Airbag apparatus for vehicle
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
InventorHyock In Kwon
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Abstract
An airbag apparatus for a vehicle is capable of protecting a collision object while protecting the vehicle and an occupant. In particular, the airbag apparatus is installed in a fully autonomous vehicle in which the occupant's position and posture are variable. The airbag apparatus includes an inflator provided at a pillar of a vehicle body and configured to generate working gas, a housing mounted to the pillar of the vehicle body, a cushion part accommodated in the housing and configured to be inflated as being discharged from the housing by receiving the working gas generated from the inflator for covering the vehicle, and a tether part provided in the cushion part to determine a deployment shape of the cushion part.
Claims13
An airbag apparatus for a vehicle, the airbag apparatus comprising:
- an inflator provided at a pillar of a vehicle body, and configured to generate working gas;
- a housing mounted to the pillar of the vehicle body;
- a cushion part accommodated in the housing, the cushion part configured to be inflated and discharged from the housing by receiving the working gas generated from the inflator, and structured to cover the vehicle;
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- a tether part provided outside of the cushion part to determine a deployment shape of the cushion part,
- wherein the pillar includes an upper portion and a lower portion, and
- wherein the inflator and the housing are separately mounted to the upper portion and the lower portion, respectively.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.