Vehicle rear seat secured storage systems
AssigneeFca US LLC
InventorsArjun Sundaram, Coby S Clark, Christopher J Pesta, Gregory A Wasek, Khashayar Honarkhah, Peter A Lawlis, Sheila Alison Rahm
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Abstract
A vehicle with a rear seat storage arrangement includes a floor, a seat including a seat bottom rotatably coupled to a seat back, and an underseat storage system removably coupled to the floor below the seat bottom. The underseat storage system includes a storage bin and a lockable lid defining a storage compartment. The lockable lid includes a latch configured to selectively lock to prevent access to the storage compartment and facilitate preventing access for removably uncoupling the underseat storage system from the floor.
Claims17
A vehicle having a rear seat storage arrangement, the vehicle comprising:
- a floor;
- a seat including a seat bottom rotatably coupled to a seat back;
- and
- an underseat storage system removably coupled to the floor below the seat bottom, the underseat storage system including a storage bin and a lockable lid defining an interior storage compartment,
- wherein when the seat bottom is rotated upward into a storage access position, access is provided to the underseat storage system, and when the seat bottom is rotated downward from the storage access position into a seating position, access to the underseat storage system is prevented, and
- wherein the lockable lid includes a latch configured to selectively lock to prevent access to the interior storage compartment and thereby facilitate preventing access for removably uncoupling the underseat storage system from the floor of the vehicle,
- wherein the lockable lid latch is keyed to a key of the vehicle configured to unlock one or more doors of the vehicle and/or start an ignition of the vehicle.
A vehicle having a rear seat storage arrangement, the vehicle comprising:
- a floor;
- a seat including a seat bottom rotatably coupled to a seat back;
- and
- an underseat storage system removably coupled to the floor below the seat bottom, the underseat storage system including a storage bin and a lockable lid defining an interior storage compartment,
- wherein when the seat bottom is rotated upward into a storage access position, access is provided to the underseat storage system, and when the seat bottom is rotated downward from the storage access position into a seating position, access to the underseat storage system is prevented, and
- wherein the lockable lid includes a latch configured to selectively lock to prevent access to the interior storage compartment and thereby facilitate preventing access for removably uncoupling the underseat storage system from the floor of the vehicle,
- wherein the lockable lid latch comprises coupled pawls configured to move together.
A vehicle having a rear seat storage arrangement, the vehicle comprising:
- a floor;
- a rear wall;
- a seat including a seat bottom rotatably coupled to a seat back, the seat back selectively latchable to the rear wall and movable between a seating position where the seat back is latched to the rear wall, and a folded seat position where the seat back is rotated downward onto the seat bottom;
- a storage compartment defined behind the seat back between the floor, the rear wall, and the seat back, the storage compartment including a cross-car storage bin;
- and
- a seat back locking system integrated into the seat and movable from a locked position that prevents unlatching of an upper end of the seat back from the rear wall, and an unlocked position that enables unlatching of the seat back from the rear wall;
- wherein in the locked position, the seat back locking system prevents unlatching of the seat back from the rear wall to thereby prevent access to the storage compartment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.