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INFLATABLE DASH-PANEL CONSTRUCTION

  • US 3,767,229 A
  • Filed: 12/30/1971
  • Issued: 10/23/1973
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/30/1971
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. Inflatable means for a vehicle dash-panel construction comprising a hollow inflatable bag, said bag including a cover part overlying and secured to said dash;

  • a laterally elongated skirt depending from the rear of said cover part secured to said dash and positioned rearward of the instrument panel below the dash;

    a resilient padding normally folded into L-shape to loosely overlie said cover part and skirt;

    a lower portion of said padding being secured to said skirt; and

    a reverse folded webbing element normally overlying said cover part with one end connected to a forward portion of the cover part and with its other end connected to the forward end of said padding;

    said cover part, said webbing and a portion of said padding normally lying on the dash below the windshield;

    means controlled by emergency impact only for inflating the bag to expand and unfold said webbing element to a planar position and said padding to a substantially upright position between the dash panel windshield grouping and the occupants of the vehicle;

    said padding forming a substantially monoplanar screen reaching from the vehicle header to the panel below the dash; and

    releasable fastening means interconnecting the outer forward ends of said reverse folded webbing.

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