JP5972839B2 - Console Box - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a console box that can support a supported object formed in a shape having edges on at least one side and the other side by a rotating body that can be raised by rotation.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a console box applied to the inside of an automobile, a rotating body that can be raised in a tilted state by rotation may be provided. With respect to such a console box, a portable electric product such as a CD player, a mobile phone, or a television is used as a supported object, and the supported object is leaned against a rotating body that is raised in a tilted state. The technique to support is well-known (for example, refer patent document 1). According to this technology, a passenger in the vehicle can easily operate the portable electrical product supported by the rotating body of the console box in the vehicle.

US Pat. No. 6,253,982 (B1)

By the way, the console box is disposed in a car, and is subject to vertical vibration when the car is running. Here, in the conventional technique described in the above-mentioned Patent Document 1, the portable electric product in a state leaning against the rotating body of the console box is arranged on the lower side and the lateral side via the mounting members attached to the rotating body. Supported from the side. For this reason, in the above-described conventional technology, there is a problem that the portable electric product may come off from the attachment member of the rotating body to the upper side of the attachment member due to the vibration in the vertical direction when the automobile is running. there were.
The present invention, when a portable electric product is supported as a supported object on a rotating body provided in the console box body, supports the supported object in a state where it is elastically pressed from above, thereby It is intended to provide a console box in which the influence of vertical vibration during traveling is mitigated and the supported object is prevented from falling off due to the influence of vertical vibration.

In order to solve the above problems, the console box of the present invention takes the following means.
First, the first invention can be rotated with respect to the console box main body by pivotally supporting the console box main body disposed in the interior of the automobile and the shaft support provided in the console box main body. And a supported object formed in a shape having edges on both sides of at least one side and the other side can be supported in a state where the rotating body is applied. Console box. This console box is disposed on the rotating body by a recess that can support the edge on the one side from the lower side by inserting the edge on the one side of the object to be supported. And an urging piece elastically urged toward the base portion side of the moving body. The rotating body is raised from the base portion by the rotation of the rotating body, so that the edge on the one side can enter the recess and be applied to the supported object in the state supported from the lower side by the recess. It is configured as follows. The urging piece is supported on the other side of the supported object in the state in which the edge on the one side enters the recessed part and is supported from the lower side by the recessed part and the rotating body is applied. It is configured so that it can be engaged with the edge of the side from the upper side and can be supported by pressing down the edge of the other side from the upper side.
According to the first aspect of the present invention, the lower edge of the supported object is supported from below by the recess. Moreover, the edge part of the other side used as the upper side in a to-be-supported object is supported in the state pressed down from the upper side by the elastically biased biasing piece. This reduces the influence of vertical vibration transmitted to the supported object through the console box during driving of the automobile, and the console box is prevented from falling off due to the influence of the vertical vibration. Can be provided.

Next, the second invention is the first invention described above, wherein the urging piece is detachably locked to a locked portion provided in a fixed state with respect to the console box body. Thus, the rotating body can be locked so as not to be raised.
According to the second aspect of the present invention, the urging piece having a function of pressing down the edge on the other side of the supported object can be additionally provided with a function of locking the raising of the rotating body. Thereby, the number of parts required for the console box can be reduced, and the structure of the console box can be simplified.

Furthermore, the third invention is the first or second invention described above, wherein the recess is disposed at a position adjacent to the root portion below the root portion of the rotating body in the console box body, The urging piece is disposed at a tip portion located on the opposite side of the root portion in the rotating body.
Since the console box is disposed inside the automobile, the space that can be secured around the console box is generally limited. Here, according to the third aspect, the arrangement space for arranging the supported object in the console box is provided at the tip of the rotating body from the concave portion which is lower than the root part of the rotating body. It can be set as up to the moment. Accordingly, it is possible to provide a console box which can set a larger arrangement space and can support a larger-sized support object.

In the second invention described above, the urging piece is detachably locked to the locked portion in a state where the console box body is positioned on the back side of the rotating body, so that the rotating body The rotating body is configured so that it can be locked so as not to be raised, and the rotating body rotatably supports the mounting portion to which the urging piece is mounted, and is the side opposite to the back side. It is configured so that it can be applied to the supported object from the surface side of the moving body, and the attachment portion is rotated together with the urging piece with respect to the rotating body, so that the root of the rotating body is formed on the surface side. It is possible to switch between a state in which it is elastically biased toward the partial side and a state in which it is elastically biased so as to protrude from the tip end portion of the rotating body on the back side. it can.
When the second invention described above is configured as described above, the position of the biasing piece can be switched between the back surface side and the front surface side of the rotating body by rotating the rotating body. As a result, the supported object is supported in a state of being pressed from the upper side by the urging piece on the surface side of the rotating body, and the urging piece and the locked portion are locked on the back surface side of the rotating body to rotate the rotating body. It is possible to achieve both of locking the raising of the image.

Further, in each of the first to third inventions described above, the console box body is in a front-rear direction as viewed from the passenger seat at a position that is forward when viewed from the passenger seat where an automobile passenger can be seated. It is arrange | positioned so that a rotation body can be rotated in the direction which becomes, and the said recessed part can be arrange | positioned in the position which becomes a passenger | crew seat side rather than a shaft support part.
According to the setting of the arrangement position of the console box main body and the recess described above, an occupant seated in an occupant seat in an automobile raises the rotating body of the console box to the front, and is supported on the surface side of the rotating body which is the front side. An object can be supported. As a result, the supported object is positioned on the near side of the occupant, and the occupant can easily operate the supported object.

It is a perspective view showing console box 10 concerning a 1st embodiment of the present invention. It is a rear view showing the console box 10 of FIG. It is the III-III sectional view taken on the line of FIG. FIG. 4 is a partially enlarged view of FIG. 3, showing a state where the raising of the rotating body 12 is locked by the biasing piece 13. FIG. 5 is a partial enlarged cross-sectional view showing the rotation of the attachment portion 14 of FIG. 4. FIG. 6 is a partially enlarged cross-sectional view illustrating a configuration in which the portable electrical product 90 is pressed from above by the biasing piece 13 of FIG. 5. FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view taken along line VII-VII in FIG. 4. It is a longitudinal cross-sectional arrow view showing the principal part of the console box 20 concerning the 2nd Embodiment of this invention.

EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION Below, the form for implementing this invention is demonstrated using drawing. In the following, the illustration and detailed description of the incidental configuration in the present invention, such as a tilt hinge mechanism that realizes stopping the rotation of the rotating body with respect to the console box body at an arbitrary rotation position, is omitted. .
<First Embodiment>
First, the configuration of the console box 10 according to the first embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. This console box 10 is adjacent to a front seat (not shown) in an automobile having a plurality of rows of vehicle seats (not shown), and is positioned in front of the rear seat (not shown). Is a console box. Here, the rear seat corresponds to the above-mentioned “passenger seat”. In the following, the front and rear in the automobile are simply referred to as “front” and “rear”, respectively.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 3, the console box 10 is opened upward (in the upward direction as viewed in FIG. 3) so that various items (not shown) can be stored. It can be opened and closed by turning in the front-rear direction (left-right direction as viewed in FIG. 3). Here, the storage box 10A is covered from the outside by the console box body 11 as shown in FIGS.
Further, the rotary body 12 is pivotally supported by a pivotal support portion 11A provided at the rear side (right side as viewed in FIG. 3) of the console box main body 12A of the rotary body 12 with respect to the storage box 10A. Has been. The shaft support portion 11A includes a tilt hinge mechanism (not shown), and realizes that the rotation of the rotating body 12 with respect to the console box body 11 is stopped at an arbitrary rotation position by the tilt hinge mechanism.

As shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, the console box body 11 has a rear side with respect to the root portion 12 </ b> A below the root portion 12 </ b> A of the rotating body 12 (lower side in FIGS. 2 and 3). A recess 11B is formed so as to be adjacent from the side (right side as viewed in FIG. 3). The concave portion 11B has an edge portion 90A of a portable electric product 90 (for example, a tablet computer) formed in a flat plate shape with R chamfering (see FIGS. 1 and 2) on the upper side (see FIGS. 2 and 3). The edge 90A can be supported from the lower side by entering from the upper side.
Here, the portable electrical product 90 corresponds to the “supported object” in the present invention. Further, the edge portion 90A is an arbitrary edge portion among the edge portions of the four sides that are located between the corner portions of the four corners that are chamfered in the portable electrical product 90. The edge portion 90A corresponds to the “one side edge portion” in the present invention.

Further, as shown by phantom lines in FIGS. 1 to 3, the rotating body 12 is raised to a state inclined from the root portion 12 </ b> A by rotation and stopped, whereby the surface 12 </ b> C (see FIG. 3) is edged. 90A can enter the recess 11B and can be applied to the portable electrical product 90 in a state supported by the recess 11B from below. Thereby, the rotating body 12 can support the portable electrical product 90 in a state of leaning against the rotating body 12.
Here, in this specification, as shown by a solid line in FIG. 3, in the rotating body 12, the side on which the storage box 10A and the console box body 11 are located when the rotating body 12 closes the storage box 10A. The surface (lower side in FIG. 3) is set as the back surface 12D. Moreover, in this specification, in the rotary body 12, the surface on the opposite side to the back surface 12D is set as the surface 12C.

Incidentally, as shown in FIGS. 3 to 6, the rotating body 12 is provided with a mounting portion 14 at a tip portion 12 </ b> B that is opposite to the root portion 12 </ b> A (see FIG. 3). An urging piece 13 is attached to the attachment portion 14.
As shown in FIGS. 4 to 7, the mounting portion 14 is a pair of rotating shafts 14 </ b> A disposed on the same axis along the width direction of the rotating body 12 (the left-right direction as viewed in FIG. 7). Is pivotally supported on the tip 12B of the rotating body 12. Thereby, as shown in FIG. 5, the attachment portion 14 can be rotated together with the urging piece 13 with respect to the distal end portion 12 </ b> B of the rotating body 12.

As shown in FIG. 7, the urging piece 13 is engaged with slide grooves 14 </ b> C formed in the attachment portion 14, with protrusions 14 </ b> C projecting on both sides in the width direction (both left and right sides in the drawing) of the urging piece 13. Then, it is attached to the attachment portion 14. Thereby, as shown in FIGS. 4 and 6, the urging piece 13 can reciprocally slide in a direction in which the urging piece 13 is pushed into the mounting portion 14 and a direction in which the biasing piece 13 is pulled away from the mounting portion 14. .
Here, as shown in FIGS. 3 to 7, an elastic member 14 </ b> B (for example, a coil spring) inserted from a through hole 13 </ b> D formed in the biasing piece 13 is provided between the mounting portion 14 and the biasing piece 13. ) Is installed. The elastic member 14B is formed in advance in a size that is always pressed and contracted when the elastic member 14B is interposed between the mounting portion 14 and the biasing piece 13, so that the biasing piece 13 is attached to the mounting portion. 14 is always urged elastically in a direction to be separated from the mounting portion 14.

For this reason, as shown in each solid line in FIG. 3 and FIG. 5 and FIG. 4, the urging piece 13 is set on the back surface 12D side of the rotating body 12 (see FIG. 4) by setting the rotating position of the mounting portion 14. On the lower side, it can be in an elastically biased state (hereinafter also referred to as “first state”) so as to protrude from the tip portion 12B of the rotating body 12. In this first state, as shown in FIG. 4, the urging piece 13 is made of the elastic member 14B by the push button 13A positioned so as to protrude from the distal end portion 12B of the rotating body 12 in the urging piece 13. It can be pushed toward the mounting portion 14 against the urging force.
Further, as shown in each phantom line of FIG. 3 and FIG. 5 and FIG. 6, the urging piece 13 changes the setting of the rotation position of the mounting portion 14, so that the surface 12 </ b> C side of the rotating body 12 (FIG. 6). The right side of the rotating body 12 can be switched to a state in which it is elastically biased toward the base portion 12A (see FIG. 3) of the rotating body 12 (hereinafter also referred to as “second state”). In this second state, as shown in FIG. 6, the urging piece 13 is urged by the elastic member 14 </ b> B by the handle portion 13 </ b> B positioned on the surface 12 </ b> C side (right side in FIG. 6) of the rotating body 12. It can be pushed toward the mounting portion 14 against the above.

Now, as shown in FIG. 3 and FIG. 4, the edge on the front side (left side in FIG. 3) of the opening of the storage box 10A (that is, the edge on the opposite side of the recess 11B with respect to the shaft support 11A) ), A locked portion 10B protrudes toward the inside of the storage box 10A. This locked portion 10 </ b> B is in a state of being integrally fixed to the console box main body 11.
Here, as shown in FIG. 4, when the rotating body 12 closes the storage box 10A in the first state described above, the urging piece 13 can be attached to and detached from the locked portion 10B of the storage box 10A. It is designed to be locked. As a result, the biasing piece 13 causes the rotating body 12 in the state where the console box main body 11 is located on the back surface 12D side (the lower side in the drawing) to rotate in the first state shown by the solid line in FIG. It can be locked so that it cannot be raised.

By the way, the rotating body 12 is formed so as to correspond to a portable electrical product 90 having a predetermined size. Therefore, as shown in phantom lines in FIGS. 1 to 3, the rotating body 12 is turned into the portable electric product 90 in a state where the edge 90 </ b> A enters the recess 11 </ b> B and is supported from below by the recess 11 </ b> B. When the surface 12C of 12 is applied, the tip end portion 12B of the rotating body 12 can be made to face the edge 90B which is the edge opposite to the edge 90A in the portable electrical product 90. Yes. Here, the edge 90 </ b> B corresponds to “the other edge” in the present invention.
Here, as shown in FIG. 6, the urging piece 13 has an edge portion when the edge portion 90 </ b> B of the portable electrical product 90 is opposed to the distal end portion 12 </ b> B of the rotating body 12 in the second state described above. It engages with 90B from above and is detachably locked. Thereby, the urging piece 13 can support the edge portion 90B of the portable electrical product 90 from above by the urging force of the elastic member 14B in the second state shown by the phantom line in FIG. It has become.

According to each composition mentioned above, edge 90A used as the lower side in portable electric product 90 is supported from the lower part by crevice 11B. Further, the upper edge portion 90B of the portable electrical product 90 is supported in a state of being pressed from above by the biasing piece 13 elastically biased by the elastic member 14B.
As a result, the influence of the vertical vibration transmitted to the portable electrical product 90 through the console box 10 during traveling of the automobile (not shown) is alleviated, and the portable electrical product 90 is dropped due to the influence of the vertical vibration. It is possible to provide the console box 10 that is suppressed.

Moreover, according to each structure mentioned above, the function which locks raising of the rotary body 12 can be given to the biasing piece 13 which has the function to hold down the edge part 90B of the portable electric product 90. Thereby, the number of parts required for the console box 10 can be reduced, and the structure of the console box 10 can be simplified.
Moreover, according to each structure mentioned above, the arrangement | positioning space for arrange | positioning the portable electric product 90 in the console box 10 is made into the front-end | tip part of the rotary body 12 from the recessed part 11B below the root part 12A of the rotary body 12. FIG. It can be set as between the biasing piece 13 provided in 12B. Thereby, the console box 10 which can set the said arrangement | positioning space more widely and can support the portable electric product 90 of a larger size can be provided.

Moreover, according to each structure mentioned above, the arrangement | positioning position of the urging | biasing piece 13 can be switched to the surface 12C side and the back surface 12D side of the rotation body 12 by rotation of the rotation body 12. FIG. Thus, the portable electrical product 90 is supported in a state of being pressed from above by the biasing piece 13 on the surface 12C side of the rotating body 12, and the biasing piece 13 and the locked portion on the back surface 12D side of the rotating body 12. It is possible to achieve both the locking of the rotating body 12 by locking with 10B.
Moreover, according to each structure mentioned above, the passenger | crew (illustration omitted) seated in the rear seat (illustration omitted) in the motor vehicle (illustration omitted) raises the rotation body 12 of the console box 10 to this side, and the rotation body which becomes this near side The portable electric product 90 can be supported on the surface 12C side of the twelve. Accordingly, the portable electrical product 90 is positioned on the front side of the occupant, and the occupant can easily operate the portable electrical product 90.

<Second Embodiment>
Then, the structure of the console box 20 concerning 2nd Embodiment is demonstrated using FIG. The console box 20 according to the second embodiment is a modified embodiment of the console box 10 according to the first embodiment. Therefore, for the configuration common to each configuration of the console box 10 according to the first embodiment, the tenth digit is represented by “10” from the reference numerals attached to each configuration of the console box 10 according to the first embodiment. The reference numerals replaced with “2” are assigned to correspond, and detailed description thereof is omitted.
As shown in FIG. 8, the console box 20 of the second embodiment is a console box according to each of the first to third inventions described above, and the recessed portion 21B is engaged with the shaft support portion 21A. Is a console box arranged on the same side (right side in the figure). The console box 20 is configured such that the back surface 22D of the rotating body 22 is applied to the portable electrical product 90 in a state where the edge 90A enters the recess 21B and is supported from the lower side by the recess 21B.

In the console box 20, the urging piece 23 is attached to the distal end portion 22 </ b> B of the rotating body 22 without using an attachment portion such as the attachment portion 14 (see FIGS. 1 to 7) of the console box 10 described above. Yes. Here, the urging piece 23 is disposed so as to protrude toward the back surface 22D side of the rotating body 22 (lower side in the solid line in FIG. 8) at the distal end portion 22B. The urging piece 23 can reciprocally slide in a direction in which the urging piece 23 is pushed into the distal end portion 22B (rightward in the solid line in FIG. 8) and a direction away from the distal end portion 22B (in the leftward in the solid line in FIG. 8). It is possible.
Further, the urging piece 23 is located at the base portion 22A side of the rotating body 22 (left side in the solid line in FIG. 8) by an elastic member 24B interposed so as to be always compressed and contracted between the tip portion 22B. It is always elastically biased toward. The urging piece 23 is applied to the urging force of the elastic member 24B by the handle portion 23A disposed on the front surface 22C side of the rotating body 22 or the handle portion 23B disposed on the back surface 22D side of the rotating body 22. It can be pushed against the tip 22B of the rotating body 22 against it.

And the urging | biasing piece 23 can hold down and support the edge part 90B of the portable electric product 90 from the upper side with the urging | biasing force of the elastic member 24B, as shown with a virtual line in FIG. Further, in the console box 20, as shown by a solid line in FIG. 8, the locked portion 20B has a locking hole 20C in a portion where the urging piece 23 is positioned when the rotating body 22 closes the storage box 20A. In addition, the urging piece 23 can be locked by the locking hole 20C.
According to each structure mentioned above, the effect by each 1st-3rd invention mentioned above is implement | achieved without interposing an attachment part between the biasing piece 23 and the front-end | tip part 22B of the rotary body 22. FIG. Can do. Thereby, compared with the console box 10 mentioned above, the number of components required is smaller, and the console box 20 with a simplified structure can be provided.

The present invention is not limited to the appearance and configuration described in the first and second embodiments described above, and various modifications, additions, and deletions can be made without changing the gist of the present invention. For example, the following various forms can be implemented.
(1) The urging piece is not limited to the one that is disposed at the distal end portion of the rotating body and can lock the raising of the rotating body by being locked to the locked portion. That is, the urging piece can be disposed at an arbitrary place on the front surface or the back surface of the rotating body. Further, a configuration is provided in which a locked mechanism that can lock the raising of the rotating body is provided in the console box, and the locked portion that is locked to the urging piece and locks the raising of the rotating body is omitted. Can be adopted.
(2) The supported object to be supported by the console box of the present invention is not limited to a portable electric product formed in a flat plate shape. That is, the console box of the present invention can be configured to support any object to be supported, such as a printed material including a book and a magazine. At this time, the shape of the supported object may be any shape having edges on at least one side and the other side, such as a rod shape. In addition, each structure in a console box, such as a recessed part and an urging | biasing piece, can change suitably the specific structure and shape corresponding to the shape of the to-be-supported object.
(3) In the console box of the present invention, the recess is not limited to that provided in the console box body, and can be provided in any configuration in the console box, such as a rotating body.
(4) The elastic member for urging the urging piece is not limited to the coil spring, and can be appropriately replaced with an arbitrary elastic member such as an arbitrary spring such as a bamboo spring or an arbitrary elastomer such as rubber.
(5) The console box of the present invention is not limited to the one disposed in front of the rear seat and adjacent to the front seat in the automobile, and can be disposed at any position in the interior of the automobile. However, when it is desired to obtain the operational effect by setting the console box main body and the concave portion, the console box is arranged at a position in front of the vehicle with respect to any vehicle seat of the vehicle. It is desirable to have it installed.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Console box 10A Storage box 10B Locked part 11 Console box main body 11A Axis support part 11B Recessed part 12 Rotating body 12A Root part 12B Tip part 12C Front surface 12D Back surface 13 Energizing piece 13A Pushing button 13B Hand part 13C Protrusion 13D Through-hole 14 Installation 14A Rotating shaft 14B Elastic member 14C Slide groove 20 Console box 20A Storage box 20B Locked portion 20C Locking hole 21 Console box body 21A Shaft support 21B Recess 22 Rotating body 22A Root portion 22B Tip portion 22C Surface 22D Back surface 23 Force piece 23A Handle portion 23B Handle portion 23D Through hole 24B Elastic member 90 Portable electrical product (supported object)
90A edge (edge on one side)
90B edge (the other edge)

Claims (3)

A console box main body disposed in an automobile, and a rotating body that is rotatable with respect to the console box main body by pivotally supporting a root portion on a shaft supporting portion provided in the console box main body. And a console box capable of supporting a supported object formed in a shape having edges on both sides of at least one side and the other side in a state where the rotating body is applied,
A recess capable of supporting the edge on the one side from below by allowing the edge on the one side of the supported object to enter; and
A biasing piece disposed on the rotating body and elastically biased toward the root portion of the rotating body;
With
The rotating body is raised from the root portion by the rotation of the rotating body, so that the edge on the one side enters the recess and is supported by the recess from the lower side. Configured to be assigned,
The biasing piece is supported with respect to the supported object in a state in which the edge portion on the one side enters the concave portion and is supported from the lower side by the concave portion, and the rotating body is applied. It is configured so that it can be engaged with the edge of the other side of the object from above and supported by pressing down the edge of the other side from above.
Console Box. A console box according to claim 1,
The urging piece is detachably locked to a locked portion provided in a fixed state with respect to the console box body, thereby locking the rotating body so as not to be raised. Is configured to be
Console Box. A console box according to claim 1 or claim 2, wherein
The recess is disposed at a position adjacent to the root portion below the root portion of the rotating body in the console box body,
The biasing piece is disposed at a tip portion located on the opposite side of the root portion in the rotating body,
Console Box.

Images