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US 11,377,011 B2Granted
Vehicle holding unit
AssigneeNissan North America, Inc.
InventorsManuel Alejandro Vite Cadena, Matthew Cole
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Abstract
A vehicle holding unit includes a cupholder and an electronic heating unit. The cupholder has a sidewall defining a cup receiving area. The sidewall includes a heat source for providing heat to the cupholder. The electronic heating unit is integrated with the sidewall. The electronic heating unit has an electrical connector configured to be electrically connected to another electrical connector of a vehicle center console to draw electrical power from the another electrical connector to power the heat source.
Claims19
A vehicle holding unit comprising:
- a cupholder having a sidewall defining a cup receiving area, the cupholder being configured to be received by a vehicle center console, the sidewall including a heat source for providing heat to the cupholder;
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- an electronic heating unit integrated with the sidewall, the electronic heating unit having at least one electrical wire and an electrical connector configured to be electrically connected to another electrical connector by the at least one electrical wire that extends into the vehicle center console to draw electrical power from the another electrical connector to power the heat source such that the at least one electrical wire is a hidden wire that is not exposed from the vehicle center console when the cupholder is received by the vehicle center console.
A vehicle holding unit comprising:
- a cupholder having a sidewall defining a cup receiving area, the sidewall including a heat source for providing heat to the cupholder;
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- an electronic heating unit integrated with the sidewall, the electronic heating unit having an electrical connector configured to be electrically connected to another electrical connector of a vehicle center console to draw electrical power from the another electrical connector to power the heat source,
- the center console having a storage compartment, the cupholder being telescopically received in the storage compartment of the center console,
- the storage compartment including at least one retention arm biased towards the first receiving space of the center console from a storage recess,
- the sidewall of the cupholder including at least one opening sized and dimensioned to correspond to the at least one retention arm, the at least one retention arm extending through the at least one opening into the storage compartment of the cupholder.
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