Patent ID: 7578406
Filing Date: 2009-08-25
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
1. A cover, comprising: a cover body for opening and closing an opening, the opening formed in an accommodation housing; a guide disposed in the accommodation housing, and extending in a direction crossing a direction, in which the cover body opens and closes the opening, partially at least; and an urging member having opposite ends, one of the opposite ends making a fastened end fastened to the cover body so as to hold the urging member to the cover body, the fastened end moving along with the cover body, the other one of the opposite ends making an engagement end engaged with the guide so as to be guided by the guide, the urging member being expandable and contractable for accumulating an urging force as the cover body opens and closes the opening, the urging force urging the cover body in at least one of occasions, when the cover body opens the opening and when the cover body closes the opening, wherein: the guide comprises a close end, onto which the engagement end of the urging member is placed when the cover body moves to a close position at which the cover body closes the opening, an open end, onto which the engagement end of the urging member is placed when the cover body moves to an open position at which the cover body opens the opening, and a connector connecting the close end and the open end; and one of the close end and the open end has a longer minimum distance to a locus, on which the fastened end of the urging member moves, than that of the other one of the close end and the open end.