Vehicle hood retention system
AssigneeMeyers Manx LLC
InventorsRonald Lowell Anderson, Kory Kratz, Joshua Dawson, Freeman Thomas, Alex Townley
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Abstract
A vehicle hood retention system for a vehicle includes a hood panel having a top surface and side walls extending downwardly from the top surface and a nose at a forward most position of the hood panel; a main body having a nose portion and configured to receive the hood panel; and a cross car frame positioned between side surfaces of the main body and configured to detachably affix the hood panel to the cross car frame. A nose portion of the main body and interlocks the hood panel and the main body. Compressible moldings may be affixed to the hood panel to form a gasket seal between mating surfaces of the hood panel and the main body.
Claims17
A vehicle hood retention system, comprising,
- a hood panel having an external appearance defined by a top surface, side walls extending downwardly from the top surface and a nose at a forward most position of the hood panel;
- a main body having a nose portion and configured to receive the hood panel;
- a cross car frame positioned between side surfaces of the main body and configured to detachably affix the hood panel to the cross car frame;
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- wherein the nose of the hood panel curves downwardly from the top surface and under the main body.
A method of assembling a vehicle hood to a main body of a vehicle, comprising:
- providing a hood panel having a top surface and side walls extending downwardly from the top surface and a nose at a forward most position of the hood panel, a main body having a nose portion and configured to receive the hood panel, and a cross car frame positioned between side surfaces of the main body and configured to detachably affix the hood panel to the cross car frame;
- positioning the hood panel at a front of the main body and sliding the hood panel rearward to interlock with the main body on an approximately horizontal plane;
- fitting studs through holes in the hood panel and into corresponding holes in the cross-car frame;
- and threading a pair of washers and nuts to the studs.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.