Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Body securing device
Reexamination Certificate
2006-09-12
2006-09-12
Pape, Joseph D. (Department: 3612)
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Body securing device
Reexamination Certificate
active
07104581
ABSTRACT:
A method is provided for providing vehicle reconfigurability. The method includes maintaining an inventory containing vehicle body pods each having a substantially identical interface at which each of the body pods is connectable to a chassis such that the body pods are interchangeable on the chassis. The body pods include at least one body pod characterized by a first body pod style and at least one body pod characterized by a second body pod style. The method also includes granting possession to a customer of a vehicle body pod from the inventory independent of a chassis.
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Borroni-Bird Christopher E.
Chernoff Adrian B.
Johnson Tucker J.
Shabana Mohsen D.
Vitale Robert Louis
General Motors Corporation
Marra Kathryn A.
Pape Joseph D.
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