Patent ID: 7059647
Filing Date: 2006-06-13
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
1. A liner for a bed of a vehicle, which comprises a member having a substantially flat portion with an outer boundary that defines sides and with ribs that in a first part are arranged in a central area in an array extending along an axis, and in a second part have two arrays with the ribs extending obliquely with respect to the array of the first part and the axis, one of these two obliquely extending arrays on each side of the central area, with at least some of the ribs of the two obliquely extending arrays extending substantially to a portion of the outer boundary that is different from that to which the ribs of the array of the first part extend, wherein at least some of the obliquely extending ribs are arrayed in a plurality of banks, each bank having a plurality of ribs such that in cross section each such bank of the obliquely extending ribs includes two outer ribs, each outer rib of the bank having an outer portion that spans obliquely from a trough part of the liner into a crest member of the outer rib that it in part forms, and each outer rib of the bank having an inner portion that spans substantially upright from the trough part of the liner into the crest member of the outer rib that it in part forms, such that the obliquely spanning outer rib portions of the two outer ribs are on opposing outsides of the bank.