Bryan L Welch

US Patent:

20100038891, Feb 18, 2010

Filed:

Aug 12, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/189832

Inventors:

Bryan Welch - Davison MI, US
Padathukatil Jayan - Chennai, IN
David C. Pudduck - White Lake MI, US
Jeff Bruland - Brighton MI, US

International Classification:

B60R 21/205
B62D 25/14

US Classification:

280732, 296 70

Abstract:

An instrument panel for a motor vehicle is disclosed herein. The instrument panel includes a body extending along a lateral axis between an outboard side and an inboard side. The body has an outwardly-facing surface for display in a passenger compartment of a motor vehicle and an inwardly-facing surface opposite the outwardly-facing surface. The instrument panel also includes a plurality of mounting structures associated with the body. The instrument panel also includes a score pattern formed in the inwardly-facing surface including first and second score lines extending substantially parallel to one another. The score pattern also includes a third score line extending between the first and second score lines. The third score line being oblique to at least one of the first and second score lines.