Patent ID: 8096455

Claim:
A vehicular mountable cargo container comprising: a top portion of said vehicular mountable cargo container hinge-connected for pivotation relative to a bottom portion of the cargo container between open and closed configurations; a pair of spring-biased struts, each operatively interposed between said top and bottom portions of said vehicular mountable cargo container, and one each of said pair of spring-biased struts located at opposed end regions of the cargo container; and each of said pair of spring-biased struts being configured to exclusively deliver an expansion force between the top and bottom portions of the cargo container for urging the container toward the open configuration and each of said pair of spring-biased struts comprising: a cam surface provided at one of two arms of the strut, said cam surface establishing a surficial interaction between said two arms during transitions between first and second strut orientations; and a force communication point defined by a point of support of a non-cam surface including arm on a cam-including arm at said cam surface and which moves across the cam surface as said two arms pivot relative to one another between said first and second strut orientations during which said force communication point remains exclusively on one side of a line oriented parallel to a direction of an operationally effective force imposed by said biasing spring between said two arms and intersecting a pivot connection between said two arms.