All vehicle mats

• US 8,685,516 B2
• Filed: 09/27/2012
• Issued: 04/01/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: MacNeil IP LLC
• Original Assignee: MacNeil IP LLC
• Inventors: Gifford, Quin, Kaufman, Judd C., Vargo, Scott A., Thom, Allan R., Masanek, Frederick W. Jr., MacNeil, David F.
• Primary Examiner(s): THOMAS, ALEXANDER S
• Application Number:
  US13/629,118
• Publication Number:
  US 20130022772A1
• Time in Patent Office: 551 Days
• Field of Search: 428/43, 428/156
• US Class Current: 428/43
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 3/044 of removable mats B60N3/046, B60N3/048 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 3/048 characterised by their structure
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/15 Sheet, web, or layer weakened to permit separation through thickness
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24479 including variation in thickness
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/2457 Parallel ribs and/or grooves

Abstract

A cut-to-fit universal vehicle floor mat has arrays of peripheral cells separated from each other and from a central area of the mat body by indented trim lines. The arrays of cells can include an array for a transmission tunnel bulge.

Claims

1. A cut-to-fit floor mat for a passenger'"'"'s side vehicle foot well, comprising:

an untrimmed mat body having a forward margin, an outboard margin, an aft margin and an inboard margin;

a plurality of peripheral cells located at or near the inboard margin of the untrimmed mat body, the cells defined by a plurality of trim lines formed as elongate indentations in the mat body;

the trim lines including a plurality of longitudinal trim lines any of which may be selected by a consumer of the mat to form part of the inboard margin of the trimmed mat; and

the trim lines including a plurality of transmission tunnel trim lines any of which may be selected by a consumer of the mat to form part of an inboard margin of the trimmed mat, each transmission tunnel trim line including an arc which is concave around a center of curvature that is further away from a center of the mat than is the respective transmission tunnel trim line, each transmission tunnel trim line having a forward end which meets the inboard margin and an aft end which merges as a tangent with a respective one of the plurality of longitudinal trim lines.

2. The mat of claim 1, wherein the trim lines further include a plurality of transverse trim lines any of which may be selected by a consumer to form part of the aft margin of the trimmed mat, a central area of the mat in which there are no trim lines, the central area being displaced from the aft margin of the untrimmed mat body by at least two of the transverse trim lines.

3. The mat of claim 1, wherein the cells form a two-dimensional array.