Dual door arrangement for air bag deployment

Details Dual door arrangement for air bag deployment Dual door arrangement for air bag deployment

1993-12-01

1995-01-03

Tyson, Karin L.

Land vehicles

Wheeled

Attachment

280732, B60R 2122

Patent

active

053780140

ABSTRACT:
A dual door arrangement is insert molded in a decorative automotive instrument panel to create an opening for air bag deployment. The arrangement comprises two self hinging sheet metal doors that are attached to a thermoplastic frame by integral clips. One door has an outwardly projecting lip embedded in the instrument panel that initiate a central slit in the instrument panel for propagating the air bag opening. The other door has a depressed shelf that underlies the lip and adjacent margin of the first door to provide several advantages including helping the lip to initiate the central slit.

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