Motor vehicles – Bodies – Dashboards
Reexamination Certificate
2007-09-04
2007-09-04
Morris, Lesley D. (Department: 3611)
Motor vehicles
Bodies
Dashboards
C296S070000
Reexamination Certificate
active
09696458
ABSTRACT:
An instrument bezel for an automobile facilitates the addition of supplemental instruments to a vehicle while maintaining a clear and unobstructed view of the road for the driver without placing the supplemental instruments in a location that would make reading these instruments awkward and unsafe. The present instrument bezel is shaped to surround the dashboard of the automobile and replace an original instrument panel or dashboard bezel of the automobile. In one embodiment, the present instrument bezel includes integral pods or mounts on the bottom corners for retaining the supplemental instruments. The present instrument bezel may be made of fiberglass, carbon fiber, plastic, metal, or the like.
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1 page—p. 17 of main 2001 catalog by Auto Meter Competition Instruments.
Auto Meter Products, Inc., product flyer for gauge bezels for Honda, Acura and Ford—“New for '99” (2 copies).
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Page 122 of the Jul. 2000 edition ofTurbomagazine (vol. 16, No. 7) showing a picture of a “trick gauge pod” from Auto Meter Products, Inc. and stating “Auto Meter had a trick gauge pod for '94 -and-up Integras that houses two gauges in the corners of the instrument panel.”
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