Daimlerchrysler Corporation

Catherine Oddo-Long

Shawn Robert Williams

Joseph G Lemmon

Rajkumar Rajagopalan

Jennifer A Head

An impact energy absorbing arrangement is provided for a vehicle interior having a protuberance designed and configured as part of an interior surface covering a vehicle pillar and butting into a headliner surface. The protuberance is arranged so that if an occupant's head forcibly strikes the roof headliner directly above the pillar, the protuberance on the pillar surface would absorb at least a portion of the impact force as well as minimize potential rotation of the head about the occupant's neck by being positioned so as to contact a portion of the occupant's head at approximately the same time as contact would occur with the headliner.

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Rochester, MI, United States of America

Catherine Oddo-Long