Motor vehicle having a load compartment cover

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10752178-B2
Application number	US-201916254547-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 22, 2019
Priority date	Jan 22, 2018
Publication date	Aug 25, 2020
Grant date	Aug 25, 2020

Abstract

A motor vehicle includes a tailgate that is upwardly pivotable in a rearward upward manner and on which a load compartment cover is pivotably held around a pivot axis by way of the rear end region of the load compartment cover that faces the tailgate. The load compartment cover, in a region that is spaced apart from the pivot axis by way of at least one force transmission element, is held on a vehicle body. The force transmission element, when the tailgate is upwardly pivoted, pivots the load compartment cover toward the tailgate so as to expose an access to the load compartment. At least one hook connection connects the tailgate to the load compartment cover and establishes the pivot axis.

First claim

What is claimed:

1. A motor vehicle, comprising:
a vehicle body;
a load compartment in the vehicle body;
a tailgate carried on the vehicle body; and
a load compartment cover connected to the tailgate by at least one hook connection defining a pivot axis and connected to the vehicle body forward of the pivot axis by at least one force transmission element whereby (a) when the tailgate is pivoted upward, the load compartment cover pivots toward the tailgate so as to expose an access to the load compartment and (b) when the tailgate is pivoted downward and a force beyond a predetermined size and counter to downward pivoting movement acts upon the load compartment cover, the at least one hook connection is released in a non-destructive manner.

2. The motor vehicle of claim 1 wherein the at least one hook connection includes a hook and a hook receiver wherein the hook (a) holds the hook receiver in a form fitting manner when the tailgate is pivoted upward and (b) releases the hook receiver in said non-destructive manner when the tailgate is pivoted downward and the force beyond the predetermined size and counter to the downward pivoting movement acts upon the load compartment cover.

3. The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the hook has a friction face that is spaced from an internal side of the tailgate and the hook receiver after the release thereof by the hook slides and is guided along said friction face.

4. The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the hook on an inside has a holding face having an Ω-shaped contour that in regions circumferentially surrounds an external side of the hook receiver.

5. The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 4 , wherein a largest internal diameter of the holding face on the inside of the hook has a first size which corresponds to at least a second size of an external diameter of the external side of the hook receiver.

6. The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 5 , wherein a linkage of the force transmission element to the vehicle body is located on a vehicle pillar that is forward of the tailgate.

7. The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the force transmission element is a traction cable.

8. The motor vehicle as claimed claim 7 , wherein the force transmission element is deflected on a force deflection feature that is attached to the tailgate.

9. The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the force deflection feature is an eyelet, a deflection roller, or a deflection traction cable.

10. The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the force transmission element is said traction cable and the force deflection feature is a deflection traction cable that is fastened to the force transmission element and runs obliquely or transversely to the force transmission element.

11. The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 10 , wherein the hook is carried on the tailgate and the hook receiver is carried on the load compartment cover.

Assignees

• Ford Global Tech Llc

Inventors

• Loewe Thomas
• Fuss Christoph
• Causemann Christian
• Schneider Frank
• Kaatz Sascha
• Baumann Matthias

Classifications

• B62D25/12

  Parts or details thereof (locks E05B, {E05B83/16; devices for holding open E05C17/00, e.g. while carrying oversize objects E05C17/042}; hinges E05D; counterbalancing means E05F; {checks, stops, buffers E05F5/00; } springs, {e.g. pneumatic springs} F16F) · CPC title

• B60R5/044 Primary

  luggage covering means, e.g. parcel shelves · CPC title

• B60R5/045

  collapsible or transformable · CPC title