Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Door or window with specified vehicle feature
Patent
1992-10-15
1994-04-26
Song, Robert R.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Door or window with specified vehicle feature
296189, 188377, 280751, B60R 2104
Patent
active
053060660
ABSTRACT:
A vehicle door includes an inner panel, an outer panel joined to the inner panel and a door trim panel mounted on the inner panel to form a space therebetween. The vehicle door also includes a honeycomb shaped energy absorbing structure disposed in the space between the door trim panel and the inner panel for absorbing energy from a side collision type impact of the vehicle door.
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Ford Motor Company
May Roger L.
Song Robert R.
Stock Daniel M.
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