Patent ID: 7367583

Claim:
Instrument panel accommodating a front passenger airbag, comprising an airbag covering extending on a top side of and being integrated with the instrument panel adjacent to a windshield, the instrument panel being displaceable in an upward direction toward the windshield about a transversely extending swiveling axis to open up a passage opening for a gas bag of the front passenger airbag, a transversely extending desired buckling point is spaced from the swiveling axis on the airbag covering constructed integrally with the instrument panel such that the airbag covering is able to fold upwards about the buckling point when resting against the windshield, the airbag covering being connected on an interior side thereof with a thin-walled sheet metal part, a bent forward edge area of the sheet metal part being operatively fastenable to an adjoining shooting channel of the front passenger airbag, and the desired buckling point being constituted by an outwardly-directed or upwardly-directed bead of the sheet metal part and a corresponding weakening of the adjoining rigid carrier part of the instrument panel or of the airbag covering.