Faurecia Innenraum Systeme Gmbh

Fabrice Pepin

Gwenael Monnier

Yohann Boniface

Jérôme Boulbes

Richard Guenin

Thierry Schupbach

The disclosure discloses a vehicle interior panel for covering an airbag and a method of fabricating a vehicle interior panel for covering an airbag. The vehicle interior panel includes a substrate with an opening, a chute channel assembly inserted into the opening, a surface skin, and a foam layer disposed between the surface skin and the substrate. The chute channel assembly includes a wall section surrounding a chute channel for the airbag and a cover plate covering the chute channel and closing the opening. The cover plate includes an airbag door, wherein an outer surface of the cover plate is in contact with the foam layer. The outer surface of the cover plate has a rough surface structure, the outer surface having a surface roughness parameter Rof at least 4 &#x3bc;m.

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Beauvais, France

Fabrice Pepin