Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Raffi B Manoukian

Nicholas Andrew Mazzocchi

Stacey H Raines

Peter Joseph Bejin

Kaitlin M Cischke

Tyler Cohoon

An active glove box door includes a bladder member joined along an outer perimeter with a front wall by a hot weld seam to form an inflatable bladder. The bladder member includes a circumferential pleat for unfolding in response to an inflation gas during a crash event. A door inner liner is joined to a central region of the bladder member and forms a generally continuous plate behind the bladder member. The door inner liner interfaces with the instrument panel to provide a reaction surface for expansion of the bladder. The pleat has a peak disposed proximate to the door inner liner, wherein the peak includes a vent opening that delineates a collision region on the door inner liner. The door inner liner includes a plurality of perforations in the collision region permitting flow of inflation gas from the vent opening through the door inner liner.

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Northville, MI, United States of America

Raffi B Manoukian