Passenger airbag module using an essentially unitary cover

Details Passenger airbag module using an essentially unitary cover Passenger airbag module using an essentially unitary cover

1995-10-02

1997-05-06

Dickson, Paul N.

Land vehicles

Wheeled

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280732, B60R 2116

Patent

active

056263570

ABSTRACT:
An essentially unitary airbag cover assembly is provided for concealing an airbag module. The cover has a vehicle panel with a front surface, a foam core and panel substrate with a dropped lip or shelf on a distal end thereof. A deployment door incorporated in the panel is hinged to the panel along one side thereof with at least one of the remaining sides of the door resting in the panel on the dropped lip or shelf of the panel substrate. The deployment door and panel are substantially the same thickness, and the shelf is dropped such that when the deployment door is positioned on the dropped shelf in the panel substrate, the door and panel are on the same level and there is no need for a connection between the panel and deployment door aside from the hinged side of the door.

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