Collapsible Truck Bed Trunk with Telescoping Body
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing truck bed accessories are often fixed and require significant strength to reconfigure, limiting their versatility and ease of use for different applications.
Innovation Solution
A modular truck bed trunk system that is traversable, telescoping, and collapsible, allowing for easy reconfiguration between front and back positions, with optional integration with tonneau covers and partitions to adjust storage space, and designed for use with various truck bed configurations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If fixed accessories are installed in the truck bed, then additional functionality is provided, but the accessories cannot be easily reconfigured or removed
Solution Approach 1:
The trunk is designed with movable components including a telescoping body that can slide between extended and retracted positions, and a top cover that pivots between open and closed positions. The rails allow the trunk to move freely along the truck bed, enabling easy reconfiguration without requiring significant strength or time.
Solution Approach 2:
The trunk is divided into separate functional components: a telescoping body, a pivoting top cover, movable partitions, and rail-mounted assemblies. This segmentation allows each component to be independently adjusted or removed, providing versatility while maintaining ease of reconfiguration.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a trunk is added to the truck bed, then isolated storage is provided, but the trunk may obstruct access to the full bed length
Solution Approach 1:
The telescoping trunk body can be extended to provide maximum storage when needed, and retracted to minimize obstruction of the truck bed. The top cover pivots open to allow access to stored items without requiring the entire trunk to be removed, thus maintaining both storage capability and bed accessibility.
3Adaptability or versatility
If partitions are added to adjust storage space, then flexibility is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The trunk includes movable partitions that can be positioned at different locations to divide storage space into separate compartments. These partitions are simple structural elements that slide or pivot into place, providing space adjustment flexibility without significantly increasing overall device complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
A collapsible trunk for use with a vehicle having a wheel well. The trunk comprises a base wall and a side wall pivotally connected thereto. The side wall extends from the base wall and terminates at an upper edge. The side wall and base wall collectively define a storage cavity. The base wall and the side wall each have an expandable portion conformable to the wheel well in response to placement of the base wall and the side wall over the wheel well. The trunk is selectively transitional between a collapsed configuration and a deployed configuration. In the collapsed configuration, the base panels overlap each other, and in the deployed configuration, the plurality of base panels are co-planar to each other. The upper edge of the side wall moves away from the base wall as the trunk transitions from the collapsed configuration toward the deployed configuration.