Patent ID: 7296848
Filing Date: 2007-11-20
Classification: B62D

Abstract:
1. A dashboard cross-member for a motor vehicle, the cross-member comprising a tubular metal structural element assembled to the front pillars of the motor vehicle, and at least one air flow duct of plastics material for transporting air to the passenger compartment of the motor vehicle and having at least one segment disposed inside the metal structural element, wherein: the metal structural element has an inside face and is formed by a top half-shell and a bottom half-shell assembled together; and the at least one air flow duct is independent of the two half-shells and includes at least one portion of the segment disposed inside the metal structural element that is subjected to elastic stress in at least one transverse direction, and that is pressed against at least two opposite points of the inside face of the structural element under action of the reaction force to said elastic stress.