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US 11,225,217 B2Granted
Airbag apparatus
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKenji Kokubu, Masatoshi Otake, Takeshi Miyajima, Masayuki Tado
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Abstract
An airbag apparatus includes an airbag housed deployably, and an instrument panel covering the airbag in a deploying direction and forming a design surface of a vehicle cabin. The instrument panel includes, on the design surface facing the vehicle cabin, a character line including continuous protrusions toward the deploying direction. The instrument panel includes, on a surface facing the airbag along the character line, a tear line that ruptures at the time of deployment of the airbag.
Claims5
An airbag apparatus, comprising:
- an airbag housed deployably;
- and
- a panel member covering the airbag in a deploying direction and forming a design surface of a vehicle cabin, wherein
- the panel member includes, on a surface facing the vehicle cabin, a character line including continuous protrusions toward the deploying direction,
- the panel member includes, on a surface facing the airbag, along the character line, a tear line that ruptures at the time of deployment of the airbag,
- the character line and the tear line are spaced from each other in the deploying direction,
- the airbag apparatus further comprises a spacer member that controls a direction of a force to be transmitted from the airbag to the panel member, between the panel member and the airbag, in a portion closer to the character line with respect to the tear line, and
- the spacer member has a plurality of ribs which face the airbag at the time of deployment of the airbag.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.