Covering for an airbag module

US5957483A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• TRW AUTOMOTIVE SAFETY SYSTEMS GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Michael Miltenberger · Heusenstamm, DE
• Attila K. Dalkilic · Aschaffenburg, DE
• Martin Kreuzer · Kleinwallstadt, DE
• Klaus Grothe · Monheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 9, 1997
• Grant date: Sep 28, 1999
• Expiry date: Dec 9, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60R21/21656
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A covering for an airbag module accommodated in the door lining and/or in the instrument panel of a vehicle. The covering has a main part of plastic comprising an airbag-attaching component and an airbag-covering component. The airbag-covering component can optionally be covered with expanded plastic. The module has a cover of real or imitation leather. There is at least one area in the form of a flap that can be ripped open in the vicinity of the airbag-covering component. The rip-open area is demarcated by a break-open line, constituted by a weakening of the material and by a hinging line. The covering is characterized by a groove-like outer depression along the break-open line that extends over the whole width of the covering and in that the cover is forced into the depression, doubling the material.