W. Inoac, Inc.

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Grupo Antolin-Ingenieria, S.a.

Timothy D Boxell

Gregg Stoutenburg Evans

Tadashi Sato

Randy A Staib

Tetsuji Fukushima

Michael J Aittama

Dwayne William Malone

James J Yang

Cory J Perriton

Kenneth Alan Shick

Todd S Przybylo

Some embodiments are directed to an assembly for housing and covering a vehicle airbag in an un-deployed state. The assembly can include a hollow housing that defines an interior that is configured to house the airbag in the un-deployed state. The housing can include a door having a linearly extending primary weakened portion spanning longitudinally opposing ends of the housing. The housing door can also include a pair of angled seams that each extend proximate the primary weakened portion to a location adjacent opposing corners of the door. The assembly can also include an intermediate layer disposed over and joined to the housing door, and an exterior layer disposed over and joined to the intermediate layer.

Vehicle restraint apparatus and methods of use and manufacture thereof

A method of forming an air bag release score line in a material by forming a ridge in the material along the line to be scored. By heat scoring the material along the ridge a ridge-induced twist prevents the formation of a witness line.

Laser ridge skin distortion reduction apparatus

Laser ridge skin distortion reduction method

Growing community of inventors

Southfield, MI, United States of America

Timothy D Boxell