Locking unit for vehicle
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
InventorsJin Ho Hwang, Dong Eun Cha, Sang Heon Lee
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Abstract
A locking unit of a vehicle may include a mounting portion having a plurality of mounting grooves formed on an upper surface thereof, wherein supporting legs of a vehicle interior portion are configured to be inserted into the mounting grooves, installing the vehicle interior portion in the indoor compartment of the vehicle; and a plurality of locking devices provided on inner peripheries of the mounting grooves inside the mounting portion, respectively, such that, by selectively fixing or unfixing the supporting legs of the vehicle interior portion inserted in the mounting grooves, the vehicle interior portion is attached to or detached from the mounting portion.
Claims4
A locking unit for a vehicle, the locking unit comprising:
- a mounting portion having a plurality of mounting grooves formed on an upper surface thereof, wherein supporting legs of a vehicle interior portion are insertable into the plurality of mounting grooves;
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- a plurality of locking devices provided on inner peripheries of the plurality of mounting grooves inside the mounting portion, respectively,
- wherein by selectively fixing the supporting legs of the vehicle interior portion in the plurality of mounting grooves, the vehicle interior portion is selectively attached to the mounting portion,
- wherein a locking groove is formed on an external circumferential surface of each of the supporting legs of the vehicle interior portion,
- wherein a locking protrusion is provided on a side of each of the locking devices,
- wherein each of the locking devices selectively inserts the locking protrusion into the locking groove so that the supporting legs of the vehicle interior portion are selectively coupled to the plurality of mounting grooves,
- wherein a magnetic force portion connected to the locking protrusion is provided at the side of each of the locking devices, and
- wherein each of the locking devices selectively attaches the locking protrusion to the locking groove through magnetic force of the magnetic force portion so as to selectively insert the locking protrusion into the locking groove,
- wherein the magnetic force portion includes at least one of a fixation magnet, a rotating magnet, or an electromagnet,
- wherein the magnetic force portion has a magnetic path changed according to a magnetism change of the electromagnet,
- wherein the supporting legs are fixed to the plurality of mounting grooves when the magnetic force portion and each of the supporting legs together form the magnetic path, and
- wherein the supporting legs are unfixed from the plurality of mounting grooves when only the magnetic force portion forms the magnetic path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.