Patent ID: 6105917
Filing Date: 2000-08-22
Classification: B60N,Y10S

Abstract:
A cup holder arranged for withdrawal from and insertion into a vehicular compartment, said cup holder comprising:a frame plate having at least one cup inserting hole into which a cup is insertable;at least one cup receiving frame pivotally arranged on said frame plate and constructed and arranged to receive a bottom portion of the cup, said cup receiving frame being pivotal about a pin and a bore containing said pin; anda biasing member applying a sufficient biasing force to said cup receiving frame to urge said cup receiving frame upward when the cup is not received in said cup insertion hole, yet the biasing force not preventing said cup receiving frame from pivoting downward in response to a load supplied by the cup,wherein each of said frame plate and said cup receiving frame comprises a respective resin, one of said resins of said frame plate and said cup receiving frame being a higher melting point resin and the other of said resins being a lower melting point resin having a lower melting point that said higher melting point resin, andwherein said axial pin is formed on one of said frame plate and said cup receiving frame and said bore is formed in the other of said frame plate and said cup receiving frame, said pin being arranged in said bore to define a gap between an outer surface of said pin and a wall-defining surface of axial bore in a range of from 0.2 mm to 0.5 mm.