Vehicular console device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9975493-B2
Application number	US-201715454059-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 9, 2017
Priority date	Mar 9, 2016
Publication date	May 22, 2018
Grant date	May 22, 2018

Abstract

A vehicular console device includes a console outer casing disposed in the interior of a vehicle, a console box disposed in the console outer casing, and a tray supported in the console box. The tray includes a tray body and a tray vertical wall. The tray body is supported in the console box to be movable in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle. The tray vertical wall is formed to extend upward from a tray rear wall of the tray body.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicular console device comprising:
a console box disposed in a vehicle interior; and
a tray supported in the console box,
wherein the tray comprises:
a tray body configured to be supported in the console box to be movable in a front-to-rear direction of a vehicle; and
a tray vertical wall extending upward from a rear portion of the tray body in the front-to-rear direction of the vehicle,

the tray is detachable from the console box and is attachable to the console box such that the tray is supported by the console box in a usable state in which the tray is usable as a tray or in a stowed state in which the tray is housed within the console box, and
in the stowed state, the tray is held in the console box in a state in which the tray body is positioned to extend along a console rear wall of the console box and the tray vertical wall is positioned to extend along a console bottom portion of the console box.

2. The vehicular console device according to claim 1 , wherein the console rear wall of the console box comprises an upper half portion opposing to the tray vertical wall, the upper half portion being an inclined wall toward a rear side of the vehicle.

3. The vehicular console device according to claim 1 , wherein the tray is configured to be movable to a position adjacent to the console rear wall, and the tray has a first biasing member that is disposed in a rear end of the tray body and that is abutted against the console rear wall when the tray is moved to the position adjacent to the console rear wall.

4. The vehicular console device according to claim 1 , wherein the tray has:
a second biasing member that is disposed in a side portion of the tray body in a manner that biases the console box against the console box; and
a rib disposed in the side portion of the tray body underneath the second biasing member to support the tray.

5. The vehicular console device according to claim 2 , wherein the console box further comprises stepped portions at respective side ends of the inclined wall, which are not inclined, each of the stepped portions protruding toward a front side of the vehicle, a distance between the side ends of the inclined wall being equal to or larger than a width of the tray vertical wall.

6. The vehicular console device according to claim 1 , wherein the tray has a tray front wall and tray side walls, upper ends of the tray front wall and the tray side walls having the same height as one another, but being lower than an upper end of the tray vertical wall.

Assignees

• Honda Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Okinaga Toru
• Imai Katsuhiko
• Nakauchi Shoji
• Kaibara Takafumi
• Konishi Satoru
• Uematsu Tomohiko

Classifications

• B60R7/08 Primary

  Disposition of racks, clips {, holders, containers} or the like {for supporting specific articles (B60R7/005 takes precedence)} · CPC title

• B60R7/04 Primary

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