Land vehicles: bodies and tops inventions 10/07

20070246960 - Latch system for sliding panel in vehicle: A vehicle trim component is disclosed. The vehicle trim component includes a base with a track. A panel movable between a first position and a second position and having at least one guide member at its lateral edge that engages the track as the panel is moved between the first... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070246961 - Cup holder: A cup holder of rotary type has a holder part provided on a back face of a lid body. A support part which is urged so as to move apart from the holder part and pivotally connected to the holder part at its one end will move up and down... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070246962 - Grommet configured for supporting seal strip: A grommet is inserted into a notch in a channel and partially supports a seal strip attached to the channel. The grommet includes a main segment and first and second end segments. The main segment extends from a first end to a second end along a longitudinal axis and has... Agent: Ulmer & Berne, LLP

20070246963 - Vehicle storage structure: A vehicle storage structure includes parallel tracks having a resiliently deformable lid detent configured and arranged to move between a lid latching orientation and a lid releasing orientation. A lid includes track engaging portions disposed on lateral edges of the lid and extending into the tracks for selective sliding movement... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070246964 - Device for displacing a rear hatch of a motor vehicle rear of a motor vehicle and method for closing a rear hatch of a motor vehicle: Back of a motor vehicle with a rear hatch, a rear hatch opening and a device for moving the rear hatch of a motor vehicle between a closed position and an intermediate position. The device has positioning means by which the rear hatch can be moved solely by linear translation... Agent: Roberts, Mlotkowski & Hobbes

20070246965 - Utility ramp and running board system: A utility ramp having a latching feature to attach the utility ramp to steps mounted on the side of a vehicle. The latching feature provides a means for securing the utility ramp to the steps and allows the utility ramp to be used as a vehicle running board. Further, the... Agent: Law Office Of Steven B. Leavitt, L.L.P.

20070246966 - Plastic edge sealing strip and mounting head: A plastic edge sealing strip (10), which can be inserted between a vehicle window (26) and a cooling water reservoir covering, comprises a spring limb (14) and a main limb (12) between which a detent element (40) of the cooling water reservoir covering can be inserted in an arrested manner,... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20070246967 - Exterior accessory module for vehicular modular door: An exterior accessory assembly or module for a vehicle door assembly comprises an exterior rearview mirror and/or door cap assembly, which may further include a cover member, a door handle, window frame, window seal and/or an exterior rearview mirror assembly. The vehicle door assembly includes a door frame, which includes... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn & Burkhart, LLP

20070246968 - Collapsible armrest system with pull cup: A pull cup in a vehicle door is solidly connected to the door inner panel by mechanical fastening. The armrest substrate structure is also solidly connected to the door inner panel by mechanical fastening. The armrest substrate has a pull cup-receiving cavity formed therein as is generally known in the... Agent: Thomas Moga Butzel Long

20070246969 - Vehicle extender: An accessory for a vehicle cab or trailer for directing air flow relative to a downstream or towed trailer has apertures configured to direct some air to the space between the vehicle cab or trailer and the downstream trailer.... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20070246970 - Structural acoustic sound baffle for automotive sheet metal cavity applications: A structural sound baffle is incorporated into a sheet metal subassembly used in the production of an automotive vehicle, such as a pick-up truck. The structural sound baffle is formed in a Z-shaped configuration that has a first flange welded to the inner panel of the internal cavity, while the... Agent: Miller Law Group, PLLC And Ford Global Technologies, Inc.

20070246971 - Front part structure of vehicle body: A front part structure of a vehicle body includes a dashboard upper part attached to right and left damper housings. The dashboard upper part includes a front part positioned forwardly of the vehicle body, and a reinforcing beam member. Jointly with the front part, the reinforcing beam defines a closed... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20070246972 - Metal frame made up of the union of a plurality of extruded elements, and method for its fabrication: A metal frame made up of a plurality of linear bars, which have a constant cross section, are obtained by extrusion, and are joined to one another by means of welding at structural nodes defined by jointing bodies provided with pockets for housing the linear bars. The jointing bodies have... Agent: John A. Artz Artz & Artz

20070246973 - Vehicle roof: In a motor vehicle with a roof opening (12) located in a fixed roof surface (10) and a cover (13) for closing the roof opening, the cover has an at least partially transparent pane (14) and a frame which is connected to the pane and which extends over at least... Agent: Roberts, Mlotkowski & Hobbes

20070241583 - Maneuvering seat for telescopic lifts: In a seat and a maneuvering cabin for telescopic lifts, the seat comprises means for translating, predisposed to translate the seat forwards and backwards along a determined translation direction, and means for rotating, predisposed to rotate the seat about a rotation axis. The maneuvering cabin comprises: a frame for containing... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070241582 - Integrated umbrella holder for vehicle: An umbrella holder for a vehicle is provided, comprising a tube for receiving a collapsed umbrella, wherein the tube may be integrated into an end portion of an instrument panel. The tube may be angled downward and vented for drainage to the outside at a lower end. The upper end... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20070241580 - Swing-out tool chest: A swing-out tool chest provides a multi-drawer tool storage chest for organization of tools. The multi-drawer tool storage chest is pivotally mounted in the rear corner of the pickup bed or near the rear doors of a utility van. When not in use, the swing-out tool chest nestles against the... Agent: James T. Robinson Exclusivity-law, Inc.

20070241581 - Debris deflector for automobile seats and method of using same: The specification discloses a debris deflector for occupying a gap disposed between, and having a shape and a width at least partially defined by, an automobile seat and an adjacent console. The deflector consists essentially of a resiliently deformable material and has a width greater than the width of the... Agent: Young & Basile, P.C.

20070241584 - Independent divan door and drawer assembly: An improved door and drawer assembly for use with a seat on a passenger vehicle. The door and drawer assembly are installed in the passenger vehicle independent of the seat and thus not physically connected to the seat frame. Any load that is applied to the seat frame during movement... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20070241585 - Opening and closing device: An opening and closing device includes an electrically conductive fixed body, a movable body, a drive motor, a speed control device, a detection assembly, and a determining device. The electrically conductive fixed body defines an opening portion therein. The movable body is displaceable between a full closed position and a... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070241586 - Weather panel apparatus for vehicles: A weather panel apparatus for attachment to a vehicle, which apparatus includes a panel retraction frame having a typically spring-loaded roller rotatably mounted by means of roller pins in the frame and a flexible panel having one end attached to the roller and the opposite end of the panel fitted... Agent: John M. Harrison

20070241587 - Reduced weight components for vehicle frame and method of making same: A vehicle frame component, such as a siderail or a cross member, is formed with a generally C-shaped cross section in which the vertical web member has a greatly reduced mass, as compared to a comparable C-channel section of uniform construction. The reduced mass web member has a corresponding reduced... Agent: Joseph J. Jochman Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20070241588 - Reinforcement piece for a bodywork element: A reinforcement piece (10′) for a motor vehicle bodywork element made of plastics material, including an empty space (20) for receiving electrical equipment (22), and means (16) for securing a metal plate (21), preferably by snap-fastening, said means being arranged on the reinforcement piece in such a manner as to... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070236032 - Interior trim for automobile: Provided is an interior trim for an automobile which facilitates adjustment of an anisotropic structure of an armrest. The interior trim for an automobile is provided with an armrest projecting from a trim body which supports the armrest on a surface side of the trim body disposed on a cabin... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070236035 - Truck bed extender/midgate storage system: A bed extender, having a base frame made of a hollow portion, a first open end, and a second open end. The bed extender also includes a first extending frame received by the first open end of the base frame, and a second extending frame received by the second open... Agent: Magna International, Inc.

20070236033 - Remote controlled ladder rack: A Remote controlled electric ladder rack that afford easy removal and replacement of multiple ladders and limited materials above vans and trucks. The Remote controlled electric ladder rack utilizes the vehicles existing electrical supply to transport the multiple ladders from the top of the vehicle to the side horizontally for... Agent: Lennox Newman

20070236034 - Vehicle box apparatus: An extender device having a base frame with two ends. There is at least one extendable arm that extends from one of the ends of the base frame that allows the bed extender to move from a retracted to an extended position. The length of the bed extender can be... Agent: Magna International, Inc.

20070236036 - Articulated component: In an exemplary embodiment, an articulated component is described having a body selectively movable between a stowed position and an extended position. A cover is in mechanical communication with the body, the cover being selectively movable between an open position and a closed position whereby selectively moving the cover into... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070236037 - Body cover structure for seat type vehicle: A body cover structure for a seat type vehicle provides a non-slip portion that can be formed integrally on a floor surface located between the tire housings. In a body cover structure for a seat type vehicle in which a body cover made of resin that covers a body frame... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070236038 - Tailgate structure for receiving supplemental tailgate: A tailgate structural configuration accommodates the housing of a supplemental tailgate internally within the tailgate. The tailgate is formed with an outer panel and an inner panel to define an internal cavity. The upper portion of the tailgate includes a C-channel frame member connected to both the inner and outer... Agent: Miller Law Group, PLLC And Ford Global Technologies, Inc.

20070236039 - Drive mechanism: A hollow axle motor assembly (10) includes an armature (13) and a hollow axle (12) attached to the armature (13). The hollow axle (12) has an outer diameter (14) and an inner diameter (16). The inner diameter (16) of the hollow axle (12) receives a shaft or tube, such as... Agent: Husch & Eppenberger, LLC

20070236041 - Vehicle with reversible cargo space mat arrangement: In a vehicle having a cargo space, a reversible mat is situated at the same level as the retaining rails and/or their cover on the cargo space floor and between the retaining rails of a transport securing system projecting from the cargo space.... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070236040 - Blind me not: This invention is an attachable/detachable, clip on, horizontal automoble sun visor extension which slides open or slides to close. It is simple, yet, when I went to purchase one, I was told that they didn't exist.... Agent: Anthony V. White

20070236042 - Tarping system for open top containers: A relatively lightweight tarping system for use with trailers or other open top containers includes first and second spaced frame members and an elongated flexible member such as a cable or chain connected to and extending therebetween. A tarpaulin may be mounted thereon so that the frame members, flexible member... Agent: Sand & Sebolt

20070236043 - Adjustable vehicle roof: A vehicle roof has at least one roof part coupled to a body-side roof kinematic system to be adjustable between a closed position covering the vehicle interior and a storage position. A cover with a pivoting mount is attached to the roof kinematic system through a coupling kinematic system. The... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070236044 - Air guiding system for a vehicle: An air guiding system for a vehicle, particularly for a passenger car, is arranged in a rear area of the vehicle and has at least one central main air guiding element that can be displaced between a moved-in inoperative position and a moved-out operative position. Lateral auxiliary air guiding elements... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070236045 - Air guiding system for a vehicle: An air guiding system for a vehicle, particularly for a passenger car, is arranged in a rear area of the vehicle and has at least one central main air guiding element that can be displaced between a moved-in inoperative position into a moved-out operative position. Lateral auxiliary air guiding elements... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070236046 - Air guiding system for a vehicle: An air guiding system for a vehicle, particularly for a passenger car, is arranged in a rear area of the vehicle and has a main air guiding element that can be displaced from a moved-in inoperative position into a moved-out operative position. Viewed in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle,... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070236048 - Bonnet bumpstop for a vehicle: A bonnet bumpstop for use on an automotive vehicle is formed with a first component having a support part for supporting a bonnet on the vehicle in the vertical direction during normal operation when the bonnet is closed against the automotive frame, a second component attachable to the vehicle frame,... Agent: Miller Law Group, PLLC And Ford Global Technologies, Inc.

20070236047 - Grille and bonnet assembly for a vehicle: A grille and bonnet assembly is mounted at the forward end of an automotive vehicle. The bonnet is formed with a leading edge and a trailing edge with the leading edge positioned above or at an upper edge of the grille during normal operation of the automotive vehicle when the... Agent: Miller Law Group, PLLC And Ford Global Technologies, Inc.

20070236049 - Modular assembly for a vehicle: There is disclosed a modular assembly and method of forming the assembly. The assembly is particularly suitable as at least part of a rear end of a transportation or automotive vehicle. The assembly preferably includes one or more plastic structure adhesively secured to one or more metal structures.... Agent: Dobrusin & Thennisch PC

20070236050 - Door pillar for a supporting structure: A door pillar for a supporting frame structure of a vehicle body has an upper section which extends from a vehicle roof as far as a vehicle side edge, and a lower section which extends from the vehicle side edge in the direction of a vehicle floor. In order to... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070236051 - Vehicle with layered roof build: The invention contemplates a body structure for a vehicle. The body structure includes a roof panel and a side frame. The attachment flange of an outer body side panel includes a roof mounting portion with a dual angle, a glass mounting portion at an angle that matches one of the... Agent: Laura C. Hargitt General Motors Corporation, Legal Staff

20070236052 - Window deflector mechanism for a vehicle sliding roof system: A wind deflector mechanism for a vehicle sliding roof system includes a wind deflector lever attached to a wind deflector element. The wind deflector lever is attachable to a vehicle and can be swiveled between a home position and a raised position. A raising lever is coupled to the wind... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20070228755 - Vehicle observation apparatus: The present invention is a vehicle observation apparatus for reducing the risk of injury to law enforcement persons during vehicle stops. The invention is also a vehicle equipped with the vehicle observation apparatus. In an embodiment, the apparatus may include a mast being mountable to and deployable from a law... Agent: Hoang Steve Ngo

20070228758 - Vehicle component and sealing member: A vehicle component includes a sealing member that is sandwiched between the vehicle component and a vehicle body to seal a gap between the vehicle component and the vehicle body. The sealing member includes an adhering/separating member that is adhereable to and separable from a wall of the vehicle body,... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070228760 - Wear indicating liner for vehicle bed: A wear indicating liner for a vehicle bed comprises a top layer and a bottom layer made of materials which are visually distinct from each other. As a result when the bottom layer begins to be visible after wear through the top layer there is a visual indication that there... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20070228764 - Motorcycle: A motorcycle having a meter device and a handlebar cover arranged to inhibit damage or the adherence of powder coating to the meter device from the handlebar cover. In one embodiment, a rear cover comprises a peripheral wall, which surrounds an outer periphery of a meter device. At least a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070228757 - Dynamically deconstructable armrest for automotive vehicle: A dynamically deconstructable armrest for an automotive vehicle includes a number of walls extending from a mounting base so as to define a cavity within which arm contact member is seated. Compressive force directed laterally against at least one of the side walls and having a magnitude in excess for... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20070228756 - Crash appropriate vehicle partition: A crash worthy vehicle partition for securely separating the front of a vehicle from the rear of vehicle. The vehicle partition includes upper mounting brackets and lower mounting brackets that allow for limited, rearward motion of the vehicle parrition in the event of a rear-end collision to reduce the crash... Agent: William H. Hollimon

20070228759 - Clamping mechanism for carrier for bicycles and other cargo: A cargo carrier (10) for bicycles removably installable in the bed (B) of a truck (T) has a base plate (12) and a plurality of saddles (14-18) which are attached to the base plate. Each saddle comprises a pair of risers. A clamping mechanism (20) includes a saddle clamp (22)... Agent: Polster, Lieder, Woodruff & Lucchesi

20070228761 - Cargo bed step: A cargo bed step is described including a frame having an upper portion and a lower portion. The frame is disposed proximate a rear portion of a cargo bed. A pivoting mechanism is disposed between an inner surface and the upper portion for selectively pivoting the cargo bed step assembly... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070228762 - Instrument panel with exposed support structure and method of formation: An instrument panel for the passenger compartment of an automotive vehicle, including a support structure and a trim assembly. The trim assembly is disposed over a portion of the support structure so that a trim show portion and a support show portion cooperate to define an instrument panel show surface... Agent: Visteon

20070228763 - Decklid hinge with motor to automate opening and closing: A vehicle decklid displacement mechanism includes a linkage for leveraging displacement of the lid with respect to a vehicle body, an extension strut having spring means biasing the ends of the strut away from each other and a motorized crank. The crank is driven by the motor for pivotal engagement... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070228765 - Electromotive sunvisor assembly of a vehicle and the method thereof: Disclosed is an electromotive sunvisor assembly of a vehicle and a method thereof in which a visor body is automatically movable to the outside of an overhead storage room and can be pivoted at a moving shielding site. The electromotive sunvisor assembly of a vehicle comprises an upper guide bar... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20070228767 - Retractable roof and vehicle therewith: A retractable roof includes a front roof panel, a back roof panel formed by joining outer and inner panel layers to each other, a lower link pivotally connected to a vehicle body member, an upper link pivotally connected to the front roof panel, and an intermediate link rigidly connected to... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070228766 - Roof assembly for vehicles having an open body: A roof assembly for a vehicle includes a roof having roof parts. A rod kinematic system is connected to the roof parts to move the roof parts between a closed position of the roof in which the roof parts adjoin one another along a planar level to thereby cover the... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070228768 - Connector connecting construction, a clamping member and a method of mounting a connector connecting construction: A door handle device (S) has a handle-side connector (30) fixed to a door handle (10) that is hinged to a handle frame (20). Thus, the door handle device (S) is displaceable as the door handle (10) is turned. A frame-side connector (40) is located in the handle frame (20)... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20070228769 - Side impact protection device packaged between inner and outer panels: A side impact protection device for a vehicle packaged between inner and outer panels such as door panels in the door includes a load-bearing member rigidly attached with respect to an inner surface of a side outer panel and extending inward towards a side inner panel. The load-bearing member is... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070228770 - Sealing member and method of installing the same: A sealing member that mitigates oscillating noises and its installation method is provided. In the sealing member for covering an opening formed at a door inner panel, at least one bead is installed at a covering portion facing the opening. Thus, the stiffness of the covering portion of the sealing... Agent: Young & Basile, P.C.

20070228772 - Air guiding system for a vehicle: An air guiding system for a vehicle, particularly for a passenger car, is arranged in a rear area of the vehicle and has at least one central main air guiding element that can be displaced from a moved-in inoperative position into a moved-out operative position. Lateral auxiliary air guiding elements... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070228771 - Air guiding system for a vehicle: An air guiding system for a vehicle, particularly for a passenger car, arranged in a rear area of the vehicle and having at least one central main air guiding element that can be displaced from a moved-in inoperative position into a moved-out operative position. Lateral auxiliary air guiding elements are... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070228773 - Air guiding system for a vehicle: An air guiding system for a vehicle, particularly a passenger car, that is arranged in a rear area of the vehicle and has at least one central main air guiding element displaceable from a moved-in inoperative position into a moved-out operative position. Lateral auxiliary air guiding elements are displaceable together... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070228774 - Air guiding system for a vehicle: A vehicle air guiding system in a rear area of the vehicle has a central air guiding element displaceable between a moved-in inoperative position into a moved-out operative position. Lateral air guiding elements, which are displaceable together with the central air guiding element, are telescopically displaceable relative to the central... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070228775 - Reinforcement plate: A reinforcement plate for a floor pan of a front foot well of an automotive vehicle. The reinforcement plate has impact resistant surfaces for reinforcing the floor pan against impacts in two and preferably three different directions.... Agent: Daimlerchrysler Intellectual Capital Corporation Cims 483-02-19

20070228776 - Deformation element for absorbing lateral impact forces in a lateral region of a motor vehicle: A deformation element for absorbing lateral impact forces in the lateral region of a motor vehicle has at least two hollow chambers disposed one behind another in the direction of action of the lateral impact forces. An axial extension of which is in each case oriented at right angles to... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070228777 - Roof inner body structure: A roof structure for a vehicle can include a tailor-welded-blank, inner roof frame. The inner roof frame can include, at least in part, an elongated, transversely extending, intermediate roof rail having a first material thickness, and a plurality of reinforced roof rails. Each of the reinforced roof rails can extend... Agent: Young & Basile, P.C.

20070228778 - Concealment device for vehicle roofs with at least one transparent part: This invention consists of a concealment device for vehicle roofs consisting of two parts: a moving cross member and the concealment element itself. Both are connected by a temporary joint such that they can be moved together as a single body or can be separated to allow them to move... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20070228779 - Sliding roof system: A sliding roof system includes at least one guide rail, a cover support, and a carriage that can be shifted in the guide rail and with which the cover support is connected. The sliding roof system includes a locking element that is able to engage the cover support and can... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.