US 11,897,429 B2
Interior delivery box
Timothy Jon Meador, Fairfield, CA (US); Marie Ledger, San Anselmo, CA (US); Jessica Uelmen, Alameda, CA (US); Anthony Galliano, III, Seattle, WA (US); Arun A. Mathews, New Castle, WA (US); and Pratik Palnitkar, Kirkland, WA (US)
Assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC, San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by GM Cruise Holdings LLC, San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 24, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/895,043.
Application 17/895,043 is a continuation of application No. 16/731,628, filed on Dec. 31, 2019, granted, now 11,440,478.
Prior Publication US 2022/0402437 A1, Dec. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. B60R 7/04 (2006.01)
CPC B60R 7/043 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle container unit for a vehicle, comprising:
a vehicle container comprising:
an enclosure having inner walls that enclose a space for carrying items;
a door rotatable around a first hinge to open and close the enclosure about the space;
a divider element in the space having a wall, the wall having a first end coupled to a top inner wall of the inner walls via a second hinge, a second end facing the door when the door closes the enclosure, a third end opposite of the first end, and a fourth end opposite of the second end, wherein;
the divider element rotates about the second hinge between two or more different positions, the two or more different positions comprising (1) a first position of the divider element corresponding to the wall positioned horizontally against the top inner wall, and (2) a second position of the divider element corresponding to the wall subdividing the space vertically into a first space and a second space within the enclosure;
the divider element includes a handle located at a corner of formed by the second end and the third end of the wall, the handle being coupled to the wall via a third hinge at the second end of the wall; and
the handle being rotatable about the third hinge to be in (1) a first position of the handle away from the wall allowing a user to rotate the divider element from the first position to the second position, and (2) a second position of the handle positioned against the wall and within the first space when the divider element is in the second position of the divider element; and
a first surface, the first surface being parallel to a plane of contact of the vehicle with a surface on which the vehicle is located when the vehicle container is installed in a seating area of a passenger seat of the vehicle; and
a base to mate with a seating area of the passenger seat of the vehicle, the base comprising a second surface to abut the first surface of the vehicle container.