COVERING DEVICE OF A LUGGAGE COMPARTMENT OF A MOTOR VEHICLE

• US 20160303958A1
• Filed: 06/30/2016
• Published: 10/20/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Volkswagen AG
• Original Assignee: Volkswagen AG
• Inventors: GAUGER, Stefan
• Granted Patent: US 9,669,691 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 7/202 being characterised by moveable cover parts for closing the gap between boot lid and rearmost seats
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 5/047 collapsible by rolling-up

Abstract

A covering device for a storage area of a motor vehicle having a storage area cover which is at least partly flexible and can be drawn from a storage device against a spring force into a use position. The covering device also has a guiding device that has two guiding rails, which run substantially parallel to each other and in which the guiding elements can be guided, and at least one locking device for releasably locking the guiding elements in the guiding rails. The locking device has a latching protrusion in each guiding rail, a latching lug of the respective guiding element being latchable to the latching protrusion against the spring force, and each latching lug can be lifted over the respective latching protrusion in order to release the lock by tilting the bearing rod in a first direction using an actuating element.

Claims

1. A covering device for a storage area of a motor vehicle, the device comprising:

a storage area cover that is flexible at least in sections and that is pullable out of a storage device against a spring force into a use position, the storage area cover having a bearing rod on a free end, which extends over a width of the storage area cover and having a guide element on each of its free ends;

a guide device that has two guide rails extending substantially to each other, in which the guide elements are guidable; and

at least one locking device for releasably locking the guide elements in the guide rails, the locking device having a latching protrusion in each guide rail to which the guide element is latchable against the spring force via a latching lug, the latching lug being liftable over the latching protrusion for releasing the lock by tilting the bearing rod via an actuating element,

wherein the guide elements, which are disposed to be tiltable relative to the bearing rod, are assigned at least one lever device that lifts the latching lug over the latching protrusion when the bearing rod is tilted in a second direction opposite the first direction.

2. The covering device according to claim 1, wherein the lever device forms a scissors-type lever with the guide element, the guide element being connected in a scissors-like manner to a lever element by a pivot joint.

3. The covering device according to claim 1, wherein the pivot joint forms a rotation axis around which the guide element and a lever element are rotatable relative to each other at least in areas, and wherein the rotation axis is oriented substantially parallel to the longitudinal extension of the bearing rod.

4. The covering device according to claim 2, wherein the lever element has a sliding tip, which is arranged at a distance from a rotation axis for sliding contact with the guide rail, and which is fixedly connected to the bearing rod.

5. The covering device according to claim 1, wherein the guide rails each have a U-shaped profile and are oriented to face each other, wherein a lower leg of the guide rails form a slide rail on which the lever element rests with the sliding tip.

6. The covering device according to claim 1, wherein the latching protrusion of the locking device is arranged on the sliding rail in such a narrow manner that the lever element, including its sliding tip on the sliding rail, is adapted to slide past the latching protrusion.

7. The covering device according to claim 1, wherein the guide rails each have an actuating protrusion on a leg opposite the latching protrusion, which, in the latched position of the guide element, is assigned to an actuating end of the guide element at a distance from the rotation axis for holding the guide element on the sliding rail when the bearing rod is tilted in the second direction.

8. The covering device according to claim 1, wherein the lever element has a rotary entrainment for the guide element for releasing the latching lugs from the latching protrusions when the bearing rod is tilted in the first direction.

9. The covering device according to claim 1, wherein the bearing rod is assigned an at least essentially rigid end board as an actuating element, which is fixedly connected to the bearing rod for tilting the bearing rod.

10. The covering device according to claim 1, wherein the oppositely situated legs of the guide rails are substantially parallel to each other and have a greater distance from each other only in an area of the locking device.