US 6,546,598 B1 · Vehicle luggage compartment structure

Abstract

A vehicle luggage compartment structure, facilitating the putting in and taking out of small articles from a tray provided in a luggage compartment, and enabling the luggage compartment to be partitioned by the tray by fixing a box to a floor surface of the luggage compartment. A first protruding portion and a second protruding portion for engagement of the tray are engaged with a first guide groove and a first anchor hole of the box, respectively, to hold the tray in the box. By sliding the first protruding portion for engagement along the first guide groove to pull the tray out to the rear of the vehicle, a top wall of the luggage compartment no longer covers an open top side of the tray, thereby enabling small articles to be easily placed into and taken out from the tray. Moreover, by swinging the first protruding portion for engagement downward along a second guide groove to fix the tray substantially vertically, the luggage compartment can be partitioned by the tray, so that damage to the articles due to moving and the like in the luggage compartment can be prevented.

Claims21

Dependent claims

A storage structure provided in a vehicle luggage compartment with a floor, and not in a vehicle dashboard, the storage structure comprising:

(a) a pair of guides disposed in said luggage compartment, spaced apart and opposing one another, with the guides extending in a generally longitudinal direction relative to the vehicle;
(b) a tray slidably mounted between the guides;
(c) a first retainer disposed to connect the tray with the guides, for releasably orienting the tray in a first position in which the tray is oriented generally horizontal at a predefined elevation above the floor and in which the tray may serve as a tray;
and
(d) a second retainer disposed to connect the tray with the guides, for releasably orienting the tray in a second position in which the tray is oriented substantially non-horizontal and in which the tray may serve as a partition, wherein the first and second retainers provide a locking feature according to a position of the first retainer in the guides relative to a position of the second retainer in the guides, and the tray is slidable substantially horizontally along a front-to-back direction of the vehicle.

2 more elements

A storage structure provided in a vehicle luggage compartment with a floor, and not in a vehicle dashboard, the storage structure comprising:

(a) a pair of guides disposed in the luggage compartment, spaced apart and opposing one another, with the guides extending in a generally longitudinal direction relative to the vehicle;
(b) a tray slidably mountable between the guides;
and
(c) first and second retainers disposed to connect the tray with the guides, wherein when the tray is mounted between the guides, the first retainer retains the tray in a first position in which the tray is oriented generally at a predefined elevation above the floor and in which the tray may serve as a tray, and wherein when the tray is mounted between the guides, the second retainers retain the tray in a second position in which the tray is oriented substantially non-horizontal and in which the tray may serve as a partition, and wherein the first and second retainers permit the tray to be moved from either one of the first and the second positions to the other one of the first and the second positions, without requiring the tray to be dismounted from the guides, and the tray is slidable substantially horizontally along a front-to-back direction of the vehicle.

1 more element

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Vehicle luggage compartment structure

Life of this patent

Vehicle luggage compartment structure

Life of this patent

Abstract

Claims21