Patent ID: 7302953
Filing Date: 2007-12-04
Classification: B60N

Abstract:
1. Built-in ashtray for a motor vehicle, having a housing having a guide via which an ashtray is displaceably moveable in a drawer-type manner in the housing into an open position, and having a holder for a cigarette lighter that is mounted on the ashtray so that it can be moved into an operative position projecting upward from the ashtray, the built-in ashtray having a driving device that moves the holder during the displacement of the ashtray out of the housing upward into the operative position and downward during the displacement into the housing and a spring operatively arranged between the housing and a rearward area of the ashtray such that the ashtray is changed after the release of the locking from a moved-in closed position into a moved-out operative position, wherein the spring is configured such that a spring force that acts upon the ashtray in its moved-out operative position and presses the ashtray out of the housing is greater than an oppositely directed force component of an operating force acting in a plane of the spring force during inserting or operating of the cigarette lighter.