Vehicle component, in particular an armrest with a reversibly extendable and pivotal support and receiving table

Abstract

The invention relates to a vehicle component (5), comprising at least one support and receiving table that can be slid, in the manner of a drawer, or pivoted from a retracted position (I), in which the table is arranged within a cavity of the vehicle component (5), into an extended position (II), in which the table protrudes at least partly out of the cavity and into the region outside of the vehicle component (5), and vice versa. According to the invention, the cavity is formed by a frame structure of a support and guide frame (6.4) which has at least one linear frame guide (6.41) and a pivoting frame guide (6.42) which interact with an engagement and passage element (9.5) that is arranged on the support and receiving table and engages into the frame guides in an assembled state of the vehicle component (5) such that the support and receiving table can be slid from the retracted position (I) into the extended position (II) in a linear actuation movement which is guided by the engagement and passage element (9.5) and only then from the extended position (II) into a pivoted extended position (II-S) in a pivoting actuation movement which is likewise guided by the engagement and passage element (9.5).

Description

[0001] Description

[0002] Vehicle component, in particular armrest with a reversibly extendable and pivoting storage and receiving table

[0003] The invention relates to a vehicle component with at least one storage and receiving table provided as a receiving device for objects, which can be displaced or pivoted in a drawer-like manner from a retracted position in which it is arranged within a cavity of the vehicle component into an extended position in which it protrudes at least partially from the cavity into the area outside the vehicle component, and vice versa.

[0004] The following publications DE 202019 102 182 U1, WO 2018 / 019 689 A1 and DE 2015 002 284 A1 and DE 10 2009 527 A1 are cited as state of the art.

[0005] The invention is based on another document, DE 102021 109 771 A1. This document discloses a vehicle component, or rather a foldable armrest, which is arranged, for example, in a folded-down position. The vehicle component has a receiving device that can be displaced or pivoted like a drawer from a retracted position, in which it is arranged within the vehicle component, to an extended position, in which it protrudes at least partially into the area outside the vehicle component, and vice versa. It is provided that the receiving device, in the extended position, has at least one fastening means by means of which objects, in particular a mobile phone, can be fastened in a lying position to or in a storage area of ​​the receiving device.Furthermore, the receiving device has at least one storage area, in particular designed as a recess in the receiving device, for storing a beverage container.

[0006] The present invention has for its object to provide an improved vehicle component with at least one storage option for at least one object, in particular for a beverage container and / or a telecommunications device, which is of uncomplicated construction and comfortable, takes up little installation space and in particular is as variably adjustable as possible.

[0007] The starting point of the invention is a vehicle component with at least one storage and receiving table, which can be displaced or pivoted like a drawer from a retracted position in which it is arranged within a cavity of the vehicle component, into an extended position in which it protrudes at least partially from the cavity into the area outside the vehicle component, and vice versa.

[0008] According to the invention, it is provided that the cavity is formed by a frame structure of a support and guide frame, which has at least one linear frame guide and one pivoting frame guide, which interact with an engagement and reach-through element arranged on the storage and receiving table and engaging in the frame guides when the vehicle component is assembled, such that the storage and receiving table can be displaced from the retracted position into the extended position in a linear movement guided by the engagement and reach-through element and only then can it be pivoted from the extended position into a pivoted, extended position in a pivoting movement likewise guided by the engagement and reach-through element.

[0009] It is preferably provided that the storage and receiving table is also slidably guided by an upper frame guide during each of the adjustment movements (linear adjustment movement and pivoting adjustment movement) of the storage and receiving table, wherein guide rail undersides of guide rails, which are arranged next to one another parallel to an upper frame inner side of an upper frame region of the frame structure on the frame structure, function as guide sliding surfaces of an upper table sliding surface.

[0010] Furthermore, it is preferably provided that the storage and receiving table is slidably guided by a side frame guide during each of the adjustment movements (linear adjustment movement and pivoting adjustment movement), wherein guide means are arranged in lateral frame inner sides of a lateral frame region in the frame structure in a protruding manner relative to the lateral frame inner sides, which act as guide sliding surfaces of lateral table sliding surfaces of the table narrow sides.

[0011] Furthermore, it is preferably provided that the storage and receiving table is slidably guided by a first sub-frame guide, wherein a lower frame inner side of a lower frame region of the frame structure functions as a guide sliding surface of a lower table sliding surface.

[0012] Furthermore, it is preferably provided that the storage and receiving table is slidably guided by a second sub-frame guide, wherein a lower frame inner side of a lower frame region of the frame structure has a guide means into which, during the linear movement of the storage and receiving table, a guide and pivoting member of the storage and receiving table, which protrudes relative to a table underside, moves into the guide means, guiding the storage and receiving table in the guide means, wherein the guide and pivoting member finally forms a stop in the guide means, so that the guide means functions as a guide sliding surface of a sliding surface of the guide and pivoting member arranged on the storage and receiving table and as a stop means.

[0013] It is preferably provided that the engagement and penetration element is designed to protrude from a table top and, in the assembled state, engages in a geometrically predeterminable recessed contour which is arranged in the upper frame region in the frame inner side of the frame structure directed towards the storage and receiving table as a recess in the longitudinal extension of the storage and receiving table, which corresponds to the displacement movement of the storage and receiving table, wherein the linear frame guide is formed by the engagement of the engagement and penetration element in the recessed contour.

[0014] In addition, it is preferably provided that the linear frame guide merges into the pivoting frame guide, wherein the engagement and reach-through element, after leaving the recessed contour of the linear frame guide, passes through a cutout which adjoins the recessed contour, wherein the cutout is also arranged in the upper frame region in the frame structure directed towards the storage and receiving table, wherein the pivoting frame guide is formed by the penetration of the engagement and reach-through element into the cutout, since the cutout has a circular segment-shaped contour, in which the engagement and reach-through element and the storage and receiving table connected to the engagement and reach-through element are guided in the cutout in the upper frame region of the frame structure and can be pivoted from the extended position into a pivoted, extended position.

[0015] The engagement and reach-through element preferably has an S-shaped contour, wherein the engagement and reach-through element, during the linear adjustment movement of the storage and receiving table from the retracted position to the extended position, runs onto a front edge of the circular segment-shaped cutout of the pivoting frame guide, which front edge is slightly lower than a rear edge with respect to an imaginary plane, and the free end runs onto the front edge and the free end of the engagement and reach-through element then reaches through the cutout, wherein the rear edge of the cutout presses onto the free end, so that in the fully extended position a positioning lug arranged on an underside of a free end of the engagement and reach-through element engages in a recess arranged in a central position of the cutout, which recess is formed close behind the front edge of the cutout in the frame region on the upper outer side of the frame.

[0016] Finally, it is provided that the positioning lug of the engagement and penetration element engages in further recesses, which engage in recesses arranged essentially at both ends of the cutout, which are also formed close behind the front edge of the cutout in the frame area on the upper frame outer side, wherein the positioning lug of the engagement and penetration element engages in one or the other recess after a completely carried out linear adjusting movement of the storage and receiving table and an additionally completely carried out pivoting adjusting movement in the extended position II.

[0017] The invention is explained below with reference to the accompanying drawings. They show:

[0018] State of the art:

[0019] Figure 1 shows an embodiment of a known vehicle;

[0020] Figure 2 shows a vehicle seat of the vehicle from Figure 1;

[0021] Figure 3 shows a conventional vehicle component of the vehicle seat of Figure 2;

[0022] Figure 4 shows an alternative embodiment of a conventional vehicle component,

[0023] Figure 5 is a perspective view of the conventional vehicle component of Figure 3, with the receiving device in an extended position; invention:

[0024] Figure 6 is a perspective view (top view) of a vehicle component according to the invention, wherein a storage and receiving table is shown as a receiving device in a retracted position in a support and guide frame, wherein a detail E1 is marked;

[0025] Figure 7 shows another perspective view (top view) of the vehicle component according to the invention according to Figure 6 with associated connecting means and support arms, with the storage and receiving table in the retracted position;

[0026] Figure 8 shows another perspective view (top view) of the vehicle component according to the invention according to Figure 6 with the associated connecting means and the support arms, but without the support and guide frame, wherein the storage and receiving table is again in the retracted position;

[0027] Figure 9 is an enlarged perspective view (top view) of the front area of ​​the storage and receiving table in conjunction with Figure 8;

[0028] Figure 10 is an enlarged perspective view (top view) of the rear area of ​​the storage and receiving table in conjunction with Figure 8;

[0029] Figure 11 is an enlarged perspective view (top view) of the rear area of ​​the storage and receiving table in conjunction with Figure 10, with a detail E2 being marked;

[0030] Figure 12 is a perspective view (top view) of the vehicle component according to the invention, wherein the storage and receiving table is shown as a receiving device in the retracted position in a support and guide frame, wherein details E3 and E4 are marked;

[0031] Figure 13 is a perspective view (top view) of the vehicle component according to the invention, with the storage and receiving table as a receiving device in a non-pivoted, extended position in the support and guide frame; Figure 14 is a perspective view (top view) of the vehicle component according to the invention, with the storage and receiving table as a receiving device in a pivoted, extended position in the support and guide frame;

[0032] Figure 15 is a perspective view (bottom view) of the storage and receiving table in the retracted position (without support and guide frames).

[0033] Description of the state of the art:

[0034] Figure 1 shows a motor vehicle 1. The motor vehicle 1 comprises several vehicle seats 2, namely a driver-side and passenger-side individual seat 3, as well as a bench seat 4 arranged behind the individual seats 3.

[0035] In all figures, a coordinate system is shown to indicate the spatial directions, in which the x-direction points along a longitudinal direction, the y-direction points along the transverse direction to the left and the z-direction points upwards along the vertical direction.

[0036] The motor vehicle 1 comprises several vehicle components 5, namely interior components. Specifically, the vehicle components 5 are an armrest 6 of the seat bench 4, a center console 7 arranged between the individual seats 3, a dashboard 8, and an interior door panel not shown in the figures. Each of the vehicle components 5 comprises a receiving device 9. Aspects relating to the receiving device 9 are explained using the armrest 6 of the seat bench 4, and the aspects explained in this context are fundamentally equally applicable to the other vehicle components 5.

[0037] It should also be noted that, in addition to or as an alternative to the armrest 6, further armrests can be provided on the sides of the bench seat 4 and / or the individual seats 3.

[0038] Figure 2 shows details of the bench seat 4, which has a left seat 10 and a right seat 11. The armrest 6, which is shown in the folded-down position in Figure 2, is arranged between the seats 10, 11. In this case, the armrest 6 can be used to support the arm of persons sitting on the seats 10, 11. The armrest 6 can be pivoted about a pivot axis 12 running along the y-direction (see Figure 5), so that the armrest 6 can be moved from the folded-down position to a folded-up position, and vice versa. The corresponding pivoting movement is indicated by a double arrow 13. When the armrest 6 is in the folded-up position, it also forms a backrest for a middle seat 14 of the bench seat 4.

[0039] If the vehicle component 5 is the armrest 6 and the armrest 6 is in the folded-down position so that its end face 20 (compare Figures 2 to 5 in conjunction with Figure 1) points in the longitudinal direction, in particular forwards, in a vehicle interior, the longitudinal direction of the armrest 6 in the installed state of the armrest 6 in the motor vehicle 1 corresponds to a vehicle longitudinal direction, the transverse direction of the armrest 6 to a vehicle transverse direction and the vertical direction of the armrest 6 to a vehicle vertical direction.

[0040] Figure 3 illustrates further aspects of the armrest 6, particularly in connection with the receiving device 9. Figure 3 shows a sectional view through the armrest 6 in the folded-down position, with a horizontal section plane. The receiving device 9 can be moved like a drawer from an extended position (dashed line), in which it projects into the area outside the armrest 6, i.e., into a passenger compartment 15 of the motor vehicle 1, to a retracted position (solid line), in which it is arranged within the vehicle component 5 or armrest 6. The receiving device 9 is connected by means of connecting means 16 to stationary components, for example housing components, of the vehicle component 5 or armrest 6. In the known case, the connecting means 16 are telescopic rails.

[0041] The transfer of the receiving device 9 from the retracted position to the extended position occurs automatically. For this purpose, an operating element 17, designed for example as an operating button, is provided on the armrest 6 and is connected to a control device 18 of the motor vehicle. Actuation of the operating element 17 causes the generation of an operating signal, which is transmitted to an electromechanical actuator 19 designed as an electric motor, so that the receiving device 9 is transferred by means of the actuator 19 from the retracted position to the extended position or vice versa. In the known case at hand, the actuator 19 is a component of a rack and pinion drive (not shown in detail). As an alternative to the automatic transfer, a manual transfer of the receiving device 9 from the retracted position to the extended position and vice versa is also conceivable.For this purpose, the operating element 17 arranged on a front side 20 of the receiving device 9 can be a handle or the like, by means of which the user can manually push the receiving device 9 into the armrest 6 or pull it out of it.

[0042] A possible alternative regarding the drawer-like displaceability of the receiving device 9 is shown in Figure 4, wherein the receiving device 9, which is exemplary designed in the shape of a quarter circle, can be pivoted about a pivot axis 21 running along the z-direction (vehicle vertical axis) between the retracted position and the extended position. Here, too, automatic transfer is provided by means of the control device 18, which is connected to the operating element 17 and the actuator 19. Likewise, manual transfer by the user is also conceivable here, in particular by means of an operating element 17 arranged on the end face 10, such as a handle or the like.

[0043] Further details regarding the vehicle component 5, or armrest 6, are explained below with reference to Fig. 5, which shows the armrest 6 of Fig. 1 to Fig. 3 in perspective and in the folded-down position. The receiving device 9 is in the extended position. The receiving device 9 comprises a plurality of fastening means 22, by means of which a mobile phone 23 or a smartphone can be fastened in a lying position to a storage area 24 of the receiving device 9. The storage area 24, which can have a rectangular recess, for example, for receiving the mobile phone 23, represents part of an upper surface 25 of the receiving device 9. The surface 25 and in particular the storage area 24 also has an anti-slip coating, for example made of rubber, so that slipping of the mobile phone 23 is prevented.

[0044] Adjacent to the storage area 24, the receiving device 9, or surface 25, has a storage area 26 for depositing a beverage container. The storage area 26 comprises a cylindrical recess in the surface 26, so that a beverage container, such as a beverage can or a coffee mug, can be securely deposited and, if necessary, secured, for example, clamped, using an additional fastening means (not shown in detail). The receiving device 9 serves synergistically as both a cup holder and a storage device for the mobile phone 23.

[0045] Description of the invention: The reference numeral 5 is also used below for the vehicle component according to the invention. The reference numeral 9 is also used for the receiving device according to the invention, which is referred to below as the storage and receiving table. Components modified compared to the prior art or additional information are given new reference numerals.

[0046] Figure 1 shows the motor vehicle 1, wherein the representation in Figure 1 and the description of Figure 1 and the following description of the vehicle component 5 according to the invention are used together for the invention.

[0047] A motor vehicle 1 according to the invention also comprises the plurality of vehicle seats 2, namely the driver-side and passenger-side individual seats 3 and the seat bench 4 arranged behind the individual seats 3.

[0048] In Figures 1 to 5 and all further Figures 6 to 13 showing the invention, a coordinate system is shown in each case to identify the spatial directions x, y, z, in which the x-direction points forward along the vehicle longitudinal direction, the y-direction points to the left along the vehicle transverse direction and the z-direction points upward along the vehicle vertical direction.

[0049] The motor vehicle 1 according to the invention also comprises a plurality of vehicle components 5 according to the invention, namely interior fittings. Specifically, the vehicle components 5 are, analogous to the prior art, an armrest 6 of the seat bench 4, a center console 7 arranged between the individual seats 3, a dashboard 8, and an interior door panel not shown in the figures. Each of the vehicle components 5 according to the invention comprises the storage and receiving table as a receiving device 9, with aspects relating to the storage and receiving table being explained using an armrest 6 according to the invention of the seat bench 4, with the aspects explained in this context being applicable to the vehicle components 5. For clarity, the armrest according to the invention, as one of the possible vehicle components 5 into which the storage and receiving table is integrated, is also provided with the reference numeral 6.

[0050] According to the invention, it is possible for further armrests to be provided in addition to or alternatively to the armrest 6, in particular on the sides of the bench seat 4 and / or the individual seats 3. Figure 2 shows details relating to the bench seat 4, which has a left seat 10 and a right seat 11. These details relate to the conventional armrest. The following description of Figure 2 also applies to the armrest 6 according to the invention. The armrest 6 is arranged between the seats 10, 11 and is shown in the folded-down position in Figure 2. In this case, the armrest 6 can be used to rest an arm of a person sitting on the seats 10, 11. The armrest 6 can be pivoted about a pivot axis 12 (see Figure 5) running along the y-direction (vehicle transverse axis), so that the armrest 6 can be moved from the folded-down position to a folded-up position.The corresponding pivoting movement is indicated by a double arrow 13. When the armrest 6 is in the folded-up position, it forms a backrest of a central seat 14 of the bench seat 4. This explanation applies analogously to the armrest according to the invention.

[0051] Figure 3 illustrates further aspects relating to the armrest 6, which are also intended to apply analogously to the armrest 6 according to the invention. The armrest 6 is in the folded-down position. The receiving device 9 is shown from an extended position (dashed line), in which it projects into the area outside the armrest 6, i.e., into a passenger compartment 15 of the motor vehicle 1, into a retracted position (solid line), in which it is arranged within the vehicle component 5, or armrest 6, and can be moved like a drawer. The receiving device 9 is connected to stationary components, for example, housing components, of the vehicle component 5, or armrest 6, by means of connecting means 16.

[0052] Figures 6 and 7 each show perspective views of the armrest 6 according to the invention. Figure 6 in a perspective view from the front left of a left long side and an upper side of the armrest 6 and according to Figure 7 essentially in a perspective view from above of the upper side and the right long side.

[0053] The armrest 6 is pivotable about the pivot axis 12 running along the y-direction (vehicle transverse axis) (see Figures 6 and 7), so that the armrest 6 can be transferred from the folded-down position (in which it is shown) into a folded-up position. The corresponding pivoting movement is indicated by a double pivot 13. When the armrest 6 is in the folded-up position, it forms, for example, the backrest of a middle seat 14 of the bench seat 4 according to Figure 2. Figure 7 differs from Figure 6 in that connecting means 6.1 of the armrest 6 are designed and shown, which are connected to structures of stationary components, for example structural elements of the aforementioned vehicle components 5, such as structures of a backrest of individual seats 3 or a bench seat 4 or the like.

[0054] The connecting means is fixedly attached to the respective structural elements, wherein the connecting means 6.1 is pivotably connected to a pivoting kinematics 6.2 for folding the armrest 6 from the folded-down position into the folded-up position.

[0055] The swivel kinematics 6.2 include, in particular, two support arms 6.3 by means of which the structure of the armrest 6 can be folded about the swivel axis 12 around the double arrow 13 in Figure 7.

[0056] In particular, Figure 7 shows that, in the assembled state of the armrest 6, the support arms 6.3 engage along the left and right longitudinal sides of the armrest 6 into a support and guide frame 6.4. In the assembled state, the support arms 6.3 are firmly connected to the lateral areas of the support and guide frame 6.4, i.e., they are screwed, for example, to the support and guide frame 6.4 from the outer narrow sides of the frame.

[0057] According to the invention, the support and guide frame 6.4 carries and guides the storage and receiving table explained below.

[0058] The support and guide frame 6.4 has a hollow space in which the storage and receiving table is completely arranged in its retracted position I and partially arranged in its extended position II.

[0059] For further description, a table top is defined for the storage and receiving table, which forms the storage surface and, at the same time, an upper table sliding surface during the adjustment movements. Furthermore, a table bottom is defined, which lies opposite the table top and forms a lower table sliding surface. In addition, table narrow sides are defined between the table top and table bottom, which form lateral table guide sliding surfaces. In addition, with regard to the cavity of the support and guide frame 6.4, for further description - viewed from the cavity - an upper frame inner side of an upper frame region of the frame structure of the support and guide frame 6.4 is defined, which lies opposite the table top when the support and guide frame 6.4 and the storage and receiving table are assembled. Furthermore, a lower frame inner side of the lower frame region of the frame structure of the support and guide frame 6.4, which, when assembled, is opposite the underside of the table. Furthermore, the inner frame narrow sides of the side frame sections of the frame structure are defined between the upper and lower frame inner sides, which, when assembled, are opposite the narrow sides of the storage and receiving table.

[0060] Each of the inner sides of the frame structure is assigned a frame outer side, which are referred to as the upper frame outer side, the lower frame outer side and the outer frame narrow sides.

[0061] The support and guide frame 6.4 is firmly connected to the support arms 6.3 in the assembled state of the armrest 6, so that a movement of the support arms 6.3 acts on the support and guide frame 6.4, which represents the basic structure of the armrest 6. It is understood that the armrest 6, in its fully finished state, has a foam 6.7 (see Figures 13 and 14) and a cover, which, as a covering for the armrest, adjoins a front panel 6.5 of the support and guide frame 6.4, which is shown in Figures 6 and 7.

[0062] Preferably, a panel frame 6.6 of the panel 6.5 is manufactured as a single piece together with the corresponding entire frame structure of the support and guide frame 6.4, which has the cavity. The support arms 6.3 are shown in Figure 8 without the entire frame structure of the support and guide frame 6.4.

[0063] The storage and receiving table is arranged in the retracted position I in the cavity of the support and guide frame 6.4.

[0064] In the retracted position I of the storage and receiving table, an end face 20 of the storage and receiving table according to the invention is flush with the imaginary plane of an opening of the panel 6.5, which is preferably fastened, in particular clipped, to the panel frame 6.6. The storage and receiving table will be referred to at least partially below as "table" for short. The table is reversibly displaceable like a drawer into the extended position II, in which it projects at least partially into the area outside the vehicle component 5. The guidance of the pushing movement and a subsequent pivoting movement of the table differs significantly from the prior art, as explained below.

[0065] In Figure 6, detail E1 illustrates a linear frame guide 6.41 in the support and guide frame 6.4 for the table, which is also shown in Figure 7, which extends in the longitudinal extension of the armrest 6 and thus also in the longitudinal extension of the table.

[0066] The linear frame guide 6.41 is designed such that it is open on the upper frame inner side facing the table, forming a recessed, geometrically predeterminable contour, which in the selected embodiment is designed as a U-profile. On the upper frame outer side, the U-profile is closed accordingly to form the base of the "U."

[0067] The linear frame guide 6.41 is designed such that the U-profile does not protrude beyond any surface of the upper frame inner side of the support and guide frame 6.4. The U-profile is accordingly raised relative to the surface of the upper frame outer side of the support and guide frame 6.4 (see Figure 6).

[0068] The linear frame guide 6.41 is followed by a pivoting frame guide 6.42, which is designed as a circular segment-shaped cutout, which will be discussed in more detail later; compare details E3 and E4 in Figure 12.

[0069] Figure 8 now shows the table in perspective (omitting the support and guide frame 6.4) for objects as a whole, while Figure 9 shows an enlarged perspective view of a front end on the front side 20 of the table.

[0070] Figure 8 shows guide rails as the upper frame guide 6.43 of the table, which, by means of their end-side connection contour, which in the exemplary embodiment are preferably designed as U-shaped hooks, are clipped into the support and guide frame 6.4 in the z-direction (cf. Figure 7) - in the direction of the upper frame inner side. After being assembled with the support and guide frame 6.4, parallel to the upper frame inner side, the guide rails form the upper guide sliding surface of the table top side with their guide rail underside when the table is moved like a drawer from its retracted position I to its extended position II, and vice versa.

[0071] In other words, it is intended that the upper frame inner side of the support and guide frame 6.4 does not serve as a sliding surface for the table, but the guide rail underside takes over this function.

[0072] Figures 8 and 9 show clips as side frame guides 6.44 of the table, which in the exemplary embodiment are preferably designed as C-shaped guide means, which are clipped laterally in the y-direction (compare Figure 7) in the direction of the inner frame narrow sides - in the support and guide frame 6.4 and then arranged slightly over the inner frame narrow sides inwards into the cavity.

[0073] The clips, designed as guide means, form spring legs with their guide sliding surfaces facing the table, opposite the narrow sides of the table, which thus function as lateral guide sliding surfaces of the table. These spring legs project from a base part of the clips, by means of which the clips are clipped into the support and guide frame 6.4. The spring legs of the clips project inwardly into the cavity of the support and guide frame 6.4, opposite the inner narrow sides of the frame.

[0074] The base part of the clips has stops for clipping in, which secure the clips in the support and guide frame 6.4. When assembled with the support and guide frame 6.4, the clips are clipped in by the stops and the designated support and guide frame receptacles in such a way that they are securely positioned and reversibly positioned in all spatial directions within the support and guide frame 6.4.

[0075] The clips between the base and the spring strut act as stabilizing struts. When the table is moved from its retracted position (I) to its extended position (II) and vice versa, the spring struts of the clips press against the side sliding surfaces on both sides of the table, thereby guiding the table laterally.

[0076] The table is moved from the retracted position I to the extended position II by an operating element that differs from the prior art and, according to the invention, is a manually operable pull loop as the pull element 17.1. The pull loop, which is guided through a slot 9.10 in the table, allows the table to be unlocked and locked using a locking and unlocking mechanism. The table is securely locked in the retracted position I, thus advantageously ensuring that the table does not accidentally return to its extended position II in the event of a crash.

[0077] Figures 8 and 9 further illustrate that the table, as a storage and receiving table, has a storage surface which, in one of the extended positions II, II-S (compare Figures 13 and 14 in advance), is at least partially free for the storage of objects.

[0078] It is further clarified that the table as a storage and receiving table has at least one opening 9.9 (see also Figures 13 to 15 in advance), in which cup holders are arranged, which are designed as lowerable floors 9.3, which are arranged to be movable from a flat starting position EA into a lowered use position NP, in which the at least one floor 9.3 and thus the beverage container placed on the at least one floor 9.3 comes into a position which is recessed relative to the storage surface and in which the beverage container is received and held.

[0079] In Figures 8 and 9, the shelves 9.3 are shown in a flat starting position EA, ensuring that at least one shelf 9.3 does not form any interfering edges relative to the lower surface of the table or the upper surface of the table, so that the table can be moved like a drawer from its retracted position I to its extended position II and vice versa. When the shelf(s) 9.3 are in a usage position NP displaced relative to the lower surface of the table, they assume the position shown in Figures 13 and 14 in the openings 9.9 according to Figure 15.

[0080] It is understood that the use position NP can only be adjusted if the area of ​​the table in which the base(s) 9.3 are arranged, as shown in Figures 13 and 14, is / are in the exclusively translationally extended position II or in the translationally pivoted, extended position II-S outside the cavity of the support and guide frame 6.4.

[0081] A first subframe guide 6.45 of the table is provided in that the lower frame inner side of the support and guide frame 6.4 acts as a lower guide sliding surface on which the table slides when the table is displaced or displaced and pivoted in a drawer-like manner from its retracted position I into its extended position II or into its extended position II and then into its pivoted, extended position II-S and vice versa.

[0082] The lower frame interior is designed in such a way that the guide sliding surfaces are arranged in a rail-like manner only laterally in the lower frame area of ​​the frame structure, running in the x-direction, and are each positioned slightly higher than another lower frame area. These laterally raised guide sliding surfaces of the lower frame interior are thus arranged at a higher level, creating additional installation space between the surface of the table underside and a lower frame area of ​​the lower frame interior of the frame structure. The significance of this will be discussed later in connection with a second subframe guide 6.46.

[0083] The lower frame structure can also have openings. Even with such openings, which ensure that no interfering edges protrude beyond the lower frame interior, it is possible for the table sliding surface of the table's underside to slide on the lower guide sliding surface of the lower frame interior of the support and guide frame 6.4, which remains despite the openings.

[0084] The support and guide frame 6.4 forms a framed hollow space for the table (see Figures 6, 7 and 12), which forms the lower frame inner side, the guide sliding surface of which supports the table on its table underside, whereby the table underside thus forms the lower table sliding surface of the table opposite the guide sliding surface of the lower frame inner side.

[0085] The lower frame inner side of the support and guide frame 6.4 forms a lower surface on which the guide rails of the table are arranged as the upper frame guide 6.43 of the table.

[0086] The support and guide frame 6.4 forms outer narrow sides of the frame to which the support arms 6.3 are attached. Before the support arms 6.3 are attached, the clips are clipped into the support and guide frame 6.4 as the side frame guide 6.44 of the table, as explained, so that the clips, with their spring legs exerting the holding force, protrude from the inner narrow sides of the frame and rest against the narrow sides of the table. Overall, the table is thus advantageously guided at the top, sides, and bottom of the support and guide frame 6.4 by the upper frame guide 6.45, the side frame guide 6.43 (each on the side), and the first and second lower frame guides 6.45, 6.46 when the table is moved from its retracted position I to its extended position II and vice versa, like a drawer. This advantageously ensures that the table's movement is rattling-free and essentially free of play, leaving a high-quality impression for the user.

[0087] In addition, there is a frame guide in the linear frame guide 6.41 and the pivoting frame guide 6.42, which will be discussed in more detail.

[0088] Thanks to the frame guides 6.41 to 6.46, the table's movement can advantageously be adjusted with particular precision and is comparatively "less spongy" than prior art solutions, meaning that it can be adjusted with only a small amount of play. In other words, a high-quality extension and insertion movement of the table is created, as will be explained further below, because it is true to track and precise with regard to the longitudinal frame guide.

[0089] Before discussing the linear frame guide 6.41 and the pivoting frame guide 6.42, Figure 9 preferably shows a detail of the table designed as a storage and receiving table with its receiving function. Preferably behind the panel 6.5 of the table, in particular adjacent to the panel 6.5 in the x-direction, a recess 9.2 is designed as a receiving contour, which serves to receive flat objects, such as mobile phones and / or tablets or the like, or to place them in the recess 9.2. In the exemplary embodiment, the receiving contour is a U-shaped longitudinal groove arranged transversely to the extension direction or the x-direction between the panel 6.5 and the at least one base 9.3. The arrangement of the recess 9.2 behind the panel 6.5 has been deliberately chosen because it is intended to ensure that, in the extended position II of the table, the user has a good view of the mobile phone and / or tablet display surfaces when the user is sitting on a vehicle seat, the armrest is folded down and the table is extended or extended and pivoted, as will become clear.

[0090] In Figures 10 and 11, as detail E2, an extension 9.4 is formed which adjoins the table in the x-direction, with an engagement and penetration element 9.5 protruding from the table top, i.e., the storage surface. A foot of the engagement and penetration element 9.5 extends from the table top in the

[0091] Structure of the table between the table bottom and table top

[0092] This extension 9.4 extends in the x-direction from a circular segment-shaped end contour 9.6 of the table, which is opposite the end face 20 of the table. The underside of extension 9.4, which belongs to the underside of the table, is flush with the plane of the underside of the table. The significance of end contour 9.5 will be discussed later.

[0093] The access and reach-through element 9.5 rises above the storage surface of the table top or the storage and receiving table.

[0094] Preferably, the engagement and penetration element 9.5 is an elastic sliding hook, the side surfaces of which, when the armrest 6 is assembled, slide in the U-profile designed as a linear frame guide 6.41. As explained, the U-profile is raised relative to the surface of the upper outer frame side of the support and guide frame 6.4. The sliding hook slides in this raised area when the table is moved from its retracted position I to its extended position II, and vice versa, in a drawer-like manner. The sliding hook preferably has an S-shaped contour.

[0095] In the assembled state of the armrest 6 in the retracted position I of the table, an upper side of the free end of the "S" rests on the upper frame inner side of the upper frame area of ​​the support and guide frame 6.4 of the bottom of the U-profile forming a sliding surface, whereby a rattle-free position of the table in the support and guide frame 6.4 is achieved in the z-direction, which is pressed onto the lower frame inner side of the support and guide frame 6.4 in the assembled state of the armrest 6.

[0096] The sliding hook designed as an engagement and penetration element 9.5 also has on its underside near the free end of the sliding hook - as shown in Figure 11, detail E2 - a positioning lug 9.51 which serves as a locking lug in recesses L, M, R in the circular segment-shaped cutout of the pivot frame guide 6.42, which are shown in details E3 and E4 of Figure 12.

[0097] In Figure 12, the table is shown in the retracted position I. In details E3 and E4 of Figure 12, the engagement and reach-through element 9.5 is not yet located in the pivoting frame guide 6.42. However, in the assembled state of the armrest 6 (compare Figures 13 and 14), the engagement and reach-through element 9.5 is already located in the U-shaped slideway of the longitudinal frame guide 6.41 of the supporting and guiding frame 6.4.

[0098] If the table is pulled out of the support and guide frame 6.4 after being unlocked using the manually operated pull loop, the engagement and reach-through element 9.5 runs onto the front edge of the circular segment-shaped cutout in the pivoting frame guide 6.42, which is slightly lower than the rear edge, and the free end runs onto the front edge. In this position, the sliding hook is pressed by the S-shaped impact contour onto the front edge of the cutout by means of the rear edge of the cutout, so that the positioning lug 9.51 engages in the recess M in such a way that the user is advantageously provided with a noticeable locking contact. This locking action ensures that the table sits firmly and rattle-free in a central position in the extended position II.

[0099] Referring back to Figure 8, it is clear that the table is waisted, i.e. it has constrictions 9.7 in certain lateral areas.

[0100] From Figure 13 it is clear that when the table is firmly and rattling-free in a central position in the extended position II in the x-direction, after locking, the constrictions 9.7 are so close to the opening mouth of the panel 6.5 that pivoting of the table to the right as shown in Figure 14 is possible, since the constriction 9.7 offers the necessary space for the table to pivot relative to the panel 6.5.

[0101] In summary, the following functions are realized.

[0102] If the positioning lug 9.51 is in the recess L, the table (not shown) is pivoted to the left into the left-pivoted, extended position ll-S from the perspective of a user sitting on a vehicle seat 2 with the viewing direction according to arrow 27, while the armrest 6 is folded down and the table is extended and pivoted.

[0103] If the positioning lug 9.51 is in the recess R, the table (as shown in Figure 14) is pivoted to the right into the other pivoted, extended position 11-S from the perspective of a user sitting on a vehicle seat 2 with the viewing direction according to arrow 27, while the armrest 6 is folded down and the table is extended and pivoted.

[0104] If the positioning lug 9.51 is located in the recess M, the table (as shown in Figure 13) is not pivoted and is in a central position from the perspective of a user sitting on a vehicle seat 2 with the viewing direction according to arrow 27, while the armrest 6 is folded down and the table is extended.

[0105] It is clear that the table can only be pivoted when the engagement and reach-through element 9.5 is engaged in the circular segment-shaped cutout of the pivot frame guide 6.42 in the center position at the recess M and the extended position II is reached. The position of the constrictions 9.7 is adjusted accordingly. In the extended position II, as explained, they are in a position that allows the table to pivot relative to the cover 6.5.

[0106] It should also be mentioned that the circular segment-shaped end contour 9.6 of the table, which is opposite the front side 20 of the table, is positioned in the extended position II within the support and guide frame 6.4 in such a way that pivoting in the support and guide frame 6.4 is possible.

[0107] When the table is adjusted back or pivoted back from the pivoted, extended position II-S into the extended position II, the user initially receives noticeable feedback, namely that the locking contact of the respective recess L or R is left. The user then receives noticeable feedback again, namely that the locking contact in the recess M is established and the extended position II is left. The user then receives noticeable feedback again when the table is pushed from the extended position II into the retracted position I and the S-shaped impact contour of the engagement and reach-through element 9.5 is overpressed in such a way that it disengages from the pivot frame guide 6.42 and retracts into the longitudinal frame guide 6.41. The user receives a final noticeable feedback when the crash lock belonging to the pull loop engages.

[0108] It is therefore also clear that the swivel movement of the table is advantageously designed to be particularly precise and gives the user a valuable feeling, who noticeably registers the respective swiveled positions of the table without having to observe the table in detail.

[0109] The illustrations in Figures 13 and 14 further illustrate that a user can advantageously and comfortably choose, with the viewing direction according to arrow 27, whether to look straight or diagonally at a flat object, such as a mobile phone and / or tablet or the like, when such an object is placed in the recess 9.2. The pivoting movement of the table is, as shown in Figure 15, particularly precise and essentially free of play because the table has a stationary guide and pivot member 9.8, preferably a bolt-like pivot member, on its underside, which serves as the table sliding surface, which protrudes towards the lower inner side of the frame, which serves as the guide sliding surface.

[0110] To ensure that this guide and pivot member 9.8 does not impede the sliding of the table on the guide sliding surface on the lower inside of the frame, the lower inside of the frame is designed in such a way that the guide sliding surfaces are arranged only laterally in the x-direction and are each laterally higher. These laterally raised guide sliding surfaces on the lower inside of the frame are thus arranged at a higher level, which creates installation space between the surface of the table underside and lower areas of the lower inside of the frame structure. So that when the table is moved like a drawer from its retracted position I to its extended position II and vice versa, the guide and pivot member 9.8 can move freely within the available installation space in the x-direction together with the table forwards into the extended position II and backwards into the retracted position I.

[0111] When the guide and pivoting member 9.8 is moved from the retracted position I into its extended position II and vice versa in a drawer-like manner, it first engages in a guide gap of a guide element (engagement not shown) of the second sub-frame guide 6.46, the guide gap being arranged in the lower level compared to the higher level in which the table slides on the laterally raised guide surfaces.

[0112] This intervention in the guide gap occurs before the constrictions 9.7 of the side frame guide 6.44 are no longer laterally supported by the guide means of the side frame guide 6.44 when the table is extended. In other words, the temporarily interrupted lateral guide in the area of ​​the constrictions 9.7 is replaced by this guide, ensuring the perfect straight running of the table at all times.

[0113] The guide element has a semi-cylindrical receiving contour at its end, which accommodates the bolt-like guide and pivoting element with a precise fit and essentially free of play, thereby forming a stop. This engagement of the guide and pivoting element 9.8 in the semi-cylindrical receiving contour advantageously occurs at the time when, as already explained, the sliding hook is pressed by the S-shaped impact contour onto the front edge by means of the rear edge, so that the positioning lug 9.51 engages in the recess M, providing the user with a noticeable locking contact.

[0114] The guide means may be part of the lower frame area of ​​the frame structure or it may be a replaceable component that can be fixed in the lower frame area of ​​the frame structure.

[0115] Due to the fact that the guide and pivot member 9.8 rests in the semi-cylindrical receiving contour in the guide element when the table is fully pulled out into the extended position II, it is advantageously achieved that a pivot guide of the table is formed around the guide and pivot member 9.8, which allows the play-free guided pivoting about a pivot axis Z, which is shown in Figure 14.

[0116] The illustration in Figures 13 and 14 further illustrates that a user can advantageously choose comfortably with the viewing direction according to arrow 27 whether he looks straight or diagonally at flat objects, such as mobile phones and / or tablets or the like, when such an object is set in the recess 9.2.

[0117] List of reference symbols

[0118] 1 motor vehicle

[0119] 2 vehicle seats

[0120] 3 single seats

[0121] 4 bench seats

[0122] 5 Vehicle components

[0123] 6 Armrest

[0124] 7 center console,

[0125] 8 a dashboard

[0126] 9 Mounting device

[0127] 10 left seat

[0128] 11 right seat

[0129] 12 swivel axis

[0130] 13 Double arrow

[0131] 14 middle seat

[0132] 15 passenger compartment

[0133] 16 tethers

[0134] 17 Control element

[0135] 17.1 Tension element

[0136] 18 Control device

[0137] 19 Actuator

[0138] 20 front side

[0139] 21 Swivel axis

[0140] 23 Mobile phone

[0141] 24 storage area

[0142] 25 an upper surface

[0143] 26 Parking area

[0144] 27 Arrow

[0145] 6.1 Tethering devices

[0146] 6.2 Swivel kinematics

[0147] 6.3 Support arms

[0148] 6.4 Support and guide frame 6.41 Linear frame guide

[0149] 6.42 Swing frame guide

[0150] 6.43 Upper frame guide

[0151] 6.44 Side frame guide

[0152] 6.45 first subframe guide

[0153] 6.46 second subframe guide

[0154] 6.5 aperture

[0155] 6.6 Aperture frame

[0156] 6.7 Foam

[0157] 9.2 Deepening

[0158] 9.3 Floor / floors

[0159] 9.4 Extension

[0160] 9.5 Engagement and penetration element

[0161] 9.51 Position nose

[0162] 9.6 Final contour

[0163] 9.7 Constriction

[0164] 9.8 Guide and swivel link

[0165] 9.9 Opening(s)

[0166] 9.10 Slot

[0167] L recess

[0168] M recess

[0169] R recess

[0170] EA starting position floor / floors

[0171] NP Usage position floor / floors x x-direction along a longitudinal direction / vehicle longitudinal direction y y-direction along a transverse direction / vehicle transverse direction z z-direction along a vertical direction / vehicle vertical direction

[0172] Z swivel axis

[0173] E1 Detail / Linear frame guide 6.41

[0174] E2 Detail / Engagement and penetration element 9.5

[0175] E3 Detail / Swing frame guide 6.42

[0176] E4 Detail / Swing frame guide 6.42 with recesses L, M, R

[0177] I retracted position of 9

[0178] II extended position of 9 ll-S swiveled, extended position of 9

Claims

Patent claims 1. Vehicle component (5) with at least one storage and receiving table, in particular an armrest (6) or a foldable armrest (6), which can be moved or pivoted like a drawer from a retracted position (I), in which it is arranged within a cavity of the vehicle component (5), into an extended position (II), in which it protrudes at least partially from the cavity into the area outside the vehicle component (5), and vice versa, characterized in that the cavity is formed by a frame structure of a supporting and guiding frame (6.4) which has at least one linear frame guide (6.41) and one pivoting frame guide (6.42), which interact with an engagement and reach-through element (9.5) arranged on the storage and receiving table and engaging in the frame guides when the vehicle component (5) is in the assembled state, such that the storage and receiving table can be moved or pivoted in a position defined by the engagement and reach-through element (9.5) guided linear adjustment movement from the retracted position (I) into the extended position (II) and only then in a pivoting adjustment movement also guided by the engagement and penetration element (9.5) can it be pivoted from the extended position (II) into a pivoted, extended position (II-S).

2. Vehicle component (5) according to claim 1, characterized in that the storage and receiving table is slidably guided by an upper frame guide (6.43) during each of the adjusting movements, wherein guide rail undersides of guide rails, which are arranged next to one another parallel to an upper frame inner side of an upper frame region of the frame structure on the frame structure, function as guide sliding surfaces of an upper table sliding surface.

3. Vehicle component (5) according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the storage and receiving table is guided in a sliding manner by a side frame guide (6.44) during each of the adjustment movements, wherein guide means are arranged in lateral frame inner sides of a lateral frame region in the frame structure in a protruding manner relative to the lateral frame inner sides, which guide means are designed as Guide sliding surfaces of lateral table sliding surfaces of the table narrow sides function.

4. Vehicle component (5) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the storage and receiving table is slidably guided by a first sub-frame guide (6.45), wherein a lower frame inner side of a lower frame region of the frame structure acts as a guide sliding surface of a lower table sliding surface.

5. Vehicle component (5) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the storage and receiving table is slidably guided by a second sub-frame guide (6.46), wherein a lower frame inner side of a lower frame region of the frame structure has a guide means into which, during the linear movement of the storage and receiving table, a guide and pivoting member (9.8) of the storage and receiving table, which protrudes relative to a table underside, moves into the guide means, guiding the storage and receiving table in the guide means, wherein the guide and pivoting member finally forms a stop in the guide means, so that the guide means functions as a guide sliding surface of a sliding surface of the guide and pivoting member (9.8) arranged on the storage and receiving table and as a stop means.

6. Vehicle component (5) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the engagement and penetration element (9.5) is designed to protrude from a table top and, in the assembled state, engages in a geometrically predeterminable recessed contour which is arranged in the upper frame region in the frame inner side of the frame structure directed towards the storage and receiving table as a recess in the longitudinal extension of the storage and receiving table, which corresponds to the sliding movement of the storage and receiving table, wherein the linear frame guide (6.41) is formed by the engagement of the engagement and penetration element (9.5) in the recessed contour.

7. Vehicle component (5) according to claim 6, characterized in that the linear frame guide (6.41) merges into the pivoting frame guide, wherein the engagement and penetration element (9.5) after leaving the recessed contour of the linear frame guide (6.41) passes through a cutout which adjoins the recessed contour, wherein the cutout is also in the upper frame region in the direction to the Storage and receiving table is arranged, wherein the pivoting frame guide (6.41) is formed by the penetration of the engagement and penetration element (9.5) into the cutout, since the cutout has a circular segment-shaped contour, in which the engagement and penetration element (9.5) and the storage and receiving table connected to the engagement and penetration element (9.5) are guided in the upper frame region of the frame structure in the cutout and can be pivoted from the extended position (II) into a pivoted, extended position (II-S).

8. Vehicle component (5) according to claim 7, characterized in that the engagement and penetration element (9.5) has an S-shaped contour, wherein the engagement and penetration element (9.5) runs, during the linear adjustment movement of the storage and receiving table from the retracted position (I) into the extended position (II), onto a front edge of the circular segment-shaped cutout of the pivoting frame guide (6.42), which front edge is located somewhat lower than a rear edge with respect to an imaginary plane, and the free end runs onto the front edge and a free end of the engagement and penetration element (9.5) then penetrates the cutout, wherein the rear edge of the cutout presses onto the free end, so that in the fully extended position (II), a positioning lug (9.51) engages in a recess (M) arranged in a central position of the cutout, which recess is formed close behind the front edge of the cutout in the frame area on the upper frame outer side.

9. Vehicle component (5) according to claim 8, characterized in that the positioning lug (9.51) of the engagement and penetration element (9.5) engages in further recesses (L, R), which engage in recesses (L, R) arranged essentially at both ends of the cutout, which are also formed close behind the front edge of the cutout in the frame area on the upper frame outer side, wherein the positioning lug (9.51) of the engagement and penetration element (9.5) engages in one or the other recess (L, R) after a fully performed linear adjustment movement of the storage and receiving table and an additional fully performed pivot adjustment movement in the extended position II.

10. Vehicle component (5) of a motor vehicle (1) according to one of the preceding claims, designed as an interior fitting component, which has the at least one cavity in the frame structure, in which the storage and receiving table is formed and arranged in a guided manner, wherein the interior fitting component comprises an armrest (6) or a foldable armrest (6) on an individual seat (3) or on / in a Seat bench (4) or a center console or a folding center console between individual seats (3) or in the seat bench (4) or a dashboard or an interior door panel.

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