Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Structural detail
Reexamination Certificate
2007-02-27
2007-02-27
Pape, Joseph D. (Department: 3612)
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Structural detail
C296S210000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10968051
ABSTRACT:
To provide a joint structure for vehicle body members, which can effectively accommodate distortion due to joining of dissimilar metals, a joining surface of an aluminum roof panel and a joining surface of a side roof rail made of steel are joined by non-piercing rivets, with an electrically insulating structural adhesive being interposed between the joining surfaces, and a bead extending along the joining surfaces is formed in the aluminum roof panel.
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Matsumura Yoshinobu
Ogawa Shin-ichi
Uchida Kosaku
Birch & Stewart Kolasch & Birch, LLP
Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
Pape Joseph D.
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