Drawer apparatus in vehicle
AssigneeToyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
InventorMitsuo Ogura
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Abstract
A vehicular drawer apparatus includes a case installed in an interior member and a drawer member that slides in and out of the case. Energy absorption devices for absorbing impact energy applied to the drawer member in a drawn-out direction are disposed on at least one of the case and the drawer member. The energy absorption devices, which are engaged by a striker, are constructed to absorb impact energy in a stepped manner and to fail sequentially. Due to this, the energy absorption devices are not required to have a high strength. In addition, even in the event that a very large impact energy is applied to the drawer member, the energy can be absorbed.
Claims7
A drawer apparatus adapted to be installed in a vehicle comprising:
- a case installed in an interior member of the vehicle and a drawer member disposed so as to slide in and out of said case;
- wherein at least one of said case and said drawer member has an energy absorption device for absorbing an impact energy applied to said drawer member in a drawing direction in which said drawer member is drawn out while said energy absorption device is deformed, wherein said energy absorption device is a graded energy absorption device which requires a small impact load to effect a deformation in an early impact stage and requires a large impact load to effect a deformation in a late impact stage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.