IP Library Granted Patent US 9,756,938
Granted Patent B2
US 9,756,938 · App. 15/323,454 · Granted Sep 12, 2017

Storage device

Inventor: Shigeyuki Ueda (Hyogo, JP)
Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
A47B57/04A47B49/002A47B57/08A47B61/04
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Patent No.
US 9,756,938
App. No.
15/323,454
Granted
Sep 12, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

A storage device includes, in a box having an open front, a rotation mechanism section that rotatably holds a storage body that stores an object and is rotatable about a shaft extending along an up-down direction. The rotation mechanism section includes: a stationary rail affixed to a top surface of the box and including a guide groove open downward and forward and extending in a front-back direction and a guide body on a holding section protruding downward from a groove bottom surface of the guide groove; and a movable rail movable in the front-back direction along the guide groove in the stationary rail, coupled to the storage body via the shaft, and including: left and right sidewalls, a bottom wall, and a front end wall that define a receiving groove for receiving the guide body; and a top wall that forms a slit opening for receiving the holding section.

Claims (9)

1. A storage device including, in a box having an open front, a rotation mechanism section that rotatably holds a storage body that stores an object, the storage body being rotatable about a shaft extending along an up-down direction,

wherein the rotation mechanism section includes a stationary rail affixed to a top surface of the box and a movable rail coupled to the storage body via the shaft, the stationary rail including: a guide groove open downward and forward and extending in a front-back direction; and a guide body on a holding section protruding downward from a groove bottom surface of the guide groove, the movable rail being movable in the front-back direction along the guide groove in the stationary rail, and

the movable rail includes left and right sidewalls, a bottom wall, a front end wall, and a top wall, the left and right sidewalls, the bottom wall, and the front end wall defining a receiving groove for receiving the guide body, the top wall forming a slit opening for receiving the holding section.

2. The storage device according to claim 1 , wherein

the movable rail has a structure in which the slit opening is located between (i) one of left and right ends of the top wall and (ii) a top end of one of the left and right sidewalls.

3. The storage device according to claim 1 , wherein

the holding section includes an insertion tongue part whose thickness direction extends along a left-right direction and that inserts into the slit opening.

4. The storage device according to claim 3 , wherein

the holding section is formed by cutting and raising a top wall defining the groove bottom surface of the stationary rail.

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Mar 17, 2026
From: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
To: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 075166/0563 →
NUNC PRO TUNC ASSIGNMENT Recorded Mar 17, 2026
From: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
To: PANASONIC HOUSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 075144/0149 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 21, 2017
From: UEDA, SHIGEYUKI
To: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 043059/0704 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2014-141616 · Jul 9, 2014 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20170143116A1 · May 25, 2017