| US 7,543,874 B2 | ||
| Vehicular sliding console | ||
| Mitsuo Ogura, Aichi-ken (Japan); Minoru Shibata, Aichi-ken (Japan); Naoki Omatsu, Aichi-ken (Japan); and Shinji Kumazawa, Toyota (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd., Aichi-pref. (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Dec. 11, 2007, as Appl. No. 12/211. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2006-340164 (JP), filed on Dec. 18, 2006; and application No. 2007-231679 (JP), filed on Sep. 06, 2007. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2008/0143134 A1, Jun. 19, 2008 | ||
| Int. Cl. B60R 7/04 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 296—37.8 [296/24.34] | 7 Claims |
| 1. A vehicular sliding console comprising:
a console main body that is supported to be movable relative to a vehicle;
a moving mechanism moving the console main body;
a lock mechanism locking movement of the console main body by limiting movement of the moving mechanism; and
an operation lever provided in an upper portion of the console main body and provided for unlocking the console main body
locked by the lock mechanism,
wherein the console main body locked by the lock mechanism is unlocked by operating the operation lever along a moving direction
of the console main body, and
the operation lever is slidable with respect to the console main body, and the lock mechanism has a link mechanism for unlocking
the console main body on the basis of a sliding movement of the operation lever.
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