One handed, pop-up cargo management system

• US 20050087530A1
• Filed: 10/27/2003
• Published: 04/28/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Intier Automotive, Incorporated (Magna International Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Intier Automotive, Incorporated (Magna International Incorporated)
• Inventors: Svenson, Richard Neal
• Application Number:
  US10/694,329
• Publication Number:
  US 20050087530A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 220/6
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 13/011 for internal load compartments, e.g. car trunks
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 13/013 comprising removable or hinged parts, e.g. for accessing storage compartments
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2013/016 integrating other functions or accessories
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 7/02 in separate luggage compartment B60R7/005 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 11/186 whereby all side walls are hingedly connected to the base panel and to each other to allow automatic collapsing and reerecting, e.g. by means of folds provided in the side walls and or in the base panel

Abstract

A cargo management system includes a bottom panel, a pair of top panels hingedly connected to the bottom panel, and a plurality of side panels hingedly connected to the bottom panel and the top panels. A plurality of rib members may be provided to divide the cargo management system into separate storage wells. Both the side panels and the rib members pop-up from the bottom panel when the cargo management system is placed from a collapsed position to a fully deployed position. The cargo management can be easily placed from the collapsed position to the fully deployed position by a single hand of the user by pulling one of the top panels toward the user.

Claims

1. A one-handed, pop-up cargo management system, comprising:

a bottom panel;

a pair of top panels hingedly connected to the bottom panel; and

a plurality of side panels hingedly connected to the bottom panel and the pair of top panels such that the cargo management system can be placed from a collapsed position to a fully deployed position.

2. The cargo management system according to claim 1, further including a plurality of rib members hingedly connected to the bottom panel, the plurality of rib members dividing the cargo management system into separate storage wells.

3. The cargo management system according to claim 1, wherein the side panels are triangular in shape.

4. The cargo management system according to claim 1, wherein the pair of top panels are hingedly connected to the bottom panel by a living hinge.

5. The cargo management system according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of side panels are hingedly connected to the bottom panel and the pair of top panels by a living hinge.

6. The cargo management system according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of side panels form a deployment angle of approximately zero degrees with respect to the bottom panel when the cargo management system is in the collapsed position.

7. The cargo management system according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of side panels form a deployment angle of approximately ninety degrees with respect to the bottom panel when the cargo management system is in the collapsed position.

8. The cargo management system according to claim 1, further including a top perimeter member, a bottom perimeter member, and a pair of side perimeter members.

9. The cargo management system according to claim 8, wherein one of the perimeter members includes a handle.

10. A one-handed, pop-up cargo management system, comprising:

a bottom panel;

a pair of top panels hingedly connected to the bottom panel;

a first pair of side panels hingedly connected to the pair of top panels, and a first side panel hingedly connected to the first pair of side panels and the bottom panel; and

a second pair of side panels hingedly connected to the pair of top panels, and a second side panel hingedly connected to the second pair of side panels and the bottom panel,

wherein side panels form a first deployment angle with respect to the bottom panel when the cargo management system is in a collapsed position, and

wherein side panels form a second deployment angle with respect to the bottom panel when the cargo management system is in a fully deployed position.

11. The cargo management system according to claim 10, further including a plurality of rib members hingedly connected to the bottom panel, the plurality of rib members dividing the cargo management system into separate storage wells.

12. The cargo management system according to claim 10, wherein the side panels are triangular in shape.

13. The cargo management system according to claim 10, wherein the first deployment angle is approximately zero degrees.

14. The cargo management system according to claim 10, wherein the second deployment angle is approximately ninety degrees.

15. The cargo management system according to claim 10, wherein the bottom panel forms a plurality of perimeter members.

16. The cargo management system according to claim 15, wherein one of the plurality of perimeter members includes a handle.