Airbag cover structure for steering wheel
AssigneeHyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
InventorsJae Jun HARM, Seok Hoon KO, Do Hyoung KIM
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Abstract
An airbag cover structure for a steering wheel. The airbag cover structure with a lighting emblem includes: a mounting plate with an airbag cushion; an inner cover including an inner locking portion, a storage portion, and an inner hinge portion; an outer cover including an outer locking portion, an indicating portion, and an outer hinge portion; and an absorption area provided on the inner hinge portion of the inner cover, and configured to concentrate and absorb stress generated by a force that unfolds a bent portion of the outer hinge portion during deployment of the airbag cushion.
Claims9
An airbag cover structure for a steering wheel, the airbag cover structure comprising:
- a mounting plate in which an airbag cushion is stored;
- an inner cover comprising:
- an inner locking portion provided at a first portion thereof and coupled to the mounting plate;
- a storage portion provided at a second portion thereof and coupled to an emblem module;
- and an inner hinge portion integrally formed with a portion between the inner locking portion and the storage portion, having a bent shape, and configured to rotate the storage portion when the bent shape is unfolded during deployment of the airbag cushion;
- an outer cover comprising:
- an outer locking portion provided at a first portion thereof and coupled to the mounting plate while covering the inner locking portion of the inner cover;
- an indicating portion provided at a second portion thereof and configured to expose the emblem module while covering the storage portion of the inner cover;
- and an outer hinge portion integrally formed with a portion between the outer locking portion and the indicating portion, having a bent shape, and configured to rotate the indicating portion when the bent portion is unfolded during deployment of the airbag cushion;
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- an absorption area provided on the inner hinge portion of the inner cover, and configured to concentrate and absorb stress generated by a force that unfolds the bent portion during deployment of the airbag cushion,
- wherein the emblem module comprises:
- an emblem main body coupled to the storage portion of the inner cover, and in which an exposed portion with a predetermined shape protrudes on a first surface thereof and a storage portion with a predetermined storing space is on a second surface thereof;
- and
- a light source unit accommodated in the storage portion and configured to emitting light to the emblem main body,
- wherein the indicating portion of the outer cover has emblem exposing holes through which the exposed portion of the emblem main body passes and is exposed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.