Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Structural detail
Reexamination Certificate
2007-06-05
2009-02-10
Pedder, Dennis H (Department: 3612)
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Structural detail
C296S187040
Reexamination Certificate
active
07488031
ABSTRACT:
An automotive engine hood is built by joining together respective edge parts of an outer panel and an inner panel such that spaces are formed between the outer and the inner panel. The inner panel has a plurality of ridge-like beads and ridge-like connecting beads connecting at least end parts of the beads on one of the opposite sides of the beads with respect to length of the beads. Each of the connecting beads has a top wall having a connecting surface continuous with the joint surfaces of the top walls of the beads, and a first inclined surface extending from the connecting surface to a bottom surface surrounded by the adjacent ones of the beads and the connecting beads. The automotive engine hood meets in equalities: 1.5 h<L and L<D, where L is distance between a boundary between the connecting surface and the first inclined surface, and a boundary between the first inclined surface and the bottom surface along the surface of the inner panel, h is height of the connecting surface from the bottom surface, and D is distance between one of the opposite ends of the bottom surface and a middle part of the bottom surface.
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(Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
Oblon & Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt P.C.
Pedder Dennis H
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