FLOOR MAT ATTACHMENT

Abstract

A foot mat arrangement with a floor unit and a foot mat can be fastened to the floor unit. The foot mat can be fastened to the floor unit by means of a hook-and-loop connection. The hook-and-loop connection has a first hook-and-loop element, which is fastened to the floor unit by material bonding, in particular, by a welded connection. The first hook-and-loop element can have a loop pile fabric. The first hook-and-loop element is preferably fastened to an attachment. The attachment and/or a carpet can be fastened to a floor element of the floor unit, in particular, by a material bond. A vehicle may have such a foot mat arrangement and a method for producing the floor unit of such a foot mat arrangement is disclosed.

Claims

1. A foot mat arrangement for a vehicle, the foot mat arrangement comprising: a floor unit; a first hook-and-loop element on the upper side of the floor unit; a foot mat; a second hook-and-loop element on the underside of the foot mat; the second hook-and-loop element corresponding to the first hook-and-loop element wherein the foot mat is configured to be fastened to the floor unit by a hook-and-loop connection between the first hook-and-loop element and the second hook-and-loop element; wherein the first hook-and-loop element is materially bonded to the floor unit.

2. The foot mat arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the first hook-and-loop element is attached to the floor unit by a welded connection.

3. The foot mat arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the floor unit has a floor element and an attachment, wherein the attachment is indirectly or directly fastened to the floor element and wherein the first hook-and-loop element is materially bonded to the attachment.

4. The foot mat arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the floor unit has an upwardly pointing carpet.

5. The foot mat arrangement according to claim 4, wherein the first hook-and-loop element is directly fastened to the carpet.

6. The foot mat arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the floor unit has a floor element and an attachment, wherein the attachment is indirectly or directly fastened to the floor element and wherein the first hook-and-loop element is materially bonded to the attachment, wherein the first hook-and-loop element is directly fastened to the carpet, and wherein the carpet is fastened to the floor element and the attachment is fastened to the carpet.

7. The foot mat arrangement according to claim 4, wherein the coloring and/or structure of the carpets corresponds to the coloring and/or structure of the first hook-and-loop element.

8. The foot mat arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the first hook-and-loop element has loop pile fabric and the second hook-and-loop element has corresponding hook-shaped and/or mushroom-shaped elements.

9. The foot mat arrangement according to claim 8, wherein the loop pile fabric is woven, weft-knitted and/or warp-knitted.

10. The foot mat arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the first hook-and-loop element and/or the second hook-and-loop element comprises polyester, polyamide, polyolefin, recycled polymer, biopolymer and/or a thermoplastic elastomer.

11. The foot mat arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the first hook-and-loop element and/or the second hook-and-loop element consist of a polymer in a mono-material manner.

12. A vehicle having the foot mat arrangement according to claim 1.

13. A method for producing the floor unit for the foot mat arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the first hook-and-loop element is attached to the floor unit with a material bond.

14. The method according to claim 13, wherein the first hook-and-loop element is attached to the floor unit by high-frequency welding.

15. The method according to claim 13, wherein the floor unit has a floor element and an attachment, wherein the attachment is indirectly or directly fastened to the floor element and wherein the first hook-and-loop element is materially bonded to the attachment, and wherein the first hook-and-loop element is attached to the attachment before the attachment is indirectly or directly attached to the floor element.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION AND DRAWINGS

[0032] FIG. 1 shows a perspective view of a part of a vehicle with a foot mat arrangement, wherein the foot mat arrangement has a floor unit and a foot mat fixed on the floor unit.

[0033] FIG. 2 shows a perspective view of the vehicle with the foot mat arrangement according to FIG. 1 when the foot mat is removed.

[0034] FIG. 3 shows a sectional view of the foot mat arrangement along the line A-A from FIG. 1.

[0035] FIG. 4 shows a sectional view of the foot mat arrangement along the line B-B from FIG. 1.

[0036] FIG. 5 shows a sectional view of an alternative embodiment of a foot mat arrangement along the line A-A from FIG. 1.

[0037] FIG. 6 shows a sectional view of an alternative embodiment of a foot mat arrangement along the line B-B from FIG. 1.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS OF THE INVENTION

[0038] FIG. 1 shows a vehicle 10, of which only a foot space 12 is shown, here in the region of the driver of the vehicle 10. The vehicle 10 has a foot mat arrangement 14 having a floor unit 16 and a foot mat 18 (shown filled with white in FIG. 1). The foot mat 18 is fastened to the floor unit 16 by hook-and-loop connections 20a,20b (framed in dashed lines in FIG. 1). The foot mat 18 should be easily removable from the foot space 12 for cleaning. At the same time, however, the hook-and-loop connections 20 a,b must securely fix the foot mat 18 when it is in place, in order to prevent accidental displacement of the foot mat 18 against a pedal (not shown) of the vehicle 10 and thus jamming when the pedal is actuated.

[0039] FIG. 2 shows the vehicle 10 with the foot mat arrangement 14 according to FIG. 1, but with the foot mat 18 removed. The floor unit 16 has a carpet 22. It can be seen from FIG. 2 that the floor unit 16 has first hook-and-loop elements 24a, 24b (shown with checkered filling in FIG. 2). In particular, the fastening of the first hook-and-loop elements 24a, b is shown in different variants in the FIGS. 3 to 6, described in the following.

[0040] FIG. 3 shows the foot mat arrangement 14 with the floor unit 16 and the foot mat 18 in section A-A according to FIG. 1. The floor unit 16 has a floor element 26, in particular, made of plastic. The carpet 22 is fastened, in particular, glued, to the floor element 26. The first hook-and-loop element 24a is materially bonded to the carpet 22, in particular, by a welded connection 28. The welded connection 28 was produced by high-frequency welding. The welded connection 28 enables a reliable fixing of the first hook-and-loop element 24a in the foot space 12. To form a particularly reliable welded connection 28, carpet fibers 30 can be shortened in the area of the welded connection 28 oras shown in FIG. 3removed.

[0041] A second hook-and-loop element 32a corresponding to the first hook-and-loop element 24a is attached to the foot mat 18. Preferably, the second hook-and-loop element 32a is welded to the foot mat 18, as shown in FIG. 3. The foot mat 18 can have foot mat fibers 34 on its upper side.

[0042] The first hook-and-loop element 24a has a loop pile fabric 36. The loop pile fabric 36 can be mounted on a substrate 38 of the first hook-and-loop element 24a. The loop pile fabric 36 and/or the substrate 38 of the first hook-and-loop element 24a can be made of plastic. Preferably, polyester, polyamide, polyolefin, recycled polymer, biopolymer and/or a thermoplastic elastomer is used here. In order to enable type-sorted recycling of the first hook-and-loop element 24a, the loop pile fabric 36 is preferably made of the same plastic as the substrate 38 of the first hook-and-loop element 24a. Particularly preferably, the carpet 22 and/or the floor element 26 are also made of the same plastic as the first hook-and-loop element 24a.

[0043] The second hook-and-loop element 32a has hook-shaped elements 40. The hook-shaped elements 40 can be arranged on a substrate 42 of the second hook-and-loop element 32a. The hook-shaped elements 40 and/or the substrate 42 of the second hook-and-loop element 32a can be formed from a plastic. Preferably, polyester, polyamide, polyolefin, recycled polymer, biopolymer and/or a thermoplastic elastomer is used here. In order to enable type-sorted recycling of the second hook-and-loop element 32a, the hook-shaped elements 40 are preferably made of the same plastic as the substrate 42 of the second hook-and-loop element 32a. Further preferably, the second hook-and-loop element 32a is formed from the same plastic as the first hook-and-loop element 24a.

[0044] In principle, the combination of loop pile fabric 36 and hook-shaped elements 40 could also be arranged in transposed fashion, so that the first hook-and-loop element 24a has hook-shaped elements and the second hook-and-loop element 32a has loop pile fabric. However, the case shown in FIG. 3 is preferred in order to achieve a more uniform appearance of the foot space 12 when the foot mat 18 is removed. The loop pile fabric 36 can in this case correspond in its shape, color and/or height H to the shape, color and/or height H of the carpet 22.

[0045] FIG. 4 shows the foot mat arrangement 14 with the floor unit 16 and the foot mat 18 in the section B-B according to FIG. 1. It can be seen from FIG. 4 that the first hook-and-loop element 24b is indirectly connected to the floor element 26. The carpet 22 is fastened to the floor element 26, in particular, welded and/or glued. An attachment 44 of the floor unit 16 is fastened to the carpet 22, here welded and/or glued. To form a particularly reliable connection between the carpet 22 and the attachment 44, carpet fibers 30 can be shortened in the region of the connection or can be removed, as shown in FIG. 4.

[0046] The attachment 44 is preferably made of plastic. The first hook-and-loop element 24b is attached to the attachment 44 with a material bond, in particular, by a welded connection 46. The first hook-and-loop element 24b can be connected to a corresponding second hook-and-loop element 32b.

[0047] The first hook-and-loop element 24b projects beyond the carpet 22. This can facilitate setting up the hook-and-loop connection 20a, b (see FIG. 1) between the foot mat 18 and the floor unit 16 via the hook-and-loop elements 32b, 24b.

[0048] In FIG. 5, a variant of a foot mat arrangement 14 is shown in the view according to FIG. 3. A first hook-and-loop element 24a is attached directly to a floor element 26 of the floor unit 16 with a material bond, here by a welded connection 28. A carpet 22 is recessed in the region of the first hook-and-loop element 24a. The height H of the first hook-and-loop element 24a corresponds to the height H of the carpet 22.

[0049] A second hook-and-loop element 32a has mushroom-shaped elements 48. The material of the mushroom-shaped elements 48 can correspond to the material of the hook-shaped elements 40 described in FIG. 3.

[0050] FIG. 6 shows a variant of a foot mat arrangement 14 in the view according to FIG. 4. A first hook-and-loop element 24b is attached to an attachment 44 with a material bond, here by a welded connection 46. The carpet 22 is recessed in the region of the attachment 44. The attachment 44 is attached directly to a floor element 26 of the floor unit 16. A second hook-and-loop element 32b has mushroom-shaped elements 48 analogous to the variant described in FIG. 5.

[0051] Taking an overview of all figures of the drawings, the invention relates in summary to a foot mat arrangement 14 with a floor unit 16 and a foot mat 18 that can be fastened to the floor unit 16. The foot mat 18 can be fastened to the floor unit 16 by means of a hook-and-loop connection 20a, b. The hook-and-loop connection 20a, b has a first hook-and-loop element 24a, b which is fastened to the floor unit 16 with a material bond, in particular, by a welded connection 28, 46. The first hook-and-loop element 24a, b can have a loop pile fabric 36. The first hook-and-loop element 24a, b is preferably fastened to an attachment 44. The attachment 44 and/or a carpet 22 can be fastened on a floor element 26 of the floor unit 16, in particular, with a material bond. The invention further relates to a vehicle 10 having such a foot mat arrangement 14 and to a method for producing the floor unit 16 of such a foot mat arrangement 14.

LIST OF REFERENCE SIGNS

[0052] 10 vehicle [0053] 12 foot space of the vehicle [0054] 14 foot mat arrangement [0055] 16 floor unit 18 foot mat [0056] 20a, b hook-and-loop connection between floor unit 16 and foot mat 18 [0057] 22 carpet [0058] 24a, b first hook-and-loop element on the floor unit 16 [0059] 26 floor element [0060] 28 welded connection between floor element 26 and first hook-and-loop element 24a [0061] 30 carpet fibers [0062] 32a, b second hook-and-loop element [0063] 34 foot mat fibers [0064] 36 loop pile fabric [0065] 38 substrate of the first hook-and-loop element 24a, b [0066] 40 hook-shaped elements [0067] 42 substrate of the second hook-and-loop element 32a, b [0068] 44 attachment [0069] 46 welded connection between attachment 44 and first hook-and-loop element 24b [0070] 48 mushroom-shaped elements [0071] H absolute height of the carpet 22 or of the loop pile fabric 36