Patent ID: 7945993

Claim:
A withdrawing mechanism comprising: a striker disposed on one of a swingable member and a main body with the swingable member swingably assembled thereto; a catcher disposed on the other of the swingable member and the main body and configured to capture the striker moving from a front side of the catcher when the swingable member swings from an open position toward a reference position, said catcher being turnable forward and backward between a standby position and a turned position to capture the striker in the standby position and turn forward to the turned position; and a damper for applying a damping force to a turning operation of the catcher toward the turned position, wherein said catcher comprises a casing, a rotational plate rotationally attached to the casing directly without sliding to the casing and having a rotational center and a hooking groove for catching the striker therein, and a spring attached between an attaching portion of the rotational plate and a fixing portion of the casing to pull and rotate the rotational plate, said attaching portion being arranged such that when the rotational plate is in the standby position, the attaching portion is located on one side of a linear line extending through the rotational center and the fixing portion where the spring is extended by a maximum length and the spring pulls the rotational plate in one direction; when the rotation plate catches the striker, the rotational plate rotates in an opposite direction opposite to said one direction to pull the spring; when the attaching portion passes the linear line extending through the rotational center and the fixing portion, the rotational plate is pulled by the spring in the opposite direction to rotate the rotational plate to the turned position and pull the striker.