Motor vehicles – With means for promoting safety of vehicle – its occupant or... – By preventing unauthorized or unintended access or use
Patent
1986-10-15
1987-11-17
Love, John J.
Motor vehicles
With means for promoting safety of vehicle, its occupant or...
By preventing unauthorized or unintended access or use
70237, 70163, 296152, B60R 2500, B62H 500
Patent
active
047067756
ABSTRACT:
An anti-theft cover assembly for use on the interior panel of an automobile door of the type including a door locking mechanism actuable by an actuator positioned in an opening in the interior door panel. The cover assembly includes a rigid cover plate sized and configured to fit over and cover the actuator. The cover plate includes a generally rectangular main body portion, a lip portion extending around the main body portion and a locator flange portion extending inwardly from the top edge of the main body portion and sized to fit within a recess in the door panel of the vehicle to provide a piloting action for the cover plate. A first magnetic tape is secured to the inner face of the main body portion of the cover plate and a second magnetic tape is secured to the door panel in surrounding relation to the actuator. The magnetic tape on the door panel fits snuggly within the lip portion of the cover with the cover in its anti-theft position. In a second embodiment, an attachment plate is secured to the door panel in surrounding relation to the actuator and the attachment plate includes clips which snappingly coact with lugs on the cover to maintain the cover in its position overlying the actuator. In a third embodiment, VELCRO fasteners are provided to releasably secure the cover to the door panel.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2472793 (1949-06-01), Conterno
patent: 2575401 (1951-11-01), Simmons
patent: 3112951 (1963-12-01), Deer
patent: 3263462 (1966-08-01), Suroff et al.
Love John J.
Rice Kenneth R.
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