Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Falling-off structure of operational switch for vehicle
- Patent Title (中): 车辆操作开关下落结构
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Application No.: US14172759Application Date: 2014-02-04
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Publication No.: US09257241B2Publication Date: 2016-02-09
- Inventor: Keiichirou Yamamoto , Yohichi Yanagi
- Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Hiroshima
- Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
- Current Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Hiroshima
- Agency: Studebaker & Brackett PC
- Priority: JP2013-020440 20130205
- Main IPC: H01H9/02
- IPC: H01H9/02 ; B60K1/00 ; B60R21/09 ; H01H25/04 ; B60R21/055 ; B60K37/06 ; H01H25/06 ; H01H3/02

Abstract:
A switch body portion attached to a center console includes a dial switch. The switch body portion is held on the side of the enter console for attachment through engaging of front engagement portions and a rear engagement portion. When an external force having a specified magnitude or greater acts on the dial switch from the rear, the engaging of the front engagement portions is released, so that the switch body portion falls off downward, rotating around the rear engagement portion. Accordingly, an impact which may occur when some object hits against the dial switch projecting upward from an upper face of the center console from the rear can be properly absorbed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140216904A1 FALLING-OFF STRUCTURE OF OPERATIONAL SWITCH FOR VEHICLE Public/Granted day:2014-08-07
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