closed position.

2. A storage compartment as defined in claim 1, wherein said lever mechanism has a lever which is pivotally mounted in said housing, said lever having a rear end provided with a pin which engages said control curve arranged on said internal compartment, said lever having a forward end provided with a control surface to which a force is transmittable when said cover is closed.

3. A storage compartment as defined in claim 2, wherein said lever is pivotally mounted on said internal compartment, said pin engaging in said control curve arranged in said housing.

4. A storage compartment as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising a control slider arranged so that a transmission of force to said lever mechanism when said cover is closed is effected by said control slider, said control slider being mounted on said housing.

5. A storage compartment as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising a control lug provided on said cover and formed so that a transmission of force to said lever mechanism when said cover is closed is effected by said control lug.

6. A storage compartment as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising a manually unlockable catch which holds said internal compartment in said closed position.

7. A storage compartment as defined in claim 2, wherein said lever has at its rear end a displaceably mounted control head having a pin, and further comprising a torsion spring which connects said lever and said control head with one another and presses said control head against a closing pivoting movement of said lever, said control curve of said guide track means being formed so that when said internal compartment is being pivoted into said closed position an overtravel movement is performed which affects engagement of said internal compartment in a latch.