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US 11,273,782 B2Granted
Airbag apparatus for vehicle
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
InventorJae Ho Choi
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Abstract
An airbag apparatus of a vehicle may include an airbag cushion mounted in a rim which is necessarily provided even if the shape of a steering wheel is diversified, so that the airbag cushion is applied to steering wheels having various designs, whereby a driver is protected.
Claims12
An airbag apparatus comprising:
- a steering wheel mounted on a vehicle body in a front of a driver seat and having a rim having a hollow space along a circumference of the rim;
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- a rim cushion mounted in the hollow space of the rim and configured to inflate to cover the rim by deploying rearward toward the driver seat from the circumference of the rim when a collision situation occurs and a gas of an inflator connected to the rim cushion is supplied,
- wherein the steering wheel is configured to be drawn out from or stowed in the vehicle body, and
- wherein when the collision situation occurs, the steering wheel is drawn out and then the gas of the inflator is supplied.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.