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Vehicle interior panel and method to manufacture

US8387257B2 · kind B2 · utility

2Cited by

30References

12Claims

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Assignee

Ford Global Technologies, LLC · US

Inventors

Stuart C. Salter · White Lake, US
Chi Li · Farmington Hills, US
Jeffrey Singer · Canton, US
Denis Patrick Igoe · Livonia, US
Cornel Lewis Gardner · Romulus, US

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 1, 2010
Grant date	Mar 5, 2013
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Sep 6, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10T29/49895
WIPO fieldTransport
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A vehicle interior panel is provided that includes an interior panel substrate defining an aperture for a light source to extend through the interior panel substrate, a lens attached to the interior panel substrate, wherein the lens extends over at least a portion of the aperture for the light source, an at least partially transparent material that extends over the lens, and a plurality of positioning holes defined by the interior panel substrate, such that at least a portion of the plurality of positioning holes are configured to correspond to a plurality of positioning pins of an interior panel mold.

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