Retractable table
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
InventorsDong Eun Cha, Jin Ho Hwang, Sang Heon Lee
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Abstract
A retractable table may include a table body wound around the retraction mechanism in the housing when accommodated and drawn out and unfolded to the outside of the housing through the accommodation hole when drawn out, and a support mechanism provided at a side end portion of the table body, including a plurality of pieces, each of which is folded to overlap the table body or unfolded from the table body, and including magnetic bodies provided on the pieces to provide rigidity such that, when the table body is deployed, the pieces are connected to each other through the magnetic bodies to maintain the deployed state of the table body.
Claims15
A retractable table, comprising:
- a housing, wherein a retraction mechanism is mounted in the housing and wherein the housing includes an accommodation hole formed in a lateral direction of the housing;
- a table body engaged to and selectively woundable around the retraction mechanism through the accommodation hole of the housing, wherein the table body is wound around the retraction mechanism in the housing when accommodated in the housing and drawn out and unfolded to an outside of the housing through the accommodation hole when drawn out of the housing;
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- a support mechanism mounted at a side end portion of the table body,
- wherein the support mechanism includes:
- a plurality of pieces, each of which is selectively foldable to the table body so that the plurality of pieces is folded to overlap the table body or unfolded from the table body, and
- magnetic bodies mounted on the plurality of pieces so that the plurality of pieces is connected to each other through the magnetic bodies,
- wherein, when the table body is deployed, the plurality of pieces and the magnetic bodies maintain a deployed state of the table body while the plurality of pieces is connected to each other through the magnetic bodies.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.