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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2009
Toyokazu Endo, Kanagawa, JP;
Masahiko Hara, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroyuki Kojima, Kanagawa, JP;
Sumiaki Tanaka, Kanagawa, JP;
Shinya Hashimoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Noriyuki Koike, Kanagawa, JP;
Toyokazu Endo, Kanagawa, JP;
Masahiko Hara, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroyuki Kojima, Kanagawa, JP;
Sumiaki Tanaka, Kanagawa, JP;
Shinya Hashimoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Noriyuki Koike, Kanagawa, JP;
Kasai Kogyo Co., Ltd, Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
There is provided an automotive interior component including an impact absorber mounted to an interior side of a side wall panel of a vehicle, and the shape and structure of the impact absorber that can undergo buckling deformation and absorb an impact load in a side collision are improved to increase an impact absorbing function. The impact absorbermounted on a back surface of an impact area IA in the automotive interior component (door trim)is formed as a hollow box body having an openingon one side and a bottom surface wallon the other side, and improvement such as providing corner cut portionsat four corner portions of the bottom surface wall, forming a chamfered portionat a corner portion of a side wall, or forming a cam groove portion, a triangular rib, or an inner surface ribis made to adjust a reaction force in a side collision to increase an impact absorbing function.