Patent ID: 8429796
Filing Date: 2013-04-30
Classification: B60R,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A tilt hinge including: a shaft that is connected with an openable and closable body and serves as a rotation shaft for opening and closing the body; a base that pivotally supports the shaft and also has one of a click protrusion and a click recess on a circumference centered on the rotation shaft; a plate attached at an end of the shaft such that the plate rotates with the shaft; and a leaf spring located between the base and the plate, and fitted to the shaft such that the leaf spring rotates with the shaft, and has the other of the click protrusion and the click recess that fits in the one of the click protrusion and the click recess provided on the base to thus hold the openable and closable body in a predetermined rotation angle position, wherein the plate has an engaging hole, and the leaf spring has a positioning protrusion for engaging with the engaging hole of the plate and is rotated with the shaft and the plate, wherein the positioning protrusion has a tapered outer peripheral face that is reduced in diameter toward a tip thereof such that the positioning protrusion engages with the engaging hole of the plate a distance halfway on the tapered outer peripheral face.