Supplemental inflation restraint and door arrangement

Details Supplemental inflation restraint and door arrangement Supplemental inflation restraint and door arrangement

1994-12-19

1996-08-13

Tyson, Karin L.

Land vehicles

Wheeled

Attachment

280752, B60R 2116

Patent

active

055449123

ABSTRACT:
A passenger-side supplemental inflation restraint and door arrangement is provided including an air bag housing mounted in a forward portion of the vehicle, an inflator positioned within the housing, an air bag and an instrument panel covering the air bag. The instrument panel includes a rigid self-supporting polymeric base having a preform defining a door and a door opening, a generally non-supporting polymeric skin covering the base and spaced therefrom, a molded polymeric foam with a density lower than that of the base and the skin supporting the skin on the base, and a self-supporting foam border material joined to the base on the door opening portion on a side of the base adjacent the polymeric skin generally adjacent to the preform along the door opening and the self-supporting foam border material extending toward the skin.

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Disclosure No. 34575, "Cover Reaction Ring for an Integral PSIR Door," Research Disclosure, p. 50. Jan. 1993.

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