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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:
Mar. 18, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 04, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Dick van Manen, New York, NY (US);
Assignee:
Meridian Automotive Systems, Inc., Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 5/336 ; B29C 4/922 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 5/336 ; B29C 4/922 ;
Abstract
A method of manufacturing a rear shelf trim and speaker grill panel ( ) for an automotive vehicle ( ) includes steps of punching a substrate layer ( ) of a polypropylene and flax material with a punch set ( ) to form a grill section ( ). The substrate is folded in half and placing a decorative carpet layer ( ) is placed over the folded substrate layers ( ). The two layers are blow molded together into a combined speaker grill and rear shelf trim panel ( ).