Cooling container for vehicles

US6438982B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Daimlerchrysler AG · US

Inventors

• Bernhard Duerr · Kornwestheim, DE
• Frank Emhardt · Stuttgart, DE
• Ralf-Henning Schrom · Gerolzhofen, DE
• Thomsa Geisel · Rottenburg am Neckar, DE
• Rainer Tiefenbacher · Echterdingen, DE
• Rainer Leucht · Baltmannsweiler, DE
• Hermann Gaus · Stuttgart, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 26, 2001
• Grant date: Aug 27, 2002
• Expiry date: Jul 26, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60N3/104
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A cooling container for vehicles arranged in use laterally next to a seat cushion of a vehicle seat. The cooling container has a cooling compartment accessible from the top through a container opening after a lid is opened, the cooling compartment being sufficient at least for accommodating one commercially available drinks bottle stored lengthways in it, and being of a depth which clearly exceeds the bottle diameter. The cooling compartment is sufficient at least for accommodating a commercially available drinks bottle stored lengthways in it, but is of a depth which is too small to accommodate an upright drinks bottle below the closed lid. Retaining structure is arranged in the cooling compartment of the cooling container in order to secure the drinks bottle below the closed lid in a ready-to-hand storage position in which the drinks bottle extends obliquely upwards with its bottle neck towards an end region of the cooling compartment, which end region is arranged so that the bottle can be readily grasped. A lid arrangement is provided as the lid of the cooling container, the said lid arrangement being used in a closed position also to at least substantially cover the drinks bott…