Vehicle door module
AssigneeInteva Products, LLC
InventorsBrian H. Staser, Ashley Simpson, Lisa Hopman, Thomas Charles Sybrandy
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Abstract
A vehicle door module includes a unitary frame and areas circumscribed by the unitary frame wherein the circumscribed areas are filled with a material comprising a closed cell polymeric foam. The vehicle door module can be made by overmolding or compression molding.
Claims19
A vehicle door module comprising a unitary frame and areas circumscribed by the unitary frame wherein the circumscribed areas are filled with a material comprising a closed cell polymeric foam;
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- further comprising a perimeter seal.
A method of making a vehicle door module comprising overmolding a unitary frame having open circumscribed areas with a closed cell polymeric foam to fill the circumscribed open areas with the closed cell polymeric foam;
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- providing a perimeter seal.
A method of making a vehicle door module comprises overmolding a closed cell polymeric foam with a unitary frame having circumscribed areas to produce a unitary frame having circumscribed areas filled with the polymeric closed cell foam;
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- providing a perimeter seal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.