Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Door or window with specified vehicle feature
Patent
1993-12-27
1995-05-30
Pedder, Dennis H.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Door or window with specified vehicle feature
296 391, 280748, 52511, 24297, 245732, B60R 1302
Patent
active
054196060
ABSTRACT:
A vehicle door interior assembly has an inner door panel attached to a trim panel with a plurality of pins having splines thereon which are sheared from the pins for absorbing energy to lessen the energy transfer to the vehicle interior during a collision or otherwise. The pins have a shaft with a spear shaped nose section on one end which assists in attachment of the pins to holes in the inner door panel assembly. Finger members attached near the nose section help retain the pins in the holes and are deformed or sheared from the pin shaft should the assembly separate. A water seal is attached to the shaft to prevent moisture from seeping through the holes to the passenger compartment. Under compression, the pins are forced through the holes thus shearing the splines from the shaft and convert kinetic energy of the pin to heat energy.
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Hull Edward I.
Vecchio Michael T.
Ford Motor Company
Kelley David B.
May Roger L.
Pedder Dennis H.
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