Cross-vehicle beam forming a glove box that provides storage and accommodates load paths

Abstract

A vehicle comprises: a vehicle body including a passenger compartment; a cross-vehicle beam extending in a transverse direction inside the passenger compartment, the cross-vehicle beam including a metal profile and plastic material, wherein the plastic material forms a glove box, the glove box having an opening and first and second side walls that are substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the metal profile; and a first airbag device extending along the opening and mounted to the glove box using a first bracket portion at a first end of the first airbag device and using a second bracket portion at a second end of the airbag device opposite from the first end, wherein a first reaction force load path from deployment of the first airbag device extends through the first side wall into the metal profile.

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