Vehicle mounted printer station
AssigneeLEM Solutions, LLC
InventorsWilliam D. Cottrell, Kenneth B. Wiseman, JR.
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Abstract
A vehicle mounted printer station is made up of a printer secured to a support surface tray that includes an adaptor capable of attaching the tray and printer to the top of a vehicle seat. The support surface is preferably a rectangular shaped plate with front, back and side edges along with top and bottom surfaces. The bottom surface is attached to the adaptor, the adaptor includes at least one attachment rod for securing the support surface to the vehicle seat. The attachment rods are sized to be received into receptacles provided in the top of a vehicle seat designed for the vehicle headrest.
Claims16
In combination with a front passenger seat of a motor vehicle, the front passenger seat defining at least one headrest mounting rod receptacle, an equipment station comprising:
- a station adaptor comprising an equipment support structure, wherein substantially the entire equipment support structure resides directly vertically adjacent a top of a seatback of the front passenger seat, thereby minimizing obtrusiveness of the station adaptor within an interior cabin space of the motor vehicle, and said station adaptor having at least one elongated mounting rod received within the headrest mounting rod receptacle;
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- electronic equipment carried by said equipment support structure in substitution of a vehicle headrest such that the station adaptor is devoid of vehicle safety headrest padding.
An equipment station adapted for mounting on a front passenger seat of a motor vehicle, the front passenger seat defining at least one headrest mounting rod receptacle, said equipment station comprising:
- a station adaptor comprising an equipment support structure, wherein substantially the entire equipment support structure resides directly vertically adjacent a top of a seatback of the front passenger seat, thereby minimizing obtrusiveness of the station adaptor within an interior cabin space of the motor vehicle, and said station adaptor having at least one elongated mounting rod received within the headrest mounting rod receptacle;
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- electronic equipment carried by said equipment support structure in substitution of a vehicle headrest such that the station adaptor is devoid of vehicle safety headrest padding.
A method for locating an equipment station within a cabin of a motor vehicle, said method comprising mounting an equipment support structure and an equipment directly vertically adjacent a top of a seatback of a front passenger seat of the vehicle;
- wherein no portion of the equipment and no portion of the support structure extend substantially beyond a front side of the seatback of the front passenger seat, and no portion of the equipment and no portion of the support structure extend substantially beyond a back side of the seatback of the front passenger seat;
- and wherein mounting the support structure and the equipment is devoid of locating a vehicle safety headrest padding above the seatback of the front passenger seat.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.