Patent ID: 7743464

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 relatively moving from a front side of the catcher when the swingable member is swung from an open position toward a reference position; and a load response damper; wherein the catcher is configured to be turnable forward and backward between a standby position and a turned position and to capture the striker in the standby position and turn forward up to the turned position; wherein the damper is configured to apply a damping force to a turning operation of the catcher toward the turned position, wherein the damper includes a piston and a cylinder and is configured to provide a resistance of a viscous fluid sealed in the cylinder to a depression movement of the piston; wherein the damper is housed between a piston rod fit-in portion connected to the piston and a fit-in portion for a rear end of the cylinder remote from a projecting end of the piston rod; wherein the catcher has a pinion formed thereon, and a coupling pinion is disposed at a position lateral to the catcher; wherein there are disposed a first slider having a rack engageable with the pinion of the catcher and with the coupling pinion, and a second slider having a rack engageable with the coupling pinion on a side remote from the first slider; and wherein one of the piston rod fit-in portion and the fit-in portion for the rear end of the cylinder is moved by a movement of the first slider, and the other of the piston rod fit-in portion and the fit-in portion for the rear end of the cylinder is moved by a movement of the second slider.