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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2010
Quresh Sachee, Charlotte, NC (US);
Jean-philippe Billarant, Paris, FR;
Quresh Sachee, Charlotte, NC (US);
Jean-Philippe Billarant, Paris, FR;
Aplix, Paris, FR;
Aplix, Inc., Charlotte, NC (US);
Abstract
A panel-forming assembly which is intended to be fixed to a surface of a vehicle or an aircraft, for example the floor of the trunk or a surface of the hatch of the spare-wheel compartment, and comprising, on the one hand, a panel of foam of expanded thermoplastic material, in particular expanded polypropylene or expanded polystyrene, which is constituted of an agglomeration of balls made of thermoplastic material and, on the other hand, hooks and/or loops issuing from the panel and intended to cooperate with loops and/or hooks issuing from the said one surface of a vehicle, characterized in that the assembly comprises an intermediate element () comprising a plate () from a face of which project the hooks () and/or the loops issuing from the panel that cooperate with the loops and/or the hooks () issuing from the surface of the vehicle, while from a face opposite the said one face of the plate there projects at least one piece () in the form of a fir tree comprising elements in the form of fir-tree branches () defining between them intermediate spaces or interstices (d), which piece is inserted into the panel ().