Vehicle interior component

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12454225-B2
Application number	US-202117454482-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 10, 2021
Priority date	Aug 21, 2018
Publication date	Oct 28, 2025
Grant date	Oct 28, 2025

Abstract

A vehicle interior component is disclosed. The vehicle interior component may comprise a base providing a compartment, a cover movable relative to the base comprising a first door and a second door movable between closed and open positions, and a mechanism to couple the doors. The mechanism may provide an engaged state coupling movement of the doors and a disengaged state decoupling movement of the doors. The mechanism may comprise a first member and a second member that may extend and/or retract relative to the first member. At least one of the members may flex relative to the other. The mechanism may comprise a linkage. An effective length of the linkage may comprise a default length to couple movement of the doors and a non-default length to allow independent movement of one door. The component may comprise at least one of a console, a center console, a floor console.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle interior component comprising:
(a) a base providing a compartment;
(b) a cover movable relative to the base comprising a first door movable between a closed position and an open position and a second door movable between a closed position and an open position; and
(c) a mechanism configured to couple the first door and the second door;
wherein the mechanism comprises a first member coupled to the first door and a second member coupled to the second door;
wherein the second member is configured (a) to extend relative to the first member and/or (b) to retract relative to the first member;
wherein the mechanism is configured to provide an engaged state to couple movement of the first door and the second door from the closed position to the open position;
wherein the mechanism is configured to provide a disengaged state to decouple movement of the first door and the second door from the open position to the closed position.

2. The component of claim 1 wherein the mechanism comprises a linkage comprising a length.

3. The component of claim 2 wherein wherein the length of the linkage comprises an effective length between a coupling to the first door and a coupling to the second door; wherein the effective length of the linkage comprises a default length to couple movement of the first door with movement of the second door.

4. The component of claim 1 wherein at least one of the first member and the second member is configured to flex relative to the other of the first member and the second member.

5. The component of claim 1 wherein the mechanism comprises a detent mechanism configured to couple the first member to the second member.

6. The component of claim 1 wherein at least one of the first member and the second member is a flexible member.

7. A vehicle interior component comprising:
(a) a base providing a compartment;
(b) a cover movable relative to the base comprising a first door movable between a closed position and an open position and a second door movable between a closed position and an open position; and
(c) a mechanism configured to couple the first door and the second door;
wherein the mechanism comprises a linkage comprising a length;
wherein the length of the linkage comprises an effective length between a coupling to the first door and a coupling to the second door;
wherein the effective length of the linkage comprises a default length to couple movement of the first door with movement of the second door;
wherein the effective length of the linkage comprises a non-default length to allow movement of the first door independent of movement of the second door.

8. The component of claim 7 wherein wherein the mechanism comprises a first member and a second member; wherein at least one of the first member and the second member is configured to flex to facilitate movement of one of the first door and the second door to the closed position with the other of the first door and the second door in the open position.

9. The component of claim 7 wherein the non-default length of the linkage comprises at least one of (a) an extended length longer than the default length; (b) a retracted length shorter than the default length.

10. The component of claim 7 wherein movement of the cover relative to the base comprises (1) an open state with the first door in the open position and the second door in the open position and (2) a first partially open state with the first door in the open position and the second door in the closed position and (3) a second partially open state with the first door in the closed position and the second door in the open position and (4) a closed state with the first door in the closed position and the second door in the closed position.

11. The component of claim 7 wherein the linkage comprises a first link member coupled to the first door and a second link member coupled to the second door.

12. The component of claim 11 wherein the mechanism comprises a detent mechanism configured to couple the first link member to the second link member.

13. A vehicle interior component comprising:
(a) a base providing a compartment;
(b) a cover movable relative to the base comprising a first door movable between a closed position and an open position and a second door movable between a closed position and an open position; and
(c) a mechanism configured to couple the first door and the second door;
wherein the mechanism comprises a first member coupled to the first door and a second member coupled to the second door;
wherein at least one of the first member and the second member is configured to flex to facilitate movement of one of the first door and the second door to the closed position with the other of the first door and the second door in the open position;
wherein the mechanism is configured to provide an engaged state to couple movement of the first door and the second door from the closed position to the open position;
wherein the mechanism is configured to provide a disengaged state to decouple movement of the first door and the second door from the open position to the closed position.

14. The component of claim 13 wherein the second member is configured (a) to extend relative to the first member and/or (b) to retract relative to the first member.

15. The component of claim 13 wherein the second member is configured to slide relative to the first member.

16. The component of claim 13 wherein the mechanism comprises a detent mechanism configured to couple the first member to the second member.

17. The component of claim 16 wherein the detent mechanism comprises at least one of (a) a recess and a protrusion; (b) a notch and a projection.

18. The component of claim 13 wherein the mechanism comprises a link mechanism comprising a linkage; wherein the linkage comprises an effective length between a coupling of the first member to the first door and a coupling of the second member to the second door; so that the effective length of the linkage comprises a default length to couple the first member to the second member.

19. The component of claim 13 wherein the mechanism comprises a linkage comprising a length.

20. The component of claim 19 wherein the length of the linkage comprises an effective length between a coupling to the first door and a coupling to the second door, wherein the effective length of the linkage comprises a default length to couple movement of the first door with movement of the second door.

Assignees

• Shanghai yanfeng jinqiao automotive trim systems co ltd

Inventors

• Hodgson Thomas Scott
• Anderson Rick Alan
• Ruiter Andrew K
• Gofton Adam R

Classifications

• B60N2/793

  for use as storage compartments · CPC title

• B60R7/04 Primary

  in driver or passenger space {, e.g. using racks (B60R7/005, B60R7/08 take precedence)} · CPC title