Abstract: A motor vehicle body support structure for receiving a snap-fit fastener from a modular headliner. The vehicle body structure includes sheet metal members defining slots having longitudinal axes extending in the left to right and front to back directions. The longitudinal axes of the slots which are in alignment extend in mutually perpendicular directions such that a modular headliner may be assembled to multiple sheet metal members while maintaining alignment of the modular headliner within the motor vehicle to which it is being installed.

Abstract: A modular headliner subassembly incorporating a substrate defining a first opening, a retainer ring sized to be mounted relative to the first opening, a console sized to fit partially within the opening and be mounted to the retainer ring, a pair of inboard sunshade supports for supporting the inboard end of the sunshades mounted to a modular headliner and retention clips mounted to the inboard sunshade support fastening means such that the substrate and retaining ring are secured between the base of the inboard sunshade support and the retention clip to mount the inboard sunshade support to the substrate prior to assembly of the modular headliner to the motor vehicle.

Abstract: A selectively constituted stabilized multiple element or cell superconductor composite comprising a plurality of cores of stabilizing material with each of the cores surrounded by a tube of superconducting material in intimate contact therewith and a matrix body of normally conductive material surrounding and intimately contacting the superconducting metal tubes, thereby separating each tube from other tubes in the superconductor composite. The stabilized superconductor composite is formed by mechanically reducing a composite body of matrix material, tubes and cores simultaneously. The various materials in the composite are selected to balance properties so as to facilitate the working thereof into the desired final size and configuration.