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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 1998
Filed:
Oct. 11, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Stefan Bohn, Goldbach, DE;
Assignee:
MST Automotive GmbH, Aschaffenburg, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
2807282 ; 280732 ; 2807281 ;
Abstract
To accommodate a gas generator of an airbag for front-seat passenger protection in a motor vehicle, a trough-like housing is proposed which has a constant U-shaped cross section on its length, and flat sidewalls at its ends, which is characterized by two half shells of substantially mirror-image configuration made by casting in a mold with integrally attached side wall halves and by joining the two half shells. The manufacturing method to be applied according to the invention permits flexible adaption of the trough-like housing both to local space requirements and to functional requirements. The housing is especially light and can be made very inexpensively.