Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Door or window with specified vehicle feature
Reexamination Certificate
2006-11-07
2006-11-07
Patel, Kiran B. (Department: 3612)
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Door or window with specified vehicle feature
C296S146700
Reexamination Certificate
active
07131685
ABSTRACT:
A door trim panel includes a substrate member having a front surface adapted to face an interior compartment of a vehicle. A sealing member is integrally molded with the front surface of the substrate member and projects therefrom. The trim panel is adapted to be mounted to a door of the vehicle wherein the door is moveable between open and closed positions with respect to a vehicle body. The sealing member is adapted to engage a portion of the vehicle body so as to form a seal between the trim panel and the vehicle body when the door is in the closed position. A two-shot molding process may be used to make the trim panel with the substrate member being formed in the first shot and the sealing member being molded with the front surface of the substrate member in the second shot.
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Lear Corporation
Patel Kiran B.
Wood Herron & Evans L.L.P.
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