Damping system of a glove box

• US 7,370,851 B2
• Filed: 12/30/2004
• Issued: 05/13/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/09/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Shin, Kwang-Seob
• Primary Examiner(s): Torres; Melanie
• Application Number:
  US11/024,414
• Publication Number:
  US 20050275146A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,230 Days
• Field of Search: 267/226, 267/69, 267/70, 267/71, 267/73, 267/137
• US Class Current: 267/69
• 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, the wire having one end configured to be ring-shaped; and

a pulley is configured to be attached to the side of the glove box to guide the wire for movement,

wherein the ring-shaped end of the wire is configured to be fixed to a fastener of a lower panel, the damper is configured to place a wire hole provided at one end of the damper nearer toward a passenger than the fastener when the glove box is closed, and the lower panel, at a portion where the wire is fixed, is configured to face and be accessible through an opening of the glove box when the glove box is opened,

wherein the fastener includes;

a nut fastenable to the lower panel; and

a fastening bolt threadly connectable with the nut,

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 together,

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,

wherein the fastening bolt has a head facing toward and accessible through the opening of the glove box when the glove box is opened, and

wherein the pulley has a groove in which the wire is guided, and is provided at a position spaced from the damper and nearer toward the passenger than the wire hole when the glove box is closed.

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

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