US 12,286,819 B2
Console apparatus for vehicles
Min Woo Kwon, Seoul (KR); Jung Hoon Woo, Suwon-si (KR); Kwan Woo Lee, Suwon-si (KR); Sang Ku Hur, Hwaseong-si (KR); Byung Gi Cho, Asan-si (KR); and Yang Mook Lim, Asan-si (KR)
Assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, Seoul (KR); KIA CORPORATION, Seoul (KR); and NIFCO KOREA INC., Asan-si (KR)
Filed by Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul (KR); Kia Corporation, Seoul (KR); and NIFCO KOREA INC., Asan-si (KR)
Filed on May 31, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/828,445.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0092472 (KR), filed on Jul. 14, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0020916 A1, Jan. 19, 2023
Int. Cl. E05B 77/36 (2014.01); B60R 7/04 (2006.01); E05B 77/12 (2014.01); E05B 83/32 (2014.01)
CPC E05B 77/12 (2013.01) [B60R 7/04 (2013.01); E05B 77/36 (2013.01); E05B 83/32 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A console apparatus for vehicles, the console apparatus comprising:
a console box provided with a space formed therein to receive articles;
a console armrest provided with one end rotatably coupled to the console box via a frictional hinge unit to open and close the console box; and
a locking unit fixedly combined with a side of the console box opposite the frictional hinge unit and operated by inertia occurring at a time of a traffic collision to lock the console armrest to prevent opening of the console armrest,
wherein the locking unit includes:
a housing fixedly combined with a front surface of the console box:
a rotation lever rotatably coupled to the housing via a lever pin; and
a slider rotatably coupled to an upper end of the rotation lever above the lever pin via a connection pin,
wherein the rotation lever is rotated about the lever pin by the inertia occurring at the time of the traffic collision, and
wherein the slider is rectilinearly moved to pass through the housing and then to be inserted into a locking hole of the console armrest to lock the console armrest when the rotation lever is rotated.