Load box rail trim with integrated structural features

#This application claims the benefit of Chinese Patent Application No.: CN 201710110223.7 filed on Feb. 27, 2017, the entire contents thereof being incorporated herein by reference.

#The present disclosure relates generally to motor vehicles, in particular, relates to load box rail trims with integral structural features and formed from an injection molding.

#Load box rail trims in a truck are usually blow molded or are extruded aluminum. Blow molding process is expensive, time consuming, and the load box rail trims made can have varying wall thicknesses that are hard to control. In addition, the cross sections of the load box rail trims made from blow molding have closed loop and thus fasteners and metal bracket are required to connect the rail trims to the load box of the truck. The inventor of this application has recognized a need for load box rail trims that improve upon and advance the design of known load box rail trims,

#FIG. 1A is a perspective view of a first example of a load box rail trim as it may be used with a truck bed.

#FIG. 1B is a top view of the load box rail trim shown in FIG. 1A, depicting the load box rail trim with a top cover.

#FIG. 1C is a top view of the load box rail trim shown in FIG. 1A, depicting the load box rail trim without a top cover, exposing underlying top bolts.

#The disclosed load box rail trims will become better understood through review of the following detailed description in conjunction with the figures. The detailed description and figures provide merely examples of the various inventions described herein. Those skilled in the art will understand that the disclosed examples may be varied, modified, and altered without departing from the scope of the inventions described herein. Many variations are contemplated for different applications and design considerations; however, for the sake of brevity, each and every contemplated variation is not individually described in the following detailed description.

#Throughout the following detailed description, examples of various load box rail trims are provided. Related features in the examples may be identical, similar, or dissimilar in different examples. For the sake of brevity, related features will not be redundantly explained in each example. Instead, the use of related feature names will cue the reader that the feature with a related feature name may be similar to the related feature in an example explained previously. Features specific to a given example will be described in that particular example. The reader should understand that a given feature need not be the same or similar to the specific portrayal of a related feature in any given figure or example.

#With reference to FIGS. 1A-1D, a first example of a load box rail trim formed by injection molding, load box rail trim 100, will now be described. Load box rail trim 100 may be disposed on a top of a sidewall 103 of a load box of a truck to provide appealing appearance of load box. In some embodiments, load box rail trim 100 may be made from an injection molding from grained UV grade plastics, or other high strength material suitable for automotive exteriors.