Illuminated floor mat retention assembly
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsStuart C. Salter, Wei Xu, Satyanarayana Raju Vemulapati, Gary D. Mullen, Matthew Anthony Majkowski
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Abstract
An illuminated vehicle floor mat retention assembly is provided. The illuminated vehicle floor mat retention assembly includes a fastener configured to fasten a floor mat onto a vehicle floor, a light transmissive window provided in the fastener, and a light source located proximate to the fastener for generating light to be output through the light transmissive window.
Claims18
An illuminated floor mat retention assembly comprising:
- a fastener having a housing configured to fasten a floor mat onto a floor, wherein the fastener comprises an upper grommet and a lower grommet, wherein the lower grommet is fixedly connected to the floor and the upper grommet fastens onto the lower grommet;
- a light transmissive window provided in the housing;
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- a light source located proximate to the fastener for generating light to be output through the window.
An illuminated vehicle floor mat retention assembly comprising:
- a fastener configured to fasten a floor mat onto a vehicle floor, wherein the fastener comprises an upper grommet and a lower grommet, wherein the lower grommet is fixedly connected to the vehicle floor and the upper grommet fastens onto the lower grommet;
- a light transmissive window provided in the fastener;
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- a light source located proximate to the fastener for generating light to be output through the window.
An illuminated vehicle floor mat retention assembly comprising:
- a lower grommet fixedly connected to a vehicle floor;
- an upper grommet configured to engage the lower grommet to fasten a floor mat onto the vehicle floor;
- a light transmissive window provided in the upper grommet;
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- a light source located proximate to the upper grommet for generating light to be output through the window.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.