Patent ID: 7281742

Claim:
A vehicle compartment structure comprising: a seatback portion; a parcel shelf structure extending rearwardly relative to the seatback portion; a vehicle trunk including a trunk lid, a trunk floor and a pair of lateral side walls extending to the seatback portion, with the seatback portion, the parcel shelf structure, the trunk lid, the trunk floor and the lateral side walls defining a storage area; and a rigid compartment divider pivotally coupled relative to the trunk floor of the vehicle trunk within the storage area between a first substantially horizontal storage position in which the storage area is substantially unobstructed by the rigid compartment divider and a second substantially vertical dividing position in which the rigid compartment divider partitions the vehicle trunk into two separately concealed spaces, where one of the two separately concealed spaces is partially bounded by the parcel shelf structure, the seatback portion and where the rigid compartment divider and the lateral side walls are contoured to mate with one another such that the two separately concealed spaces are concealed from one another with the rigid compartment divider in the second substantially vertical dividing position.