1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a cigarette lighter device mounted on a vehicular floor console or the like.
2. Description of Related Art
Conventionally, for driver's convenience, a vehicular cigarette lighter has been assembled to an instrument panel, a floor console, or the like. Also, cigarette lighters have been disposed at a side position or an upper position of an ashtray in view of their properties (see Japanese Utility Model Provisional Publication No. 62-6147). As a conventional example, there is also available an ashtray in which a cigarette lighter is incorporated.
However, from a structural viewpoint, the above-described conventional cigarette lighter has a possibility that cigarette ash adhering to the lighter may drop, so that a floor etc. in a cabin may be made dirty. Also, some ashtrays incorporating a cigarette lighter have a mechanism such that cigarette ash adhering to the lighter drops into the ashtray. In this case, the layout must be such that the cigarette lighter and the ashtray are necessarily located at fixed positions, which poses a problem of restricted degree of freedom of design.