Luggage hook
AssigneeToyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHideyuki Izukawa, Iwao Matsushima
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Abstract
A luggage hook provided in an interior portion of a vehicle includes a hook configured to be coupled to the interior portion so as to be rotatable about an axis extending in a lateral direction of the vehicle, a bezel including a frame configured to be fixed to the interior portion and to be attached around the hook, and a metal stopping portion joined to the frame of the interior portion and configured to, at a use position, stop rotation of the hook in a deployment direction protruding from the bezel. A direction in which the rotation of the hook is stopped by the stopping portion is the same as a rotation direction in which the hook is pressed about the axis as an object is hooked at the use position.
Claims6
A seat structure comprising:
- an assist grip including a body frame having fastening ends at both ends in a longitudinal direction of the body frame, the body frame being fixed by fastening the fastening ends of the body frame to a back portion of a seat back of a vehicle seat with bolts;
- and
- a luggage hook provided on the back portion of the seat back of the vehicle seat, the luggage hook including:
- a hook configured to be coupled to the back portion of the seat back of the vehicle seat so as to be rotatable about an axis extending in a lateral direction of a vehicle;
- a bezel including a frame configured to be fixed to the back portion of the seat back of the vehicle seat and to be attached around the hook;
- and
- a metal bracket including a stopping portion configured to, at a use position, stop rotation of the hook in a deployment direction protruding from the bezel,
- wherein the stopping portion is configured to stop the rotation of the hook about the axis at the use position, in conjunction with a hooking of an object,
- wherein the metal bracket is joined to one of the fastening ends of the body frame of the assist grip with one of the bolts, and
- wherein the metal bracket and the one of the fastening ends of the body frame of the assist grip are fastened together to the back portion of the seat back of the vehicle seat with the one of the bolts penetrating both the metal bracket and the one of the fastening ends of the body frame of the assist grip, such that the one of the fastening ends of the body frame of the assist grip is interposed between the metal bracket and the back portion of the seat back of the vehicle seat.
A seat structure comprising:
- an assist grip including a body frame having fastening ends at both ends in a longitudinal direction of the body frame, the body frame being fixed by fastening the fastening ends of the body frame to a back portion of a seat back of a vehicle seat with bolts;
- and
- a luggage hook provided on the back portion of the seat back of the vehicle seat, the luggage hook including:
- a hook configured to be coupled to the back portion of the seat back of the vehicle seat so as to be rotatable about an axis extending in a lateral direction of a vehicle and movable between a use position and a retracted position;
- a metal bracket including a stopping portion configured to, at the use position, restrict rotation of the hook in a deployment direction along which the hook moves from the retracted position to the use position,
- wherein the metal bracket is joined to one of the fastening ends of the body frame of the assist grip with one of the bolts, and
- wherein the metal bracket and the one of the fastening ends of the body frame of the assist grip are fastened together to the back portion of the seat back of the vehicle seat with the one of the bolts penetrating both the metal bracket and the one of the fastening ends of the body frame of the assist grip, such that the one of the fastening ends of the body frame of the assist grip is interposed between the metal bracket and the back portion of the seat back of the vehicle seat.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.