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G01B 3/14 (2006.01) B29C 51/00 (2006.01) B62D 29/04 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1233634
EMPIRICAL METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE SHAPE OF A VEHICLE BODY MEMBRANE PANEL Abstract of the Disclosure The shape of a non-axisymmetric vehicle body membrane panel is determined by placing a sheet of material over a scaled opening in a frame or support; constraining the edge portion of the sheet of material around the opening; heating the support and material to an elevated temperature above the glass transition temperature of the material until the modulus of elasticity of the material is relatively low and non-existent and the material has only membrane stresses which lie solely in the plane of the material and are constant over thickness. The unconstrained portion of the material within the opening deforms to the desired membrane shape so that this shape can be transferred to a die when the deformed material is thereafter cooled.
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General Motors Corporation
Gowling Lafleur Henderson Llp
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