Patents Assigned to HP Pelzer (Automotive Systems), Inc.
  • Patent number: 6197403
    Abstract: An integral sound absorber and water deflector door panel positionable in space defined between an inner wall and a passenger compartment door panel of an automobile vehicle door assembly. The integral panel is composed of a first polymeric layer made of a water impervious polymeric film having an essentially constant thickness. The first polymeric layer has a first face adapted to contact the interiorly oriented face on the inner wall of the vehicle door assembly and remain in overlying parallel orientation thereto. A second polymeric layer is composed of a polymeric foam integrally connected to the second face of the first polymeric layer in continuous overlying relationship thereto. The second polymeric layer has an outer face opposed to the first polymeric layer which, preferably, has at least one region adapted to directly contact a portion of the exteriorly oriented face of the passenger compartment door panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2001
    Assignee: HP Pelzer (Automotive Systems), Inc.
    Inventors: Steven G. Brown, Guy W. Boitos