Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Dashboards
Reexamination Certificate
2005-05-24
2005-05-24
Patel, Kiran (Department: 3612)
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Dashboards
C280S728300, C280S732000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06896310
ABSTRACT:
An instrument panel includes, in an exemplary embodiment, a thermoplastic base substrate having a first surface and an opposing second surface, and a door portion defined by a tear seam notch in the first surface of the base substrate. The tear seam notch defines a periphery of the door portion. The instrument panel also includes at least one hinge portion defined by a plurality of tear seam notches in the first surface of the base substrate. Each hinge portion interrupts the door portion tear seam notch so that the door portion tear seam notch is not continuous.
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Goyette Jessie A.
King Ronald
Trappe Adam Kenneth
Weiss Kurt Albert
Armstrong Teasdale LLP
General Electric Company
Patel Kiran
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