US 12,240,368 B2
Storage compartment with an elastic compartment divider
Bernhard Schmid, Hallbergmoos (DE)
Assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 17/436,924
Filed by Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Feb. 6, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/053039
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 7, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/182382, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 17, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 106 311.6 (DE), filed on Mar. 12, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0153178 A1, May 19, 2022
Int. Cl. B60N 3/10 (2006.01); B60R 7/04 (2006.01)
CPC B60N 3/108 (2013.01) [B60R 7/04 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A storage compartment for installation in a motor vehicle, comprising:
a storage volume, which is laterally delimited by an at least partially peripheral storage wall;
at least one elastic compartment divider, which comprises a macroscopically elastic material at least in a central region of a longitudinal extent of the compartment divider, whereby the compartment divider is transferable between a first divider position and a second divider position, and which at the first divider position subdivides the storage volume into a first subcompartment and a second subcompartment, and at the second divider position forms a part of the storage wall of the storage volume;
two divider receptacles, which are spaced apart from one another, are arranged on the storage wall and on which a respective one of two longitudinal ends of the compartment divider is received, wherein the compartment divider on each of the divider receptacles is mounted rotatably about a divider axis of rotation which is perpendicular to a connecting axis between the divider receptacles, and
a positioning device arranged on each of the divider receptacles, which positioning device is pretensioned to transfer the compartment divider into the second divider position via a rotational positioning force, and/or to retain the compartment divider at the second divider position, wherein
the compartment divider is not wound around the positioning device via the positioning force.