Panel cover door attachment for inflatable occupant restraint

Details Panel cover door attachment for inflatable occupant restraint Panel cover door attachment for inflatable occupant restraint

1992-02-19

1995-03-21

Oberleitner, Robert J.

Land vehicles

Wheeled

Attachment

280732, B60R 2116

Patent

active

053989597

ABSTRACT:
An inflatable occupant restraint device for a vehicle passenger includes an air bag and an inflator mounted subjacent an opening in the upper surface of the vehicle instrument panel for air bag deployment rearwardly through the opening. The instrument panel has a supporting substrate, a foam layer, and an outer skin. A closure arrangement for the opening comprises a cover door having a structural substrate, a foam layer, and an outer skin. A groove is formed in the panel foam layer adjacent the opening and engages a flange formed on the cover door foam layer to locate the cover door in the opening. A front tether has one end molded into the cover door between the substrate and the foam layer and the other end attached to the support adjacent the front of the opening. A pair of side tethers each have one end molded into a side edge of the cover door between the substrate and the foam layer and having the other end attached to the support adjacent the side of the opening. The tethers each have a predetermined length to enable movement of the cover door away from the opening to a predetermined position forming an open angle opening rearwardly of the vehicle panel. The inflating air bag releases the door from the panel and the door opens to the predetermined position, out of the path of the deploying air bag.

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patent: 4893833 (1990-01-01), DiSalvo et al.
patent: 4911471 (1990-03-01), Hirabayashi
patent: 4973081 (1990-11-01), Rafferty

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