Console box

• US 7,520,552 B2
• Filed: 03/14/2006
• Issued: 04/21/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nihon Plast Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nihon Plast Company Limited
• Inventors: Kamio, Kenichi, Nakamura, Tatsuhiko, Mochizuki, Hajime
• Primary Examiner(s): Morrow; Jason S
• Application Number:
  US11/374,015
• Publication Number:
  US 20060208517A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,134 Days
• Field of Search: 296/24.34, 296/37.8, 296/37.15, 108/44, 108/45, 224/275, 224/283, 312/237, 3122701-2703, 312/249.3, 312/298, 312/302, 312/303
• US Class Current: 296/24.34
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 7/04 in driver or passenger space , e.g. using racks B60R7/005, B60R7/08 take precedence

Abstract

A console box has a table of a vehicle and disposed between a pair of seats for a passenger. The console box, includes: a box body having a receptor space; a lid configured to cover the receptor space of the box body, and a table configured to move between the followings: a) a first position where the box body is overlapped with the lid, and b) a second position disposed frontward relative to the first position with respect to the seats. The table includes: a) a shaft configured to support a plate face of the table such that the plate face is rotatable substantially horizontally, and b) a guide configured to move the table frontward through between the pair of the seats.

Claims

1. A console box having a table of a vehicle and disposed between a pair of seats for a passenger, the console box comprising:

a box body having a receptor space;

a lid configured to cover the receptor space of the box body; and

a table configured to move between the followings;

a first position where the box body is overlapped with the lid, and

a second position disposed frontward relative to the first position with respect to the seats,

the table including;

a shaft configured to support a plate face of the table such that the plate face is rotatable substantially horizontally, and

a guide configured to move the table frontward through between the pair of the seats, wherein

the lid is positioned on the console box in such a manner as to open and close, the table being adapted to overlap the lid; and

the guide which is a rotary part is positioned at a front end part of the lid in such a manner as to rotate substantially horizontally about the shaft, a front end part of the table being fitted to the rotary part in such a manner as to rotate upward and downward about a horizontal shaft passing through the rotary part.

2. The console box as claimed in claim 1, wherein the rotary part and the table are substantially the same in thickness, forming a common upper face.

3. The console box as claimed in claim 1, wherein the lid has an upper face which serves as a table face.

4. The console box as claimed in claim 1, wherein between the rotary part and the lid, a frictional force applier is provided for applying a frictional force for a substantially horizontal rotation.

5. The console box as claimed in claim 4, wherein

the frictional force applier includes:

a clutch base in a lower part of the shaft which is substantially vertical,

a clutch plate below the clutch base, and

a washer below the clutch plate and at a lower end of the vertical shaft,

a spring for biasing the clutch plate upward is provided between the washer and the clutch plate,

an upper face of the clutch plate is a convex-concave in a form of a wave in a circumferential direction, while a lower face of the clutch base is formed with a protrusion engageable with the convex-concave,

the clutch plate rotates in combination with the vertical shaft, while the clutch base having a key engaged with a hole of the lid is not rotatable, and

the protrusion engaged with the convex-concave by a certain bias force applies the frictional force in a horizontal rotary direction.

6. The console box as claimed in claim 1, wherein the horizontal shaft passing through the rotary part connects two of the front end parts of the table each of the two corresponding to one of two sides of a cutout of the table, the cutout being formed in the front end part of the table.

14. The console box as claimed in claim 1, wherein the table is disposed on the lid.

7. A console box having a table of a vehicle and disposed between a pair of seats for a passenger, the console box comprising:

a box body having a receptor space;

a lid configured to cover the receptor space of the box body; and

a table configured to move between the followings;

a first position where the box body is overlapped with the lid, and

a second position disposed frontward relative to the first position with respect to the seats,

the table including;

a shaft configured to support a plate face of the table such that the plate face is rotatable substantially horizontally, and

a guide configured to move the table frontward through between the pair of the seats, wherein

the guide is configured to move the shaft frontward in such a manner that the shaft is interlocked with a rotation of the table.

8. The console box as claimed in claim 7, wherein the lid is positioned on the console box, the table being adapted to overlap the lid;

and

the guide which is a couple mechanism couples the table with the lid, the couple mechanism being configured to move the table frontward and rearward by rotating the table substantially horizontally about a rotary center which is provided on an inner area of the table.

9. The console box as claimed in claim 8, wherein the couple mechanism includes:

a first slide slit extending frontward and rearward and a second slide slit extending leftward and rightward, which are so formed on the lid as to intersect with each other, and

a first slider and a second slider each fitted to the table in such a manner as to rotate relative to the table, and engageable with the first slide slit and the second slide slit respectively in such a manner as to move therealong.

10. The console box as claimed in claim 9, wherein the lid includes an upper lid and a lower lid which are united by means of a bracket, a first pin, a clip and a second pin, and the first slide slit and the second slide slit are formed on the upper lid.

11. The console box as claimed in claim 8, wherein the couple mechanism includes:

a rack gear fitted to the lid and extending frontward and rearward, and

a pinion gear engageable with the rack gear when fixed to the table, having a center part which is supported in such a manner as to rotate relative to the lid, and movable frontward and rearward.

12. The console box as claimed in claim 11, wherein the lid has a first end provided with the rack gear extending frontward and rearward, the lid has a center formed with a pair of rails extending frontward and rearward, and an opening is defined between the rails.

13. The console box as claimed in claim 12, wherein between the rails of the lid, a slider is fitted from a lower side in such a manner as to move frontward and rearward, and the slider is fitted to the center part of the pinion gear by means of a pin passing through from the lower side.

15. The console box as claimed in claim 7, wherein the table is disposed on the lid.