Patent ID: 7017965

Claim:
In a motor vehicle having a body with a cargo space and a passenger compartment, a safety apparatus comprising: an extensible safety net having an outer edge; a rigid end element provided on the outer edge and having a fitting; a holder on the motor-vehicle body having a seat in which the fitting is engageable in a deployed condition of the net between the cargo space and passenger compartment; a latch element movable in the holder between a holding position extending into the seat and retaining the fitting therein in the deployed condition of the net and a freeing position clear of the seat and permitting the fitting to move into and out of the seat, the latch element having a control edge operable to displace the latch element into the freeing position; and actuator means on the end element, engageable with the fitting when the fitting is retained by the latch element in the seat, and operable for displacing the latch element into the freeing position.