Land vehicles: bodies and tops inventions 09/08

20080231063 - Accessory holder for use in vehicles: A holder for a personal accessory such as a purse, handbag or the like is specially adapted for suspension between the seatbacks of a vehicle having individual (or split) seats. A bag-type body, open on a generally upper edge, is supported by two straps configured for adjustable attachment to the... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20080231064 - Vehicle cargo bed structure and multi-purpose cargo bed accessory: A vehicle cargo bed structure includes a vehicle cargo area including a bed floor, a front cargo wall, a first side cargo wall and a second side cargo wall, each having at least one accessory attachment track fixedly attached thereto. A multi-purpose vehicle cargo bed accessory is configured and arranged... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080231065 - Interchangeable module for an object-holding drawer of a dashboard of a motor vehicle and object-holding drawer fitted with such interchangeable module: A module for an object-holding drawer of a dashboard of a motor vehicle can be chosen from a plurality of different modules for accommodating different objects and is provided with a container connected in a fixed position and in an interchangeable manner to a shell by means of an attachment... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080231066 - Flatbed tool drawers: The present invention is a flatbed tool drawer system for mounting on a flatbed truck. The system of the present invention includes a rectangular flatbed surface, protective guard extending vertically upward from the front of the flatbed surface, a compartment assembly extending vertically downward from the rear of the flatbed... Agent: Charles Peeler

20080231067 - Retractable tailgate barrier and accessory systems: A tailgate barrier system designed to maintain cargo within the cargo bed of a transport vehicle when the tailgate of the vehicle's cargo bed is lowered. The barrier stores within a storage compartment in or on the tailgate of a vehicle, and extends linearly upward from the storage compartment for... Agent: Stoneman Volk Patent Group

20080231068 - Method and suspension apparatus for suspending an object in a vehicle: A method and suspension apparatus for suspending an object in a vehicle. The vehicle having inner surfaces including a lower surface and an upper surface, comprising an object and a suspension apparatus adapted for holding the object in a suspended position in the vehicle. The suspension apparatus comprising an elongated... Agent: Nath & Associates

20080231069 - Side roll up tarpaulin system for a flatbed trailer: The invention relates to a side lifting/closing tarpaulin system for a flatbed trailer, the trailer having an elongated platform having front and rear ends, sides, a pair of bulkheads of similar construction extending upwardly from the platform at its front and rear ends, and a plurality of tarpaulin supporting beams... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080231071 - Durable soft-top vehicle cover: A durable soft-top cover used to cover the passenger compartment of a vehicle. The durable soft-top cover includes a rigid member that prevents the annoying and turbulent flapping of the soft-top at high rates of speed when the vehicle velocity and wind speed is increased. The durable soft-top cover is... Agent: Robert Z. Evora

20080231070 - Movable closeout device for a convertible roof: The present invention provides a movable closeout device or closeout panel for a convertible roof that attaches to the rear bow of the roof and moves up and down with the rear bow as the convertible roof retracts or extends. The closeout device may be a substantially rigid panel such... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080231072 - Vehicle roof of a convertible with displaceable rear window: The invention relates to a vehicle roof of a convertible having a front roof part (2) and a rear roof part (3) that contains the rear window (14) and is hingedly connected to the vehicle body. Front and rear roof part are connected to one another in an articulated manner... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080231073 - Clamping arrangement for a soft top header for a sport utility or other vehicle: A clamping arrangement for removably securing an elongated header for a vehicle soft top to the windshield frame of a sport utility or other vehicle. The arrangement includes first and second clamp sections. The first section is fixedly attached to the header and the second section is pivotally mounted or... Agent: Dorr, Carson & Birney, P.C. One Cherry Center

20080231074 - Door opening and closing apparatus for vehicle: A door opening and closing apparatus for a vehicle includes a first hinge base adapted to be mounted to a vehicle body, a second hinge base adapted to be mounted to a vehicle door, a four-link hinge including a first hinge arm and a second hinge arm for connecting the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080231075 - Vehicle multi-purpose cargo bed accessory: A multi-purpose vehicle cargo bed accessory includes a central body portion, a first lateral body portion and a mounting structure. The first lateral body portion is rigidly connected along a first lateral edge of the central body portion to form a generally T-shaped transverse cross section with the central body... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080231076 - Vehicle structure: A vehicle side panel step structure includes a step, a mounting structure and a sub-side body panel. The mounting structure movably couples the step to the structural support for movement of the step between a retracted step position and an extended step position relative to a structural support of the... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080231077 - Wireless-equipped vehicle: A wireless-equipped vehicle includes a vehicle body made of a metal and including a ceiling, a main body and a pillar connecting the ceiling and the main body, the pillar having a side face, an interior wireless device located in the vehicle body to receive radio waves from outside the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080231078 - Vehicle body side structure: A vehicle body side structure, which includes: a pillar having a closed cross section formed by jointing a pillar inner panel and an outer panel; a vehicle interior side face, on which an opening is disposed, of the pillar; a seat belt retractor to be arranged inside the pillar by... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20080231079 - Removable chassis skirt: The invention is a chassis skirt for a motor vehicle's chassis. The chassis skirt has a panel assembly that releasably engages a frame assembly. The frame assembly mounts to a chassis, such as to a chassis mounted bracket like a battery box. The frame assembly has spaced apart bracket assemblies... Agent: International Truck Intellectual Property Company,

20080231080 - Structure of rear portion of car body: A partition panel extends in a first direction to partition a passenger room from a trunk room in the rear portion of the car body and is provided with an opening. A floor panel extends in a second direction which is different from the first direction. Upper attaching portions respectively... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080231081 - Forward structure for a motor vehicle: In the case of a front structure of a motor vehicle two cross members are connected to one another by means of a longitudinal beam. One of the attachments of the longitudinal beam is displaceable by an amount X in the direction of travel and has an adapter made from... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (gme)

20080231082 - Wheel housing liner: A vehicle (20) includes a wheel housing (22) defining a wheel well (24). A liner (32) is disposed in the wheel well (24) and extends in an arcuate path about and spaced radially from a wheel (26). The liner (32) is of a polymer and includes a rubber dispersed therein... Agent: Harold W. Milton, Jr. Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080231083 - Door system, door sub-system and a vehicle provided with a door system: a track system is provided, for moving the door leaf in two phases, wherein the track system in the first phase, by rotating around the rotation axis, moves in particular the second side outward, and in the second phase determines a displacement of the door leaf by a displacement of... Agent: ShewchukIPServices

20080231084 - Vehicle front end structure: A vehicle front end structure is provided with a vehicle body frame forming a frontward portion of a vehicle, a longitudinal acceleration sensor, a frontward vehicle component, a rearward extending part and a bracket. The frontward vehicle component is disposed to protrude farther forward than the vehicle body frame. The... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080231085 - Motor vehicle: A motor vehicle, especially a cabriolet vehicle, with a motor vehicle chassis is provided to whose underbody area at least two reinforcing struts are allocated, each of which trends from a chassis attachment with a component in the direction of a vertical longitudinal mid-plane. A connection support is provided free... Agent: Quinn Law Group, PLLC

20080231086 - Motor vehicle body with an adapter carrier for a roof module, accompanying adapter carrier, as well as a method for its manufacture: The present invention proposes a motor vehicle body with a roof-carrying frame (13), upon which an adapter carrier (7) is placed and secured for holding roof windows, sliding roofs, roof opening systems and/or roof module variants, and an adapter carrier (7) suitable for installation in a motor vehicle body according... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (gme)

20080224492 - Integrated car top carrier: A cargo carrier integrated a vehicle roof such that the cargo carrier is deployable from a stowed position within the vehicle roof to a deployed position that extends from the vehicle roof. The cargo carrier includes a bottom panel disposed within a recess formed in the vehicle roof, and a... Agent: Daimlerchrysler Intellectual Capital Corporation Cims 483-02-19

20080224493 - Storage and access device for a truck: A container is disclosed for a pickup truck. The container is formed as a box positioned upon the sides of the pickup truck. The sides of the container open upward to allow easy access to the interior of the compartment. Trays may be positioned within the container which can be... Agent: Law Office Of Brett N. Dorny

20080224494 - Tailgate spring assist assembly: A spring assist raising assembly includes a pivot pin with a noncircular cross section which is mounted to either a pivoted panel, such as a tailgate, or a stationary member, such as a vehicle body adjacent the tailgate. A spring-loaded rotatable socket is rotatably mounted to the other of the... Agent: Price Heneveld Cooper Dewitt & Litton, LLP

20080224495 - Topper with retractable door for pickup trucks: A pickup truck topper is provided that has a retractable rear door that can be stored in a closed position and an open position. In the open position the topper rear door is stored in a horizontal position just under the roof of the topper. In the closed position the... Agent: Peter Greenwood

20080224496 - Folding top for a cabriolet vehicle: A folding top for a cabriolet vehicle, that includes a first roof part which is embodied as a rigid shell element, a second roof part which is embodied as a rigid shell element, and a forced control unit. The first roof part and the second roof part are pivotable relative... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20080224497 - Articulating soft top convertible backlite: An automotive convertible top is provided having a side bow which in a storage position is placed on top of a forward folding backlite bow. In a preferred embodiment, the convertible top stores on top of a rear storage area of a vehicle in a small space.... Agent: Warn, Hoffmann, Miller & Lalone, .p.c

20080224498 - Adjustable arm rest: An adjustable vehicle arm rest comprising a body; a spring-biased adjustable arm rest slidably engaging the body; and a flexible attachment portion coupled to the body and adapted to securely engage a vehicle door through tooth-like grips. Alternatively, covers can be adapted to removably fit over the arm rest or,... Agent: Plager Law Offices

20080224499 - Clutch mechanism for power device: A clutch mechanism of the present power device comprises a fixed gear member, a moving gear member engaged with the fixed gear member when moving to a clutch connecting position, an armature for moving the moving gear member to the clutch connecting position when rotated relatively to the moving gear... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080224500 - Vehicle body composed of at least two prefabricated modules, and method for the production thereof: A motor vehicle body can be manufactured economically and assembled without any problem from prefabricated modules. This is resolved in that the modules are connected to one another in a non-detachable manner in a joint zone, such that a sheet of the one module coming into contact in the joint... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20080224501 - Invisible division bar modular assembly: A surround molding module incorporates an invisible division bar assembly. The invisible division bar includes a support or glass encapsulation that does not extend outwardly beyond the plane of the exterior surface of fixed and movable windows of the vehicle. It provides a butt joint between these window edges. The... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20080224502 - Vehicle front structure: A middle branch frame portion is configured such that a front end portion is connected to a front side frame via s suspension-frame attaching bolt to fasten a suspension frame, a middle portion extends to a tunnel portion that is provided at the center portion in the vehicle width direction... Agent: Studebaker & Brackett PC

20080224503 - Vehicle roof: The invention relates to a vehicle roof, which comprises at least two rigid roof sections, which can be displaced between a closed position that covers the vehicle interior and a storage position that exposes the vehicle interior and which are arranged one behind the other in the longitudinal direction in... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080217941 - Active material enabled self-presenting devices: A self-presenting device includes, a member in physical communication with a vehicle surface, wherein the member is configured to have a first form and a second form, wherein the first form is configured to store the member and the second form is configured to present the member, and an active... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080217942 - Handle for vehicle door: An handle assembly for a vehicle door and method of actuating a release mechanism, such as a door latch, are disclosed. The handle assembly may have a pull handle including a sliding leg, a pivot leg and a hand gripping portion extending between the sliding leg and the pivot leg,... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080217943 - Skin materials joined portion fixing construction for skin covered article: A center console 20 is formed by covering a console main body 35 by a skin main body 31 having a joined portion 37 where end portions of an upper surface skin material 31a and a side surface skin material 31b are joined together. On the skin main body 31,... Agent: Posz Law Group, Plc

20080217944 - Truck cargo bed management system: A cargo bed management system for dividing or extending a bed of a motor vehicle. The cargo bed management system includes a main panel having a length approximately equal to a width of the bed, and a pair of side panels hingedly connected to the main panel so that the... Agent: Daimlerchrysler Intellectual Capital Corporation Cims 483-02-19

20080217945 - Expandable truck bed: A truck bed assembly within which the width dimension of the bed's cargo space can be selectively adjusted, the assembly including laterally movable sidewalls that are constructed so as to widen the bed floor surface as they are moved outward as well as a laterally expandable tailgate that lengthens and... Agent: Invention Protection Associates, Llc

20080217946 - Linkage slide-out mechanism for a vehicle: Side-mounted linkage slide-out mechanisms move a slide-out section of a vehicle linearly from a retracted position within an interior of the vehicle to an extended position outward of the vehicle interior. Pivotal scissor linkage assemblies are driven by a linear actuator to pivot about one or more moving pivots mounted... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080217947 - Recreational vehicle roofing system: A roof system for a mobile occupancy structure having a roof substrate and a roof member mounted to the mobile occupancy structure may include a roof membrane having at least one thermoplastic vulcanizate (TPV) membrane layer affixed to the roof substrate. The roof system may also include a sealant disposed... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn & Burkhart, LLP

20080217948 - Tailgate lift assembly: A tailgate lifting assembly. The assembly comprises two components housed in separate enclosures. A first component includes a pair of vertically arranged pulleys and is secured proximate a top edge of the tailgate. A second component is laterally disposed adjacent a side edge of the vehicle, which in the case... Agent: Alfred F. Hoyte, Jr.

20080217949 - Powered tailgate ramp: A tailgate ramp for a vehicle is driven up and down by a rotary drive system that engages a hinge plate. The prime mover of the system is a two way electric motor that drives the hinge plate through a gear reduction, and can be placed away from the gate... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080217950 - Visor assembly incorporating an electronic control module: A visor assembly configured for use in a passenger compartment of a vehicle includes a first wall defining an inner surface and an outer surface including a channel formed therein and a bezel provided on the inner surface of the first wall cooperating with the channel. A second wall cooperates... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.c. / Lear Corporation

20080217951 - Vehicle visor with auxiliary sunshade and adjustable slat: The vehicle visor with an auxiliary sunshade includes a sunshade, which is slidably mounted to a vehicle visor so that when the vehicle visor is in a lowered position, the sunshade may be selectively lowered to block environmental light beyond a lower edge of the vehicle visor. The sunshade may... Agent: Litman Law Offices, Ltd.

20080217952 - Device for manipulating a tarpaulin: A device for manipulating a tarpaulin so as to selectively cover and uncover a top aperture of a container the device being usable in combination with an actuator providing a rotational motion, the device comprising: a rod for rolling the tarpaulin therearound and for unrolling the tarpaulin therefrom; a rod... Agent: Louis Tessier

20080217953 - Tarp connector system and method of using same: The invention consists of a system for connecting tarps to a vehicle, comprising: a) bows for supporting tarps, the bows comprised of: i) one or more tarp connectors, each of the tarp connectors having a pair of channels for accepting a support pole and ii) one or more corner connectors... Agent: Lang Michener

20080217954 - Convertible with a roof which can be stored in a folding-top compartment: A convertible vehicle has a vehicle body with a passenger compartment defined therein and a rear region with a top storage well defined therein. A retractable roof is movable between a closed position extending over the passenger compartment and a stowed position in the top storage well. The top storage... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20080217956 - Motor vehicle and door lock for a door of a motor vehicle: The present invention relates to a motor vehicle having a driver door, a passenger door, and two rear doors. Each of the doors has an internal opening device for opening the corresponding door from the interior of the motor vehicle using an assigned electrical drive, and an external opening device... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.c. (gme)

20080217955 - Vehicle door auxiliary latch release: An auxiliary latch release assembly, and method of operation, for use with a vehicle having a body defining a cargo area, a door, and a door latch mounted in the door and including an auxiliary latch release is disclosed. The assembly may comprise a handle that is accessible in the... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080217957 - Aerodynamic forebody shape for van trailer: An aerodynamic forebody device is provided for use with a tractor-trailer combination vehicle to be installed on the front of the semi-trailer. By optimizing the inclination angle of the top surface of the aerodynamic forebody device, aerodynamic drag is minimized. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply... Agent: International Truck Intellectual Property Company,

20080217958 - Support apparatus for a shell piece of an automobile vehicle, system comprising the support apparatus, and fixation method of the support apparatus: The rib support (32) is for being applied against an inside face of a bodywork skin (12) in the vicinity of at least one orifice (28) provided through said skin (12) for passing a rib (26) of a fitting (14) that is to be fitted onto a visible outside face... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080217959 - Pedestrian protection apparatus for vehicle: A pedestrian protection apparatus for a vehicle, including: a plate member, which includes front and rear portions, and which is fixed at the rear portion to the vehicle; and at least one reinforcing bead each formed integrally on the front portion of the plate member and each including a bead-extending... Agent: Burr & Brown

20080217960 - Reinforcing component: A lengthwise extended component contains of a support that possesses flow channels in the direction of its longitudinal axis. The support additionally possesses external surfaces that are offset to each other in the direction of the longitudinal axis as well as a lateral external surface. These external surfaces are provided... Agent: Henkel Corporation

20080217961 - Fiber reinforced polypropylene composite front end modules: A fiber reinforced polypropylene composite front end module. The front end module includes a radiator mounting frame molded from a composition comprising at least 30 wt % polypropylene based resin, from 10 to 60 wt % organic fiber, from 0 to 40 wt % inorganic filler, and from 0 to... Agent: Exxonmobil Research & Engineering Company

20080217962 - Apparatus and method for configuring a dual rack-mountable chassis: A method of configuring a rack-mountable chassis is provided. The method includes measuring a length and width of a card module slot of the chassis, a first opening width of a first rack for housing the chassis, and a second opening width of a second rack for housing the chassis,... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella (tellabs)

20080217963 - Ventilation crossmember for a motor vehicle: An aeraulic crossmember for a motor vehicle includes a beam (12) in the form of a section forming a channel (13) along the length of the beam. The aforementioned channel is equipped with an opening (14) on one of the side faces thereof and contains a duct (15) which is... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080217964 - Drain structure of roof panel: A roof panel attached to a roof of a vehicle so that the roof panel can be tilted up, and a wind lip provided in peripheral edge portion of the lower surface of the roof panel. The wind lip projects toward the inside of the vehicle. Further, a drain groove... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20080217965 - Plasma wind deflector for a sunroof: A wind deflector for a sunroof. The wind deflector includes a first electrode proximate an edge of a sunroof opening. A second electrode is proximate the first electrode. An insulator is intermediate the first and second electrodes. A power supply is coupled to the first and second electrodes. An electrical... Agent: Eley Law Firm Co.

20080211247 - Cargo rack for pickup truck: A pickup truck cargo rack is designed for easy mounting to and removal from a truck bed. The cargo rack is adjustable such that cargo support members may be raised to carry large items such as boats, kayaks, lumber, pipe, etc. The cargo support members may also be lowered such... Agent: John H. Lynn

20080211248 - Ambulance cot with pinch safety feature: An ambulance cot is disclosed and the ambulance cot has, if desired, a wheel supported base and a litter raisable and lowerable by a powered elevating mechanism oriented between the base and the litter. The ambulance cot also has wireless communication capability to facilitate communication between the ambulance cot and... Agent: Flynn, Thiel, Boutell & Tanis, P.C.

20080211249 - System for attaching an article holding assembly to a mounting member in a vehicle: An article holding assembly for a vehicle that is attachable to a mounting member may include a housing and a first latching member including a locking member. The article holding assembly may also include a second latching member that is moveable with respect to the housing between first and second... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C. Intl. Automotive Components Group

20080211250 - Storage box structure in motorcycle and method of mounting storage box: A motorcycle includes a body frame having at least a pair of right and left or front and rear frame members with a storage box that is open upward between the pairing frame members. A riding seat covers the opening end of the storage box from above. The storage box... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080211252 - Method and apparatus for repairing bed-liner coatings: A method of repairing a vehicle bed-liner includes depositing a two-component patching material into the defect and placing a template having a design surface over the defect in the bed-liner, with the design surface facing the defect. A rigid backing plate can be placed over the template. The template is... Agent: Ppg Industries Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080211251 - Waterbed bedliner for use with a pickup-style vehicle: A combination bed liner and fluid retaining unit adapted for mounting within a truck bed in order to selectively ballast the bed. A top cover exhibits a substantially planar base from which extend a pair of sides and an interconnecting rear. A bottom cover exhibits a substantially planar base and... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20080211253 - Nonwoven panel and method of construction thereof: A nonwoven material and method of construction thereof from post consumer mixed Asian cardboard for forming structural and/or acoustic and/or thermal panels. The method includes providing post consumer mixed Asian cardboard and comminuting the cardboard into pieces of a predetermined size. Further, combining the reduced sized cardboard pieces with heat... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080211254 - Tailgate: Disclosed is a tailgate, especially for a vehicle, comprising a platform (1) which is joined to a lifting/lowering mechanism (11) via at least one arm (2.1, 2.2). The platform (1) forms a rotary shaft (A) along with the support arm (2.1, 2.2) while the support arm (2.1, 2.2) forms a... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20080211255 - Front windshield support structure of a vehicle: In a front windshield support structure of a vehicle, a windshield support 17 supports the lower end of a front windshield 18 in the upper portion of a reinforcing part 16 of a dashboard upper part 14. The windshield support 17 includes a front-side member 21 and a rear-side member... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20080211256 - Slidable visor assembly: A visor assembly includes a visor body, a support rod, and a slide mechanism coupled to the visor body that slidably engages the support rod. The slide mechanism includes a slide member having a plurality of extensions that are biased toward the support rod.... Agent: Andrew E. Rawlins Foley & Lardner LLP

20080211257 - Upper cover support structure for an automobile rear loading platform: A support structure for an upper cover of an automobile rear loading platform, which is installed on two sides between a rear end portion of an automobile rear loading platform and an upper cover of the rear loading platform, wherein a base mount is fixed to a bottom plate of... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080211258 - Door handle reinforcement plate: A door handle reinforcement plate that is positioned on the inner surface of a vehicle door. The plate is mounted using the fasteners of the existing door handle. The door handle reinforcement plate adds strength and rigidity to the vehicle door to prevent the vehicle door from flexing or distorting... Agent: Neil Anton Jenks

20080211259 - Teardrop travel trailer: The teardrop travel trailer has an airfoil shape with a leading edge region at the front, a trailing edge region at the rear, two relatively flat opposite sides, and a superior surface extending from the leading edge region to the trailing edge region, the superior surface being deployable into a... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20080211260 - Means and methods to reduce drags: A drag reduction mean which consists a duct and a support mean which duct can reflect passed through flows and which is mounted on one end of the support mean which another end can be mounted on an object which can move in a fluid; the length of the support... Agent: Chih-yu Hsia

20080211261 - Air-guiding device of a vehicle: The invention relates to an air-guiding device (10) of a vehicle (1), comprising a spoiler (12) fastened to a spoiler base (14), and an adjusting device (20) for adjusting the spoiler base (14) between an inoperative position, in which the spoiler (12) is essentially situated within the vehicle contour (3),... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080211262 - Butt joint for trailer side wall: A butt joint assembles side panels of a side wall of a trailer to the base rail of the trailer. The butt joint positions the side panels over the base rail and vertically aligns the outer surfaces of the side panels and the base rail, which provides for an improved... Agent: Trexler, Bushnell, Giangiorgi, Blackstone & Marr, Ltd.

20080211263 - Quick release cargo net for convertible vehicle: An apparatus for attaching a cargo restraint system to the incorporated rollbar of a motor vehicle with convertible or removable top. By utilizing this existing portion of the vehicle, added cargo retention can be provided for, by attaching an apparatus around said rollbar extending around the rear perimiter of the... Agent: Scott Ervin

20080211264 - Reinforcement plate for a b column of a vehicle body: A B column of a motor vehicle having a high strength and rigidity in the attachment area of door hinges and door locks and able to protect the occupants of the vehicle in the event of a side crash is provided. The B column includes a reinforcement plate, which extends... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080211265 - Suspension mounting crossmember with integrated cab mounts for vehicle having front multilink suspension: A three piece belly-band crossmember is provided which may be installed as a single assembly and from which the center subassembly may be removed after installation, allowing access to the vehicle powertrain. The crossmember maintains integral strength as a result of a tab and slot arrangement and overlapping frame mounting... Agent: International Truck Intellectual Property Company,

20080211266 - Blind device comprising a damping mechanism: Uncontrolled take-up of a shade and often unexpected noise development are perceived as disturbing by the operator. Therefore, it is provided that a shade arrangement with a length of shade material (10) and a take-up roll (12) to which the length of shade material is attached and which is pretensioned... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C.