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US 8,136,971 · App. 11/985,719 · Granted Mar 20, 2012

Vehicular light assembly and associated method for repairing the same

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Patent No.
US 8,136,971
App. No.
11/985,719
Granted
Mar 20, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

A vehicular light assembly, comprising: a housing and a lens cover, wherein at least one of the housing and lens cover includes at least one previously damaged sub-component which has been repaired utilizing a mold from a vehicular light assembly and/or assembly sub-component void of damage relative to the repaired sub-component.

Claims (14)

1. A method for repairing a vehicular light assembly, comprising the steps of:

providing a vehicular light assembly having at least one damaged sub-component;

providing a mold from at least one of a vehicular light assembly and vehicular light assembly sub-component void of damage relative to the at least one damaged sub-component; and

generating a new sub-component from the mold to, in turn, repair the at least-one damaged sub-component.

2. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising the step of cleaning the vehicular light assembly.

3. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising the step of sanding a lens cover of the vehicular light assembly.

4. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising the step of buffing a lens cover of the vehicular light assembly.

5. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising the step of annealing the vehicular light assembly.

6. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising the step of curing a lens cover of the vehicular light assembly, wherein the vehicular light assembly is fully fabricated.

7. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the fully fabricated vehicular light assembly comprises a housing, a reflector, a bulb, and a lens cover.

8. A method for repairing a vehicular light assembly, consisting of the steps of:

providing a vehicular light assembly having at least one damaged sub-component;

providing a mold from at least one of a vehicular light assembly and vehicular light assembly sub-component void of damage relative to the at least one damaged sub-component; and

generating a new sub-component from the mold to, in turn, repair the at least one damaged sub-component.

Assignments (2)
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST RECORDED AT REEL/FRAME 30343/218 Recorded Dec 19, 2022
From: WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
To: KEYSTONE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRIES, INC.; KAIR IL, LLC; NORTH AMERICAN ATK CORPORATION; LKQ CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 062154/0324 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded May 3, 2013
From: LKQ CORPORATION; KEYSTONE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRIES, INC.; KAIR IL, LLC; NORTH AMERICAN ATK CORPORATION
To: WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
Reel/Frame 030343/0218 →