Glove box for preventing received articles from being ejected therefrom

• US 7,226,103 B2
• Filed: 06/22/2005
• Issued: 06/05/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/14/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Chang, Sug-Dae
• Primary Examiner(s): Pedder; Dennis H.
• Application Number:
  US11/157,940
• Publication Number:
  US 20060012204A1
• Time in Patent Office: 713 Days
• Field of Search: 296/37.12
• US Class Current: 296/37.12
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 7/06 mounted on or below dashboards

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a glove box for preventing received articles from being ejected from the glove box. The glove box comprises a receiving part opened or closed in a front side of the glove box about a hinge part provided at a lower portion of the glove box and having an inner receiving space formed in the receiving part to receive articles, a front cover formed on a front side of the receipt part, and a secondary cover to cover one side of an upper portion of the glove box in order to prevent the receiving articles from being ejected from the receiving part. The glove box can prevent the received articles from being ejected through the opened upper portion of the receiving part to the outside due to an impact, caused by vibration, collisions, and the like, during driving.

Claims

1. A glove box for preventing received articles from being ejected from the glove box, comprising:

a receiving part opened or closed in a front side of the glove box about a hinge part provided at a lower portion of the glove box, and having an inner receiving space formed in the receiving part to receive articles;

a front cover formed on a front side of the receiving part and forming a substantial continuation of an instrument panel front surface; and

a secondary cover to cover a rear portion of an upper side of the glove box in order to prevent the received articles from being ejected from the receiving part,

wherein the secondary cover remains behind the front surface of the instrument panel when the glove box is opened.

2. The glove box according to claim 1, wherein the secondary cover is integrally formed to the receiving part by injection molding, and includes a hinge connection having bent grooves formed at both outer sides of the secondary cover, such that the secondary cover rotates about the hinge connection to cover the one side of the upper portion of the glove box.

3. The glove box according to claim 1, wherein the receiving part has a fastening bar provided in the longitudinal direction to an upper end of the receiving part, and the secondary cover has a hinge holder formed by winding one end of the secondary cover to define an insertion space opened at one side of the hinge holder, such that the hinge holder of the secondary cover can be hinged to the fastening bar.

4. The glove box according to claim 1, wherein the receiving part has latching rims protruded at both sides of the receiving part, and the secondary cover has hook-shaped elastic protrusions formed at both sides of the secondary cover to be elastically latched to the latching rims, respectively.

5. The glove box according to claim 1, wherein the secondary cover has a fixing hole penetrated through the secondary cover to allow an upper portion of a bottle-shaped container mounted inside the receiving part to be inserted into and fixed to the hole.

6. The glove box according to claim 1, wherein the secondary cover has a bent portion formed downwards at one end thereof.