US Patent Issued to FAURECIA INTERIOR SYSTEMS on June 23 for "Vehicle interior assembly with tambour door" (American, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,059, issued on June 23, was assigned to FAURECIA INTERIOR SYSTEMS INC. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Vehicle interior assembly with tambour door" was invented by Hugo Piccin (Cupertino, Calif.), Julien Rea (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Adrian Balbuena Mendez (Puebla, Mexico) and Maxime Leclercq (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle interior assembly includes a tambour door that is moveable along end guides between an open position and a closed position. The tambour door includes a plurality of slats interconnected by a unidirectional cord embedded in a plastic material of each one of the slats. The cord, such as yarn of aramid f...