Sliding Vehicle Console With Integrated Air Duct and Table
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional vehicle consoles are fixedly installed, limiting seat variation and air-conditioning functionality, especially in vehicles without a B-pillar, and fail to provide additional functions like tables when seats are swiveled.
Innovation Solution
A moving console system with a first unit that can move forward or backward to accommodate a second unit with a deployable table, allowing for enhanced seat variation and air-conditioning performance by integrating an air-conditioning duct and sliding mechanisms.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a console is made movable to respond to seat position changes, then seat variation adaptability is improved, but structural complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The first console unit serves multiple functions: it acts as a structural support, provides an accommodation space for the second console unit, and enables longitudinal movement to accommodate seat variation. The second console unit similarly provides multiple functions including storage and deployable table functionality, reducing the need for separate components.
2Reliability
If a console is made movable to discharge air-conditioning air, then air-conditioning performance is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The movable first console unit integrates air-conditioning duct functionality into its structure, allowing it to discharge air-conditioning air to various positions in the vehicle interior. The same movement mechanism that enables seat variation adaptability also enables flexible air-conditioning air discharge, eliminating the need for separate air-conditioning structures.
Data Source
AI summary
An embodiment moving console for a vehicle includes a first console unit including an accommodation space configured to be opened forward or rearward and an air-conditioning duct disposed at an outer side of the accommodation space and configured to discharge air to an interior of the vehicle through the air-conditioning duct, and a second console unit installed to be slidable at a front or a back of the first console unit such that, depending on forward/rearward sliding, the second console unit is accommodated in the accommodation space of the first console unit or is deployed out of the first console unit.