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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7201253 | Soundproofing assembly and a part comprising a wall which if covered with said assembly A soundproofing assembly intended, in particular, to soundproof a motor vehicle. The inventive assembly includes four stacked layers, consisting respectively of: a first layer having an air resistance of between 500 and 2,000 N·m−3.s; a second porous, acoustic sp... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7150496 | Panel structure for car body hood A hood structure comprises an outer and an inner which form a closed cross section through spaces. The inner's cross-sectional shape is a sine curve, an nth-power-raised sine curve, or a spline curve having a corrugation length approximate to an outside head diamete... | 12/19/2006 |
| 6923496 | Anti-flutter bumper for hood mounted grilles A bracket/pad anti-flutter grille bumper attached to a motor vehicle frame or front bumper to reduce the vibrations of a hood-mounted grille resulting from road forces or from slamming the hood shut. Alternative mounting of the bracket on an impact absorbing and col... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6796393 | Hood locating isolator A hood isolator designed for a motor vehicle allows tighter clearances between the hood and cab mounting brackets of a motor vehicle while reducing stress on the hood front hood hinge. The hood isolator comprises a bracket with a mounting plate, a front plate and an... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6719078 | Ventilable silencer unit for vehicles A box type silencer unit includes a ventilation portion, a silencer portion adjacent to the ventilation portion, and a dividing partition located between the ventilation portion and the silencer portion. The ventilation portion is formed of a ventilating passage ope... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6668955 | Methods and apparatus for mounting a heat exchanger to a vehicle A mounting system for a heat exchanger includes an isolator fabricated of a nitrile rubber material to dampen vibrations. The isolator includes a body portion and a pair of legs. The body portion includes a pair of openings sized to receive a vehicle hood... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6374936 | Hood closure guide and seal The hood of a work vehicle is pivotally mounted to the supporting structure adjacent to a mast. The mast extends vertically upward form the supporting structure of the work vehicle. A work implement is operatively coupled to the mast. The mast is provided... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6213235 | Hood lift mechanism Disclosed herein is a work vehicle, such as a tractor, having a frame, a compartment, a hood coupled to the frame and configured to at least partially cover the compartment when disposed in a closed position; and a mechanism coupling the hood to the frame... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6039388 | Hood overslam bumper for automobiles A hood overslam bumper for automobiles has an elastic member, which is mounted to a hood inner panel, and a spring-biased hollow cushion member which is mounted to the upper member of a chassis. The spring of the cushion member is selected from a compress... | 03/21/2000 |
| 5682667 | Method for preventing damage to an overslam bumper pocket In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a vehicle hood including fiber reinforced plastic (FRP) panels is provided. The vehicle hood includes a fiber reinforced plastic hood outer panel bonded to a fiber reinforced plastic hood inner pa... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5348363 | Vehicle windshield bug and debris deflector A vehicle windshield bug and debris deflector is mounted on a rearwardly extending flange portion underlying the front portion of a vehicle hood. The deflector, extending substantially the full width of the vehicle hood, comprises a shield having a linear... | 09/20/1994 |
| 4609063 | Vehicle hood mounting A vehicle hood has a first end rigidly supported to a vehicle frame while a second end of the hood is yieldably or resiliently supported to the frame through side panels so that twisting motions of the frame are not transmitted to the hood or side panels.... | 09/02/1986 |
