Patent ID: 7393012

Claim:
A knee bolster structure, comprising: a vehicle-side member; a knee-receiving member; an impact-absorbing section which deforms to absorb an input energy from knees of a driver or a front-seat passenger when the knees hit the knee-receiving member; and a knee-receiving member movement section for moving the knee-receiving member to a knee-receiving position for the driver or the front-seat passenger, wherein said knee-receiving member is attached to the vehicle-side member via the impact-absorbing section and the knee-receiving member movement section, wherein the impact-absorbing section is structurally separated from the knee-receiving member movement section, and wherein the impact-absorbing section is vertically divided into two sections: an upper impact-receiving portion configured to absorb the input energy from the knees of the driver or the front-seat passenger having an average physique or a relatively large physique; and a lower impact-receiving portion configured to absorb the input energy from the knees of the driver or the front-seat passenger having a relatively small physique.