Vehicle bed assembly

US6644721B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Ford Global Technologies, LLC · US

Inventors

• Peter Miskech · Troy, US
• David Dahlstrom · Beverly Hills, US
• Keith Alan Kuzmich · Wixom, US
• Earl Ray Dover · St. Clair Shores, US
• Karen Diane Wallag · Dearborn, US
• James Matthew Posa · Grosse Ile Township, US
• Joseph Paul Tekelly · Troy, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 30, 2002
• Grant date: Nov 11, 2003
• Expiry date: Aug 30, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B62D25/2054
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A vehicular bed assembly 12 and a method 100 for making the vehicular bed assembly 12 by a process which requires the use of a roll 103 of material 104. Particularly, material 104 from the roll 103 is continually fed through a stamping or mold assembly 110 which forms raised stiffening beads on the material 104. The material 104 is then continually fed through a cutter 118 in which the received material is 103 selectively cut, thereby forming panels or segments, such as and without limitation segment or panel 120, which are used to form the walls 14, 16, 20, 22 and which are further used to form the floor pan 18. In this manner, the methodology 100 allows for a variety of dissimilarly sized bed assemblies 12 to be easily and efficiently produced.