Patent ID: 7611183

Claim:
A vehicle driver/passenger compartment comprising: a driver's seat on one side of the driver/passenger compartment and a passenger's seat on an opposite side of the driver/passenger compartment; the passenger's seat comprising a seat cushion and a seat back that can fold down onto the seat cushion; and a module recessed into a rear of the seat back, the module comprising a basin having an inner wall that is disposed generally horizontal when the passenger's seat's seat back is folded onto its seat cushion and a side wall that bounds a perimeter of the inner wall and sets depth of the inner wall from an open face of the basin, and a closure that, when the passenger seat's seat back is folded onto the passenger seat's seat cushion, can swing from a generally horizontal position closing the open face of the basin to a generally horizontal position that is toward the driver's seat along side the open face of the basin and uncovers at least a portion of the open face of the basin, in which the closure comprises a tray that has a bottom wall depressed to a depth shallower than the depth of the basin and that has an open face opposite the bottom wall to allow articles to be placed onto and removed from the tray when the closure assumes the generally horizontal position that is toward the driver's seat along side the open face of the basin and a cover for closing the open face of the tray, and with the closure assuming the generally horizontal position that is toward the driver's seat along side the open face of the basin, the cover can be moved from a position closing the open face of the tray to a position that is toward the driver's seat and uncovers the open face of the tray; wherein the cover is arranged to swing about an axis running along a side of the tray that is toward the driver's seat from the position closing the open face of the tray to the position that is toward the driver's seat and uncovers the open face of the tray; wherein the cover can swing from the position closing the open face of the tray to a position that is inclined downwardly toward the driver's seat and uncovers the open face of the tray; and wherein the tray comprises a side that is toward the driver's seat and that comprises a downwardly inclined surface against which the cover is disposed when the cover is in the position that is inclined downwardly toward the driver's seat and uncovers the open face of the tray.