Instrument panel integrally equipped with air bag door portion

Abstract

An instrument panel of a division type, which has distinctly divided portions, reduces restrictions on designing freedom resulting from a break line and a parting line of an air bag door portion and prevents the overall quality of the outward appearance from deteriorating. The instrument panel is of a type that is divided into upper and lower panels, and the lower panel is divided into a passenger-side lower panel and a driver-side lower panel. The parting line of the instrument panel coincides with a cleavage line defined by an upper air bag door portion and a lower air bag door portion. In a lower door insert of the lower air bag door portion, a free end thereof is set wider than a fixed end thereof. The passenger-side lower panel including the lower air bag door portion is entirely covered with a single skin.