| 摘要 |
<p>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To effectively absorb impact energy without reducing a storage space of a grove box for a knee guard of a front passenger seat. SOLUTION: A knee guard 40 of a front passenger seat consists of right/left knee guard brackets which are positioned along the outside of the both right/left side surfaces of a grove box 6 and whose front end is fixed to a steering support beam 2, a connection member 5 for connecting the right/left knee guard brackets across the grove box 6, a rid 61 of the grove box 6. A sectionally closed area 61d is formed in succession on the right/left sides by a reinforcement 61c within the rid 61. When an occupant's knee strikes the rid 61 at vehicle collision time, when the rid 61 is dislocated forward, the right/left parts of the sectionally closed area 61d touch a load-input surface 4a, 4a of the right/left knee guard brackets so as to input the load into the knee guard brackets.</p> |
