Faurecia Interieur Industrie

Michael Brunet

Daniel Le Hoang

Franck Bonaventure

Jérôme Meziere

Pierre Demortain

The interior trim assembly for a motor vehicle is of the type comprising a framework and a panel for concealing an airbag comprising a flap a peripheral region surrounding the flap and attached to the framework, a hinge-forming strip having a flap portion attached to the flap, a framework portion attached to the framework, and a hinge portion extending between the flap portion and the framework portion. The region of the hinge portion adjacent to the framework portion may be covered by a protecting element and the region of the hinge portion adjacent to the flap region is exposed.

Interior trim assembly for a motor vehicle and motor vehicle

A housing () for receiving an airbag is fixed to a support member () by at least one fixing element () which extends through a hole () of the member and which is fixed to the housing (). The fixing element () is retained in the hole () with play so that the fixing element () is capable of pivoting, in a plane which contains the axis of the hole (), inside the hole () under the action of the deformation of the housing () so as to absorb the deformation brought about by the deployment of the airbag.

Bearing member including an airbag housing

This device includes a flexible net (), a first end portion () of which is overmolded by the flap () and a second portion () is overmolded by a support element (), the central portion extending between the first and second portions () forming a flexible hinge () for articulating the flap () relative to the support element (). The second portion () includes an end part () protruding from the support element () on the opposite side to the hinge-forming part (), the end part () including a stop element, such that, when the airbag is deployed, the stop element prevents the second part () from being pulled out of the support element ().

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Therdonne, France

Michael Brunet