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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 25, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Tatsuo Shiraki, Anjo, JP;
Takashi Kitano, Tokyo-to, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Inoac Corporation, Aichi-ken, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
2807283 ; 280732 ;
Abstract
An instrument panel has an air bag door to be bent and opened toward a windshield. The air bag door has a door core. An edge of the door core on the windshield side and an edge of a frame arranged on the edge of the door core on the windshield side are fixed to the windshield-side peripheral edge of an air bag opening of an instrument panel core. The door core and frame are provided with extensions on the windshield side. Each of the extensions has a rigidity-lowering opening, and an end of each extension on the windshield side has a fixing part to be fixed to the instrument panel core.