US 12,269,407 B2
Interior component for a vehicle
Naoki Kubo, Tochigi (JP); Yuta Ogiwara, Tochigi (JP); Kento Kobayashi, Tochigi (JP); Atsushi Yasukawa, Tochigi (JP); and Koji Shimada, Tochigi (JP)
Assigned to TS TECH CO., LTD., Asaka (JP)
Appl. No. 18/043,482
Filed by TS TECH CO., LTD., Asaka (JP)
PCT Filed Aug. 31, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/031826
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 28, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/050245, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 10, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-147051 (JP), filed on Sep. 1, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0025365 A1, Jan. 25, 2024
Int. Cl. B60R 21/04 (2006.01); B60R 13/02 (2006.01)
CPC B60R 21/0428 (2013.01) [B60R 13/0243 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An interior component for a vehicle, comprising:
a door panel;
a door trim attached to the door panel;
an impact absorbing member disposed between the door panel and the door trim and attached to one of the door panel and the door trim;
another member attached to the one of the door panel and the door trim; and
another member fixing portion that attaches the another member to the one of the door panel and the door trim;
wherein:
the impact absorbing member has a bottom surface on which a fixing portion attached to the one of the door panel and the door trim is formed, and a facing surface facing the other of the door panel and the door trim,
the impact absorbing member has a front surface disposed in a front, a rear surface disposed in a rear, an upper surface disposed on an upper side, and a lower surface disposed on a lower side, between the facing surface and the bottom surface,
each of the upper surface and the lower surface of the impact absorbing member includes a protrusion portion protruding backward or forward from the rear surface on a facing surface side of each of the upper surface and the lower surface,
a first recessed portion extending in a vehicle width direction is formed in the front surface or the rear surface of the impact absorbing member, and
the another member fixing portion is disposed at a position facing the first recessed portion of the impact absorbing member.