US 11,752,872 B2
Interior vehicle component
Mangesh Kadam, Canton, MI (US); Srinivas Reddy Malapati, Novi, MI (US); Eric D. Veggian, Superior Township, MI (US); and Keith Trudgeon, Beverly Hills, MI (US)
Assigned to Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US)
Filed by Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US)
Filed on Jun. 7, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/434,965.
Prior Publication US 2020/0384861 A1, Dec. 10, 2020
Int. Cl. B60K 37/02 (2006.01); B60K 37/04 (2006.01); B60R 21/205 (2011.01); B60R 11/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60K 37/02 (2013.01) [B60K 37/04 (2013.01); B60R 21/205 (2013.01); B60K 2370/152 (2019.05); B60K 2370/63 (2019.05); B60K 2370/67 (2019.05); B60K 2370/682 (2019.05); B60K 2370/744 (2019.05); B60R 2011/0005 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An assembly, comprising:
an instrument panel;
a base rotatably mounted to the instrument panel, the base being rotatable relative to the instrument panel about a rotational axis through the base between a front position and a stowed position;
a spring biasing the base toward the stowed position;
an interior component supported by the base spaced from the rotational axis, the interior component being rotatable with the base about the rotational axis from the front position to the stowed position;
a connector releasably engaged with the instrument panel and the base in the front position against the bias of the spring;
the base including a hole and the connector being a pin disposed in the hole in the front position; and
a stop between the instrument panel and the base, the stop positioned to stop the base in the stowed position when the base moves from the front position to the stowed position;
the stop being a second pin on one of the base and the instrument panel and spring-loaded toward the other of the base and the instrument panel.