Patent ID: 8141398

Claim:
A side lock apparatus for opening and closing a lid, the side lock apparatus comprising: a disk shaped rotor; a housing which is fixed to the lid, the housing including: a cylindrical portion provided to hold the rotor; a bearing portion provided to rotatably support the rotor; a first wall provided at one side of the bearing portion to define a first space therebetween; and a second wall provided at the other side of the bearing portion to define a second space therebetween, the second wall being positioned farther from a front surface of the lid as compared with the first wall; a pair of pins which are linked with each other to move in an opposite direction through a rotation of the rotor, a first pin of the pins being slidably inserted in the first space, and a second pin of the pins being positioned farther from the front surface of the lid as compared with the first pin and being slidably inserted in the second space; and a knob having a substantially L-shape including: a first side that is attached to the housing so as to be exposed on a front surface side of the lid; and a second side that substantially perpendicularly extends from the first side so as to be connected with the second pin at a position farther from the lid.