Container with pivotable cover lid

Field of the Invention

The invention relates to a closable housing, for example for holding a telephone, in particular for use in motor vehicles, having in each case one of two opposite axes pivotally stored lid member.

State of the art

In the center armrest or on the center console of motor vehicles of upper middle class or the upper class storage compartments are located mainly in motor vehicles, which can serve to receive to be stowed objects, for example a car telephone. These are usually covered by hinged cover elements or sliding window treatments.

Hinged cover elements are arranged to a frame or a container, that it can be pivoted at least about a pivot axis by approximately 90 °.

The <patcit id="pcit0001" dnum="US5931336A"><text>US 5,931,336</text></patcit> is for example a container for disposal, wherein the lid in each case by two opposite and to the side surfaces of the container parallel stationary axes of rotation is pivotable. This makes it possible to open the container, both of the driver and of the passenger side, and thus to gain access to the stored articles, in particular a telephone stored in the container from the respective side.

Vehicle occupants thus obtained in two opening states unhindered access to the container interior. However, it turned out in practice that in such a container simultaneous dissolving locks on both swivel axes could not be prevented sufficiently.

therefore expensive designs were for preventing simultaneous disengagement of locking means at two pivot axes designed and arranged in particular inside the lid member was prevented by the simultaneous loosening on both sides of the housing. Such, known from practice, backup devices consist of a plurality of mutually cooperating spring and power transmission elements and actuators, which are arranged by screwing and / or welding in the lid.

However, the production of such security devices proves to be pronounced is complex and costly. Moreover, such safety devices due to their complex mechanics are very susceptible to interference.

The <patcit id="pcit0002" dnum="US6250729B1"><text>US B1-6,250,729</text></patcit> also describes a lockable housing within the center console of a motor vehicle, in which is arranged a lid for closing the housing slidable on the opening of the housing and also pivotally mounted to the opposite side end edges of the opening. Here a pivot axis, the locking and release takes place in each case by a disposed within the lid sliding Verriegelung- and unlocking, the displaced effected in journals the desired release or blockage of a respective pivot axis. Also in the<patcit id="pcit0003" dnum="US6250729B1"><text>US B1-6,250,729</text></patcit> Described mechanism is, however, designed elaborately complex and undesirably in its construction and the resulting assembly.

Summary of the Invention

It was therefore an object of the invention to provide a sealable and hinged housing, particularly for use in motor vehicles, to provide, which would not have known from the prior art problems.

The object of the invention is achieved by a lockable housing with the features of claim 1. Advantageous embodiments of the invention are in the dependent claims 2 to. 7

There is a lockable housing provided that the desired operation ensures safe, even with frequent use due to its particularly simple configuration. In addition, the invention closable housing is especially easy to use and very inexpensive to manufacture.

The operation of the invention is achieved in that the cover element and the housing are mutually displaceably arranged in longitudinal direction of the generally mutually parallel pivot axes. Such a sliding arrangement can be effected by displacing the covered housing body relative to the vehicle's interior as well as an exclusive sliding the lid member, eventually a combination of both movements.

Here, the pivot bearing for the respective pivot movement in the direction of the pivot axes, thus arranged offset in the direction of displacement of the housing and / or cover member. The staggered arrangement is designed such that on pivoting cover member is at any given time a maximum of only with the pivot bearing or the pivot bearings of an axle engaged.

Thus is reliably ensured that a pivoting movement can only ever be about a pivot axis. The release of the pivoting movement about the predetermined from the respective pivot bearings about the pivot axis can be effected preferably with respect to this pivot axis arranged releasing means.

There is a lockable housing is thus provided, in which a simultaneous loosening of the cover element is reliably prevented on two opposite sides of the housing, can be almost completely eliminated the use of elaborate locking and / or unlocking means.

In a particularly preferred embodiment of the invention the opening of the lid member is performed by moving the lid member in preferably two opposite directions from this engaged position to a first position for pivoting in a first direction and preferably in a second position for pivoting in a second direction. In a very particularly preferred embodiment of the invention, each of the directions of displacement in such a first and second position.

In a further preferred embodiment of the invention, each axis for the pivoting movement is precisely ordered a pair of pivot bearings. The engagement in the pivot bearings of a first shaft causes locking of the lid element in relation to a second pivot movement. This ensures that no further execution locking solely by bringing in operative connection of the cover element with the pivot bearings of a respective axle loosening the lid member is prevented from this page.

In a further preferred embodiment the pivot axes are arranged parallel to the longitudinal axes of the housing. This swinging open the lid member both the Drivers' and towards the passenger side is made possible.

In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the pivot bearing of the respective axes are mutually equally spaced, however, compared with the opposite axis in the longitudinal direction of the housing offset from one another. In a particularly preferred embodiment of the invention, the engaging in the pivot bearing elements of the cover member are not offset from one another thereby.

A particularly simple embodiment of the invention is provided by the operation of the invention achieves a particularly simple 'is. However, an embodiment is similar to preferred in which the pivot bearings are not offset from one another on the housing, and a displacement of the engaging in the bearing elements is realized on the cover element. Finally, it is also an embodiment in which a displacement of both the swivel bearing of the respective axes as well as the engaging into these bearing elements on the housing and on the cover element is realized, is preferred.

In a further preferred embodiment of the invention can be carried out exclusively in the closed state of the housing, the relative displacement of the cover element and the housing. This ensures particularly simple means that a detachment of the cover is carried out from the housing through a non-engagement of pivot bearings on both sides of the housing, is prevented.

In a further preferred embodiment of the invention, the sealable enclosure is in the center console of a motor vehicle, as is commonly used in motor vehicles as a storage compartment or to receive a fixed in the motor vehicle mobile phone.

In a particularly preferred embodiment of the invention, the closable housing at this location, a cover element which has a particularly configured, preferably soft armrest. In this way, the feel of the closable housing as well as the convenience for the vehicle occupant is increased particularly preferred.

Brief Description of Drawings

The present invention is based on the <figref idrefs="f0001 f0002">FIGS. 1-3</figref> explained in more detail, these figures show only exemplary embodiments of the device according to the invention which is in no way to limit the scope of which is defined in the following claims, are suitable. In the drawings<ul><li><figref idrefs="f0001">Fig. 1</figref> a plan view of the arrangement of the respective pivot bearings in conjunction with the engaging in the bearing elements;</li><li><figref idrefs="f0002">FIG. 2</figref> a front view of a housing according to the invention in a first pivot position;</li><li><figref idrefs="f0002">Fig. 2A</figref> an enlarged partial sectional view of resting in a receiving journal;</li><li><figref idrefs="f0002">Fig. 3</figref> a front view of a housing according to the invention in a second pivot position; and</li><li><figref idrefs="f0002">Fig. 3a</figref> an enlarged partial sectional view of a journal inserted in a bearing bore.</li></ul>

WAYS OF CARRYING OUT OF THE INVENTION

In <figref idrefs="f0001">Fig. 1</figref> is represented a partially sectioned plan view of the cover member 1 of a housing according to the invention, closable second In the area of ​​the side edges of the lid member 1 in each case two bearing pins are arranged which are each arranged aligned on a pivot axis 3.4. On the housing (not shown) of the pivot axes 3, 4 in each case two bearing holes 5a, 5b and 6a, 6b, wherein the bearing bores are arranged 5 relative to the bearing bores 6 in the sliding direction 7 parallel to the pivot axes 3,4 offset to each other in the range. The bearing holes 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b each have a hatched closed region for forming a bearing bore for the respective bearing pins 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b and a portion for forming a support for the respective trunnions 8a not hatched and not closed, 8b, 9a, 9b. This ensures that when the trunnion 8a, 8b are inserted in the 'bearing holes 5a, 5b, the trunnion 9a, 9b are outside of the bearing bores 6a, 6b.

In the <figref idrefs="f0002">Figs. 2 and 2a</figref> A housing 2 is shown with a lid member 1, whereby the lid member 1 is shown both in a closed position and also in a pivoted about the pivot axis 3 by 90 ° position. The bearing pin 8 is completely enclosed by the bearing hole 5, whereas the bearing pin 9 rests on a seat 10, thus enabling a release of the lid member on the right side of the drawing.

The <figref idrefs="f0002">FIGS. 3 and 3a</figref> show an inventive housing 2 with lid member 1, in which the cover member 1 shown in both a closed and about the pivot axis 4 at 90 ° pivoted position. In this case is in the closed position of the cover element 1 of the bearing pin 8 on one receptacle 11, whereas the bearing pin 9 is disposed within the bearing bore. 6 In this way, analogously to<figref idrefs="f0002">FIG. 2</figref>, A pivoting movement about the pivot axis 4 permits.