Overhead console of vehicle

• US 8,505,994 B2
• Filed: 12/12/2011
• Issued: 08/13/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/04/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Inventors: Park, Jong Bae, Park, June Soo
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Kiran B
• Application Number:
  US13/323,304
• Publication Number:
  US 20130113231A1
• Time in Patent Office: 610 Days
• Field of Search: 296/24.34, 296/214, 296/37.7, 296/37.8, 224/311, 340/425.5, 340/438, 340/461, 340/525, 701/1, 701/36, 362/494, 313/501, 348/148
• US Class Current: 296/24.34
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/008 allowing the driver to see passengers, e.g. for busses combined with rear-view mirrors B60R1/08

Abstract

An overhead console of the vehicle may include a housing provided on a front portion of an indoor ceiling of the vehicle and having a downwardly open accommodation portion formed therein, a glass case accommodated in the accommodation portion and rotatably coupled to the housing around a rotating shaft that may be formed on a front side surface of the housing in a traverse direction of the vehicle, and a conversation mirror rotatably coupled with the housing in the accommodation portion and selectively engaged with a rear portion of the glass case.

Claims

1. An overhead console of the vehicle comprising:

a housing provided on a front portion of an indoor ceiling of the vehicle and having a downwardly open accommodation portion formed therein;

a glass case accommodated in the accommodation portion and rotatably coupled to the housing around a rotating shaft that is formed on a front side surface of the housing in a traverse direction of the vehicle; and

a conversation mirror rotatably coupled with the housing in the accommodation portion and selectively engaged with a rear portion of the glass case.

2. The overhead console of the vehicle according to claim 1, wherein a first guide protrusion is formed on a side surface of the glass case to project toward an inner side surface of the housing, and a first guide slot having an arc shape is formed on the inner side surface of the housing to receive and guide the first guide protrusion.

3. The overhead console of the vehicle according to claim 2, wherein a second guide protrusion is formed on at least a side surface of the conversation mirror to project toward an inner side surface of the housing, and a second guide slot having an arc shape is formed on the inner side surface of the housing to receive and guide the second guide protrusion.

4. The overhead console of the vehicle according to claim 2, wherein a gear is formed on the other side surface of the glass case, and a damper, which is tooth-engaged with the gear to deter the glass case from being quickly opened by gravity, is installed on the inside of the accommodation portion.

5. The overhead console of the vehicle according to claim 1, wherein a maximum opening angle when the conversation mirror and the glass case are integrally opened is smaller than a maximum opening angle when only the glass case is opened independently of the conversation mirror.

6. The overhead console of the vehicle according to claim 1, further comprising a spring put around the rotating shaft and having one end that is fixed to the glass case and the other end that is fixed to the housing to transfer force in an opening direction of the glass case when the glass case is opened.

7. The overhead console of the vehicle according to claim 1, wherein a first latch is provided inside the accommodation portion to be fitted with a first hook piece that is formed at an upper end of the glass case when the glass case is closed to prevent the glass case from dropping.

8. The overhead console of the vehicle according to claim 1, wherein a second latch is provided inside the accommodation portion to be fitted with a second hook piece that is formed at an upper end of the conversation mirror when the conversation mirror is closed to prevent the conversation mirror from dropping.

9. The overhead console of the vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the conversation mirror includes a projection piece to which a locking finger of a switch that is slidably coupled to the glass case is selectively engaged by operation of the switch.