KR19980080469A - Vehicle containers for storing drinks and / or food - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a container for a vehicle and includes a system for supplying cold air to cool a beverage and / or food stored in the container.

Description

Vehicle containers for storing drinks and / or food

The present invention relates to a container of a vehicle for storing beverages and / or foods.

German publication 35 12 808 discloses a can holder for a vehicle in a glove compartment that can be closed by a swing action cover, the holder having a retaining plate having a cylindrical can receiving depression, the retaining plate The plate may be secured on the driver side edge of the swing action cover to be at least suitably horizontally aligned upon opening of the cover. When the swing action cover is swinged and closed, the retaining plate moves in an arc, thereby opening the cans set on the retaining plate before the cover swings and closes to prevent the contents from spilling. It can be moved out of the plate.

Other can holders in a vehicle include those disclosed in US Pat. No. 5,279,709. Such canholders are designed to be drawn in a drawer manner once the swing down to a horizontal position. These canholders will only accept beverage cans when they are in an open state, so these drink cans cannot be removed from the holder until the holder is inserted in and swings up.

Cooling is preferred for storing beverages and / or food in containers such as glove compartments, loading boxes or tunnel console housings with loading means. The cooling is also preferably done in the case of food and / or beverages that are opened to return to the cooled reservoir without raising the contents. Finally, the open beverage and / or food is preferably stored without the difficulty of being present both when the container is open and when it is closed. Furthermore, it is preferable that cold air is provided in the storage container.

With this problem as a starting point, a vehicle container according to the present invention has a pivotable beverage can holder disposed on a container cover that can be swinged in and swinged out, and the beverage can holder is opened during the swing in and swing out operation. It is provided with a movement guide arrangement that can be maintained in a horizontal state.

This movement guide arrangement means that the cup, bottle or beverage can set on the beverage can holder is always horizontal during the swing-in and swing-out operation, so that the beverage does not fall over. The risk of difficulty in opening and closing the container can be eliminated.

Preferably, the beverage can holder is disposed in a glove compartment that can swing downward along a horizontal axis, on which side the motion guide arrangement for the beverage can holder is directed away from the hinge of the glove compartment cover. The beverage can holder is realized to be articulated inside the glove compartment cover, and a pin spaced apart from the node of the beverage can holder to the glove compartment cover is a slot in the side wall of the glove compartment cover. Coupled through a slotted guide in an adjacent side wall of the glove compartment and such slots are arranged at any angle relative to each other such that the beverage can holder is held horizontal during the swing in switch out operation.

The vessel is furthermore connected to a system for supplying cold air for the purpose of cooling the beverages and foods stored therein. Such a system can be connected to an elongated air channeling system, optionally present in the region of the instrument panel of the vehicle, which system preferably comprises means for switching the air supply of the outdoor cold and indoor cold periods produced in the air conditioning system.

It is known from DE 37 01 848 that the container is adapted to supply cold air to the cold air box in the winter and to supply the cold air supplied from the air conditioning system in the summer even when the warm air is supplied inside the vehicle. Such a container does not have a means by which an open beverage can be set, so that the set beverage cannot be returned to the cold box.

It is desirable to provide a means for blocking cold on opening of the container on the container in order to prevent the person from being exposed to cold unpleasant blasts when the container is opened. This is disclosed in DE 37 39 151A1, but it is complicated in its fixing and does not have any means by which the open beverage can be positioned for the return of the set beverage to the container.

The cold air is preferably supplied to the glove compartment in the instrument panel of the vehicle, but preferably the operation is carried out in a tunnel console housing having a loading box or loading means arranged at some other position in the vehicle.

When cold air is supplied to the glove compartment in the instrument cluster, the system for supplying cold air is preferably opened into the opening of the side wall of the glove compartment, and the swing-out cover of the glove compartment is A side wall adjacent to the side wall can be moved side by side with the side wall, hiding the opening when the container is in the open position and aligning with the opening in the side wall of the glove compartment when the container is in the closed position Will have an opening.

This arrangement does not incur high cost, and it is possible to branch the cold air from the cooling system in the region of the instrument panel and supply this cold air to the glove compartment when the swing-out cover is in the closed position. The glove compartment cover is closed when in the open position.

The present invention will become apparent from the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

1 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a glove compartment cover swinging out and a beverage can holder disposed thereon at maximum;

FIG. 2 is a sectional view according to FIG. 1 with an almost swinging glove compartment cover; FIG.

3 is a sectional view according to FIG. 1 with a fully closed glove compartment cover, FIG.

4 is a schematic front view of an instrument panel with a beverage canholder and glove compartment shown in a partially disengaged state;

Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings

1: glove compartment cover 2: instrument panel

3: hinge 4: pin

5: slot 6: slotted guide

7: holder 8: drink can

9: opening 10: opening

11: Glove compartment loading area 12: Node

13 system 14 glove compartment

15: side wall 16: side wall

The glove compartment 14 is arranged on the instrument panel 2 in a conventional manner. This glove compartment 14 may be closed by a glove compartment cover 1. The glove compartment cover 1 is a hinge 3 in the bottom rear region of the glove compartment 14. Leading to the joint, and as a result, the glove compartment cover 1 swings down to the position as shown in FIG. 1 upon opening. In the horizontal region of the glove compartment loading area 11 formed on the glove compartment cover 1, the beverage can holder 7 is pivotally mounted by a hinged node 12. This hinge 12 is mounted on the beverage can holder 7 side oriented away from the hinge 3 of the glove compartment cover 1. The beverage can 8 is illustrated as being on the beverage can holder 7. A horizontal pin 4 disposed on the side of the beverage can holder 7 spaced apart from the hinge 12 and directed towards the hinge 3 of the glove compartment cover 1 is a glove compartment cover. It is coupled via the slot 5 in the side wall 16 of (1) and also in the slotted guide 6 in the side wall 15 of the glove compartment 14.

An air duct 13 leads to the side wall 15 and terminates in the opening 10 of the side wall 15. A corresponding opening 9 is arranged in the side wall 16 of the glove compartment cover 1 to form an outlet nozzle. In the position shown in FIG. 1, the outlet nozzle 9 in the side wall 16 of the glove compartment cover 1 is an area of the opening 10 in the side wall 15 of the glove compartment 14. From which the opening 10 is closed by the side wall 16 of the glove compartment cover 1, the glove compartment loading area 11 and / or the glove compartment The cold air supplied to 14 is cut off.

The air duct 13 is connected to the cooling system of the area within the instrument panel 2 in a manner not shown, and when the vehicle heating system is switched on, the outdoor cold air is supplied to the glove compartment loading area 11. Or means (not shown) for switching the air supply such that the cold air generated by the air conditioning system is supplied to the load area when the system is switched on.

When the glove compartment cover 1 swings up, the beverage can holder 7 is always horizontally guided by a pin 4, as can be seen from FIGS. ) Into the slotted guide (6), so that even if the beverage can (8) is opened, its contents do not come up during the swing open and swing shut operations.

According to the vehicular container of the present invention, it is not expensive, and the cold air is branched from the cooling system in the region of the instrument panel so that the cold air can be supplied to the glove compartment when the swing-out cover is in the closed position. The cups, bottles or beverage cans set on the beverage can holders can always be level during the in and swing out operation, so that the beverages can be kept unupgraded and the risk of difficulty in opening and closing the containers. The effect of excluding can be obtained.

Claims (8)

A pivotable beverage can holder (7) disposed on the container cover (1) capable of swinging in and swinging out, the movement of holding the beverage can holder (7) horizontally during the swing-in and sweep-out operation. A beverage can container for a vehicle, comprising a guide arrangement (4, 5, 6). 2. Container according to claim 1, characterized in that the beverage can holder (7) is arranged on a glove compartment cover (1) which can swing downward around the horizontal axis. 3. The beverage can holder (7) according to claim 2, wherein the beverage can holder (7) is articulated on the inside of the glove compartment cover (1) on its side directed outward from the hinge (3) of the glove compartment cover (1). And a pin 4 spaced apart from the articulation portion of the beverage can holder 7 to the glove compartment cover 1 through a slot 5 in the side wall 16 of the glove compartment cover 1. In the slotted guide 6 at the adjacent side wall 15 of the glove compartment 14, wherein the slots 5, 6 allow the beverage can holder 7 to swing in and swing out. A container for beverage cans in a vehicle, characterized in that it is arranged at any angle with respect to each other so as to be level. 4. A container according to any one of the preceding claims, comprising a system (9, 10, 13) for supplying cold air for cooling drinks and / or food in said container. 5. The container for a beverage can of a vehicle according to claim 4, further comprising means for switching the supply of air during cold and cold periods generated by the air conditioning system. 6. A container for a beverage can in a vehicle according to claim 4 or 5, comprising means for shutting off the supply of cold air when the container is opened. 7. A container for a beverage can in a vehicle according to any one of claims 4 to 6, wherein the cold air is supplied to a glove compartment (14) in the instrument panel (2). 8. The system (9), (10), (13) for supplying cold air is opened toward the opening (10) in the side wall (15) of the glove compartment (14). The swing-out cover 1 is adjacent to the side wall 15 of the glove compartment 14 and can move in parallel with it, hiding the opening 10 when the container is in the open position and And a side wall (16) having an opening (9) that aligns with the opening (10) in the side wall (15) of the glove compartment (14) when in the closed position.