Land vehicles – Wheeled – Attachment
Patent
1990-08-22
1991-11-19
Rice, Kenneth R.
Land vehicles
Wheeled
Attachment
280743, B60R 2116
Patent
active
050660373
ABSTRACT:
A releasable latch (50) is provided for a door assembly (14) having an outer skin member, a foam backing member, and an inner door member. The door assembly conceals an airbag restraint system having a housing, an airbag and a gas generator producing an inflatant for inflating the airbag for deploying the airbag through the door assembly. The releasable latch has a closed U-shaped end that is press fit in an open U-shaped end on a retainer member on the housing to hold the door assembly in a mating relationship to interior trim parts. The inner door member is engaged during initial inflation of the airbag to displace the door assembly so as to bend the inner door member at a hinge joint between the outer cover member and the interior trim part and the press fit between the closed U-shaped end and the open U-shaped end provides easy opening of the door assembly as the airbag is inflated.
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patent: 3794349 (1974-02-01), Fuller
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Bemis Claude
Castrigno Steven
Nichols Lawrence R.
Rafferty Scott E.
Davidson Textron Inc.
Evans John C.
Rice Kenneth R.
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