| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7029028 |
Automotive trim piece and method to form an air bag deployment opening |
April 18, 2006 |
| An arrangement for forming an opening in an auto interior trim panel or piece normally having no visible indication of the opening just prior to inflation of an inflatable air bag, allowing deployment of the air bag into the passenger compartment of vehicle, the arrangement including a |
| 6848707 |
Automotive trim piece and method to form an air bag deployment opening |
February 1, 2005 |
| An arrangement for forming an opening in an auto interior trim panel or piece normally having no visible indication of the opening just prior to inflation of an inflatable air bag, allowing deployment of the air bag into the passenger compartment of vehicle, the arrangement including a |
| 6808197 |
Preweakened automotive interior trim piece for covering an air bag installation in an automotive |
October 26, 2004 |
| A process for preweakening the inside of an automotive trim piece cover layer of various constructions by use of a laser beam so as to enable formation of an air bag deployment opening in the trim piece formed at the time the air bag deploys. The laser beam impinges the inside surface of |
| 6737607 |
Apparatus for laser cutting a workpiece |
May 18, 2004 |
| An apparatus is disclosed for cutting a workpiece. A laser beam is directed at successive points along a workpiece surface to be cut and a sensor emits a sensing beam directed at the same successive points as the cutting beam. A beam combining device receives both the sensor beam and the |
| 6453535 |
Process for manufacturing an automotive trim piece preweakened to form an air bag deployment ope |
September 24, 2002 |
| A process for manufacturing a trim piece to provide a concealed deployment door and opening for an air bag in which a substrate panel is formed with one or more integral door panels having an interposed gap preformed between one or more door panels and the substrate panel, and one side o |
| 6423933 |
Process and apparatus for weakening an automotive trim piece for an airbag deployment opening |
July 23, 2002 |
| A method and apparatus is disclosed for forming lines of weakness in an automotive trim piece so as to enable formation of an airbag deployment opening in the trim piece. A cutting beam, such as a laser is directed at the trim piece surface to be scored and a sensor emits a sensing beam, |
| 6294124 |
Apparatus and process for laser preweakening an automotive trim cover for an air bag deployment |
September 25, 2001 |
| A process for preweakening the inside of an automotive trim piece cover layer of various constructions by use of a laser beam so as to enable formation of an air bag deployment opening in the trim piece formed at the time the air bag deploys. The laser beam impinges the inside surface of |
| 6267918 |
Apparatus and process for laser preweakening an automotive trim cover for an air bag deployment |
July 31, 2001 |
| A process for preweakening the inside of an automotive trim piece cover layer of various constructions by use of a laser beam so as to enable formation of an air bag deployment opening in the trim piece formed at the time the air bag deploys. The laser beam impinges the inside surface of |
| 6079733 |
Trim piece construction for an air bag installation |
June 27, 2000 |
| A trim piece construction for an air bag installation in which a scrim sheet is bonded onto the inside of the trim piece at the air bag location, and having one or more unbonded sections folded onto one or more air bag canister sides and attached thereto. The scrim sheet overlaps a deplo |
| 5883356 |
Laser scoring process and apparatus |
March 16, 1999 |
| Process and apparatus for precision scoring a workpiece of variable thickness and/or shape in which the thickness of the workpiece at points along a trace pattern is first determined, and a variable depth groove is thereafter formed by laser scoring which is controlled in correspondence |
| 5797619 |
Automotive trim piece and method to form an air bag opening |
August 25, 1998 |
| An arrangement for forming an opening in an auto interior trim panel or piece normally having no visible indication of the opening just prior to inflation of an inflatable air bag, allowing deployment of the air bag into the passenger compartment of vehicle, the arrangement including a |
| 5744776 |
Apparatus and for laser preweakening an automotive trim cover for an air bag deployment opening |
April 28, 1998 |
| A process for preweakening the inside of an automotive trim piece cover layer of various constructions by use of a laser beam so as to enable formation of an air bag deployment opening in the trim piece formed at the time the air bag deploys. The laser beam impinges the inside surface of |
| 5738367 |
Automotive interior trim piece having an arrangement for forming an air bag deployment opening |
April 14, 1998 |
| An arrangement and method are disclosed for enabling formation of a deployment opening for an air bag in a hard plastic trim piece with or without vinyl cladding in which a hinged reinforcing patch panel is fixedly attached to a section of the hard plastic defined by a preweakening g |
| 5611564 |
Method and treatment for forming an air bag deployment opening in leather covered trim |
March 18, 1997 |
| A pretreatment for a decorative leather covering layer overlying an air bag deployment opening in an automotive trim piece, the pretreatment results in an effective preweakening of the leather to be readily severed by the forced opening of an underlying hinged door panel. The pretreatmen |
| 5522616 |
Invisible seam deployment door installation with stabilized air bag deployment opening construct |
June 4, 1996 |
| An installation and is disclosed for mounting an air bag system in an opening in an instrument panel. A stabilizer frame is fixed around the opening in an instrument panel substrate and anchored to a fixed substructure, restraining bulging movement of the instrument panel to rapidly |
| 5496059 |
Air bag installation using integrated energy device to form trim piece air bag deployment openin |
March 5, 1996 |
| An air bag installation is disclosed in which a flattened tube is expanded by a flow of pressurized gas from the air bag inflator or a separate source when the air bag system is deployed. The resulting tube expansion drives a cutting edge to sever an opening in a covering layer disposed |
| 5478106 |
Method and arrangement for forming an air bag deployment opening |
December 26, 1995 |
| An arrangement is disclosed for forming an air bag deployment opening in an instrument panel behind which a passenger side air bag is stored, just prior to the time the air bag is deployed, the arrangement including a pressure driven cutting edge cutting through the covering layer at the |
| 5375876 |
Air bag deployment door installation |
December 27, 1994 |
| A construction for an invisible seam air bag deployment door installation in which foam layer wells extend along the hinging side of each door panel to freely allow hinging movement of the door panels by ready compression of the foam in the foam wells, preventing outward extension of the |
| 5375875 |
Two stage cutter arrangement for forming an air bag deployment opening |
December 27, 1994 |
| An arrangement for forming an air bag deployment opening in a vinyl covered trim piece in which one or more hinged deployment door substrates are formed with an upwardly turned rim extending about the unhinged sides which exerts a second stage cutting pressure on the inside of a covering |
| 5082310 |
Arrangement for providing an air bag deployment opening |
January 21, 1992 |
| An arrangement and closure are disclosed for an air bag deployment opening to be formed in the interior trim structure of an automotive vehicle, the closure including a substrate section weakened in a pattern to form contiguous doors or subsections which split apart along an invisible se |
| 5080393 |
Method and apparatus for forming an air bag deployment opening |
January 14, 1992 |
| A method and apparatus are disclosed for instantly forming an air bag deployment opening in an auto interior trim panel structure such as an instrument panel or steering wheel cover just prior to inflation of the air bag. A delineated pattern of concentrated energy is instantaneously |
| 5076312 |
Pressure relief device |
December 31, 1991 |
| A device is disclosed for very rapidly releasing fluid under pressure from a reservoir in which a sharpened pin is driven at an angle into the center of a sealing diaphragm to release the fluid under pressure from the reservoir. |
| 4991870 |
Method and arrangement for forming an air bag deployment opening in an auto interior trim piece |
February 12, 1991 |
| A method and arrangement is disclosed for providing one or more air bag deployment doors in which an explosive containing coating is deposited on the inside of an auto interior trim piece in the pattern of the doors immediately over the air bag receptacle in which the air bag is stored. |
| 4991271 |
Anchorage device |
February 12, 1991 |
| An anchorage device including a molded anchor base piece received in an oblong hole punched into an automotive body panel and secured by mating of grooves formed in the periphery of a plug portion of the anchor base piece adjacent a flange portion positioned against the body panel portio |
| 4989896 |
Double door closure for an air bag deployment opening |
February 5, 1991 |
| A double door closure for an air bag depolyment opening is disclosed in which bridging portions extend across a line of separation between the doors and are weakened to define a frangible seam fractured by the pressure exerted by the inflating bag. The doors also each have an integra |
| 4893833 |
Closure for an air bag deployment opening |
January 16, 1990 |
| A closure arrangement for an air bag deployment opening formed in an auto interior, including a closure panel positioned in the opening and hinged along one side, with a frangible lock on the other side opposite the hinge, fractured by pressure exerted by the deploying inflatable cushion |
