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Console for a vehicle

US8444196B2 · kind B2 · utility

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8References

21Claims

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Assignee

GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC · US

Inventors

Stefan Arndt · Wiesbaden, DE
Matthias Blanck · Kelheim, DE
Andreas Dorhoefer · Frankenthal (Pfalz), DE
Uwe Fett · Trebur, DE
Michael Ross Graf · Lakewood, US
Michael Renkel · Nierstein, DE
Kurt Beyer · Wiesbaden, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jun 22, 2007
Grant date	May 21, 2013
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 11, 2029

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB60R7/04
WIPO fieldTransport
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A console is provided, in particular a central console for a vehicle, having a rail pair for the essentially horizontally displaceable accommodation of inserts of the console between the rails of the rail pair in guides of the rails, as well as a storage space between the inserts and the floor of the vehicle. For such a console, it is provided that the rails are implemented as freestanding brackets, the brackets at least being mounted in the floor of the vehicle, an essentially horizontally situated section of the particular bracket, which is distal from the floor, having at least one guide. Such a console offers high flexibility in regard to the storage space usable in this area with structurally simple design and may be advantageously used both with and also without the inserts in this aspect.

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