VEHICULAR INTERIOR COMPONENT

• Main Authors: UCHIYAMA KEI, AOYAMA SAORI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 29.10.2009
• Subjects: PERFORMING OPERATIONS; REMOVABLE EXTERNAL PROTECTIVE COVERINGS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORVEHICLES; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL; VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISEPROVIDED FOR; WINDOWS, WINDSCREENS, NON-FIXED ROOFS, DOORS, OR SIMILARDEVICES FOR VEHICLES

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an interior component for a vehicle, surely enabling an air-bag to be developed by causing the body of the interior component having a front cover bonded thereon to be developed smoothly when the air-bag is developed. SOLUTION: A vehicular interior component includes: a body of the interior component covering a side of a vehicular body panel facing a compartment; a developer part arranged at the body of the vehicular interior component developed along with development motion of an air-bag arranged between the vehicle body panel and the body of the interior component toward the inside of the compartment; and a front cover having a body of the front cover continuously covering both the body of the interior component and the developer part and having a laying part the terminal end of which is folded and inserted into the vehicle body. The laying part has: one area where a laying length ranging from a terminal end of the body of the interior component at the laying part to the terminal end of the laying part is long; the other area where the laying length is short; and a curved line part arranged in an interface between the one area having the long laying part length and the other area having the short laying part, where the laying length is gradually changed in correspondence with the developer part. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT