Land vehicles: bodies and tops inventions 10/09

20090243319 - Self-actuating devices: A self-actuating device includes a member in physical communication with a vehicle surface and an actuator. The member is configured to have at least a first form and a second form, wherein one of the first form and the second form is configured to stow the member and the other... Agent: Quinn Law Group, PLLC

20090243320 - Independently adjustable chassis skirt mounting assembly: A chassis skirt mounting assembly (110) for a vehicle having a tank (14) and a chassis skirt (16) includes a tank strap bracket (120) attached to the tank, the tank strap bracket having a first adjustment slot (130) with a first length dimension. An adjustment bracket (122) is attached to... Agent: International Truck Intellectual Property Company,

20090243321 - Tonneau cover apparatus for an automobile: A tonneau cover apparatus for an automobile including a baggage compartment, a baggage compartment opening, and a gate which covers the baggage compartment opening to be openable is provided. The tonneau cover apparatus includes a cover member extending from a position spaced apart from the baggage compartment opening toward the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090243322 - Vehicle cargo space liner with snap-connected extension: A snap fastener has female and male snaps. The female snap, and in one embodiment the male snap, are thermoformed from sheets of thermoplastic material having a uniform thickness, in integration with the objects which the snaps are provided to join. In one use, an array of spaced-part fasteners is... Agent: Momkus Mccluskey, LLC

20090243323 - Storable seat for vehicle: One aspect of the invention includes a seat movable in a front-rear direction between an in-use position and a stored position. The seat is moved in the front-rear direction via a link. The link is coupled pivotally in the front-rear direction. One end of the link is coupled to a... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090243324 - Dual latch second row dump and tumble sent with offsetting free pivot seatback and floor latches: An improved seat assembly in which the first and second pairs of seatback and floor mounted latches associated with first and second sides of prior dump and tumble assemblies are substituted by an improved design incorporating a single reinforced lock and release seatback latch and either a single or pair... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20090243325 - Vehicle seat assembly and method for use thereof: A seat row assembly is provided, having a first rail and a first seat movably connected to the first rail. A second seat is moveable between a first position and a second position, such that the second seat in its second position does not occupy the same space as in... Agent: Quinn Law Group, PLLC

20090243326 - Electrically operated seat slide apparatus: An electrically operated seat slide apparatus includes a lower rail fixed to a floor of a vehicle body, and an upper rail slidably disposed to the lower rail. A seat is connected to the upper rail. A screw shaft is disposed inside the upper rail. A nut is threadedly connected... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090243327 - Feeding apparatus: A feeding apparatus includes a screw shaft, a feeding nut, a supporting member, a driving unit, an intermediate member supported by the screw shaft and arranged to be rotatable relative to the supporting member, and an elastic biasing mechanism. The intermediate member includes a radial sliding contact surface slidably contacting... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090243328 - Vehicle footrest container: A vehicle footrest, such as a floorboard or footpeg, comprising a container or compartment adapted for attaching to a vehicle, such as a motorcycle or other recreational vehicle, is disclosed. The footrest may be used to support a rider's foot and ankle, while providing a rider with a convenient container... Agent: Terrence J. Edwards Clayton, Howarth & Cannon, P.C.

20090243329 - Passenger vehicle trunk structure: A passenger vehicle trunk structure is provided with a trunk lid, a vehicle body, a hinge arrangement and a tool free hinge release mechanism. The vehicle body defines an interior cargo area with an exterior trunk access opening. The hinge arrangement is pivotally coupling the trunk lid to the vehicle... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20090243330 - Sun visor with plastic mirror: A sun visor, comprising at least one mirror surface integrated in the sun visor body is proposed, wherein the sun visor body comprises a receiver for at least one mirror. The mirror comprises a support made of plastic glass, wherein guide elements for means for concealing the at least one... Agent: Reising Ethington P.C.

20090243331 - Tonneau cover cargo containment track rail system: A tonneau cover cargo containment track rail system including a cargo hold down and at least one tonneau cover rail. The cargo hold down has a base portion and a handle portion. The handle portion is operably attached to the base portion for movement between an engaged position and a... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20090243332 - Safety window in foldable cab door: In combination, a foldable door assembly and sliding window assembly for vehicles is disclosed. The combination allows the driver of the vehicle to see through the window assembly, open it, and adjust a rearview mirror allowing operation of the vehicle with the foldable door to be in the closed position.... Agent: Vedder Price P.C.

20090243333 - Passenger vehicle rear end structure: A passenger vehicle rear end structure is provided with a vehicle body and a rear window. The vehicle body includes a vehicle interior area, a roof portion overlying the vehicle interior area, a pair of rear pillars and a rear body portion adjoined to a rear part of the roof... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20090243334 - Air deflector: The present disclosure relates to an air deflector, adapted to be attached to the upper windshield crossbeam of a convertible vehicle. The air deflector includes a top surface, a front portion, an outer side portion, an inner side portion and a rear wing portion. The rear wing portion extends upwards... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20090243335 - Trailer floor: A floor for a trailer, the floor comprising a plurality of cells, each of the cells having a top plate, a bottom plate, and a plurality of parallel vertical members extending between the top plate and bottom plate, the cells being welded to adjacent cells and to longitudinally extending beams.... Agent: Eric Fincham

20090243336 - Frame structure of automotive vehicle: A reinforcement member is provided inside a frame member at a space which includes a bend portion operative to bend in such a manner that the reinforcement member comes to contact an inner face of an inside side face portion of the frame member as the frame member bends at... Agent: Studebaker & Brackett PC

20090243337 - Frame with closed cross-section: There is provided a frame having closed cross-sections capable of preventing a welded joint of the frame from being turned in a wide open state, or being broken when an external force is applied to the frame at the time of vehicle collision, and so forth, and the frame is... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090243338 - Operator's section construction for work vehicle: An operator's section construction for a work vehicle includes an operating device mounted on a vehicle body, a driver's seat mounted on the operating deck, a first operating device provided on one of right and left sides of the operating deck and a second operating device provided on the other... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20090243339 - Net structures, vehicles including net structures, and methods: A vehicle includes a roll cage and a net structure. The roll cage at least partially defines a protected area and additionally at least partially defines an access opening configured to facilitate passage of an operator through the access opening and into the protected area. A net structure is attached... Agent: Ulmer & Berne, LLP Attn: Diane Bell

20090243340 - Front bumper face: A system and method for temporarily attaching an accessory component such as a fog light cover, to a vehicle body panel prior to a painting operation are described. The system and method eliminate the need for jigs or other support structures typically used to support the accessory during painting of... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20090243341 - Garnish for vehicle, having u-shaped recessed portion, which is integrally formed along edge in longitudinal direction: A garnish for a vehicle, which has a long form made of a resin material, and is attached to a member of the body of the vehicle. A recessed portion having a substantially U-shaped section is integrally formed at an edge of a main body of the garnish in the... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20090243342 - Passenger vehicle rear end structure: A passenger vehicle rear end structure is provided with a vehicle body, a rear body panel and connection arrangement. The vehicle body includes an interior cargo area having a rear exterior trunk access opening and a rear exterior body surface. The rear body panel is movably with respect to the... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20090243343 - Vehicle lower body structure: A vehicle lower body structure (1) including a vehicle compartment; a windshield pillar (3) that is provided at the side portion the vehicle and that extends in the vehicle-height direction; a rocker (4) that is connected, at the front end portion, to the lower end portion of the windshield pillar... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090243344 - Roof assembly for a vehicle and method of operating same: A roof assembly comprises a closure moveable at least between a closed position closing the roof opening in the fixed roof of the vehicle and an open position in which the closure is slid under the fixed roof and at least partially opening the roof opening. A drain channel is... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.