US 8,573,668 B2Granted

Retracting storage tray system with locking trunnion

AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC

InventorJohn L. Miklas

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Abstract

A tray system has a trunnion carriage mounted to a recess in a housing. A trunnion body is rotatably mounted to the carriage. A push member is slidable within the carriage. Moving the push member from a first end of travel to a second end of travel transfers a force against the trunnion body to move it to a deployed position. When the push member is at the second end then it locks the trunnion body against movement out from the deployed position. Moving the push member back to the first end transfers a force against the trunnion body to move it to the retracted position. A tray coupled to and movable with the trunnion body retracts vertically in the recess when the trunnion body is in the retracted position and deploys horizontally outward from the recess when the trunnion body is in the deployed position.

Claims11

Dependent claims

A retractable tray system deployable from a vertical panel, comprising:

a housing with a recess configured to lie behind the vertical panel;
a trunnion carriage mounted to the recess with a pair of pivot holes along a pivot axis;
a trunnion body rotatably mounted to the carriage for rotating about the pivot axis between a retracted position and a deployed position;
and
a push member slidable within the trunnion carriage between a first end of travel and a second end of travel, wherein moving the push member from the first end of travel to the second end of travel transfers a force against the trunnion body to move the body from the retracted position to the deployed position, wherein when the push member is at the second end of travel then the push member locks the trunnion body against movement from the deployed position toward the retracted position, and wherein moving the push member from the second end of travel to the first end of travel transfers a force against the trunnion body to move the body from the deployed position to the retracted position.

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