| US 7,566,084 B2 | ||
| Lid opening-closing mechanism of container device for vehicle | ||
| Masami Kikuchi, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Calsonic Kansei Corporation, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Aug. 17, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/505,287. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2005-244274 (JP), filed on Aug. 25, 2005. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2007/0045332 A1, Mar. 01, 2007 | ||
| Int. Cl. B60R 7/04 (2006.01); F16D 63/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 296—37.8 [224/282; 224/311; 49/260; 188/83] | 2 Claims |
| 1. A lid opening-closing mechanism of a container device for a vehicle, comprising:
a container device body provided in a vehicle interior of the vehicle;
a lid attached freely openable and closable to the container device body;
an elastic member interposed and provided between the container device body and the lid configured to bias the lid in an opening
direction and a closing direction of the lid with biasing force; and
a bidirectional damper attached to the container device body configured to attenuate the biasing force of the elastic member
with attenuating force,
wherein the elastic member includes a reversal spring in which biasing directions of the biasing force are reversible based
on a reversal point in which one of the biasing directions is in the closing direction of the lid in a closed side of the
lid of the reversal point and in which the other of the biasing directions is in the opening direction of the lid in an opened
side of the lid of the reversal point,
wherein the bidirectional damper includes a free-running section in which the attenuating force of the bidirectional damper
is not generated in an early stage of at least one of the opening and closing of the lid, and
wherein the reversal point of the elastic member is set in a position nearer to the closed side of the lid than a middle of
the opening and closing of the lid, and wherein an end of the free-running section in the opened side of the lid is set substantially
in a position the same as the position of the reversal point or is set nearer to the opened side of the lid than the position
of the reversal point.
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