Patent ID: 7108318

Claim:
A vehicular arm rest comprising: a fixed axle extending along an axis and having a nonround portion; an arm-rest body pivotable on the axle about the axis between a raised position and a lowered position; an abutment axially fixed on the axle and rotationally coupled to the arm-rest body; a pusher rotationally fixed and axially shiftable on the axle and having a nonround bore fitting complementarily over the nonround portion of the axle, the abutment lying between the pusher and the arm-rest body; coupling projections on the pusher and on the abutment extending toward each other and having mutually engaging faces lying in planes extending at an acute angle to the axis; and a spring pressing the pusher axially toward the abutment, the mutually engaging faces being angled and the spring having a force such that, when the arm-rest body is pressed toward the lowered position with a force exceeding a predetermined limit, the mutually engaging faces cam the pusher axially away from the abutment and permit limited rotation of the abutment and arm-rest body on the axle.