Kasai Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Toyokazu Endo

Hiroyuki Kojima

Katsuji Ueki

Shinya Hashimoto

Masahiko Hara

Sumiaki Tanaka

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.

Automotive interior component

An automotive interior component such as an automotive door trim comprising a main body integrally combining a resin core member and a surface skin member by a mold press forming process and an attachment member attached to a part of the main body, in which the attachment member is attached to the main body by way of connecting parts of the resin core member during the process of mold press forming. The connecting part may consist of an extension of the resin core member which is pushed out of openings provided in the surface skin member and adhered to the attachment member. Alternatively, the connecting part may consist of parts of the resin core member into which engagement pawls provided in the attachment member, in particular, an attachment core member thereof are penetrated through the surface skin member. In either case, solidification of the connecting parts completes the attachment of the automotive door trim. Thus, the process of mounting the attachment member is simplified, and accurate positioning of the attachment member can be achieved.

Automotive door trim with attachment joined during molding

Automotive door trim and method for fabricating the same

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