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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2014
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Erlanger, KY (US);
Robert Day, Northfield Township, MI (US);
TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC., Erlanger, KY (US);
Abstract
Vehicles including collapsible cargo containers that collapse beneath tumble seats and methods of collapsing collapsible cargo containers beneath tumble seats are disclosed. A vehicle includes a vehicle floor, a tumble seat pivotably coupled to the vehicle floor, and a collapsible cargo container attached to the vehicle floor and attached to the tumble seat. The tumble seat is pivotable from a tumble-forward position to an upright seating position. When the tumble seat is pivoted from the tumble-forward position to the upright seating position, the collapsible cargo container collapses from a cargo storage configuration to a collapsed configuration beneath the tumble seat.