Ford Motor Company Limited

Gordon G Strosberg

Adam M Janotik

Derek F Gentle

Lawrence P Kazyak

Tahir M Mansour

James R Dixon

Emmanuel P Papadakis

Robert A Swider

A method and apparatus for the attachment of plastic outer body panels to automotive vehicle subframes including positioning a cup within apertures in the subframe, applying a thixotropic heat curable plastic/adhesive to the cup, heat curing the plastic/adhesive in situ while forming a blind aperture in the plastic/adhesive, and securing the body panel to the subframe through threaded insertion of a fastener into the blind aperture.

Apparatus for assembling body panels

An improved construction for an automotive vehicle door provides an upstanding peripherally extending mounting flange formed integrally with the outer panel of the door for carrying a resilient seal for sealing engagement with the vehicle body when the door is in a closed position.

Closure panel for automative bodies

Method for assembling body panels

A coagulation process for coating various substrates with organic resins which may be admixed with reactive or nonreactive particles. The process comprises (A) providing the substrate to be coated with a dry coagulating compound surface and (B) exposing said substrate to an aqueous bath comprising an organic film forming material, at least fifty (50) weight percent of which is a chemically ionizable organic film-former which (i) has at least 12 carbon atoms per molecule; (ii) is at least partially ionized such that it is substantially soluble in said aqueous bath; and (iii) coagulates in the presence of said coagulating compound.

Coagulation coating process

Growing community of inventors

Southfield, MI, United States of America

Gordon G Strosberg