A vehicle cup holder cell phone mount has a base with a downwardly and inwardly tapering surface of rotation around a vertical axis. A pier stands up from a top of the base and a cell phone mounting bracket is pivotally mounted to the pier. The cell phone mounting bracket has adjustable jaws to fit cell phones of varying widths. The jaws always define an opening for a cell phone power/communications cable. One or more of a plurality of shells may be selectively assembled to the base. Each shell has a tapering surface of rotation around the axis. The shells are of different sizes. The user assembles from zero to (n) shells to the base, Russian-doll fashion, so as to optimally fit a particular vehicle cup holder. The user then wedges the assembly into the vehicle cup holder such that compressive force between the outermost tapering surface and the cup holder side wall securely holds the cell phone mount in place in the vehicle cup holder.

A cell phone stand has a base and a cell phone mounting bracket rotatably affixed to the base around a horizontal axis. The mounting bracket has a first jaw and a second jaw that is movable in a horizontal direction with respect to the first jaw. The first jaw has a first u-shaped channel with a first upper segment and a first lower segment. The second jaw has a second u-shaped channel with a second upper segment and a second lower segment. By adjusting the position of the jaws, the user may adjust a width between the first and upper segments, thus sizing the mounting bracket to receive a cell phone of a particular width. Even at the smallest such width, inner ends of the first and second lower segments of the u-shaped channels remain spaced from each other so as to permit the cell phone to be connected to an electrical cable while being held by the stand.

A console for a motor vehicle includes a console compartment formed in the console and having first, second, third, and fourth sides connected to a bottom side and partially enclosing a first volume, and a movable compartment lid disposed overtop the console compartment and articulating through a first range of motion. The console further includes a plurality of storage compartments in movable connection with each of the others of the plurality of storage compartments and in movable connection with the console compartment and the movable compartment lid, such that when the lid articulates through the first range of motion, the plurality of storage compartments move vertically and horizontally with respect to the console compartment and the movable compartment lid.

A securement device for use in a vehicle. The device includes a retainer for holding or storing an object such as a firearm. The device utilizes an inflatable pillow to hold the device in position in the vehicle. It also includes an attachment that couples to the retainer and allows for adjustment of the orientation of the retainer.

Four cargo organizers may be formed into a cargo containment system using boards of one or two standard sizes of milled lumber and of varying lengths. To attach a board to a cargo organizer, a bottom of the board is placed on a sill that extends rearwardly of a cargo organizer wall. The board is rotated upwardly until its width is in a vertical position. Then, each of plural camming fingers is turned within a respective finger hole, the holes being selected by the user for the width of the board in question. An elongate blade of each camming finger helps affix the top of the board to a rear face of the organizer wall.

A position detector is supported to be movable between a first position and a second position lower than the first position. A mounting stay is below the position detector when the position detector is in the first position, and, when the position detector is rotated together with the mounting stay from a state in which the position detector is in the first position, the position detector is moved to the second position and the mounting stay is positioned above the position detector in the second position and covers over the position detector so as to restrain the automatic steering control.

A mounting device for mounting a sensor on a vehicle component, including a mounting base with an opening for a receiving element of a sensor and at least one securing mechanism. The mounting base or the securing mechanism includes at least one fastening receptacle, and wherein the at least one securing mechanism or the mounting base has at least one fastening element, wherein the at least one securing mechanism is secured to the mounting base by arranging the at least one fastening element in the at least one fastening receptacle. The at least one securing mechanism is configured to secure a sensor arranged on the mounting base at least in the axial direction. The at least one fastening element and the at least one fastening receptacle form a rotary closure by inserting the at least one fastening element into the at least one fastening receptacle and rotating the securing mechanism.

A steering-wheel computer bracket includes two foldable support assemblies. Each foldable support assembly comprises a fixed portion, a movable portion, and a support element. An end of the movable portion is hinged to a side of the fixed portion and can be flipped to have an angle with respect to or to attach to the side of the fixed portion, the other side of the fixed portion serves as a mounting surface; an end of the support element is rotatably connected to the other end of the movable portion, the support element is capable of being flipped, along with the movable portion being flipped, to attach to a side of the fixed portion or to have an angle relative to the side of the fixed portion.

A system to assess a lawn slope to control water runoff and chemical concentrations at a location can include a tangibly embodied computer processor (CP) and a tangibly embodied database. The CP can implement instructions on a non-transitory computer medium disposed in the database. The database can be in communication with the CP. The system can include a grade measurement device including a device controller and a sensor. The CP can be configured to: receive grade profile data, map the grade profile data, compare the grade profile data an anchor point grade profile, calculate a grade score, determine whether to add or remove material to the grid area when the grade score for the grid area exceeds a predetermined grade threshold, and output a ground slope plan.

An umbrella connection assembly for securing an umbrella to a vehicle hitch. The assembly includes a first arm coupled to the hitch and an end including opposing tabs, where each tab includes an axle pin aperture and a locking pin aperture. The assembly also includes a second arm having a protrusion at one end that is positioned between the opposing tabs, where the protrusion includes an axle pin aperture and a plurality of locking pin apertures. An axle pin is inserted in the axle pin apertures so that the second arm is rotatable relative to the first arm. A locking pin is inserted in the locking pin apertures so that the second arm is locked to the first arm. A third arm is coupled to an end of the second arm opposite to the protrusion so that the third arm is generally perpendicular to the second arm.