Truck hood reinforcement system

Details Truck hood reinforcement system Truck hood reinforcement system

1989-06-30

1991-10-08

Kashnikow, Andres

Motor vehicles

Power

With means to guide and/or control air for power plant cooling

180 683, 180 6921, B60K 1100

Patent

active

050545671

ABSTRACT:
A vehicle hood of the type disposed to open forwardly of said vehicle and pivot about a horizontal axis to expose an engine compartment thereof has a plastic composite exterior skin defining a portion of the engine compartment and including a forwardly located ambient air inlet to said engine compartment, and a generally vertical front reinforcement member bonded within the skin adjacent the ambient air inlet and having grillework integrally formed therein within the ambient air inlet, the grillework preferably being the only grillework. The front reinforcement further includes vehicle light housings integrally molded therewith and extending laterally to the fender area of the hood, the hood skin being bonded to the light housings. The light housings preferably receive both the headlight and the turn signal which are inserted through apertures in the exterior skin of the hood.

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