Instrument panel mounting structure for automobile

Details Instrument panel mounting structure for automobile Instrument panel mounting structure for automobile

1992-10-07

1994-03-15

Mitchell, David M.

Land vehicles: bodies and tops

Bodies

Dashboards

24293, 180 90, B62D 2514

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052941647

ABSTRACT:
An instrument panel mounting structure for an automobile, characterized in that lower end portions of a pair of front pillar trims are forcibly flexed inwardly of a cabin of the automobile to come into contact with laterally opposite end portions of an instrument panel, respectively, thereby securely eliminating a gap between the lower end portion of each front pillar trim and the corresponding laterally opposite end portion of the instrument panel to improve an appearance. A pair of leaf springs are mounted to the laterally opposite end portions of the instrument panel, respectively. The lower end portions of the front pillar trims are biased inwardly of the cabin by the leaf springs so as to be urged against the laterally opposite end portions of the instrument panel, respectively.

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patent: 4570991 (1986-02-01), Lystad
patent: 4723792 (1988-02-01), Sakamoto et al.
patent: 4943107 (1990-07-01), Rhodes, Jr.
patent: 5095592 (1992-03-01), Doerfling

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