摘要 |
<p><P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To smoothly deploy an air bag 19 by ensuring the opening of an air bag door 35 to a high degree, in an instrument panel 1 formed so that the air bag door 35 consists of a breakage-expected part 33 of a flexible base material 5 and a hinge part 34, the breakage-expected part 33 is broken due to expansion of the airbag 19 and the air bag door 35 is opened as it is rotated around the hinge part 34 serving as a support axis. <P>SOLUTION: The hinge part 34 of the base material 5 of the air bag 35 consists of a thin part formed such that the back of the base material 5 is recessed in a rectangular shape in cross section extending over a given width W. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO</p> |