Device for arranging a reflective-vest device on a side door of a motor vehicle

• US 9,346,408 B2
• Filed: 08/03/2013
• Issued: 05/24/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/10/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Daimler AG (Mercedes-Benz Group AG)
• Original Assignee: Daimler AG (Mercedes-Benz Group AG)
• Inventors: Plocher, Bernd, Eckle, Leif, Teubert, Almar, Holder, Klaus, Friedrich, Andreas, Kuonath, Klaus, Boehmler, Patrick
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Kiran B
• Application Number:
  US14/420,432
• Publication Number:
  US 20150203048A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,025 Days
• Field of Search: 296/37.13, 296/146.7, 164/12, 495/02
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 5/0413 Inner panel, e.g. characterised by carrying components
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 13/0243 Doors
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2013/0287 integrating other functions or accessories
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 7/046 mounted on door

Abstract

A device to arrange a high-visibility vest device, enclosing a high visibility vest at least in sections, to the side door of a motor vehicle includes fixing elements provided on the door and the vest device that interact with each other so that the vest device is moveable into and out of operative engagement with the door side fixing element.

Claims

1. A side door of a motor vehicle, the side door comprising:

an interior door paneling part having

a storage compartment;

a device to arrange a high-visibility vest device, which comprises a receiving element to receive at least one high-visibility vest at least in sections; and

at least one first fixing means to which the high-visibility vest device is fixed by interaction of the first fixing means with at least one second fixing means provided on the receiving element.

2. The side door of claim 1, wherein the high-visibility vest device is positively fixed to the side door by the first and second fixing means interacting with one another.

3. The side door of claim 1, wherein one of the first and second fixing means has a guide into which the other of the first and second fixing means is insertable in an insertion direction.

4. The side door of claim 3, wherein the guide tapers in the insertion direction.

5. The side door of claim 1, wherein at least one handle is arranged on the receiving element, by means of which the first fixing means is moveable relative to the second fixing means into and out of operative connection with the second fixing means.

6. The side door of claim 1, wherein the high-visibility vest is held in a rolled-up manner by the receiving element.

7. The side door of claim 1, wherein the high-visibility vest device is fixable on an arm rest of the interior door paneling part of the side door.

8. The side door of claim 1, wherein a base of the storage compartment limiting a storage space of a storage compartment of the side door, downwards in a vertical direction of the vehicle, is covered at least partially by the high-visibility vest device arranged at a distance from the base, upwards in the vehicle vertical direction, in the state in which the high-visibility vest device is fixed to the side door.

9. The side door of claim 8, wherein the high-visibility vest device is covered at least partially inwardly in a transverse direction of the vehicle by a side wall of the storage compartment.

10. A device on a side door of a motor vehicle, the device comprising:

a receiving element configured to contain at least one high-visibility vest at least in sections;

at least one handle arranged on the receiving element, by means of which the high-visibility vest device is moveable relative to at least one door-side fixing means, into and out of operative connection with the door-side fixing means, to fix the high-visibility vest device to the side door.

11. A side door of a motor vehicle, the side door comprising:

an interior door paneling part having

a storage compartment;

a device to arrange a high-visibility vest device, which comprises a receiving element to receive at least one high-visibility vest at least in sections; and

first fixing element to which the high-visibility vest device is fixed by interaction of the first fixing element with a second fixing element provided on the receiving element.

12. The side door of claim 11, wherein the high-visibility vest device is positively fixed to the side door by the first and second fixing elements interacting with one another.

13. The side door of claim 11, wherein one of the first and second fixing elements has a guide into which the other of the first and second fixing elements is insertable in an insertion direction.

14. The side door of claim 13, wherein the guide tapers in the insertion direction.

15. The side door of claim 11, wherein at least one handle is arranged on the receiving element, by means of which the first fixing element is moveable relative to the second fixing element into and out of operative connection with the second fixing element.

16. The side door of claim 11, wherein the high-visibility vest is held in a rolled-up manner by the receiving element.

17. The side door of claim 11, wherein the high-visibility vest device is fixable on an arm rest of the interior door paneling part of the side door.

18. The side door of claim 11, wherein a base of the storage compartment limiting a storage space of a storage compartment of the side door, downwards in a vertical direction of the vehicle, is covered at least partially by the high-visibility vest device arranged at a distance from the base, upwards in the vehicle vertical direction, in the state in which the high-visibility vest device is fixed to the side door.

19. The side door of claim 18, wherein the high-visibility vest device is covered at least partially inwardly in a transverse direction of the vehicle by a side wall of the storage compartment.