Patent ID: 6039378
Filing Date: 2000-03-21
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
In combination with a motor vehicle including an occupant seat and a cargo area defined by a floor and first and second spaced apart vehicle sidewalls, the occupant seat having a fold-down seatback supported for movement between an upright position and a folded position in which the seatback provides a substantially horizontal surface, the improvement comprising a storage device including a bottom surface and a plurality of storage sidewalls interconnected to said bottom surface, the bottom surface operatively attached to the occupant seat, said storage device movable to a stowed position in which said bottom surface is positioned substantially flush against the seatback and an operative position in which said bottom surface cooperates with the substantially horizontal surface of the seatback to provide an elevated support surface extending rearward from the occupant seat, each storage sidewall of said plurality of storage sidewalls foldable so as to be oriented parallel to said bottom surface when said storage device is in said stowed position and perpendicular to said bottom surface when said storage device is in said operative position.