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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 03, 1999
Allibert Industrie, Nanterre, FR;
Abstract
The invention relates in particular to a facia panel designed to make it possible for an airbag to pass through it at the time the airbag is inflated. In accordance with the invention, the part includes a plastic support element ( ) having a reduced thickness in comparison to its other dimensions; a connecting sheet ( ) joined to the support element; the part presenting a special zone ( ) which forms a door and is designed to make it possible to create a passageway, the zone being delimited by a periphery constituted by an embrittled portion ( ) presenting two extremities of an articulating portion which defines, between the two extremities, an articulation axis overlapped by the sheet; along at least the major part of the embrittled portion, the sheet is present on either side of the embrittled portion; and the sheet is present over the greater part of the special zone.