POCKET AND DOOR, CENTER CONSOLE, ARMREST, OR THE LIKE WITH A POCKET OF THIS TYPE

• US 20160229354A1
• Filed: 02/09/2016
• Published: 08/11/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/09/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Volkswagen AG
• Original Assignee: Volkswagen AG
• Inventors: BETTZUEGE, Thomas, KEYDEL, Toralf, MARKHARDT, Andreas
• Granted Patent: US 9,682,664 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0252 for personal computers, e.g. laptops, notebooks
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0005 Dashboard
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0014 Arm-rests
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0021 Doors
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 7/046 mounted on door

Abstract

A pocket formed by an open-topped compartment. At least one receiving compartment for holding a flat, portable electronic video display unit, particularly a tablet computer is formed in the container. Further, at least one elastic pretensioning element is located in the at least one receiving compartment, the pretensioning element whose direction of action is directed against the flat, portable electronic video display unit, particularly against the tablet computer transverse to the insertion direction of the flat, portable electronic video display unit, particularly of the tablet computer in the receiving compartment.

Claims

1. A pocket that is formed by an open-topped container, the pocket comprising:

at least one receiving compartment for holding a substantially flat, portable electronic video display unit or a tablet computer, the at least one receiving compartment being formed in the container; and

at least one elastic pretensioning element arranged in the at least one receiving compartment, the at least one elastic pretension element having a direction of action directed against the flat, portable electronic video display unit or the tablet computer transverse to an insertion direction of the flat, portable electronic video display unit or the tablet computer in the receiving compartment.

2. The pocket according to claim 1, wherein at least two receiving compartments, are arranged parallel to one another, one for the flat portable electronic video display unit or one for the tablet computer, are formed in the container, which receiving compartments are separated from one another by a partition wall.

3. The pocket according to claim 2, wherein the partition wall has at least one aperture.

4. The pocket according to claim 1, wherein the at least one receiving compartment is dimensioned such that the flat, portable electronic video display unit or the tablet computer together with a video display unit protective cover are accommodated by the at least one receiving compartment.

5. The pocket according to claim 1, wherein the container bottom of the container in the area of the at least one receiving compartment is formed recessed downwards such as a depression at least in sections.

6. The pocket according to claim 1, wherein at least one receiving compartment, running at an angle transverse to the longitudinal extension of the at least one receiving compartment for accommodating a smartphone is formed in the container.

7. The pocket according to claim 6, wherein the at least one receiving compartment for accommodating the flat, portable electronic video display unit or the tablet computer overlaps at least partially the at least one receiving compartment for the smartphone.

8. The pocket according to claim 1, wherein the container together with the partition wall is made of a frame-forming plastic or metal core that has a coating or finish made of an elastomer.

9. The pocket according to claim 8, wherein the coating or finish is dimensioned such that under tension it fixes the flat, portable electronic video display unit, or the tablet computer together with the video display unit cover and/or a smartphone in the particular receiving compartment.

10. The pocket according to claim 1, wherein the pocket is arranged in or on an interior door trim of a door for a vehicle or a motor vehicle.

11. A door, center console, armrest, a center armrest for a vehicle comprising at least one pocket according to claim 1 attached fixedly or removably thereto.