Center console for motor vehicles
AssigneeDaimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsSiegfried Eichler, Juergen Koerber, Ulrich Bruhnke, Jakob Roth, Hans Trube
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Abstract
A center console for motor vehicles includes storage compartment, a base body open in the upward direction and adapted to be covered by a pivotally connected cover member. An armrest is longitudinally displaceably supported on this cover member and can be transferred from a rearward pushed back position, located between the front vehicle seats, into a forward armrest position toward the instrument panel.
Claims15
A center console for motor vehicles, comprising base body means arranged between front seats of the vehicle and having a storage compartment means having an open side in the upward direction, an armrest means arranged above the storage compartment means and having a top surface for supporting arms of passengers while they are seated on the front seats;
- said armrest and supporting top surface being displaceable out of a retracted push back position extending between seat backs of the front seats and in a direction toward an instrument panel into a forward armrest position wherein it continues to be available as a support surface, cover means for closing the open side of the storage compartment means and pivotally supported at the base body means, and the armrest means being longitudinally displaceably supported on the cover means from the retracted position where in overlies the cover means to its forward armrest position where it does not overlie the cover means.
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