Shutter member for a motor vehicle control lever, and tunnel console provided with such shutter member
AssigneeFiat Group Automobiles S.p.A.
InventorTommaso VICENZO
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Abstract
A shutter member that has a shutter with a substantially rigid wall, which has a substantially arc-shaped a side profile and a hole that is adapted to be engaged by a motor vehicle control lever. The substantially rigid wall is supported by a fastening device, fixing the shutter member to the control lever. The shutter is provided with a tab, which defines a longitudinal extension of the substantially rigid wall and is elastically flexible.
Claims8
1-15. (canceled)
A tunnel console of a motor vehicle for a control lever that is rotatable about an axis between two end limit positions, the tunnel console comprising:
- a structure having a slot, which has a lower annular edge;
- a control lever, which engages the slot and is rotatable in the slot with respect to the structure about a horizontal axis between two end limit positions;
- a shutter member arranged within and coupled to said structure to encompass an empty space around the control lever in the slot, said shutter member comprising a shutter having an upper surface radially facing the lower annular edge and including a substantially rigid wall, an elastically flexible tab extending in a cantilevered manner from a first end of the substantially rigid wall, and a hole that is arranged in the substantially rigid wall, is spaced from the tab and surrounds the control lever, and the shutter member further comprising fastening elements fixing said shutter member to said control lever in a fixed position;
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- at least one guiding element extending from the structure, guiding the tab and bending the tab downward during a rotation of the control lever about the horizontal axis toward the guiding element,
- wherein the lower annular edge and the substantially rigid wall have respective side profiles extending along respective circle arcs that are concentric about the horizontal axis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.