CUP HOLDER

• US 20150201780A1
• Filed: 12/04/2014
• Published: 07/23/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/21/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Company Limited (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Company Limited (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: YOKOTA, Nobuhiko, FUJISAWA, Hitoshi
• Granted Patent: US 9,221,581 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 3/10 of receptacles for food or beverages, e.g. refrigerated
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 3/101 fixed
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 3/105 for receptables of different size or shape
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 21/08 Containers of variable capacity containers of polygonal cross-section adapted to be of variable capacity formed by folding or erecting blanks made of paper B65D5/0005

Abstract

A cup holder has a height adjuster that includes a lock member turnably held by the tray, a guide groove that is formed on a sidewall of the holder body and that enables the lock member to move in a perpendicular direction, a lower latch recessed portion and an upper latch recessed portion that are formed on a groove side surface which faces the guide groove on the sidewall and that cause the tray to be held at a lower position or an upper position by latching the lock member, a latch energizing member that energizes the lock member to a latch direction for latching the lock member with the lower latch recessed portion or the upper latch recessed portion, an operation member that cancels latch of the lock member with the lower latch recessed portion when the tray is located at the lower position, and a movement energizing member that energizes the tray upward.

Claims

1. A cup holder having a cylindrical holder body that has an accommodation space surrounded by a sidewall, a tray that is accommodated in the accommodation space and is held to be vertically movable between a first position and a second position whose perpendicular direction is different from that of the first position, and a height adjuster that causes the tray to be vertically moved and held at the first position or the second position, wherein

the height adjuster comprises:

a lock member that is turnably held by the tray;

a guide groove that is formed on a sidewall of the holder body and that enables the lock member to move in a perpendicular direction;

a first latch recessed portion that is formed on a groove side surface which faces the guide groove on the sidewall of the holder body and that causes the tray to be held at the first position by latching the lock member;

a second latch recessed portion which is formed at a portion of the groove side surface of the holder body and whose position in a perpendicular direction is different from that of the first latch recessed portion and which causes the tray to be held at the second position by latching the lock member;

a latch energizing member that energizes the lock member to a latch direction for latching the lock member with the first latch recessed portion or the second latch recessed portion;

an operation member that cancels latch of the lock member with the first latch recessed portion by causing the lock member to turn to a cancellation direction opposite to the latch direction when the tray is located at the first position; and

a movement energizing member that energizes the tray from the first position toward the second position so as to vertically move the lock member of which latch with the first latch recessed portion has been canceled toward the second latch recessed portion through the guide groove.

2. The cup holder according to claim 1, wherein the operation member has a tapered portion that causes the lock member to turn to the cancellation direction when the operation member is operated.

3. The cup holder according to claim 1, wherein the lock member has a protruded portion that is extended to an outer side in a radial direction, and the protruded portion holds the tray at the first position or the second position by being latched with the first latch recessed portion or the second latch recessed portion.

4. The cup holder according to claim 3, wherein the lock member has a plurality of the protruded portions laid out in a circumferential direction, and on a sidewall of the holder body, the guide groove, the first latch recessed portion, and the second latch recessed portion are respectively formed at positions opposite to the protruded portions.

5. The cup holder according to claim 1, wherein the lock member has an inclined portion that is brought into contact with an opening peripheral edge of the second latch recessed portion.