Vehicle Center Console Divider Slots for Stable Item Storage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Vehicle center consoles with large storage chambers often cause beverages to fall over and small items to slide around during motion, leading to noise and potential damage, and accessing multiple items is difficult due to restricted access.
Innovation Solution
A center console with laterally delimited storage chambers and upwardly open holding slots that allow a dividing element, such as an ice scraper, to be inserted for self-locking subdivision, enabling secure upright storage of items and preventing movement during vehicle motion.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If the storage chamber is made large to increase storage capacity, then more items can be stored, but beverages fall over and small items slide around during vehicle motion
Solution Approach 1:
The storage chamber is divided into multiple compartments using dividing elements that can be inserted into holding slots. This segmentation creates smaller sub-chambers that prevent items from sliding around while maintaining overall storage capacity. The dividing elements create physical barriers that stabilize beverages and small items during vehicle motion.
2Quantity of substance
If the storage chamber is made large to increase storage capacity, then more items can be stored, but access to individual items becomes restricted
Solution Approach 1:
By dividing the large storage chamber into multiple smaller compartments, each item or group of items has its own dedicated space. This segmentation makes it easier to access individual items without having to move other items, as each compartment can be independently accessed or the dividing elements can be removed to reconfigure the space.
3Reliability
If dividing elements are added to subdivide the storage chamber, then item stability improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The dividing elements are designed to be movable and removable rather than fixed permanently. They can be inserted into and removed from holding slots, allowing the storage chamber configuration to be dynamically adjusted based on storage needs. This reduces structural complexity compared to fixed dividing walls while maintaining stability when needed.
Solution Approach 2:
The holding slots are designed with self-locking features that automatically secure the dividing elements in place without requiring additional fasteners or complex mounting mechanisms. The slots and dividing elements work together through simple geometric interlocking, reducing overall device complexity while ensuring stable item storage.
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AI summary
A center console for a vehicle, has at least one storage chamber, laterally delimited on both sides by two side walls, and at least one dividing element, arranged in the storage chamber and which serves for subdividing the storage chamber. In order to provide a center console having a storage chamber which can be adapted to articles that are to be stored, the center console has at least two upwardly open holding slots which are arranged in the storage chamber and are mutually spaced in a transverse direction of the center console and which are arranged mutually oppositely on the side walls such that the dividing element can, at edges, be at least partially inserted into the holding slots from above.