Occupant protection device
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsShinsuke Odai, Kento Maeda
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Abstract
Provided is an occupant protection device which is disposed side by side with an under-cover of an instrument panel and has a harness connected to an inflator disposed on a front side of the under-cover in a vehicle traveling direction to protect a knee portion of an occupant, including a case having a side wall on which the harness is disposed, and a protrusion configured to extend from the side wall of the case toward a front of the under-cover in forward and backward direction of a vehicle, to come in contact with the under-cover, and to restrict movement of the under-cover to the front side in the forward and backward direction of the vehicle.
Claims5
An occupant protection device which is disposed in parallel with an under-cover of an instrument panel and has a harness connected to an inflator disposed on a front side of the under-cover in a vehicle traveling direction to protect a knee portion of an occupant, comprising:
- a case having a side wall on which the harness is disposed, and
- a protrusion configured to extend from the side wall of the case toward a front of the under-cover in forward and backward direction of a vehicle, to come in contact with the under-cover, and to restrict movement of the under-cover to the front side in the forward and backward direction of the vehicle,
- wherein the protrusion covers at least a part of the harness, and wherein an end portion of the protrusion on a rear side in the vehicle traveling direction is provided on a rear side of the harness.
An occupant protection device which is disposed in parallel with an under-cover of an instrument panel and has a harness connected to an inflator disposed on a front side of the under-cover in a vehicle traveling direction to protect a knee portion of an occupant, comprising:
- a case having a side wall on which the harness is disposed, and
- a protrusion configured to extend from the side wall of the case toward a front of the under-cover in a forward direction and a backward direction of the vehicle, to come in contact with the under-cover, and to restrict movement of the under-cover to a front side in the forward direction and the backward direction of the vehicle,
- wherein the case has a cover portion which is opened by breaking a breakable portion including a perforated portion and a thinned portion, and a connection portion between the perforated portion and the thinned portion that is disposed at a position of the protrusion along an extension line in a lengthwise direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.