Sliding bed accessory arrangement
AssigneeNissan Technical Center North America, Inc.
InventorPaul Lussier
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Abstract
A sliding bed accessory arrangement is provided with a sliding bed accessory, such as a bed divider, that is configured to slide between and retained in several different positions within a vehicle cargo bed. The sliding bed accessory arrangement has a pair of tracks fixedly attached to opposite sides of a vehicle cargo area with a pair of mounting arrangements slideably supporting the bed accessory in the tracks. The mounting arrangements are designed so that they can be installed into the rear ends of the tracks even when very little clearance is provided between the vehicle body and the rear open ends of the tracks.
Claims16
A sliding bed accessory arrangement comprising:
- a vehicle cargo area including a bed floor, a front cargo wall disposed on a forward end of the bed floor, a first side cargo wall disposed on a first lateral side of the bed floor, and a second side cargo wall disposed on a second lateral side of the bed floor;
- a first roller track fixedly attached to the first side cargo wall of the vehicle cargo area;
- a second roller track fixedly attached to the second side cargo wall of the vehicle cargo area in a parallel, spaced arrangement relative to the first roller track;
- a first mounting arrangement including a pair of first rolling members rollably disposed in the first roller track and a first locking mechanism having a first locking member slideably disposed in the first roller track and a first hand operating member operatively coupled to the first locking member to selectively move the first locking member between a first sliding position and a first locked position in which sliding of the first locking member is prevented;
- a second mounting arrangement including a pair of second rolling members rollably disposed in the second roller track and a second locking mechanism having a second locking member slideably disposed in the second roller track and a second hand operating member operatively coupled to the second locking member to selectively move the second locking member between a second sliding position and a second locked position in which sliding of the second locking member is prevented;
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- a bed accessory having first and second side ends rigidly attached to the first and second mounting arrangements.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.