Instrument panel with a passenger airbag

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2008-05-06

2008-05-06

Ilan, Ruth (Department: 3616)

Land vehicles

Wheeled

Attachment

C280S728300

Reexamination Certificate

active

07367583

ABSTRACT:
An instrument panel has a passenger airbag system such that, in the deployment of the airbag, an airbag cover on the top side of the instrument panel adjacent to the windshield is upwardly displaceable in the direction of the windshield about a transverse pivot axis. Thereby, a passage for the actual airbag of the passenger airbag module is cleared. In order to prevent damage to the windshield due to the airbag cover being pivoted upward when the airbag is deployed, a transverse intended breaking line is provided on the airbag cover at a distance from the pivot axis so that the airbag cover is bent upward about this intended breaking line when it comes to rest against the windshield.

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