US 8,128,148 B2Granted

Vehicle with an instrument panel which is designed for a side impact

AssigneeFaurecia Innenraum Systeme GmbH

InventorsSteve Kober, Marco Braun, Christo Gavrilov

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Abstract

A vehicle contains a vehicle body with two A pillars and two B pillars which bound a vehicle interior, and an instrument panel which is arranged in the interior between the A pillars. The instrument panel has an instrument panel reinforcement. The instrument panel reinforcement has at least one first section and/or one second section, and the first and/or second section extends/extend in each case transversely with respect to the longitudinal direction of the vehicle at least over part of the instrument panel, beginning in each case on the outside of the instrument panel, in order to stiffen the instrument panel against a high force acting on the outsides of the instrument panel, for example against a force which is produced by a side impact. The contour of the instrument panel, including the instrument panel reinforcement, lies at least partially at a height between the A pillars and the B pillars at least in the region of the respective outside of the instrument panel. The instrument panel reinforcement is arranged in that region of the contour of the instrument panel which projects the furthest into the vehicle interior from the direction of the B pillars.

Claims12

Dependent claims

An instrument panel of a vehicle, the vehicle including a vehicle autobody which has two A-pillars and two B-pillars which delimit a vehicle interior, comprising:

an instrument panel reinforcement which is part of the instrument panel and includes at least one of (a) a first section and (b) a second section, at least one of the sections beginning at an outer side of the instrument panel and extending at least over a part of the instrument panel transversely to a vehicle longitudinal direction, for stiffening the instrument panel with respect to a high force which engages on the outer side of the instrument panel,
wherein the instrument panel reinforcement extends continuously over an entire width of the instrument panel,
wherein the instrument panel is arranged between the A-pillars in the interior,
wherein a contour of the instrument panel including the instrument panel reinforcement, at least in the region of the outer side of the instrument panel, lies at least partly at a position in the vehicle longitudinal direction between the A-pillars and the B-pillars, and
wherein the instrument panel reinforcement is arranged in a region of the contour of the instrument panel which, in the vehicle longitudinal direction, projects furthest into the vehicle interior so that the region is closest to the B-pillars.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.