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US 10,647,238 B2Granted
Car cup holder for vehicle and tumbler for cup holder
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
InventorsJae Woo Park, Sang Shin Lee, So Yoon Park, Man Ju Oh, Jae Woong Kim, So La Chung
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Abstract
A tumbler for use in a car cup holder may include a top-open, bottom-closed, pipe-like internal body for accommodating a beverage; an external body, surrounding the wall of the internal body at a distance to form an internal gap between the external body and the internal body; and a magnetic, metallic heating element disposed at a lower side of the internal body.
Claims7
A tumbler for use in a car cup holder, comprising:
- a top-open, bottom-closed, and pipe-like internal body configured for accommodating a beverage;
- an external body, surrounding a wall of the top-open, bottom-closed, and pipe-like internal body at a distance to form an internal gap between the external body and the top-open, bottom-closed, and pipe-like internal body;
- a magnetic and metallic heating element disposed at a lower side of the top-open, bottom-closed, and pipe-like internal body;
- a wax pellet, provided within the internal gap, which linearly changes in volume in accordance with a temperature of the beverage accommodated in the top-open, bottom-closed, and pipe-like internal body;
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- a floating magnet, which is configured to float on and move along with the wax pellet.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.