Front airbag device for vehicle
AssigneeHyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
InventorsHae Kwon Park, Seok Min Lee
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Abstract
A front airbag device for a vehicle is proposed. In the front airbag device, an airbag cushion is mounted in front of a passenger and is expanded to be positioned at a front surface of the passenger, a triangular main tether and a triangular support tether are positioned inside the airbag cushion, and one side of the main tether and one side of the support tether are spaced apart from each other and are coupled to the airbag cushion in a sewn manner, so that the main tether and the support tether support a front surface portion of the airbag cushion to protect a front surface of the passenger.
Claims10
A front airbag device for a vehicle, the front airbag device comprising:
- an airbag cushion configured to be expanded toward a front passenger by pressure of airbag gas generated when an inflator explodes;
- a main tether and a support tether, which are connected to the airbag cushion to maintain a shape of the expanded airbag cushion,
- wherein the main tether and the support tether are configured as plane tethers that are unfolded when the airbag cushion is expanded and support a front surface portion of the airbag cushion within a predetermined area;
- a wire cutter provided on one side of the inflator;
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- a tether wire connecting the wire cutter to the main tether;
- wherein the wire cutter is configured to be operated to cut the tether wire under a control of a vehicle controller only when a vehicle crash occurs in a situation in which a front seat is in a relaxation mode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.