Vehicle Console Bin Tray with L-Shaped Channel for Access
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Console bin assemblies in vehicles often have deep storage compartments, making it difficult for users to access items stored below a tray due to reduced visibility and confined space, as the tray either obstructs access or requires removal.
Innovation Solution
A console bin assembly with a tray that can be flipped or easily removed, featuring L-shaped channels and projections allowing sliding, flipping, and removal modes, ensuring stable positioning and improved access to the lower compartment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the tray is made removable to improve access to lower items, then accessibility is improved, but device complexity and potential loss increase
Solution Approach 1:
The L-shaped channel serves multiple functions: it guides the tray's sliding movement, provides a pivot point for rotation, and acts as a retention mechanism. This multi-functionality eliminates the need for separate removal mechanisms, reducing device complexity while maintaining ease of access to lower items
2Stability of the object's composition
If the tray is made stable and fixed to prevent movement, then positioning stability is improved, but accessibility to items below is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The tray is designed with controlled dynamics, allowing it to be stable during normal use while enabling deliberate movement along the L-shaped channel. The geometry of the channel and tray interaction provides natural stability positions while permitting controlled sliding and rotation when needed
Data Source
AI summary
A console bin assembly is provided for a motor vehicle. That console bin assembly includes a housing defining a storage compartment. Opposed channels are carried on the housing. Each of the opposed channels has an open end. In addition, the console bin assembly includes a tray including opposed projections that are received in the opposed channels. As a consequence, the tray may be stably secured in a storage position, flipped to increase access to the lower region of the storage compartment or fully removed from the storage compartment and console bin assembly if desired.