US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, Kia on Sept. 9 for "Manufacturing device of roof panel for vehicles" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,485, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Manufacturing device of roof panel for vehicles" was invented by JeongHee Cho (Ulsan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manufacturing apparatus of a roof panel includes a first mold, a second mold including first trimming units provided in a second lower die and a second upper die to trim an edge portion of a first processed plate processed by the first mold, second trimming units to trim a sunroof hole in the first processed plate, first restriking units to form first undercut faces on both edge portion...