Air bag deployment door with snap fit

Details Air bag deployment door with snap fit Air bag deployment door with snap fit

1992-10-30

1994-01-04

Tyson, Karin L.

Land vehicles

Wheeled

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280728B, B60R 2116

Patent

active

052754324

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for an air bag safety restraint system comprising a deployment door (70), a chute (30) adapted to fit within an opening (24) within a component (20) of a vehicle and receive a deployment door (70). The chute (30) includes a first side (32a) and second side (32d). The second side (32d) includes a wall portion (34d) a snap-fit mechanism (125). The deployment door (70) including a substrate (70) including a cover member (74), a hinge member (78) formed along one side of the cover member (74), a flange (124) extending from the cover member (74) from a second side thereof and a tear seam (122) between the second side and the flange. The tear seam (122) being stressed and broken upon inflation of the air bag (69) permitting the cover member (74) to rotate about the hinge member permitting the air bag (69) to deploy, the flange (124) including receptacles 134a-c for engaging the snap-fit mechanism (125).

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patent: 3539200 (1970-11-01), Chute
patent: 4842299 (1989-06-01), Okamura
patent: 4893833 (1990-01-01), DiSalvo et al.
patent: 5060972 (1991-10-01), Satoh
patent: 5066037 (1991-11-01), Castrigno
patent: 5096221 (1992-03-01), Combs et al.
patent: 5167427 (1992-12-01), Baba

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