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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2009
Toshihisa Kaneda, Kanagawa, JP;
Saori Aoyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Jirou Watanabe, Kanagawa, JP;
Daisuke Tabata, Kanagawa, JP;
Toshihisa Kaneda, Kanagawa, JP;
Saori Aoyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Jirou Watanabe, Kanagawa, JP;
Daisuke Tabata, Kanagawa, JP;
Kasai Kogyo Co., Ltd., Kouza-Gun, Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
To provide an automotive interior part surely deploying an airbag as a result of a smooth opening and fracture of an interior-part main body onto which an outer cover is attached at the time of the deployment of the airbag. The present invention includes: a door-upper main bodycovering a vehicle compartment side of a door panela deployment sectiondeployed in tune with the deployment of an airbagtoward inside the vehicle compartment; and an outer cover having an outer-cover main bodycontinuously covering the door-upper main bodyand the deployment sectionand an overhang sectionhung over by folding a terminal end thereof. The overhang sectionincludes: an areahaving a long overhang length that extends from the end on the door-upper main bodyside of the overhang section to the opposite end of the door upper main bodyof the overhang section and an areahaving a short overhang length of the same; and a borderline sectionthat is arranged along a borderline between the areahaving the long overhang length and the areahaving the short overhang length and that initiates the fracture of the terminal end of the outer cover when the airbagis deployed.