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US 7,464,958 B2Granted
Passenger airbag door structure
AssigneeHyundai Motor Company
InventorByung Seok Kong
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Abstract
Disclosed are a passenger airbag door structure in which a pad deploying part and an airbag door part are integrally formed and a method of making the same.
Claims16
A passenger airbag door structure, comprising:
- (a) a pad deploying part having a pad body which includes on its lower surface (i) an incision groove through which the airbag is configured to be deployed toward a passenger, and (ii) a plurality of breaking parts spaced from the incision groove and configured to be broken by a deploying pressure of the airbag;
- (b) an airbag door part including at its both ends extension parts each of which is extending from and downwardly bent at a position near the breaking part and defines therein a first coupling hole configured to enable the extension part to slide forward together with the pad deploying part during deployment of the airbag, wherein the airbag door part has a thickness greater than the pad deploying part;
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- (c) a chute part which includes chute bodies, each of chute bodies (i) having upper end portion, lower end portion, and bent end portion between the upper and lower end portions, wherein the upper end portion is fixed to a lower surface of the pad deploying part, and the lower end portion defines a hook formed by inwardly bending the lower end portion, and (ii) defining therein a second coupling hole formed at a position spaced from the first coupling hole of the airbag door part.
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A method of producing a passenger airbag door structure, comprising the steps of:
- (a) injection molding a plastic material to form a pad deploying part;
- (b) stamping an incision groove and breaking parts into the pad deploying part;
- (c) injection molding a plastic material softer than the material used in step (a) to form an airbag door part;
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- (d) forming a first coupling hole in the airbag door part.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.