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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 27, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Rainer Steiger, Landshut, DE;
Traci Angela Neist, Palo Alto, CA (US);
John Raff, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Martin Christ, Lüdenscheid, DE;
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60N 3/10 ; B60R 7/04 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60N 3/10 ; B60R 7/04 ;
Abstract
A vehicle cup holder has a housing forming an upwardly open cup-shaped seat centered on an upright seat axis and having a side wall and a floor and a plurality of gripping arms spaced around the seat on the side wall and pivotal about respective upright axes between radially inner positions projecting into the seat and radially outer positions generally disengaged from the seat. A drive under the floor is connected to the arms for displacing them synchronously between the inner and outer positions.