Deployment door patterns for an air bag safety system
First Claim
1. An air bag deployment door construction for passenger carrying vehicle having a passenger compartment defined by trim structure equipped with an air bag safety system including an air bag receptacle stowed behind an interior trim structure, with a deployment opening formed in said interior trim structure upon activation of said air bag system;
- said air bag deployment construction formed by a plurality of generally triangular door substrate panels each hinged along one side of said triangular shape to said trim structure, said door substrate panels interfit together with the remaining sides of each of said triangular door substrate panels contiguous with next adjacent door substrate panels to close off said deployment opening when said door substrate panels are hinged to a closed position, said generally triangular door substrate panels not all of the same size and arranged in an asymmetrical pattern.
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Abstract
A passenger side air bag deployment opening is formed by interfit unequal triangular door substrate panels, four triangular door substrate panels in a first embodiment fit into an asymmetric quadrangular deployment opening in the instrument panel and able to be hinged open by the inflating air bag. Three triangular door substrate panels in a second embodiment forming a triangular deployment opening the door patterns of each embodiment allow the door substrate panels to avoid damage to the windshield and injury to a passenger when forced open.
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1. An air bag deployment door construction for passenger carrying vehicle having a passenger compartment defined by trim structure equipped with an air bag safety system including an air bag receptacle stowed behind an interior trim structure, with a deployment opening formed in said interior trim structure upon activation of said air bag system;
said air bag deployment construction formed by a plurality of generally triangular door substrate panels each hinged along one side of said triangular shape to said trim structure, said door substrate panels interfit together with the remaining sides of each of said triangular door substrate panels contiguous with next adjacent door substrate panels to close off said deployment opening when said door substrate panels are hinged to a closed position, said generally triangular door substrate panels not all of the same size and arranged in an asymmetrical pattern. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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