公开(公告)号：US5901977A

公开(公告)日：1999-05-11

申请号：US937575

申请日：1997-09-25

申请人： Jonathan Knox ,  John D. Gray ,  Robert Booth

发明人： Jonathan Knox ,  John D. Gray ,  Robert Booth

IPC分类号： B60R13/02 ,  B60K37/00 ,  B60R21/2165 ,  B60R21/16

CPC分类号： B60R21/2165

摘要： A discrete air bag tear seam is provided in the finishing cover of an interior component of an automotive vehicle. An applique installed on the cover has an elongated external decorator head concealing the tear seam. Elongated and laterally spaced retention flanges of the applique stabilize and releasably retain the cover at the tear seam. The applique is secured to a fixed retainer part of the component and operates by releasing the cover at the tear seam to form an air bag door in response to the forced outward movement of an underlying door substrate on air bag deployment. The underlying door substrate exerts a force on the cover and particularly the outer skin thereof and causes it to pull away from the applique starting at the concealed tear seam to establish an opening for improved air bag deployment.

摘要翻译： 在机动车辆的内部部件的整理罩中提供分立的气囊撕裂缝。 安装在盖上的贴花+ E，acu e + EE具有隐藏撕裂缝的细长外部装饰头。 贴片+ E，acu e + EE的延长和横向隔开的保持法兰稳定并可释放地将盖保持在撕裂缝处。 贴片+ E，acu e + EE被固定到部件的固定保持器部分，并且通过在撕裂缝处释放盖来操作，以响应于下面的门基板在气囊上的强制向外移动而形成气囊门 部署。 下面的门基材在盖子上，特别是其外皮上施加力，并使其从隐蔽的撕裂缝开始从贴布+ E，acu e + EE拉开，以建立用于改进气囊展开的开口。

公开(公告)号：US6050595A

公开(公告)日：2000-04-18

申请号：US26213

申请日：1998-02-19

申请人： Jonathan Knox

发明人： Jonathan Knox

IPC分类号： B60R21/2165 ,  B60R21/20

CPC分类号： B60R21/2165

摘要： A method for deployably concealing an air bag behind an instrument panel which includes a decorative plastic skin that covers a structural panel and a door that covers an opening in the panel. The panel includes a retainer and an outer foam layer adhered to a retainer outer surface. The door pivots on a hinge at a rear margin of the door. The skin is adhered to outer surfaces of the door and the panel. When closed, the door outer surface lies flush with the panel outer surface forming a seam between the door and the panel. The skin extends across the seam to conceal the door and panel. When opened, a front edge of the door pivots away from the opening to provide an air bag deployment path through the panel. A portion of the skin surrounding the door separates from the outer foam layer of the panel. The skin peels back to form a skin "tent" when the door opens. A delaminated front edge of the skin forms a tent opening that serves as an exit for the deploying air bag. The skin may also extend around an air conditioning bezel mounted in the panel and axially inward between the bezel and the panel. In this case, the bezel is axially outwardly movable when the skin is peeled back and is pulled outward from between the bezel and the panel.

摘要翻译： 一种用于可展开地隐藏仪表板后面的气囊的方法，该方法包括覆盖结构面板的装饰性塑料皮肤和覆盖面板中的开口的门。 面板包括保持器和粘附到保持器外表面的外部泡沫层。 门在门后部的铰链上枢转。 皮肤粘附在门和面板的外表面上。 关闭时，门外表面与面板外表面齐平，在门和面板之间形成接缝。 皮肤延伸穿过缝，以隐藏门和面板。 当打开时，门的前边缘从开口枢转以提供通过面板的气囊展开路径。 围绕门的一部分皮肤与面板的外层泡沫层分离。 当门打开时，皮肤皮肤恢复形成皮肤“帐篷”。 皮肤的分层前缘形成用作部署气囊的出口的帐篷开口。 皮肤还可以围绕安装在面板中的空调边框延伸并且在面板和面板之间沿轴向向内延伸。 在这种情况下，当皮肤被剥离并从挡板和面板之间向外拉时，挡板可以轴向向外移动。