Patent ID: 6325436
Filing Date: 2001-12-04
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
A cargo area divider for a motor vehicle, having at least one flexible planar structure, arranged so it can wind onto and off from a roller-shade shaft mounted in a vehicle-fixed bearing, that is equipped in a front end region with a dimensionally stable pull-out profile, extending over the entire width of the planar structure, that has retaining elements for detachably securing the pull-out profile, on vehicle-mounted retainers in a roof region of the motor vehicle when the planar structure is in the pulled-out functional state,wherein, when the planar structure is in the pulled-out functional state, the retaining elements project upward beyond an upper edge of the pull-out profile; and the corresponding vehicle-mounted retainers are positioned, in order to receive the retaining elements, in a horizontal headliner region at a distance from lateral roof frame elements of the roof region of the motor vehicle, andwherein the retaining elements are mounted on the pull-out profile movably between a rest position recessed into the pull-out profile and an elevated functional position projecting upward from the pull-out profile.