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Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

Wayne M Lucas

David L Taylor

Francisco J Martinez

Edgar J Flemming

Wiley C Calhoun

Terrell M Keene

Richard N Hartley

Eugene E Haggard

Harry E Sullivan

Arvil B Mason

Ashley Nichole Endlich

Charles J Haubner

A vehicle feature includes a wall having a wall surface formed from a first material and an opening extending through the wall surface. An insert is mounted to the wall surface. The insert is formed from a second material. The insert includes a wall member having a first side facing the wall surface and a second side facing away from the wall surface. The first side includes at least one connector element that engages with the wall surface through the opening. The insert is covered in a third material that is distinct from the first material and the second material.

Interchangeable inserts for vehicle passenger compartment components

To assist in locating an underground or otherwise hidden non-electrically-conducting plastic pipe carrying a fluid such as heating gas a tool is provided which comprises a reel of relatively stiff but flexible locator wire, a hermetically-sealing first bushing through which the locator wire passes and a coupler for engaging a pipe exposed to view but coupled to and communicating for fluid flow with the pipe to be located, such coupler being adapted to receive, in snug fashion, said first bushing and including a packing membrane through which said locator wire passes to further assure no loss of fluid from the pipe being located, said locator terminating at its extremity remote from the reel in a guide member having a shape which may be described as suggestive of an oblate spheroid; i.e., it is symmetrical about an axis aligned with the axis of the locator wire and has an equator from which it tapers downwardly in diameter towards two aligned ends; such guide member being inserted through the exposed pipe and into the pipe to be located, wherein it is pushed by means of the stiff locator wire until the terminus of pipe to be located is reached, whereupon appropriate signals are applied to such wire to permit the detection of the location of such wire and the plastic pipe, by appropriate signal sensing equipment. Alternatively, magnetometer detection equipment may be utilized to locate the locator wire.

Plastic-pipe locator tool

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Bruce Township, MI, United States of America

Wayne M Lucas