Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.

Naoki Omatsu

Minoru Shibata

Shigeru Yabuya

Mitsuo Ogura

Yasuhiro Sakakibara

Hiroto Ikuta

Shinji Kumazawa

A center console is provided with a movable console, a guide rail and an actuation mechanism. A rail main body of the guide rail and a lock member of the actuation mechanism lock the movable console against movement. An operation lever is provided in an upper portion of the movable console. The movable console locked by the rail main body and the lock member of the actuation mechanism is unlocked by operating the operation lever along a moving direction of the movable console.

Vehicular sliding console

The storage box includes an opening/closing mechanism. At a first stage, sliding of a lid relative to a box main body partially opens an opening. At a second stage, pivoting of the lid relative to the box main body fully opens the opening. At a third stage, pivoting of the lid relative to the box main body partially closes the opening. At a fourth stage, sliding of the lid relative to the box main body fully closes the opening. The first elastic member exerts elastic force for sliding the lid at the fourth stage. The second elastic member exerts elastic force for pivoting the lid at the second stage.

Storage box with opening/closing mechanism

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Aichi-ken, Japan

Naoki Omatsu