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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2003
Andrew Patrick Thomas, Northville, MI (US);
Chi LI, Northville, MI (US);
Justin Lee Healy, Garden City, MI (US);
Andrew Patrick Thomas, Northville, MI (US);
Chi Li, Northville, MI (US);
Justin Lee Healy, Garden City, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A trim cover () fabricated of synthetic material that has a temperature-sensitive fragmentation characteristic fractures as a passenger restraint is deployed through a wall of the trim cover. A laminated backing () disposed on a back face of the trim cover wall contains fragments of the wall resulting from its fracturing by the deploying restraint. The laminated backing has a stretchable foam layer () having a front face adhered to the back of the wall and a non-tearable layer () that has a front face adhered in covering relation to a back face of the stretchable foam layer and that does not tear as a result of the fracturing of the wall by the deploying restraint.