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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2015
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Kathleen M. Parlow, Columbus, MI (US);
Nicholas Alphonse Billardello, Macomb, MI (US);
Scott Holmes Dunham, Redford, MI (US);
Elizabeth Cleary Johnston Tengler, Grosse Pointe Park, MI (US);
Cornel Lewis Gardner, Romulus, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
An instrument panel storage system is provided for a motor vehicle. That storage system includes an instrument panel having a storage cavity defining a first docking station and a removable storage bin held in the cavity at the first docking station. Further the storage system includes one or more remote docking stations that allow the removable storage bin to be positioned at different locations within the motor vehicle as desired by the vehicle occupants.