Air bag door arrangement

Details Air bag door arrangement Air bag door arrangement

1995-04-24

1996-10-01

Dickson, Paul N.

Land vehicles

Wheeled

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280732, B60R 2116

Patent

active

055606466

ABSTRACT:
An air bag door arrangement is incorporated in an instrument panel that has a substrate and an uninterrupted covering for the substrate. The substrate includes an air bag opening that is closed by a door. The door has a hinged end that is clamped to the substrate by a frame that is beneath the substrate, a reinforcement bar that is above the substrate and a plurality of fasteners that force the frame and reinforcement bar toward each other. An air bag canister is attached to the frame beneath the air bag opening of the substrate and the frame is attached to automotive body structure so that the substrate is isolated from the reaction forces of the canister when an air bag housed in the canister inflates and pushes the door through the instrument panel covering.

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patent: 4893833 (1990-01-01), DiSalvo
patent: 4911471 (1990-03-01), Hirabayashi
patent: 5082310 (1992-01-01), Bauer
patent: 5275432 (1994-01-01), Pray et al.
patent: 5280947 (1994-01-01), Cooper
patent: 5340149 (1994-08-01), Gajewski
patent: 5403033 (1995-04-01), Koma

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