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Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2020

Filed:

Dec. 28, 2016
Applicant:

Compagnie Plastic Omnium, Lyons, FR;

Inventors:

Arnaud Escoffier, Lyons, FR;

Richard Bailey, Telford Shropshire, GB;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60J 5/10 (2006.01); B60Q 1/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60J 5/107 (2013.01); B60Q 1/2619 (2013.01); B60Q 1/2638 (2013.01);
Abstract

A tailgate for a vehicle including an inner panel and an outer panel. The outer panel includes an appearance wall and an edge wall adjacent to the appearance wall and taking part in delimiting a housing for receiving an optical unit. The outer panel further includes a bridge wall, located on the inside face of the outer panel, forming a bridge between the edge wall and the appearance wall and serving as a part of a bonding interface between the outer panel and the inner panel. A process for molding the outer panel for the tailgate for a vehicle, wherein a movable slider is built and used in a mold to create a naturally non-demoldable hollow cavity delimited by the appearance wall, the edge wall and the bridge wall.


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