Patent ID: 7862096
Filing Date: 2011-01-04
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
1. An upper glove box assembly for an automotive vehicle comprising: an instrument panel having an underlying rigid substrate and an outer flexible skin finish surface over an intermediate layer of relatively soft cushioning material; a glove box structure that includes a bin for holding articles, wherein said structure has upper, lower and side panels to define the volume of said bin; said instrument panel formed to have an upper portion of said flexible skin finish surface near a horizontal plane and extended to form a curved over finish surface; said instrument panel further formed to have a glove box installation receptacle with an upper portion of said receptacle having a downwardly directed finished surface extension portion of said curved over finish surface containing said flexible skin finish surface and intermediate layer; said glove box structure mounted within said glove box installation receptacle of said instrument panel and together therewith forming a void between said upper panel of said glove box and said finished surface extension portion of said instrument panel; a door panel mounted to said glove box structure for rotational movement upward and outward during opening and downward and inward during closing about a predetermined axis; and said door panel having defined upper and lower edges, wherein said upper edge of said door panel enters into said void during opening of said door panel and said upper edge of said door panel exits said void when said door panel is closed to reveal said finish surface extension portion within said void during said rotational movement of said door panel.