Patent ID: 8001654

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; a damper for applying a damping force to a turning operation of the catcher toward the turned position; and a casing having the catcher and the damper disposed therein; wherein the catcher is configured so as to be biased toward the standby position when being at a position closer to the standby position than an intermediate position between the standby position and the turned position and to be biased toward the turned position when being at a position closer to the turned position than the intermediate position; and wherein the catcher includes a hooking groove for capturing the striker on a surface of the catcher, said hooking groove extending substantially perpendicular to a rotary shaft of the catcher, the hooking groove having an introduction port facing toward the front side in the standby position, and the catcher rotationally attached to the casing on the rotary shaft directly without sliding to the casing so that the striker captured on the catcher rotationally moves between the standby position and the turned position.