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Land vehicles: bodies and tops July category listing 07/10

20100187847 - Automotive interior bamboo trim structures: The present invention provides a variety of interior trim structures for use within a passenger compartment of a motorized vehicle. Each interior trim structure includes a structure body configured to attach to the vehicle. The structure body has at least one exterior wall that is visible to occupants of the... Agent: Quinn Law Group, PLLC

20100187848 - Bus stretcher conversion kit: A framework for supporting stretchers and method of assembling includes a sub-frame having an adjustable length header bar assembly and adjustable height outer frame legs connected to opposing ends of the header bar assembly. A secondary stretcher support is positioned laterally interior of and parallel with each outer frame leg,... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group, LLP

20100187849 - Vertical cargo box extender for compact pickup trucks and similar vehicles: A vehicle bed assembly includes a vehicle bed having a floor and first and second side walls, wherein the first and second side walls include a top portion with a cavity. At least one compartment is disposed below the floor of the vehicle bed. First and second rails are extendably... Agent: Price, Heneveld, Cooper, Dewitt & Litton, LLP Fgtl

20100187850 - Compact seating arrangement: A compact seating arrangement for a vehicle, the seating arrangement comprising three seats: a front driver's seat arranged centrally and, at least to some extent, forward of two transversely aligned rear passenger seats, wherein the driver's seat extends transversely so as to be positioned in front of part of each... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20100187851 - Removable visor: A removable visor and method for installing a removable visor is provided. The removable visor includes a cover having a slot, a bracket, positioned inside the cover, having a flexible snap configured to be inserted into the slot, an elbow, attached to the bracket through an opening in the cover,... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20100187852 - Folding top with changeable tension in the cover: A folding top having changeable cover tension includes a cover stretched over a frame which is movable to move the cover between closed and opened positions. A tension bow is swung by a landau bar between a tensioning position and a non-tensioning position. Part of the rear portion of the... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20100187853 - Collapsible roof assembly for a passenger vehicle: A collapsible roof assembly for a vehicle includes a roof, an actuating linkage system, and a main bearing. The roof is movable between closed and opened positions relative to the vehicle body. The actuating linkage system has a guide rod connected at a first end to the roof for moving... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20100187854 - Z-fold convertible top with pressurized rear bow: A convertible top and method of operating the convertible top is disclosed. The top has a power cylinder that is mounted to the top stack linkage that lifts the one bow from the windshield header on a four bar link and also simultaneously releases the pressure applied by a pressure... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20100187855 - Door trim: A door trim includes a door pocket for containing a contained object. The door pocket is arranged to face a vehicle compartment and is formed between a trim main body having a port of taking in and out the contained object, and a box portion arranged on a vehicle exterior... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20100187856 - Aerodynamic skirt support member: A support member adapted to secure an aerodynamic skirt to a trailer is provided, the support member comprising a trailer connecting portion; a skirt connecting portion; and an intermediate portion interconnecting the trailer connecting portion to the skirt connecting portion. A kit of resilient struts adapted to resiliently secure an... Agent: Transtex Composite Inc. Attn.: Intellectual Property Department

20100187857 - Height adjusting device for the cargo floor of a motor vehicle: A height adjusting device is provided for the cargo floor of a motor vehicle with at least one guide, on which the cargo floor is pivotably guided about a first pivoting axis. The cargo floor can be guided from a lower cargo floor position into an upper cargo floor position.... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (gme)

20100187859 - Work machine vehicle having joystick controls on an adjustable suspended seatbar: Disclosed are work machine vehicles having an adjustable seatbar assembly in the operator protective structure. The adjustable seatbar assembly is suspended from a seat in the operator protective structure. Vehicle controls are integrated with the adjustable seatbar assembly such that the vehicle controls and the operator sitting on the seat... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20100187858 - Work machine vehicle having seat mounted controls with nested seatbar: Disclosed are work machine vehicles having an operator protective structure with a seat mounted in the operator protective structure. In disclosed embodiments, first and second adjustable armrest assemblies are mounted to a structure of the seat such that the first and second armrest assemblies can be adjusted in fore and... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20100187860 - Cab and construction machine: A cab includes left and right rear pole members having internal spaces and prescribed shapes in cross-section. The right rear pole member includes a first hole portion that extends along the longitudinal direction of the right rear pole member and penetrates the right rear pole member in the left-and-right direction... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20100187861 - Vehicle body panels: A vehicle body part (60) has a perforated grid portion (61) secured in an aperture in a non-perforated portion (601,602), an edge portion of the grid portion defining part of the edge of the body part. A support member (8) extends along the edge portion of the grid portion (60)... Agent: Agco Corporation, Legal Department

20100187862 - Structure of mounting cowl top cover: A structure of mounting a cowl top cover which has a back end portion mounted to a lower end portion of a front windshield panel is disclosed. The structure includes: a surface portion disposed at the back end portion of cowl top cover, the surface portion covering a surface of... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20100187863 - Body structure for a motor vehicle: For the reinforcement of a body structure of a motor vehicle which extends adjacent to a front side door of the vehicle, a hollow member structure formed by channel reinforcements is arranged in the body structure. The hollow member structure extends approximately in a horizontal plane from the B pillar... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20100187864 - Vehicle structure: A vehicle structure including a floor tunnel includes: tunnel reinforcing members for reinforcing at least a front portion of the floor tunnel; and a supporting frame combined with the tunnel reinforcing members and side members or a supporting frame combined with the tunnel reinforcing members, the side members, and side... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100187865 - Frame side component of bodywork of a motor vehicle: The present invention relates to a frame side component of bodywork of a motor vehicle, preferably a car, where, respectively, a metal outer frame manufactured as a single piece and a metal inner frame manufactured as a single piece, where these respectively have at least one aperture delimited by a... Agent: Hildebrand, Christa Norris Mclaughlin & Marcus Pa

20100181794 - Process for the production of a composite part with multi-part outer layer, and composite part: The invention relates to a process for the production of a composite part with a multi-part outer layer and with a foam layer bonded on the reverse side to the outer layer, in particular internal cladding of a vehicle, and also to a composite part. The inventive process comprises the... Agent: Marshall & Melhorn, LLC

20100181795 - Universal tailgate hinge: An entry assembly comprises a frame and a gate. The frame has a first side and a second side. The gate is connected to the frame. The gate defines a demarcation between the first side and the second side of the frame. The gate is pivotable about the frame along... Agent: Price, Heneveld, Cooper, Dewitt & Litton, LLP Fgtl

20100181796 - Vehicle seat assembly having layered seating system: A vehicle seat cushion composite is provided with a structural layer adapted to be mounted within a vehicle to provide support to an occupant. The structural layer has at least two edge regions provided proximate two edges of the structural layer and an inner region at least partially bound within... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C. / Lear Corporation

20100181798 - Joint structure of door edge member: A joint structure of a door edge member includes a door upper edge member having a baglike cross section, constituted by inner surfaces, at the longitudinal end portion thereof, and a door rear edge member having the longitudinal end portion inserted into the end portion of the door upper edge... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20100181797 - Vehicle door system: According to a vehicle door system (10), when a forward collision prediction sensor (76) predicts a forward collision of a vehicle (12), a state is immediately brought about where a terminal edge portion (54) at the rear end of a front door (16) is positioned more outwardly in the vehicle... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100181799 - Drag reducing apparatus for a vehicle: The disclosure comprises a pair of inflatable substantially inelastic lobes. A single lobe can be mounted on each of the rear trailer doors of a standard tractor-trailer unit. Each lobe can be inflated or deployed to provide an aerodynamic substantially planar contour extending rearwardly of the rear end of the... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20100181800 - Device for actuating the pivoting movement of a vehicle flap: The device for actuating a pivoting movement of a vehicle flap about a pivot axis includes a gas spring having a cylinder and a piston rod protruding from the cylinder. Either the cylinder or the piston rod is coupled to a fixed component of the vehicle body, and the other... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20100181801 - Manufacturing method of a motor vehicle and motor vehicle thereby obtained: There is described a manufacturing method of motor vehicles which achieves the object of reducing the costs deriving from the manufacturing of vehicles belonging to different segments and the costs deriving from the traditional assembly of vehicles which starts from the external shell onto which the elements forming the interiors... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20100181802 - Composite reinforcement member for a body structure of a motor vehicle: The reinforcement member of a body structure is composed of two member elements which are of u-shaped profile in cross section and which are arranged nested one inside the other. Turned-up limb portions of the outer member element have edge-side retaining lugs between which are arranged edge-side cutouts. The retaining... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20100181803 - Front structure of automobile hood: In a front structure (1) of a vehicle hood, a dent preventive reinforcement (70) is connected to an outer panel (20) and an inner panel (30). The dent preventive reinforcement (70) is formed as a plate-shaped member that is disposed in the vehicle widthwise direction between the panels (20 and... Agent: Patterson Thuente Christensen Pedersen, P.A.

20100181804 - Process for constructing the loadbearing structure of a motor vehicle body, and loadbearing structure so constructed: The structure (1) comprises a frame (2) including a plurality of extruded profiled members (11-33, 37), of essentially box cross-section, connected together directly or by means of joining members (19, 24). The frame (2) comprises only a first type (A) of extruded profiles, having an upper wall (3), an outer... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100181805 - Sunroof system: In a sunroof system (3) for a vehicle using a push-pull cable (22) for actuating a sunroof panel (4), the push-pull cable is received in a drive pipe (25), and a sunroof frame (12) is provided with a drive pipe retaining feature (16, 18). Therefore, the drive pipe may be... Agent: Marshall & Melhorn, LLC

20100176616 - Vibration dampening systems for overhead frame structures: Embodiments of the invention relate to providing a vibration dampening system for an overhead frame structure used with a vehicle. The system involves the provision of one or more dampening members and/or components between portions of one or more members forming the overhead frame structure. The dampening members or components... Agent: Intellectual Property Group Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.

20100176617 - Motor vehicle apron trim element: An arrangement of a trim element on a carrier for accessing an area located behind the trim element, wherein a rear surface of the trim element includes a first supporting mechanism including a series of lower and upper clips engageable with matching clips on the carrier, and the arrangement further... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100176618 - In-ambulance cot shut-off device: An ambulance cot is disclosed and the ambulance cot having a base frame configured for support on a surface, a litter frame configured for supporting thereon a patient and an elevating mechanism interconnecting the base frame and the litter frame and configured to interconnect the litter frame and the base... Agent: Flynn, Thiel, Boutell & Tanis, P.C.

20100176619 - Portable collapsible stretcher: A lightweight, collapsible and portable stretcher for effective use under extreme circumstances such as use in disaster and war affected terrains. The stretcher includes a wheel assembly having an alternative use as a container for the collapsible stretcher. The invention has particular advantages in military or disaster environments in that... Agent: Coastal Patent, LLC

20100176620 - Self-supporting bench assembly for personnel transport: A seating system for a vehicle having a cargo bed including a bench assembly for providing seating for personnel. The bench assembly includes a bottom frame assembly having opposing longitudinal edges and a plurality of slats attached to the bottom frame assembly to provide a platform for the seat slats.... Agent: Kane & Co., PLC

20100176621 - Device for energy absorption upon impact for automotive vehicle seat, seat and automotive vehicle comprising the device: Device for energy absorption in particular for an automotive vehicle seat upon impact, said device comprising a first element substantially in the form of a plate with a hole and a second element inserted in the hole, said first element comprising a series of cutouts that are successive along a... Agent: Miller, Matthias & Hull

20100176622 - Method of providing a vehicle body with one of four different tops: A method of manufacturing a vehicle, alternatively, with a hardtop version, an entry level soft top module, a five-bow soft top module, or a retractable hardtop module. Any one of the four tops may be assembled on an automotive vehicle having a substantially common body structure with only minor modifications... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20100176623 - Seat carrier arrangement and construction for a bus: The invention relates to a seat carrier arrangement for a vehicle seat (48) of a utility vehicle, especially a bus, said arrangement comprising a seat carrier (36) supported towards the rear on an energy-absorbing deformation element (52). The seat carrier (36) is embodied as a carrier part of a vehicle... Agent: Patent Central LLC Stephan A. Pendorf

20100176624 - Operator's cab supporting apparatus of work machine: A rear limiting mechanism (35) for limiting a moving range in a vertical direction, a front-rear direction and a lateral direction of the cab frame (24) is arranged immediately below a rear pillar (30) of the cab frame, between the vehicle body frame (21) and both right and left end... Agent: Fox Rothschild LLP

20100176625 - Retractable roof and vehicle including the same: A retractable roof includes a roof member 2 including a front roof panel 21, a back roof panel 22, and a linkage mechanism 4 for alternately chaining the position of the roof member 2 between an in-use position and a storage position. The retractable roof further includes an adjusting mechanism... Agent: Studebaker & Brackett PC

20100171333 - Localized deep soft area of a trim panel: A trim panel and method of forming a trim panel for a vehicle. The trim panel can include a localized cushioned portion of softness (150) at pre-selected locations on the panel.... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20100171334 - Modular storage system: A modular storage system for use with a utility vehicle is disclosed. The modular storage system can extend across the floor of the utility vehicle and have a central elongated bin that is located between two wheel wells and extends generally between a front wall and a rear door of... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle, Anderson & Citkowski, P.C.

20100171335 - Device for fixing the position of a lid: A device for fixing the position of a lid of a motor vehicle in the closed position, the lid being moveable between an open position and a closed position, in particular the position of the cover of a convertible top compartment, having a component attached to the body of the... Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg LLP

20100171336 - Vehicle door belt and cam articulating mechanism: A vehicle door articulating mechanism including an articulating hinge assembly having a hinge arm pivotally mounted to a vehicle structure at one end thereof, a vehicle door pivotally mounted via first and second hinge mounts to the hinge arm at an opposite end of the hinge arm, a first cam... Agent: Price, Heneveld, Cooper, Dewitt & Litton, LLP Fgtl

20100171337 - Map pocket close-out as integrated pelvic bolster for vehicle door: An integrated combined extended map pocket close-out and pelvic bolster component for attachment to a door trim substrate used in a vehicle door is disclosed. The component comprises a map pocket close-out portion, a pelvic bolster portion, and a bridge connecting the map pocket close-out portion and the pelvic bolster... Agent: Ford Global C/o Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

20100171338 - Slide deck device for vehicle: The slide deck device includes upper rollers 69 which are mounted to the upper rails 52, 53, 70, 71 and 87 to be positioned in front of rearmost lower rollers of the lower rollers 64, are positioned in the lower rails 25, are spaced away from ceiling surfaces 31 of... Agent: Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, P.C.

20100171339 - Support element for a cockpit beam: A support element for a cockpit structure of a motor vehicle with a body, as well as a cockpit structure of a motor vehicle, which is provided in the area between the A-columns of the body of a motor vehicle, includes at least one cockpit carrier and a support element.... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20100171340 - Vehicle body frame structure: An automobile vehicle compartment includes an octagonal frame having side sills that extend in the vehicle body fore-and-aft direction, a dashboard lower cross member and middle cross member that extend in the vehicle width direction, and four inclined members, and it is therefore possible to ensure that there is sufficient... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20100164245 - Aerodynamic hemisphere and socket motorcycle fairing: A motorcycle fairing comprised of plastic or composite material fabricated and assembled to form: a front, substantially hemisphere shaped fender or nacelle fairing section which substantially encloses the front wheel of the motorcycle and is affixed to the upper front fork assembly of the motorcycle allowing the front wheel to... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20100164246 - Retractable tarping system: A retractable tarping system including an end support surface, a shaft, a tarp, a spool, an end plate assembly, and a cable. The tarp and the spool are operably attached to the shaft. The end plate assembly is attached to the shaft for movement with respect to the first end... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20100164247 - Convertible soft top with fins: A convertible soft top for a motor vehicle is provided. The convertible soft top has a front portion and a rear portion, the top also having and movable between an extended position and a retracted position. The top includes a fabric cover that extends across the front portion and the... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20100164248 - Body seal and inner trim module: A body sealing system for an associated automotive vehicle door that has an associated door panel (including a sliding door, lift gate, or tailgate) includes a trim panel dimensioned to overlie at least a portion of the associated door panel, an interconnecting means connected to the trim panel and extending... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20100164249 - Retractable air deflection apparatus for reduction of vehicular air drag: An air deflection apparatus for reduction of vehicular air drag comprises at least one air deflection element coupled to a rear portion of the vehicle but not to the rear-facing surface of the vehicle or, in other embodiments, at least one air deflection element coupled to a rear portion of... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman PC

20100164250 - Method for mounting a transverse understructure member and a technical front panel: A method for mounting on a motor vehicle at least one transverse understructure member and a technical front panel to be mounted at a longitudinal end of a frame structural member including two transversely opposite rails and two transversely opposite portions of the frame structural member, in particular hinging members... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100164251 - Sturcture and connection member for structure: A structure formed by welding one component member and other component member through a connection member, the connection member which includes: a one side connection end portion including a junction portion having a shape matching an outer surface of the one component member, the one side connection end portion being... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20100164252 - Panel device for a sliding roof arrangement of a vehicle: The invention relates to a panel device for a sliding roof arrangement of a vehicle, having a panel element for closing a gap between a frame of the sliding roof arrangement and an externally-guided sliding cover when the latter is situated in a ventilator position, having a holding element in... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20100164253 - Vehicle roof comprising a cover that can be displaced above a fixed roof section: The invention relates to a vehicle roof comprising a liftable covering element that can be displaced above a fixed roof section. A control mechanism for the covering element is respectively provided on both sides of the covering element. According to the invention, the control mechanism comprises a drive carriage, a... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20100164254 - Device for guiding the movement of a wind deflector: A device is provided for guiding a movement of a bar-type wind deflector in relation to a roof frame in a region between a position of use and a position of non-use, especially on a cabriolet. At least one pair of rotary levers is provided on the wind deflector. The... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20100164255 - Roof locking apparatus for a vehicle: A roof locking apparatus for a vehicle (70) is provided in a vehicle body and operable to hold a middle portion with respect to a vehicle width direction of a front edge of the roof (2) within a storage space (7).... Agent: Studebaker & Brackett PC