Abstract: A vehicle hood lining presenting at least one depression that is preferably elongate along an edge of the lining, the depression presenting, at a distance from its ends, at least one singularity that is not reproduced both identically and continuously all along the length of the depression.

Abstract: An assembly includes a body of an automobile and a tailgate mounted on the body so as to be movable between an open position and a closed position. The assembly also includes: an opening assistance device mounted between the body and the tailgate in order to apply a pushing force on the tailgate that tends to move the latter into an open position; and at least one abutment provided on the body, for applying on the opening assistance device, when the tailgate is in the closed position, a force opposite to the pushing force thereof so that the tailgate is not subjected, or barely subjected, to the pushing force of the opening assistance device.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a fluoropolymer tape having an electrically conductive surface. More specifically, the present invention is directed to a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) tape and method for producing an electrically conductive tape by blending vapor-grown carbon fiber or carbon nanotubes or combinations of both with PTFE.

Abstract: A motor vehicle hood lining for stiffening the hood in the vicinity of its periphery and co-operating therewith to form a hollow body over at least a fraction of its periphery, the lining being generally of channel section with a bottom and side walls. Said bottom or at least one of said side walls presents, at least locally, a zone of weakness that is dimensioned in such a manner that in the event of the hood impacting the head of a pedestrian, once the bottom of the hollow body has come to bear against a high hard point placed in the engine compartment, the zone of weakness breaks. The invention also relates to a combination of such a lining with various hard points in an engine compartment.

Abstract: The supporting piece is intended to be mounted at the end of a motor vehicle side member, this side member including, in the continuation thereof, a plate for mounting a transverse impact beam. The supporting piece includes a bearing surface for an absorber positioned in front of this bearing surface, the bearing surface being arranged in such a way as to extend under the mounting plate and substantially parallel thereto when the supporting piece is mounted at the end of the side member. The supporting piece is shaped in such a way that it does not deform irreversibly when the vehicle suffers an insurance impact.

Abstract: The invention provides a motor vehicle rear module (14) for fastening on a structure (12) of a rear door (10), the module comprising: a light unit (16); an outer bodywork skin (18), this skin being adjacent at least in part to the light unit; and a shaper element (20a, 20b) arranged so as to shape the skin (18) around the light unit.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing an overmoulded part that defines a structural part for a motor vehicle, comprising: a moulding step during which at least one member of the part is moulded from a first material containing a thermosetting material, using a mould shaped so that at least one portion of the member forms a material web, an overmoulding step during which a second material containing a thermoplastic material is overmoulded on at least one of the material webs of the member so that the material web is torn under the pressure of the second material, a passage for the second material being then formed through the member. It also concerns a structural part for a motor vehicle.

Abstract: A method of treating a material derived from recovery and shredding, the material comprising a mixture of polypropylene and polyethylene, wherein the material is mixed with 1% to 5% by weight of copolymer of ethylene-?-olefin type.

Abstract: The invention relates to a motor vehicle hood comprising a visible outside skin and a lining, in which the lining is shaped in such a manner that: the hood has reinforcements comprising a plurality of hollow bodies defined by the skin and by the lining; and that the hood includes at least one zone having no reinforcement and designed to be placed in register with a localized rigid part under the hood. The reinforcements further comprise at least one rib extending between two of the hollow bodies of the plurality, so as to interconnect the hollow bodies.

Abstract: A vehicle door having a window glass and a support element extending the window glass, the support element includes a door fastener or fastener means for fastening the door to a body-in-white of the vehicle and window glass fastener means for fastening the window glass to the support element.

Abstract: The invention provides an impact absorber module for a motor vehicle, the module comprising: a top transverse element for bearing against an impact beam of the vehicle; a bottom transverse element and two uprights connecting the top and bottom transverse elements together so as to form substantially a frame referred to as an absorber frame, the bottom transverse element or one of the two uprights being designed to bear against a bottom structural part of the vehicle; and a wall forming an air guide and extending from the top transverse element towards a radiator of the vehicle.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a shaping method of shaping a bumper skin of plastics material around at least two light units of a motor vehicle, with the help of reinforcement comprising a certain number of portions, the skin having zones for covering the various portions of the reinforcement, each portion of the reinforcement including means for fastening it to one of the light units in a predetermined position. The portions of the reinforcement are initially fastened to the corresponding zones of the bumper skin, and then the portions of the reinforcement are assembled to the light units. The present invention also provides reinforcement and a front unit for a vehicle.

Abstract: An assembly consisting of an opening panel of a motor vehicle and at least two reinforcing elements. Each reinforcing element has an elongate shape and two ends, the panel comprising at least two connecting elements, each reinforcing element being connectable to the panel in such a way that each end of the reinforcing elements is at least partially superposed on one of the connecting elements, the reinforcing elements and connecting elements forming at least one continuous frame when the reinforcing elements and the panel are connected.

Abstract: The invention relates to a rear module for fitting to a motor vehicle, the module comprising a large door for being pivotally mounted about an axis, the large door extending in a direction parallel to said axis between two stiffener uprights both presenting a cross-section of thickness, taken perpendicularly to the door, that is not less than a first thickness, the large door having an opening extending as far as said uprights in the direction parallel to said axis; and a small door mounted on the large door to move between an open position uncovering said opening, and a closed position closing said opening, the small door extending in the direction parallel to the axis between two stiffener uprights both having a cross-section of thickness, taken perpendicularly to the door, that is not less than a second thickness, the uprights of the small door covering the uprights of the large door when the small door is in the closed position.

Abstract: The assembly is for mounting to a motor vehicle having a bumper skin and it comprises a body part forming at least a portion of a bumper skin. The body part is defined by bottom and top edges. The top edge includes a first portion to be masked by a member of the vehicle that is to be fitted to the body part. The assembly includes at least a first masking element masking at least one portion of the bottom edge and at least a second masking element masking at least one second portion of the top edge of the body part, complementary to the at least one first portion of the top edge of the body part. The first and second masking elements are fixed relative to the body part once the assembly is mounted to the motor vehicle.

Abstract: This noise attenuator for a hydraulic fluid pipe is made of a material porous to the fluid intended to flow through the noise attenuator. More specifically, the material is a synthetic material. As a preference, the synthetic material is porous polytetrafluoroethylene.

Abstract: The invention relates to an assembly including a body of an automobile and a tailgate mounted on the body so as to be movable between an open position and a closed position, characterised in it includes: an opening assistance means mounted between the body and the tailgate in order to apply a pushing force on the tailgate that tends to move the latter into an open position; at least one abutment provided on the body, for applying on the opening assistance means, when the tailgate is in closed position, a force opposite to the pushing force thereof so that the tailgate is not subjected, or barely subjected, to the pushing force of the opening assistance means.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an assembly of a mold (14) and a motor vehicle cross-member (12), the cross-member including a portion for overmolding (20) that is designed to be placed in the mold, a portion that is designed to be situated outside the mold, and at least one reception zone (22, 24) for receiving a wall portion of the mold (26, 28), the reception zone being interposed between said two portions of the cross-member. The wall portion of the mold and the reception zone are essentially complementary in shape and the cross-member presents, in the reception zone, at least one offset (34, 36) relative to a reference surface following the general outline of the cross-member. The invention also provides a motor vehicle front panel that forms an overmolded part made using the above-defined assembly.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an assembly comprising a tailgate box and at least one link designed to be fitted on the box. The box is designed to receive a part that is fastened to the box by adhesive, said box having for this purpose an adhesive track, the box also including at least one lateral upright comprising a section member of open cross-section with the opening therein interrupting the adhesive track. The link comprises an additional segment of adhesive track, and the link and the upright being shaped so that the link can be fitted on the upright in such a manner that it closes the cross-section of the section member and causes the additional segment to span the interruption in the adhesive track.

Abstract: The invention relates to an absorber comprising first and second portions and made at least in part out of plastics material, wherein the first portion includes a first support wall extending in a longitudinal direction of the absorber and placed to bear against a beam of the vehicle; the second portion includes a second support wall extending in a longitudinal dimension of the absorber and essentially perpendicularly to the first wall, being placed to bear against the beam; and the second portion includes reinforcing walls corresponding essentially to a plane normal to the longitudinal direction of the absorber and arranged so that each has one end connected to the second wall, each reinforcing wall having at least one other end connected to an adjacent reinforcing wall, such that each reinforcing wall is connected to each of the adjacent walls.