Device having a pop-out part for installation in a motor vehicle

• US 6,213,533 B1
• Filed: 08/03/1999
• Issued: 04/10/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 08/05/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: fischerwerke Artur Fischer GmbH & Co. KG
• Original Assignee: fischerwerke Artur Fischer GmbH & Co. KG
• Inventors: Plocher, Bernd, Schmidt, Michael, Widulle, Ruediger
• Primary Examiner(s): Pape, Joseph D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): PATEL, KIRAN B
• Application Number:
  US09/368,026
• Time in Patent Office: 616 Days
• Field of Search: 296/37.1, 296/37.8, 296/37.9, 296/37.12, 296/37.13, 312/333, 312/215, 312/222, 292/DIG.22, 292/DIG.65, 224/282
• US Class Current: 296/37.12
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 7/06 mounted on or below dashboards
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 77/06 by means of inertial forces

Abstract

A device for installation in a motor vehicle has a pop-out part which is movably guided from an initial position into a usage position and vice versa, a guide for guiding the pop-out part for movement from the initial position into the usage position and vice versa, and a safety locking device having a movable latch arranged to be brought by an acceleration into an engagement with the pop-out part so as to lock the pop-out part in the initial position.

Claims

1. A device for installation in a motor vehicle, comprising a pop-out part which is movably guided from an initial position into a usage position and vice versa;

guide means for guiding said pop-out part for movement from the initial position into the usage position and vice versa; and

a safety locking device having a movable latch which in response to acceleration of a motor vehicle, is bringable into an engagement with said pop-out part so as to lock said pop-out part in the initial position.

2. A device as defined in claim 1, wherein said latch is pivotable by a pivot articulation through a limited pivoting angle and has a contact point which is spaced from a pivot axis of said latch and is arranged to be brought into an engagement with said pop-out part so as to lock said pop-out part in the initial position, said latch having a center of mass located between said pivot axis and said contact point.

3. A device as defined in claim 1, wherein said pop-out part is formed as a drawer.

4. A device as defined in claim 1, wherein said latch has a region of its center of mass and has an increased mass in said region.

5. A device as defined in claim 1, wherein said safety locking device is formed as a releasable push-push locking device.

6. A device as defined in claim 1, and further comprising an opening spring element arranged so that said pop-out part is moved by said opening spring element into the usage position.

7. A device as defined in claim 1, wherein said safety locking device is releasable push-push locking device by which said pop-out part is locked in the initial position;

and further comprising an opening spring element arranged so that said pop-out part is moved by said opening spring element into the usage position.