Patent ID: 8128148

Claim:
An instrument panel of a vehicle, the vehicle including a vehicle autobody which has two A-pillars and two B-pillars which delimit a vehicle interior, comprising: an instrument panel reinforcement which is part of the instrument panel and includes at least one of (a) a first section and (b) a second section, at least one of the sections beginning at an outer side of the instrument panel and extending at least over a part of the instrument panel transversely to a vehicle longitudinal direction, for stiffening the instrument panel with respect to a high force which engages on the outer side of the instrument panel, wherein the instrument panel reinforcement extends continuously over an entire width of the instrument panel, wherein the instrument panel is arranged between the A-pillars in the interior, wherein a contour of the instrument panel including the instrument panel reinforcement, at least in the region of the outer side of the instrument panel, lies at least partly at a position in the vehicle longitudinal direction between the A-pillars and the B-pillars, and wherein the instrument panel reinforcement is arranged in a region of the contour of the instrument panel which, in the vehicle longitudinal direction, projects furthest into the vehicle interior so that the region is closest to the B-pillars.