Abstract: A beverage container holding device includes a housing member for housing a beverage container, a movable floor attached to the housing member for supporting a beverage container bottom, a movable floor biasing member for upwardly biasing the movable floor, and a movable floor locking mechanism for securing the movable floor at a predetermined height against the movable floor biasing member. The housing member has a guide groove, and the movable floor has a branch portion extending through the guide groove to an outside of the housing member, and a claw portion extending horizontally from the branch portion. The movable floor locking mechanism includes an annular member which is rotatably mounted below a bottom member, at least one column member extending upward from the annular member in parallel to the guide groove, and a lock piece integrally formed on each column member for suppressing an upper surface of the claw portion.

Abstract: A beverage container holding device includes a housing member for housing a beverage container, a movable floor attached to the housing member for supporting a beverage container bottom, a movable floor biasing member for upwardly biasing the movable floor, and a movable floor locking mechanism for securing the movable floor at a predetermined height against the movable floor biasing member. The housing member has a guide groove, and the movable floor has a branch portion extending through the guide groove to an outside of the housing member, and a claw portion extending horizontally from the branch portion. The movable floor locking mechanism includes an annular member which is rotatably mounted below a bottom member, at least one column member extending upward from the annular member in parallel to the guide groove, and a lock piece integrally formed on each column member for suppressing an upper surface of the claw portion.

Abstract: A vehicle storage device includes a panel, a storage unit provided adjacent to the panel, having an opening in a certain part thereof, and capable of storing a person's goods and belongings therein, a lid which can open and close the opening, and a locking device capable of keeping the lid in a closed state. An operation unit includes a design surface that is exposed in a vehicle interior. One end of the operation unit design surface is substantially continuous from a design surface of the panel, and the other end of the operation unit design surface is positioned adjacent to the lid.

Abstract: A vibration welded article includes an outer member having a substantially V-shaped portion, and an inner member that is vibration welded to the outer member. The outer member includes a substantially plate-shaped base surface portion, and a slope portion formed obliquely relative to the base surface portion. The slope portion has an outer member opening which is opened to attach another component. The inner member includes a first joint surface portion that is vibration welded to the base surface portion, a second joint surface portion that is vibration welded to the slope portion, and at least one protruding portion that protrudes from the second joint surface portion toward the base surface portion.

Abstract: An air outlet device for an air conditioner includes a housing that also serves as an air outlet, swingable fins supported by the housing, a pinion gear portion that can swing with the fins, a rack gear portion that meshes with the pinion gear portion, and an operation portion that can linearly move with the rack gear portion. When the fins are swinging to a maximum swingable angle, a rack tooth portion of the rack gear portion, which meshes with the pinion gear portion, is a rack large tooth portion that is formed larger than the adjacent rack tooth portions.

Abstract: A protrusion is formed on a facing surface which is integral with a shaft of a hinge mechanism. The protrusion has a tip that is in contact with an end surface of the engagement portion when the first member and the second member swing relative to each other, so that displacement of the second member along the lengthwise direction of the shaft is restricted. A state immediately after the engagement portion is engaged with the shaft is referred to as an initial engagement state. In the initial engagement state, the protrusion is situated at a position beyond a center of the shaft when viewed in a direction of engaging the engagement portion with the shaft, and the end surface of the engagement portion is separated from the tip of the protrusion.

Abstract: A beverage container holding device includes a first rotating member supported by a holder main body such that the first rotating member can swing horizontally. The first rotating member includes a first shaft member supported by the holder main body and extending in an up-and-down direction, and a first main body supported by the first shaft member such that the first main body can be present in a receiving portion and retract from the receiving portion. The first main body includes a front contact surface portion having a contact portion, which the beverage container received in the receiving portion can contact. The front contact surface portion makes, at least at the contact portion, an obtuse angle with an imaginary line extending from a center of the first shaft member to the contact portion.

Abstract: A storage device for a vehicle includes a storage portion main body capable of storing things therein, a lid swingably supported by the storage portion main body via a shaft member, a biasing member for biasing the lid in an opening direction, a first damper capable of damping a biasing force of the biasing member to a first transmission member, and a second damper capable of damping the biasing force of the biasing member to the second transmission member. The biasing force of the biasing member is set to a force that allows the lid to swing in the opening direction from a fully closed position to a predetermined open position, and stops a swinging motion of the lid when the lid is in the predetermined open position.

Abstract: A beverage container holding device includes a storage member having a storage space whose top is open and which is configured to receive a beverage container, and a movable floor mounted to the storage member such that the movable floor can move up and down and is configured to support to bottom of the beverage container. The storage member includes support members that advance into the storage space to support the beverage container, and support biasing members for causing the support members to advance into the storage space. The movable floor has support retracting members for causing the support members to move backward such that the support members retract from the storage space.

Abstract: A beverage container holding device includes a housing member for housing a beverage container, a movable floor attached to the housing member for supporting a beverage container bottom, a movable floor biasing member for upwardly biasing the movable floor, and a movable floor locking mechanism for securing the movable floor at a predetermined height against the movable floor biasing member. The housing member has a guide groove, and the movable floor has a branch portion extending through the guide groove to an outside of the housing member, and a claw portion extending horizontally from the branch portion. The movable floor locking mechanism includes an annular member which is rotatably mounted below a bottom member, at least one column member extending upward from the annular member in parallel to the guide groove, and a lock piece integrally formed on each column member for suppressing an upper surface of the claw portion.

Abstract: A member assembly includes a first member and a second member joined to the first member. The first member includes an engagement piece provided with an engaged portion. The second member includes an engaging portion to be engaged relative to the engaged portion, and a hook allowing a tip of the engagement piece to be inserted therein. The hook permits the engagement piece to move in a direction intersecting with an inserting direction of the engagement piece. The engaging portion permits the engaged portion to move by a certain distance in the direction intersecting with the inserting direction of the engagement piece.

Abstract: A resin-molded component includes a mounting member which protrudes from a back surface of a main body and to which an attachment component is attached. The mounting member includes two side walls upstanding from the back surface and facing with each other, a connect part that connects respective tips of these side walls, and a mounting seat-surface which covers these side walls and the connect part and to which an attachment component is fastened. A hollow space is formed between the step, second side-wall part, connect part and the main body.

Abstract: A vehicular interior trim includes: an interior trim member provided with an engagement hole; and an elastic member attached to a surface of the interior trim member and including a protrusion provided on a back surface and to be inserted in the engagement hole. The protrusion includes an engagement piece to be engaged with an external edge of the engagement hole, and the interior trim member includes a recess that surrounds an internal edge of the engagement hole.

Abstract: A side cowl top cover includes a cover body and a hook formed so as to expand at an upper portion of the cover body in order to be engaged with the end flange. The cover body includes: a vertical wall that extends upwardly from a lower side of the windshield; and an extended portion extended from an upper end of the vertical wall toward the front fender. The hook includes: a holder placed at a predetermined gap relative to an end face of the extended portion and extended substantially in parallel with the end face of the extended portion; and a vertical rib extended in a direction intersecting with the direction in which the holder extends, and interconnecting a bottom surface of the extended portion and a bottom surface of the holder.

Abstract: While naturally suctioning air between a first thermoplastic resin sheet and a second thermoplastic resin sheet from a fluid passage formed in a first thermoplastic resin sheet, the first thermoplastic resin sheet is subjected to vacuum-molding by a first vacuum molding die, a first shaping section is formed in the first thermoplastic resin sheet by a molded section of the first vacuum molding die, the second thermoplastic resin sheet is subjected to vacuum-molding by a second vacuum molding die, a second shaping section is formed in the second thermoplastic resin sheet by the molded section of the second vacuum molding die, and a hollow section is defined between the first thermoplastic resin sheet and the second thermoplastic resin sheet by the first shaping section and the second shaping section.

Abstract: A cup holder includes a coupling member that causes a locking pawl to be engaged with a locking recess when a cam plate is catching a beverage container, and causes the locking pawl to be disengaged from the locking pawl when the cam plate does not catch the beverage container.

Abstract: While naturally suctioning air between a first thermoplastic resin sheet (20) and a second thermoplastic resin sheet (21) from a fluid passage (23) formed in a first thermoplastic resin sheet (20), the first thermoplastic resin sheet (20) is subjected to vacuum-molding by a first vacuum molding die (2), a first shaping section is formed in the first thermoplastic resin sheet (20) by a molded section (5) of the first vacuum molding die (2), the second thermoplastic resin sheet (21) is subjected to vacuum-molding by a second vacuum molding die (3), a second shaping section is formed in the second thermoplastic resin sheet (21) by the molded section (11) of the second vacuum molding die (3), and a hollow section (300) is defined between the first thermoplastic resin sheet (20) and the second thermoplastic resin sheet (21) by the first shaping section and the second shaping section.

Abstract: A decorated molded article includes a corner portion in the form of an entirely rounded corner portion. The rounded corner portion has a distal end face at a distal end thereof. The distal end face has a width determined by an outer curved line and an inner curved line. The inner curved line has a central portion curved to approach the outer curved line. The width of the distal end face of the rounded corner portion is smaller than a width of a distal end face formed at a distal end of the first wall extending from the substrate body.

Abstract: A cowl top garnish includes a protruding portion that protrudes upward, with its top being situated at an upper position when a vehicle body is viewed in a lateral cross-sectional view. The protruding portion has a front segment that is disposed in along the width of the vehicle and extends from the top in a lower forward direction, and a rear segment that extends from the top in a lower backward direction. The protruding portion is an element having flexibility that allows the front segment and the rear segment to spread when a load acts on the protruding portion from above the top. The front segment has a projecting portion that projects toward the rear segment. The rear segment has a load receiving portion onto which the projecting portion abuts to receive the load when the load acts on the front segment in the backward direction.

Abstract: The hinge structure of a console box including a brake shaft and a braking device, arranged in a place displaced in the axial direction of a hinge shaft and disposed on one side of the hinge shaft. When opening and closing a lid, the drive shaft and the hinge shaft rotate in conjunction with the rotation of the lid, while a friction plate between the brake shaft and a braking plate is pressed against the rotating end face and the stationary brake plate, which is secured to a storage box, and a predetermined friction force can be produced continuously. Due to the friction force, the lid can be rotated under the influence of a moderate extent of rotational resistance when opening and closing the lid, and the position of the lid can be kept in the place where the lid stopped rotating within a rotatable range of the lid.