Car interior part with air bag cover portion

• US 6,338,499 B2
• Filed: 12/21/1999
• Issued: 01/15/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Company Limited (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Company Limited (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Ando, Hikaru, Ueno, Shigehiro, Suzuki, Kazumasa, Kuriyama, Yuji, Nagano, Akiyoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): CULBRETH, ERIC D
• Application Number:
  US09/468,324
• Publication Number:
  US 20010002748A1
• Time in Patent Office: 756 Days
• Field of Search: 280/728.3, 280/732, 280/728.2, 280/728.1
• US Class Current: 280/732
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 45/1639 Removable partitions between adjacent mould cavity portions
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 45/1671 with an insert
• CPC Class Codes: B29L 2031/3038 Air bag covers
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/2165 characterised by a tear line for defining a deployment opening

Abstract

A car interior part, to which an air bag device can be assembled, includes an interior part main body portion and a cover portion for an air bag. In the periphery of the back surface of the cover portion, there is formed an angular shaped mounting wall which can be connected to the air bag device. The mold releasing direction of the interior part main body portion is set as a direction that crosses the developing direction of an air bag. At least one of front and rear mounting walls formed in the mounting wall is or are formed in the same direction as the mold releasing direction of the interior part main body portion. In the portion of the rear mounting wall that is situated upwardly of the mounting portion of the rear mounting wall, there is formed an integral hinge portion. The mounting portion of the rear mounting wall is fixed to the air bag device while it is folded at the integral hinge portion thereof.

Claims

1. A car interior part comprising:

a main body portion;

a cover portion formed in said main body portion to thereby cover an air bag device, the cover portion including a door portion and a door hinge portion for opening or rotating the door portion; and

a mounting wall integrally formed with the cover portion and formed in at least a part of a periphery of a back surface of said cover portion, to which the air bag device is coupled,

wherein a mold releasing direction of said main body portion is set in a direction to cross a developing direction of an air bag of the air bag device, and said mounting wall includes a front mounting wall and a rear mounting wall, at least one of said front and rear mounting walls extends in the same direction as the mold releasing direction of said main body portion and has an integral hinge portion situated at a position upward of a mounting portion to which the air bag device is fixed while one of said front and rear mounting walls is folded at said integral hinge portion, and said door hinge portion being separately formed, and said mounting portion of the mounting wall extends in the developing direction of the air bag, and

wherein said rear mounting wall includes said integral hinge portion, and the car interior part further includes a plurality of reinforcing ribs, said plurality of reinforcing ribs being disposed in parallel to the mold releasing direction of said main body portion, and said integral hinge portion being formed and folded at a terminal end portion of said plurality of reinforcing ribs that are formed on the opposite side of the main body portion in such a manner as to be in parallel to the developing direction of the air bag.

2. A car interior part according to claim 1, wherein said main body portion and said cover portion are integrally molded.

3. A car interior part according to claim 1, wherein a front end edge of each of said reinforcing ribs extends from the position of said integral hinge portion in parallel to said front mounting wall.

4. A car interior part according to claim 1, wherein respective sides of said main body portion and said cover portion are substantially flush with each other.

5. A car interior part according to claim 1, wherein the door hinge portion is situated on one side of the front and rear sides and the integral hinge portion is situated on another side of said front and rear sides.