International Truck and Engine Corporation Canada

International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC

Craig L Randolph

Kris K Timmerman

Ronald F Mitchell

David J Beigel

James M Oleson

Sunil K Jain

Craig S Tsukayama

Franz Mueller

L David Allendorph

Kwan W Lee

Jerry J Connett

Charles W Kipfer

Floyd A Etzler

James P Pennell

Eric A Magda

Eric J Ognian

Michael F Mazziotti

Larry N Reynard

Travis E Dennison

Manjeet Singh Kohli

Michael Long

Truck vehicle

Combined hood top and fender unit of a truck

Air intake insert of a truck vehicle

Roof of a truck vehicle

Air deflector of a truck vehicle

An access hatch reinforcement module and a method of assembling an access hatch to an existing engine compartment hood of a vehicle. The access hatch reinforcement module includes a wall engagement component for engagement to the hood outer wall of the engine compartment hood. The access hatch reinforcement module further includes a door engagement component for engagement to a hatch door of the access hatch. The wall engagement component and the door engagement component of the access hatch reinforcement module are directly fixedly engaged to one another by temporary fixed engagements. The wall engagement component and the door engagement component are also indirectly engaged to one another through operational door connecting components such as a hinge component. The wall engagement component and the door engagement component are engaged to the hood outer wall and the portion of the hood outer wall that is engaged to the door engagement component is separated from the portion of the hood outer wall that is engaged to the wall engagement component. Thereafter the hatch door, which is comprised of what was the portion of the hood outer wall that was engaged to the door engagement component, is supported in a properly aligned manner within a newly formed hatch opening.

Access hatch reinforcement module & method of installing an access hatch to an existing hood for a mobile vehicle

Growing community of inventors

Fort Wayne, IN, United States of America

Craig L Randolph