Air bag cover assembly for motor vehicles, comprises flexible decorative badge bonded to the recessed portion of substrate

摘要

An air bag cover assembly has a plastic substrate enclosing an uninflated automotive air bag and a switch, and a badge having a soft plastic preform compatible with the substrate. The badge is shaped to be received in and secured to the recessed portion of the substrate. It defines a switch interface to actuate the switch by applying pressure to the front outer surface of the badge. An independent claim is also included for a method of making an airbag cover, which comprises vacuum molding a film sheet in a mold cavity to obtain a soft decorative preform, providing a hot stamping foil having a foil top layer and aligning the hot stamping foil with the preform in a hot stamping machine, operating the hot stamping machine for a period to generate temperature and pressure to melt and combine a top surface of at least one foil-receiving portion and the preform of the hot stamping foil to form a decorative badge (14), injection molding a thermoplastic elastomeric body having a shape defining the air bag cover, and bonding the decorative badge to the air bag cover.