Automotive Door Inside Panel Equipped with Sunshade
AssigneeFaurecia Interieur Industrie
InventorTony Ercolano
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Abstract
A door inside panel includes a panel body (12) having a first fixing device (18) and an upper pelmet (14) arranged proximate the upper edge of the panel body (12) and housed in a cavity (16) which opens on the visible side of the inside panel, the pelmet (14) including a second fixing device (20). The fixing devices (18, 20) have co-operating positions wherein they cause the pelmet (14) to be fixed to the panel body (12), a first position wherein the entire edge of the pelmet (14) is in contact with the panel body, and a second position wherein the edge of the pelmet (14) is spaced apart from the panel body (12) proximate the upper edge and forms a slot (28). The invention is suitable for an automotive door.
Claims19
Automotive inside door panel of the type comprising:
- a panel body (12) which is to be fixed to a door body and which, in the use position, extends in a substantially vertical plane and has an upper edge that is to be adjacent to a window, the panel body (12) comprising a first fixing means (18), and
- an upper fascia (14) arranged in the vicinity of most of the upper edge of the panel body (12), the fascia (14) being accommodated in a cavity (16) in the panel body which opens on the visible side of the inside panel, both towards the upper edge of the panel body (12) and towards the inside in the use position in a vehicle, the fascia (14) comprising a second fixing device (20),
- the first and second fixing devices (18, 20) being intended to cooperate in order to fix the fascia (14) to the panel body (12),
- characterised in that the first and second fixing devices (18, 20) have two cooperating positions in which they fix the fascia (14) to the panel body (12), a first position in which the whole of the edge of the fascia (14) is virtually in contact with the panel body, both in a plane of the panel body (12) and in the vicinity of its upper edge, and a second position in which the edge of the fascia (14) is virtually in contact with the panel body in the plane of that body but is at a distance from the panel body (12) in the vicinity of the upper edge, so that a slot (28) is delimited between the edge part of the fascia (14) close to the upper edge and the upper edge of the panel body (12).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.