VEHICULAR STORAGE ENCLOSURE

• US 20100067221A1
• Filed: 11/07/2007
• Published: 03/18/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/07/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Grupo Antolin-Irausa, S.A.
• Original Assignee: Magna International Incorporated
• Inventors: Glynn, Jeanette G., Beckley, Daniel V., O'Brien, Timothy F.
• Granted Patent: US 8,205,926 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 362/155
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 5/04 arranged at rear of vehicle B60R5/003, B60R5/006 take precedence; external trunks arranged at rear of vehicle B60R9/065
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 292/57 Operators with knobs or handles

Abstract

A vehicular storage enclosure comprising a sub-compartment (108) disposed within a passenger compartment (P) of a vehicle (V), wherein the sub-compartment (108) includes a closure panel (106) that provides selective access to the sub-compartment (108), wherein the closure panel (106) includes an outboard surface (116) that is substantially exposed to the passenger compartment (106) and an inboard surface (114) that is substantially exposed to the sub-compartment (108) when the sub-compartment (108) is closed off by the closure panel (106), and a handle (204) that is accessible from within the sub-compartment (108), and wherein one of or both of the handle (204) and an area proximate the handle (204) on the inboard surface (114) includes indicia (G) to conspicuously provide one or more instructions for opening the closure panel (106) from within the sub-compartment (108).

Claims

1. A vehicular storage enclosure comprising:

a sub-compartment (108) disposed within a passenger compartment (P) of a vehicle (V), wherein the sub-compartment (100) includes a closure panel (106) that provides selective access to the sub-compartment (108),

wherein the closure panel (106) includes an outboard surface (116) that is substantially exposed to the passenger compartment (106) and an inboard surface (114) that is substantially exposed to the sub-compartment (108) when the sub-compartment (108) is closed off by the closure panel (106), and a handle (204) that is accessible from within the sub-compartment (108), and wherein one of or both of the handle (204) and an area proximate the handle (204) on the inboard surface (114) includes indicia (G) to conspicuously provide one or more instructions for opening the closure panel (106) from within the sub-compartment (108).

2. The vehicular storage enclosure according to claim 1, wherein the handle provides at least a portion of the indicia (G) to conspicuously provide the one or more instructions for opening the closure panel (106), wherein a perimeter of the handle (204) defines an arrow, and wherein the arrow is attached to the inboard surface (114) such that movement of the handle in the direction of the arrow opens the sub-compartment (108)

6. The vehicular storage enclosure according to claim 1, wherein the handle (204) illuminates to conspicuously provide the indicia.

7. The vehicular storage enclosure according to claim 2, wherein the handle (204) illuminates to conspicuously provide the indicia.

8. The vehicular storage enclosure according to claim 1, wherein at least a portion of surface of the handle (204) glows in the dark.

9. The vehicular storage enclosure according to claim 2, wherein at least a portion of surface of the handle (204) glows in the dark.

10. The vehicular storage enclosure according to claim 6, wherein at least a portion of surface of the handle (204) glows in the dark.

11. The vehicular storage enclosure according to claim 7, wherein at least a portion of surface of the handle (204) glows in the dark.

12. The vehicular storage enclosure ‘

according to claim 1, wherein the handle (204) is molded from glow-in-the dark material.

13. The vehicular storage enclosure according to claim 2, wherein the handle (204) is molded from glow-in-the dark material.

14. The vehicular storage enclosure according to claim 6, wherein the handle (204) is molded from glow-in-the dark material.

15. The vehicular storage enclosure according to claim 7, wherein the handle (204) is molded from glow-in-the dark material.

3-5. -5. (canceled)