Headliner
AssigneePrince Corporation
InventorWalter M. Weiland
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Abstract
A vehicle headliner includes a preformed headliner substrate which can be of molded construction and which includes an upper surface facing the roof of a vehicle. Attached at a plurality of locations on the upper surface of the headliner are magnets bonded to the upper surface of the headliner and positioned for engaging contact with aligned metallic vehicle roof structure once installed. In one preferred embodiment, the magnets are flexible extruded magnetic strips positioned to at least partially surround a relatively large aperture formed in the headliner such as one defining a sunroof opening. In a preferred embodiment of the invention also, the magnetic strips are attached to the headliner using a cushioning material such as a foam to provide acoustical damping for the headliner.
Claims6
A headliner for the roof of a vehicle having an enlarged aperture for a sunroof comprising:
- a substrate for covering the interior of a vehicle roof, said substrate having an aperture substantially identical to the aperture in said vehicle roof;
- a plurality of elongated magnetic members each being rectangular in shape and positioned on said substrate with its longer sides extending along the peripheral edge of said aperture in said substrate with one of said longer sides located adjacent the peripheral edge of said aperture in said substrate;
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- an acoustically damping cushion member for each of said magnetic members and having the shape of each magnetic member;
- means for attaching said magnetic members to said cushion member and means for attaching said cushion members to said substrate, whereby said magnetic members and said cushion members can securely but movably support said substrate on the roof of said vehicle about said aperture;
- said cushion members spacing the headliner from the roof to provide open areas between the roof and headliner thereby isolating the headliner from the overlying roof allowing the elimination of additional acoustical damping material between said roof and headliner;
A headliner for the roof of a vehicle comprising:
- a substrate for covering the interior of a vehicle roof, said substrate conforming in shape to the shape of said vehicle roof whereby the peripheral edge of said substrate conforms to the peripheral edge of said roof;
- a first series of a plurality of elongated magnetic members spaced along the peripheral edge of said substrate, each magnetic member being rectangular in shape and positioned on said substrate with its longer sides extending along the peripheral edge of said substrate with one of said longer sides located adjacent the peripheral edge of said substrate;
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- a first acoustically damping cushion member for each of said magnetic members and having the shape of each magnetic member;
- means for attaching said magnetic members to said cushion member and means for attaching said cushion members to said substrate, whereby said magnetic members and said cushion members can securely but movably support said substrate against the peripheral edge of the roof of said vehicle said cushion members spacing the headliner from the roof to provide open areas between the roof and headliner thereby isolating the headliner from the overlying roof allowing the elimination of additional acoustical damping material between said roof and headliner.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.