Package tray supporting structure

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9682659-B2
Application number	US-201615068154-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 11, 2016
Priority date	Mar 11, 2015
Publication date	Jun 20, 2017
Grant date	Jun 20, 2017

Abstract

A package tray supporting structure includes: a first hinge portion; a second hinge portion provided separately above the first hinge portion; a first hinge receiving portion provided at a side surface on a vehicle front side of the package tray, and held between a first surface of the second hinge portion and an outer peripheral surface of the first hinge portion when the package tray is in a horizontal position; and a second hinge receiving portion provided at the side surface on the vehicle front side of the package tray separately from the first hinge receiving portion toward a vehicle rear side and contacts the second surface of the second hinge portion when the package tray is in the horizontal position.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A package tray supporting structure for supporting a package tray pivotally with respect to a vehicle body side between a horizontal position and a predetermined inclined position, the package tray hiding luggage that is loaded in a luggage compartment provided behind a rear seat, each of opposite side surface portions on a vehicle front side of the package tray being pivotally mounted to the vehicle body, the package tray being disposed along a horizontal direction in the horizontal position, and a vehicle rear-side end portion of the package tray being disposed at a higher position than a vehicle front-side end portion of the package tray in the predetermined inclined position, the package tray supporting structure comprising:
a first hinge portion that is provided on the vehicle body side, and projects to a vehicle interior side;
a second hinge portion that is provided on the vehicle body side, and projects to the vehicle interior side, the second hinge portion including
a first surface that is provided separately from the first hinge portion above the first hinge portion, and
a second surface that is located more separately from the first hinge portion than the first surface;

a first hinge receiving portion that is provided at the side surface portion on the vehicle front side of the package tray, and is held between the first surface and an outer peripheral surface of the first hinge portion when the package tray is in the horizontal position; and
a second hinge receiving portion that is provided at the side surface portion on the vehicle front side of the package tray separately from the first hinge receiving portion toward a vehicle rear side, the second hinge receiving portion being in abutment with the second surface when the package tray is in the horizontal position, wherein
the second hinge portion is configured to allow the package tray to be disengaged from the first hinge portion and the second hinge portion when the package tray is rotated to the inclined position from the horizontal position.

2. The package tray supporting structure according to claim 1 , wherein
the first hinge receiving portion is provided so as to continuously slides on the outer peripheral surface of the first hinge portion when the package tray performs a pivoting action between the horizontal position and the inclined position, and
the second hinge receiving portion is provided so as to continuously slides on the second surface when the package tray performs the pivoting action between the horizontal position and the inclined position.

3. The package tray supporting structure according to claim 2 , wherein
the first hinge portion has a cylindrical shape,
the second hinge portion has a substantially fan shape having a center angle of predetermined magnitude,
the first surface has an arc surface shape, and
the second surface has an arc surface shape that has a larger radius than that of the arc surface shape of the first surface.

4. The package tray supporting structure according to claim 3 , wherein
an axis center of the first hinge portion and an arc center of the first surface are set to be concentric with each other, and a position of an arc center of the second surface is set to be higher than a position of the arc center of the first surface.

5. The package tray supporting structure according to claim 3 , wherein
a minimum interval between the first hinge receiving portion and the second hinge receiving portion is set such that the package tray is disengaged from the first hinge portion and the second hinge portion with an upper end portion of the luggage as a fulcrum when an external force is applied to the vehicle rear-side end portion of the package tray downwardly from above in a case in which a height position of the luggage is higher than a position of an axis center of the first hinge portion by a predetermined height dimension.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kishimoto Masami
• Okano Ayako
• Goto Naoyuki
• Noshiro Kohei
• Mifuchi Tetsuhiro

Classifications

• B60R5/044 Primary

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

• B60R5/04 Primary

  arranged at rear of vehicle {(B60R5/003, B60R5/006 take precedence; external trunks arranged at rear of vehicle B60R9/065)} · CPC title