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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 1997
Filed:
Mar. 12, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Daniel J Forest, Macomb, MI (US);
Gerald Francis Day, Derbyshire, GB;
Giles Timothy Gregory, Nottinghamshire, GB;
Malcolm Frederick Proctor, Nottingham, GB;
William E Girard, Ontario, CA;
Assignee:
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D04B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
66198 ; 6616 / ;
Abstract
A knitted fabric cover, especially for a vehicle seat having a vehicle air bag housed therein, in which the cover is adapted to provide minimal hindrance to inflation of the air bag by having at least one line of weakness knitted into the cover, in particular in a coursewise direction.