Console for a seat unit provided with a movable closing plate for a storage housing

A console for a seat unit comprising:

• a storage housing delimiting an internal volume inside which objects can be placed,
• the storage housing comprising an opening leading outside said storage housing in a vertical direction, and
• a mobile plate movable between a closed position in which the mobile plate closes the opening in the storage housing and an open position in which said mobile plate is disengaged from the opening in the storage housing to allow access to the internal volume of said storage housing,
• said mobile plate extending in a horizontal plane (P) in the closed position and in the open position, said mobile plate being adapted to be maintained in said horizontal plane (P) during a movement of said mobile plate from the closed position to the open position and vice versa, characterized in that:
• the storage housing extends vertically between a horizontal face configured as an armrest and an upper wall forming a table surface;
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• in the closed position and in the open position, the mobile plate is in the same horizontal plane (P) as the upper wall forming the table surface.