US 12,420,732 B2
Front end panel for an electric vehicle
Geert Jan Schellekens, Geleen (NL)
Assigned to SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V., Bergen Op Zoom (NL)
Filed by SABIC Global Technologies B.V., Bergen op Zoom (NL)
Filed on Dec. 9, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/078,309.
Application 18/078,309 is a continuation of application No. 16/643,208, granted, now 11,524,644, previously published as PCT/EP2018/078183, filed on Oct. 16, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 17196854 (EP), filed on Oct. 17, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2023/0097463 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. B60R 19/52 (2006.01); B60R 13/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60R 19/52 (2013.01) [B60R 13/005 (2013.01); B60R 2019/525 (2013.01); B60R 2019/527 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
14. A front end panel assembly for an electric vehicle, the assembly comprising:
an at least partially optically transparent laminate sheet having side edges, comprising an optically transparent thermoplastic substrate and a pattern layer comprising a peripheral opaque band that extends from the side edge of the laminate sheet;
opaque lines, between which the laminate sheet is exposed; and
a spacing structure comprising a base and a peripheral upstanding wall extending from the base, wherein the upstanding wall connects to the laminate sheet at the peripheral opaque band, such that a closed space is formed, wherein the peripheral opaque band hides an area of connection between the laminate sheet and the spacing structure.