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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2007
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2005
Linh Doan, Belleville, MI (US);
Marcus Oden, Canton, MI (US);
John Pinkerton, Canton, MI (US);
Lee Ho, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Todd George, Chelsea, MI (US);
Linh Doan, Belleville, MI (US);
Marcus Oden, Canton, MI (US);
John Pinkerton, Canton, MI (US);
Lee Ho, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Todd George, Chelsea, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
An interior armrest for an automotive vehicle includes upper and lower horizontal walls and a channel-shaped lateral impact contactor joined to the upper horizontal walls by the means of shear planes. The lateral impact contactor has a number of wedge-shaped vertical interruptions which cooperate with the shear planes to produce a controlled collapse in the event of a lateral impact of an occupant of the vehicle against the armrest.