Light weight steel auto body construction
CA 2136134 C · Owner: Levy, Bernard S. · Inventors: Lude, John M.; Borchelt, James E.; Levy, Bernard S.
Overview
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An automobile body panel has an outer, contour-defining component and an inner structural component. The inner structural component comprises a front member, a rear member, a plurality of side members, a central region defined by the front rear, and side members, and at least one internal member disposed in the central region, and may also include at least one cross member disposed in the central region. The side members and each internal member have a substantially closed cross-sectional geometry. The outer component is secured to the inner structural component at the periphery of the panel. In addition, the outer component is substantially continuously adhesively bonded to each internal …
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- Filed November 18, 1994 and granted July 27, 1999. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 18, 2014.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by November 18, 2016.
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