Patent ID: 8448385
Filing Date: 2013-05-28
Classification: B60J,B60P,B61D,B65D,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A vehicular container, lid-latching system, the lid-latching system comprising, in combination: a vehicular container lid, the lid comprising at least one lid-to-container interface; a vehicular container, the container comprising at least one container-to-lid interface; a latch mechanism for latch-securing and latch-releasing the lid to the container, said latch mechanism comprising a housing, a spring-actuable, latch member, and a spring element, the housing comprising a path-defining portion, a lid-supporting interface portion, a latch member-receiving portion, and a spring-enclosing portion, the latch member being pivotally mounted within the latch member-receiving portion for pivotal movement therein, the latch member comprising a nose portion having upper and under cam surfaces, the spring element being engaged with said latch member within the spring-enclosing portion for biasing said nose portion exteriorly of the latch member-receiving portion when said cam surfaces are not in use, the latch mechanism being automatically operable by way of engagement with structure directed thereagainst and being outfittable upon a first select interface, the first select interface being selected from the group consisting of the lid-to-container and container-to-lid interfaces; and latch-engaging structure for engaging the latch mechanism, the latch-engaging structure being outfittable upon a second select interface, the second select interface being selected from the group consisting of the lid-to-container and container-to-lid interfaces, the latch-engaging structure being structurally directable via the path-defining portion into engagement with the cam surfaces of the latch mechanism for automatic and selective latching securement or latching release of the lid relative to the container, the lid being supportable by the lid-supporting interface portion when in latched securement.