JP5816021B2 - Vehicle cup holder device - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a vehicle cup holder device.

  As a conventional vehicle cup holder device, for example, there are devices disclosed in Patent Documents 1 and 2.

(I) Patent Document 1 discloses a vehicle cup holder device in which two bottomed cylindrical holder portions are fixedly arranged in the device width direction on the upper surface of a base (electronic device unit) that can be pulled out from an instrument panel. Is disclosed.
According to the device disclosed in Patent Document 1, since the holder portion is a bottomed cylindrical shape (box shape), the holder portion can be used not only as a cup holder but also a small case that can store small items such as a portable media player. Can be used as well.
However, in the device disclosed in Patent Document 1, since the holder portion is provided fixed to the base, the width of the device when the device is not used and the base is stored in the instrument panel, It is difficult to make it narrower than the width of the device when the device is used.

(Ii) Patent Document 2 discloses a base (inner case) that can be pulled out from an instrument panel, a tray that is supported by the base so as to be pivotable in the vertical direction, and that receives the bottom side of the cup. A vehicular cup holder device having a pair of arms (grip portions) that are rotatably supported and support side surfaces of a cup is disclosed.
According to the device disclosed in Patent Document 2, since the pair of arms are supported by the base so as to be rotatable in the device width direction, when the device is not used and the base is housed in the instrument panel. The width of the apparatus can be made smaller than the width of the apparatus when the apparatus is used.
However, in the apparatus disclosed in Patent Document 2, since the holder portion is not in the shape of a bottomed cylinder (box shape), the holder portion can be used as a cup holder, but small items such as a portable media player can be used. Can not be used as a storage case.

JP-A-11-255014 Japanese Patent Laying-Open No. 2005-306148

An object of the present invention is to provide a vehicular cup holder device that can be used as an accessory case and that can reduce the width of the device when not in use compared to the width of the device when in use.

The present invention for achieving the above object is as follows.
(1) Retainer,
A pair of base side walls provided on both sides in the apparatus width direction, and a base movably supported by the retainer at a storage position stored in the retainer and a drawing position pulled out from the retainer;
A pair of arms that are movably supported by the base at a storage position and a deployment position that is located on the outer side in the apparatus width direction from the storage position;
Have
The base-side side wall of one of the pair of base-side side walls and the arm-side bottom wall and the arm-side side wall of one arm of the pair of arms form a bottomed cylindrical first holder portion,
The other base-side side wall of the pair of base-side side walls and the arm-side bottom wall and the arm-side side wall of the other arm of the pair of arms are arranged side by side with the first holder portion in the apparatus width direction. Forming a bottomed cylindrical second holder portion;
The vehicle-side cup holder device, wherein the arm-side bottom walls of the arms of the pair of arms have mutually different vertical positions, and overlap each other when the base is located at the storage position with respect to the retainer.
(2) The arm-side side wall of at least one of the pair of arms is folded in a direction to reduce an angle formed by the arm-side side wall body and the arm-side side wall body with respect to the arm-side side wall body. The vehicle cup holder device according to (1), further comprising a possible auxiliary side wall.

According to the vehicle cup holder device of the above (1), the following effects can be obtained.
The one base side wall of the pair of base side walls and the arm side bottom wall and the arm side wall of one arm of the pair of arms form a bottomed cylindrical first holder portion, Since the other base-side side wall of the base-side side wall and the arm-side bottom wall and the arm-side side wall of the other arm of the pair of arms form a bottomed cylindrical second holder portion, The second holder portion can be used not only as a cup holder, but also as an accessory case that can store accessories such as a portable media player.
Further, the arm-side bottom walls of the arms of the pair of arms are different from each other in the vertical direction and overlap each other when the base is located at the storage position with respect to the retainer. Compared with the case where the apparatus does not overlap, the width of the apparatus can be reduced when the apparatus is not used and the base is in the storage position with respect to the retainer.

According to the vehicle cup holder device of the above (2), the following effects can be obtained.
The arm-side side wall of at least one of the pair of arms includes an arm-side side wall body, and an auxiliary side wall that can be folded in a direction that reduces an angle formed by the arm-side side wall body with respect to the arm-side side wall body. Therefore, the amount of overlap between the arm-side bottom walls of each arm of the pair of arms in the vertical direction is prevented from being limited by interference between the arm-side side walls of each arm of the pair of arms. it can.

It is a perspective view when a base is in a drawer position and a pair of arms are in a deployment position of a cup holder device for vehicles of an example of the present invention. It is a disassembled perspective view of the components required regardless of a push open type and a manual type of the cup holder device for vehicles of the example of the present invention. It is a disassembled perspective view of the components required only when it is a push open type of the cup holder device for vehicles of the example of the present invention. It is a disassembled perspective view of the component required only when it is a manual type of the cup holder apparatus for vehicles of this invention Example. It is an action | operation figure of the cup holder apparatus for vehicles of this invention Example. It is the sectional view on the AA line of FIG. It is sectional drawing in the arm side bottom wall part of the cup holder apparatus for vehicles of this invention Example.

Below, the cup holder device for vehicles of the example of the present invention is explained.
The vehicle cup holder device (hereinafter, also simply referred to as a cup holder device or device) 10 according to the embodiment of the present invention is not particularly limited. For example, an instrument panel, a console panel, Provided on door trims, armrests, etc. In the embodiment of the present invention and the illustrated example, the case where the device 10 is provided on the instrument panel will be described. In the figure, UP indicates the upper side, and FR indicates the front of the vehicle.

As shown in FIG. 1, the apparatus 10 includes a retainer 20, a base 30 that is movably supported by the retainer 20 in the vehicle front-rear direction, and a pair that is movably supported by the base 30 in the apparatus width direction (vehicle left-right direction). Arm 40A, 40B.

  The retainer 20 is fixed to the instrument panel. The retainer 20 is formed separately from the instrument panel and is fixedly attached to the instrument panel. However, although not shown, the retainer 20 may be formed integrally with the instrument panel.

  The retainer 20 has a box shape that opens to the rear (vehicle compartment side) of the vehicle. As shown in FIG. 2, the retainer 20 has a two-part configuration including a retainer lower 21 and a retainer upper 22 fixedly attached to the retainer lower 21. The retainer 20 includes a guide rail 23 and a groove portion 24.

The guide rails 23 are provided to extend in the vehicle front-rear direction on the inner surfaces of both side walls of the retainer 20 in the device width direction (vehicle left-right direction). The guide rail 23 supports the base 30 so as to be slidable in the vehicle front-rear direction.

The groove portion 24 is provided on the upper surface of the lower wall of the retainer 20 so as to extend in the vehicle front-rear direction. The groove part 24 is provided with a wide part 24a whose width (width in the apparatus width direction) increases toward the rear of the vehicle. A boss 43 provided on one arm 40A of the pair of arms 40A, 40B is always in the groove 24. The groove part 24 restricts the movement range of the boss part 43 in the apparatus width direction.

  As shown in FIG. 5, the base 30 has a storage position 30 a in which the entirety or substantially the whole is stored in the retainer 20, and a drawer position 30 b in which the base 30 is pulled out from the retainer 20 to the rear of the vehicle. Is movably supported.

As shown in FIG. 2, the base 30 has a two-part configuration of a base upper 31 and a base lower 32 fixedly attached to the base upper 31. The base 30 includes a pair of base side walls 33A and 33B provided on both sides in the apparatus width direction, and a pair of guide protrusions 34A and 34B provided on both sides in the apparatus width direction.

The pair of base-side side walls 33A and 33B are arc-shaped walls that are formed to be recessed from the both ends of the base 30 in the apparatus width direction to the center side in the apparatus width direction. Each of the base side walls 33A and 33B can hold a part of the side surface of a cup (not shown) held by the device 10 in the circumferential direction.

The pair of guide protrusions 34 </ b> A and 34 </ b> B are provided to extend in the vehicle front-rear direction on both side surfaces of the base 30 in the apparatus width direction. The guide protrusions 34A and 34B are provided in front of the vehicle with respect to the base side walls 33A and 33B. The guide protrusions 34A and 34B are slidably supported by the guide rail 23 of the retainer 20, and as a result, the base 30 is supported by the retainer 20 so as to be slidable in the vehicle front-rear direction.

As shown in FIG. 5, the pair of arms 40A and 40B are movably supported by the base 30 in the apparatus width direction at a storage position 40a and a deployment position 40b positioned outside the storage position 40a in the apparatus width direction. The
As shown in FIG. 7, the pair of arms 40 </ b> A and 40 </ b> B are configured to move in synchronization with each other, for example, by constantly engaging the gears 44 provided in each arm. Each arm of the pair of arms 40A and 40B is biased from the retracted position 40a to the deployed position 40b by the arm spring 45 shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 5, when each arm of the pair of arms 40A and 40B is in the retracted position 40a, it is located on the inner side in the apparatus width direction with respect to the outer side surface 38 in the apparatus width direction of the base 30 except the base side walls 33A and 33B. To do. Each arm of the pair of arms 40 </ b> A and 40 </ b> B has a portion that is located on the outer side in the apparatus width direction of the base 30 in the apparatus width direction when located at the deployed position 40 b.
Each arm of the pair of arms 40A and 40B may be supported by the base 30 so as to be slidable in the apparatus width direction, but each arm is moved relatively smoothly in the apparatus width direction with respect to the base 30. Therefore, the base 30 is supported so as to be rotatable (including swinging) in the apparatus width direction.

As shown in FIG. 2, each arm of the pair of arms 40 </ b> A and 40 </ b> B includes an arm-side bottom wall 46 and an arm-side side wall 47.
The arm-side bottom wall 46 has a flat plate shape or a substantially flat plate shape, and is supported by a stepped screw 48 or the like so as to be rotatable around a rotation axis extending in the vertical direction on the base 30.
The arm side wall 47 has an arc shape or a substantially arc shape, and is provided integrally (fixed) to the arm side bottom wall 46 except for an auxiliary side wall 47b described later.

A base-side side wall 33A of the pair of base-side side walls 33A, 33B and an arm-side bottom wall 46 and an arm-side side wall 47 of one arm 40A of the pair of arms 40A, 40B are formed in a bottomed cylindrical shape (in a box shape). A first holder portion H1 having a shape that opens only upward and is the same below) is formed. Further, the first holder portion H1 includes the other base side wall 33B of the pair of base side walls 33A and 33B and the arm side bottom wall 46 and the arm side wall 47 of the other arm 40B of the pair of arms 40A and 40B. And a bottomed cylindrical second holder portion H2 arranged side by side in the apparatus width direction.

As shown in FIG. 6, the arm-side bottom walls 46 of the arms 40 </ b> A and 40 </ b> B have different vertical positions. The illustrated example shows a case where the arm side bottom wall 46 of the arm 40A is positioned below the arm side bottom wall 46 of the arm 40B.
Even if the upper end positions of the first and second holder portions H1 and H2 are the same, the amount of positional deviation in the vertical direction between the arm-side bottom walls 46 of the respective arms is the first and second holder portions H1. In order to make the difference in the vertical height of H2 relatively small, the thickness of the arm-side bottom wall 46 is set to be approximately the same.
The arm-side bottom walls 46 of the arms of the pair of arms 40 </ b> A and 40 </ b> B overlap each other when the base 30 is positioned at the storage position 30 a with respect to the retainer 20. The amount by which the arm side bottom walls 46 of each arm of the pair of arms 40A, 40B overlap each other increases as the pair of arms 40A, 40B moves from the deployment position 40b to the storage position 40a with respect to the base 30. .

  As shown in FIG. 2, the arm-side side wall 47 of at least one of the pair of arms 40A and 40B has an arm-side side wall body 47a fixed to the arm-side bottom wall 46 and an arm-side side wall body 47a. And an auxiliary side wall 47b that can be folded in a direction that reduces the angle formed by the arm side wall main body 47a. In the embodiment of the present invention and the illustrated example, only the arm side wall 47 of one arm 40A of the pair of arms 40A and 40B includes the arm side wall main body 47a and the auxiliary side wall 47b.

The auxiliary side wall 47b is formed separately from the arm side side wall main body 47a, and is attached to the arm side side wall main body 47a so as to be rotatable around an axis extending in the vertical direction. However, the auxiliary side wall 47b may be formed integrally with the arm side wall main body 47a as long as it can be folded with respect to the arm side side wall main body 47a. The auxiliary side wall 47b is always urged by an auxiliary side wall urging spring 47c in a direction that increases the angle formed by the arm side side wall body 47a with respect to the arm side side wall body 47a.

The device 10 may be (i) a push-open type or (ii) a manual type.

(I) When the device 10 is a push-open type As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the device 10 can be engaged with and disengaged from a push-type door 60 attached to the base 30 and a heart cam 35 provided on the upper surface of the base 30. A lock 61 provided with a lock pin 61a and mounted on a lock mounting portion 22a provided on the retainer upper 22 so as to be rotatable (including swinging), and a gear portion 63a engaged with a rack 22b provided on the retainer upper 22 30, a pinion gear 63 rotatably attached to a gear attachment portion 36 provided at 30, a drive spring 64 that rotationally biases the pinion gear 63, and a damper 65 that applies a braking force to the rotation of the pinion gear.
When the device 10 is a push-open type, the base 30 is pushed to the retainer 20 by the urging force of the drive spring 64 by pushing the base 30 at the storage position 30a to release the engagement between the lock pin 61a and the heart cam 35. On the other hand, it can be moved to the drawing position 30b.

(Ii) When the device 10 is a manual type device As shown in FIGS. 2 and 4, the device 10 is provided with a manual type door 66 having a handle portion 66a and attached to the base 30, and a rail spring 67a. And a pair of rails 67 attached to the rail attachment portion 37 to be provided.
The rail 67 is provided to apply an appropriate operation load when the base 30 is moved in and out of the retainer 20 and to prevent rattling of the base 30 with respect to the retainer 20 in the apparatus width direction.
In the case where the device 10 is a manual type, the base 30 is pulled with respect to the retainer 20 by hooking a hand on the handle portion 66a and manually moving the base 30 at the storage position 30a to the pull-out position 30b (drawing out). Can be moved to.

  Here, the operation when the base 30 moves from the storage position 30a to the extraction position 30b with respect to the retainer 20 will be described with reference to FIGS. The operation when the base 30 moves from the retracted position 30b to the storage position 30a with respect to the retainer 20 reverses the operation when the base 30 moves from the storage position 30a to the extraction position 30b with respect to the retainer 20. Since it becomes operation | movement, description is abbreviate | omitted.

(A) When the base 30 is in the storage position 30a (a1) The boss portion 43 of the arm 40A is located in the groove portion 24 of the retainer 20 on the vehicle front side from the wide portion 24a. Therefore, the movement of the arm 40A from the storage position 40a to the deployment position 40b is suppressed, and the movement of the arm 40B that moves in synchronization with the arm 40A from the storage position 40a to the deployment position 40b is suppressed. . As a result, the pair of arms 40A and 40B are both in the storage position 40a with respect to the base 30.
(A2) The amount by which the arm side bottom walls 46 of the arms 40A and 40B overlap each other is relatively large. The arm side bottom wall 46 of the arm 40A is positioned below the arm side bottom wall 46 of the arm 40B, so that the arm side side wall body 47a of the arm A and the arm side bottom wall 46 of the arm B interfere with each other. In such a case, a notch 46a may be provided in the arm side bottom wall 46 of the arm 40B in order to suppress the interference.
(A3) The auxiliary side wall 47b of the arm 40A is pushed by the arm side wall 47 of the arm 40B, and resists the urging force of the auxiliary side wall urging spring 47c with respect to the arm side side wall body 47a. It is folded in the direction to make the angle made with (small, bent).

(B) When the base 30 moves from the storage position 30a to the drawing position 30b. (B1) The boss portion 43 of the arm 40A moves to the wide portion 24a in the groove portion 24 of the retainer 20. Therefore, as the base 30 moves toward the drawing position 30 b, the allowable movement amount of the boss portion 43 toward the outer side in the apparatus width direction increases, and the pair of arms 40 </ b> A and 40 </ b> B is biased by the arm spring 45 with respect to the base 30. It moves from the storage position 40a to the development position 40b.
(B2) The amount by which the arm-side bottom walls 46 of the arms 40A and 40B overlap each other is smaller than in the case (a).
(B3) The auxiliary side wall 47b of the arm 40A is separated from the arm side wall 47 of the arm 40B, and the angle formed by the arm side side wall body 47a with respect to the arm side side wall body 47a is increased by the biasing force of the auxiliary side wall biasing spring 47c. In this direction, the arm side wall main body 47a is rotated until it comes into contact with a stopper (not shown).

(C) When the base 30 is in the drawer position 30b (c1) The boss portion 43 of the arm 40A is located in the groove portion 24 of the retainer 20 on the vehicle rear side from the wide portion 24a. Therefore, the pair of arms 40 </ b> A and 40 </ b> B are in the deployed position 40 b by the urging force of the arm spring 45.
(C2) The amount by which the arm-side bottom walls 46 of the arms 40A and 40B overlap is smaller than in the cases (a) and (b).
(C3) The auxiliary side wall 47b of the arm 40A is separated from the arm side wall 47 of the arm 40B, and abuts against a stopper (not shown) provided on the arm side wall main body 47a by the urging force of the auxiliary side wall urging spring 47c. .

Next, the operation and effect of the embodiment of the present invention will be described.
The base-side side wall 33A of the pair of base-side side walls 33A and 33B and the arm-side bottom wall 46 and the arm-side side wall 47 of one arm 40A of the pair of arms 40A and 40B are provided with a bottomed cylindrical first The holder portion H1 is formed, and the other base side wall 33B of the pair of base side walls 33A and 33B and the arm side bottom wall 46 and the arm side wall 47 of the other arm 40B of the pair of arms 40A and 40B Since the bottomed cylindrical second holder portion H2 is formed, the first and second holder portions H1 and H2 can be used not only as cup holders but also for storing small items such as portable media players. Can be used as a small accessory case.

Since the arm-side bottom walls 46 of the arms of the pair of arms 40A and 40B are different from each other in the vertical direction and overlap each other when the base 30 is positioned at the storage position 30a with respect to the retainer 20, the arm side Compared to the case where the bottom walls 46 do not overlap each other, the width of the apparatus 10 can be reduced when the apparatus 10 is not used and the base 30 is in the storage position 30a with respect to the retainer 20.

The arm-side side wall 47 of at least one of the pair of arms 40A and 40B is folded in a direction to reduce the angle formed by the arm-side side wall body 47a and the arm-side side wall body 47a with respect to the arm-side side wall body 47a. Since the auxiliary side walls 47b are provided, the arm side bottom walls 46 of the arms 40A and 40B overlap each other in the vertical direction so that the arm side of each arm of the pair of arms 40A and 40B It can suppress that it will restrict | limit because the side walls 47 mutually interfere.

  The components that differ depending on whether the device 10 is a push-open type or a manual type are only the components shown in FIGS. 3 and 4. For this reason, the number of parts to be changed is relatively small depending on whether the device 10 is a push-open type or a manual type. Therefore, it is relatively easy to properly use the push-open type and the manual type of the device 10.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Vehicle cup holder apparatus 20 Retainer 21 Retainer lower 22 Retainer upper 23 Guide rail 24 Groove part 30 Base 30a Storage position 30b Pull-out position 31 Base upper 32 Base lower 33A, 33B A pair of base side wall 34A, 34B A pair of guide protrusion 40A, 40B A pair Arm 40a Storage position 40b Deployment position 43 Boss portion 44 Gear 45 Arm spring 46 Arm side bottom wall 46a Notch 47 Arm side side wall 47a Arm side side wall body 47b Auxiliary side wall 47c Auxiliary side wall biasing spring H1 First holder part H2 First 2 holder part

Claims (2)

A retainer,
A pair of base side walls provided on both sides in the apparatus width direction, and a base movably supported by the retainer at a storage position stored in the retainer and a drawing position pulled out from the retainer;
A pair of arms that are movably supported by the base at a storage position and a deployment position that is located on the outer side in the apparatus width direction from the storage position;
Have
The base-side side wall of one of the pair of base-side side walls and the arm-side bottom wall and the arm-side side wall of one arm of the pair of arms form a bottomed cylindrical first holder portion,
The other base-side side wall of the pair of base-side side walls and the arm-side bottom wall and the arm-side side wall of the other arm of the pair of arms are arranged side by side with the first holder portion in the apparatus width direction. Forming a bottomed cylindrical second holder portion;
The vehicle-side cup holder device, wherein the arm-side bottom walls of the arms of the pair of arms have mutually different vertical positions, and overlap each other when the base is located at the storage position with respect to the retainer.
  The arm side wall of at least one arm of the pair of arms can be folded in a direction in which an angle formed by the arm side side wall body and the arm side side wall body with respect to the arm side side wall body is reduced. The vehicle cup holder device according to claim 1, further comprising a side wall.

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