Patent ID: 8967697
Filing Date: 2015-03-03
Classification: B60N

Abstract:
1. An automotive floor mat structure, disposed at an intra-vehicular foot resting area inside a vehicle, the automotive floor mat structure comprising: a containing plate for collecting snow, water, mud, rocks, or foreign bodies admitted into the intra-vehicular foot resting area, wherein the containing plate has a first margin positioned proximate to a door of the vehicle and a second margin adjoining the first margin, wherein the first margin and the second margin together define a portion of a periphery of the containing plate; a bottom surface being a downward-facing surface of the containing plate and serving as a contact surface between the automotive floor mat structure and the intra-vehicular foot resting area; a raised edge disposed at the second margin and adapted to prevent snow, water, mud, rocks, or foreign bodies from intruding into one of the vehicle and the intra-vehicular foot resting area; a guarding edge having an inverted V-shaped cross-section, being extended and fixed to the first margin, and having two ends seamlessly connected to two ends of the raised edge, respectively, wherein a vertex of the inverted V-shaped cross-section of the guarding edge is higher than the containing plate, the inverted V-shaped cross-section having a first leg and a second leg, the first leg adjoining the first margin, and the second leg opposing the first leg and being in contact with the intra-vehicular foot resting area, wherein the first leg, the second leg, and the bottom surface rest on a same plane, wherein a distance between the vertex and a free end of the second leg is larger than a distance between the vertex and an end of the first leg adjacent the first margin; at least a plateau bump disposed on the containing plate, wherein a top of a smaller radius than the at least a plateau bump is centrally disposed on the at least a plateau bump in a manner to allow the top and the at least a plateau bump together to look like a cap; and a foot resting pedal extended from the containing plate and positioned exactly at a foot resting area in front of a driver's seat in the vehicle.