US 12,226,014 B2
Slide rail assembly
Ken-Ching Chen, Kaohsiung (TW); Shun-Ho Yang, Kaohsiung (TW); Wei-Chen Chang, Kaohsiung (TW); and Chun-Chiang Wang, Kaohsiung (TW)
Assigned to King Slide Works Co., Ltd., Kaohsiung (TW); and King Slide Technology Co., Ltd., Kaohsiung (TW)
Filed by KING SLIDE WORKS CO., LTD., Kaohsiung (TW); and KING SLIDE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., Kaohsiung (TW)
Filed on Mar. 27, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/190,430.
Claims priority of application No. 111138522 (TW), filed on Oct. 7, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0115043 A1, Apr. 11, 2024
Int. Cl. A47B 88/493 (2017.01); A47B 88/423 (2017.01)
CPC A47B 88/493 (2017.01) [A47B 88/423 (2017.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A slide rail assembly, comprising:
a first rail including a top wall, a bottom wall displaced vertically from the top wall, and a longitudinal wall connected between the top wall and the bottom wall, wherein the top wall, the bottom wall, and the longitudinal wall of the first rail jointly define a channel;
a second rail movably mounted in the channel of the first rail, the second rail being longitudinally displaceable with respect to the first rail;
a slide-facilitating device movably mounted between the first rail and the second rail, the slide-facilitating device including an engaging feature, and a retaining member provided on the first rail, the retaining member including an elastic portion;
wherein the elastic portion of the retaining member includes a predetermined feature configured as a hole formed in said elastic portion, wherein the first rail includes a limiting feature configured as a projection portion disposed in a plane of the longitudinal wall of the first rail and extending from said bottom wall of the first rail in a vertical direction of said first rail, and wherein the limiting feature formed as the projection portion is configured to extend into said predetermined feature configured as the hole in said vertical direction of said first rail to prevent the elastic portion from moving in a transverse direction;
wherein when the second rail is moved out of the channel of the first rail after displacement in an opening direction with respect to the first rail, the slide-facilitating device is at a predetermined position, and the engaging feature of the slide-facilitating device is engaged with the predetermined feature of the elastic portion of the retaining member.