US 12,304,286 B2
Removable vehicular window panel with integrated latching element and carrying handle
Kyle S. Bowman, Holland, MI (US)
Assigned to Magna Exteriors, Inc., Troy, MI (US)
Filed by Magna Exteriors, Inc., Troy, MI (US)
Filed on Sep. 29, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/477,812.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/378,254, filed on Oct. 4, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0110414 A1, Apr. 4, 2024
Int. Cl. B60J 1/08 (2006.01); B60J 1/00 (2006.01); B60J 5/04 (2006.01)
CPC B60J 1/085 (2013.01) [B60J 1/006 (2013.01); B60J 5/0487 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicular glass window panel assembly, the vehicular glass window panel assembly comprising:
a glass panel having an inner side and an outer side;
a handle and catch element adhesively bonded along a first perimeter region of the inner side of the glass panel;
wherein the handle and catch element comprises a handle portion and a catch, and wherein the catch is configured for engaging a latching element of a vehicle equipped with the vehicular glass window panel assembly when the vehicular glass window panel assembly is mounted at the vehicle to close over an aperture of the vehicle;
wherein the handle and catch element is formed as a single component via a plastic injection molding process;
wherein, with the latching element of the vehicle engaged with the catch, the vehicular glass window panel assembly is secured at the vehicle;
wherein, with the latching element of the vehicle disengaged from the catch, the vehicular glass window panel assembly is removable from the vehicle; and
wherein, with the vehicular glass window panel assembly removed from the vehicle, the handle portion is graspable by a user to carry the vehicular glass window panel assembly; and
wherein the catch comprises a (i) first catch formed at a first end of the handle and catch element and (ii) a second catch formed at a second end of the handle and catch element, and wherein the first end is opposite the second end.