Kasai Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Sumiaki Tanaka

Hiroyuki Kojima

Shinya Hashimoto

Masahiko Hara

Toyokazu Endo

Noriyuki Koike

There is provided an automotive interior component including an impact absorber mounted to an interior side of a side wall panel of a vehicle, and the shape and structure of the impact absorber that can undergo buckling deformation and absorb an impact load in a side collision are improved to increase an impact absorbing function. The impact absorbermounted on a back surface of an impact area IA in the automotive interior component (door trim)is formed as a hollow box body having an openingon one side and a bottom surface wallon the other side, and improvement such as providing corner cut portionsat four corner portions of the bottom surface wall, forming a chamfered portionat a corner portion of a side wall, or forming a cam groove portion, a triangular rib, or an inner surface ribis made to adjust a reaction force in a side collision to increase an impact absorbing function.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Sumiaki Tanaka