Patent ID: 8414060

Claim:
A vehicle comprising: a vehicle body having at least one opening therein to be covered; a plurality of vehicle surfaces arranged around said at least one opening; a fabric cover for engaging over the opening and having edge portions for engaging respective ones of the vehicle surfaces; and a plurality of fastening elements for fastening the edge portions to the respective vehicle surfaces; each fastening element comprising: a female cap member attached to a respective fabric edge portion; a unitary male stud member formed solely of a single material and comprising a flexible base portion, a projecting portion that is seamlessly integral with said flexible base portion and defines a stud of greater rigidity than said flexible base portion, a peripheral rim of the projecting portion that stands upwardly from the base portion and is engageable into the cap member as a readily releasable and reengageable snap fastener, and a bottom surface of the flexible base portion that is situated opposite the projecting portion and follows a curvature of the respective vehicle surface; and a layer of adhesive having one surface adhesively fastened to the bottom surface of the base portion and an opposed surface fastened to the respective vehicle surface; wherein at least one of the respective vehicle surfaces is non-planar and at least some of the bottom surface of the flexible base portion on said one of the respective vehicle surfaces is deformed to conform thereto.