Damping system of a glove box

• US 20050275146A1
• Filed: 12/30/2004
• Published: 12/15/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/09/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Shin, Kwang-Seob
• Granted Patent: US 7,370,851 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 267/226
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 7/06 mounted on or below dashboards
• CPC Class Codes: F16F 9/54 Arrangements for attachment grommet-type rubber mounting springs per se F16F1/3732; construction of cylinder ends F16F9/3242; attachments to vehicles B60G13/001, B60G15/00

Abstract

A damping system of a glove box using a damper and a wire. The damper is attached to the glove box. An end of the wire is fixed to a fastener on a lower panel. Thereby, when a field problem occurs, the damper is mounted and demounted with ease.

Claims

1. A damping system of a glove box, comprising:

a damper provided with a piston therein;

a wire connected to the piston,

wherein the damper is attachable to the glove box, and the wire has an end configured to be fixed to a fastener of a lower panel.

2. The damping system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the fastener includes:

a nut fastenable the lower panel; and

a fastening bolt threadly connectable with the nut.

3. The damping system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the nut includes an upper nut locatable on an upper portion of the lower panel and a lower nut locatable on a lower portion of the lower panel which are screwed with each other, and

wherein a direction of threading on an inner circumferential surface of the upper nut and an outer circumferential surface of the lower nut is opposite to that threaded on an inner circumferential surface of the lower nut and an outer circumferential surface of the fastening bolt.

4. The damping system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the fastening bolt has a head facing toward an opening when the glove box is opened.

5. The damping system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the fastening bolt has a head facing toward an opening when the glove box is opened.

6. The damping system as claimed in claim 3, wherein the fastening bolt has a head facing toward an opening when the glove box is opened.

7. The damping system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the glove box is provided with a pulley on a side thereof, the pulley having a groove in which the wire is guided.

8. The damping system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the glove box is provided with a pulley on a side thereof, the pulley having a groove in which the wire is guided.

9. The damping system as claimed in claim 3, wherein the glove box is provided with a pulley on a side thereof, the pulley having a groove in which the wire is guided.

10. The damping system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the end of the wire is ring-shaped.

11. The damping system as claimed in claim 10, wherein the ring-shaped end of the wire is closed.

12. The damping system as claimed in claim 10, wherein the ring-shaped end of the wire is open.