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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2018
Filed:
May. 11, 2017
Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd., Kiyosu-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Roy C. Thorsell, Wixon, MI (US);
James R. Sand, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD., Aichi-pref., JP;
Abstract
A console box includes a box body that includes an opening portion, a lid supported by a hinge shaft on the box body, and an opening/closing mechanism that tilts the lid. The opening/closing mechanism includes a main rack that includes an engaging portion and a sub-rack that includes an engaged portion. When the lid is tilted between an opened position and a closed position, the engaged portion engages the engaging portion and restricts sliding of the sub-rack on the main rack. When the lid is further tilted from the closed position in a closing direction in which the lid closes the opening portion and when the lid is further tilted from the opened position in an opening direction in which the lid opens the opening portion, the engaged portion is disengaged from the engaging portion to cancel the restriction imposed on the sub-rack by the main rack.