JPH08238969A - Drink container holder for vehicle - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To provide a drink container holder for a vehicle that can sufficiently heighten the holding stability of a tall drink container without deepening the bottom of a storage part besides being able to cope with the outer diameter dimension difference of drink containers. CONSTITUTION: A drink container holder 1 for a vehicle comprises a container storage part 3 having an upper face opening and the bottom face that can place a cylindrical drink container 7 almost horizontally, shafts 5 extended near the upper face opening, parallelly with the bottom face, and holding members 6 with one ends thereof engaged with the shafts 5 so as to be slidable as well as to be able to rise and fall. Specially two shafts are provided at the opposed edge parts of the opening being extended in the state of being vertically offset from each other, and the holding plates are extended in the direction of facing each other from the respective shafts.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a vehicle beverage container holder, and more particularly to a vehicle beverage container holder capable of stably holding a tall container.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A slide member, which is slidable along the opening surface of a recess provided in a center console, is provided, and the position of the slide member is adjusted so that the outside diameter of a beverage container such as a cup or a can is affected. However, Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 3-31621 discloses a vehicle cup holder that is configured to reliably hold beverage containers of various sizes.

[0003]

According to this structure, although the difference in the outer diameter of the beverage container can be dealt with, if the recess for accommodating the beverage container is shallow, the beverage container is held only at a portion near the bottom of the beverage container. In particular, in the case of a tall beverage container, the holding tends to be unstable unless the recess is deep, because it becomes impossible. It is not preferable to make the recess deep because it is difficult to take out in the case of a short beverage container and the usability when used as a small container is deteriorated.

The present invention has been devised in order to eliminate such disadvantages of the prior art, and its main purpose is to:
To provide a vehicle beverage container holder capable of coping with a difference in outer diameter dimension of a beverage container and sufficiently enhancing the holding stability of a tall beverage container without deepening the bottom of the accommodating portion. It is in.

[0005]

According to the present invention, the object of the present invention is to provide a beverage container holder for a vehicle having a bottom surface and an upper surface opening on which a cylindrical beverage container can be placed substantially horizontally. The present invention is achieved by having a housing portion, a shaft extending in the vicinity of an opening in the upper surface in parallel with the bottom surface, and a holding member having one end slidably engaged with the shaft so as to be upright / tilted and slidable. It In particular, it is preferable to vertically offset the two shafts at opposite edges of the opening, and extend the holding plate in a direction facing each other from each of the two shafts.

[0006]

According to this structure, since the beverage container can be held at a high position by inclining the holding plate in the upright direction, sufficient holding stability can be obtained even in a tall beverage container. If the holding plates are extended from the two shafts that are vertically offset and opposed to each other in the direction facing each other, the plurality of holding plates can be overlapped with each other, so that the holding plates can be stored. Can save space.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The structure of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to specific embodiments shown in the accompanying drawings.

1 and 2 illustrate a vehicle beverage container holder constructed in accordance with the present invention. As shown in FIG. 3, the beverage container holder 1 is used by being attached to a center console 2 of an automobile, and has a box-shaped container accommodating portion 3 having a horizontal bottom surface and an open top surface. The pair of shafts 5 extending parallel to each other in the grooves 4 formed in each of the facing surfaces on the opening side and one end of each of the pair of shafts 5 are slidable, and the other ends of the shafts 5 face each other. It is composed of a pair of container holding plates 6 that have been taken out.

The container holding plate 6 is movable along the entire length of the shaft 5, and is engaged with the shaft 5 so as to be tiltable within a predetermined angle range at any position on the shaft. There is. The shaft 5 and the container holding plate 6 may be held at a stationary position by friction between the shaft 5 and the container holding plate 6, or may be stopped stepwise by providing some kind of click means.

As described above, since the container holding plate 6 can be erected / fallen down, by tilting the container holding plate 6 in the standing direction (the position shown by the imaginary line in FIG. 2), the high position of the beverage container 7 can be raised. It becomes possible to hold. Therefore, even in the case of a tall beverage container, sufficient holding stability can be obtained.

On the other hand, the pair of shafts 5 are offset from each other in the vertical direction as shown in FIG. 2 so that both container holding plates 6 can move without interfering with each other in a state where both container holding plates 6 are horizontal. Has become. Therefore, when both container holding plates 6 are brought close to one side in the longitudinal direction of the container accommodating portion 3 (a state shown by an imaginary line in FIG. 1), they can be overlapped with each other.
The space that can be used as a small container when the container holding plate 6 is not used can be made even larger.

FIG. 4 shows a modified embodiment of the present invention. In this case, the shaft 11 is provided only on one side of the opening edge, and both ends of the U-shaped container holding plate 12 are tiltably and slidably engaged with the one shaft 11. are doing. In this configuration, the tolerance for the difference in the outer diameter dimension of the beverage container is limited, but the high position of the beverage container can be maintained as in the above embodiment.

[0013]

As described above, according to the present invention, since the container holding plate is configured to be tiltable, it is possible to hold the upper part of the beverage container by raising the free end upward.
It is possible to reliably hold a tall beverage container without increasing the depth dimension of the beverage container storage portion. Therefore, it is possible to cope with a tall beverage container without deteriorating the usability for a short container and the usability when used as a small container, and it is great for improving the usability of the vehicle beverage container holder. The effect is obtained.

[Brief description of drawings]

1 is a top view of a beverage container holder according to the present invention. FIG.

FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken along the line II-II in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view around a driver's seat of a passenger car to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of an essential part of another embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Beverage Container Holder 2 Center Console 3 Container Housing 4 Groove 5 Axis 6 Container Holding Plate 7 Beverage Container 11 Axis 12 Container Holding Plate

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A container accommodating portion having a bottom surface and a top surface opening on which a cylindrical beverage container can be placed substantially horizontally, a shaft extending parallel to the bottom surface in the vicinity of the top surface opening, and standing upright on the shaft. A beverage container holder for a vehicle, which has a holding member having one end slidably and slidably engaged. 2. The shaft comprises two shafts extending vertically offset from each other at opposite edges of the opening, and the holding plate extends in a direction facing each other from each of the two shafts. The vehicle beverage container holder according to claim 1, wherein the beverage container holder is extended.