Baggage carrier configuration for a vehicle rear

• US 20100089957A1
• Filed: 09/10/2009
• Published: 04/15/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC (General Motors Company)
• Original Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations Incorporated (General Motors Company)
• Inventors: BARTH, Armin
• Application Number:
  US12/557,292
• Publication Number:
  US 20100089957A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 224/497
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 9/06 at vehicle front or rear rear luggage compartments within vehicle extensible externally of the vehicle body B60R5/041
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 9/10 for cycles

Abstract

A baggage carrier configuration is provided for a vehicle rear having a carrier, which is permanently connected to the vehicle and is movable relative to the vehicle rear from a nonusage position into a usage position, which extends further away from the vehicle rear. At least one object of the present invention is the provision of a baggage carrier configuration, in which a carrier, which is permanently connected to the vehicle and is movable back-and-forth between a nonusage position and a usage position, automatically allows the operation of a vehicle environmental detector and/or a parking aid in the usage position. For this purpose, at least one spacing sensor is provided on the carrier and the spacing sensor is activated in the usage position.

Claims

1. A baggage carrier configuration for a vehicle rear, comprising:

a carrier that is permanently connected to the vehicle and is movable relative to the vehicle rear from a nonusage position into a usage position that extends further away from the vehicle rear; and

a spacing sensor on the carrier and adapted to activate when the carrier is in the usage position.

9. The configuration according to claim 1, wherein the spacing sensor is situated on a rear light that is foldable outward.

10. The configuration according to claim 1, the vehicle rear is equipped with fixed a rear spacing sensor that is deactivated in the usage position of the carrier.

11. The configuration according to claim 1, wherein the spacing sensor is deactivated in the nonusage position.

12. The configuration according to claim 1, the rear spacing sensor is situated in an area of a rear license plate carrier.

14. The configuration according to claim 1, further comprising a position sensor that is adapted to monitor the position of the carrier relative to the vehicle rear.

15. The configuration according to claim 1, wherein the carrier is movable step-by-step into various usage positions selectable according to the transport material.

16. The configuration according to claim 1, further comprising a second spacing sensor on the carrier and that are adapted to activate when the carrier is in the usage position.

17. The configuration according to claim 1, wherein the second spacing sensor is situated on a rear light that is foldable outward.

18. The configuration according to claim 1, wherein the second spacing sensor is deactivated in the nonusage position.

2-8. -8. (canceled)