Curtain airbag apparatus
AssigneeHyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
InventorKwang Soo Cho
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Abstract
A curtain airbag apparatus which can smoothly expand an airbag cushion even with a low gas ejection pressure of an inflator. A curtain airbag apparatus according to an embodiment includes: an outer cushion provided on an upper side of a pillar constituting a vehicle along a forward and backward direction of the vehicle to be expandable; a plurality of inner cushions which are fixed to an inner side of the outer cushion along the forward and backward direction of the vehicle to be spaced apart from each other and are independently expandable; and inflators disposed in the plurality of inner cushions, respectively, so as to eject gas into the inner cushions so that the inner cushions are expanded by generation of the gas.
Claims9
A curtain airbag apparatus comprising:
- an outer cushion configured to be provided on an upper side of a pillar of a vehicle along a forward and backward direction of the vehicle and being expandable by having an expansion part formed by bending a sheet of fabric at least twice in a Z-shape;
- a plurality of inner cushions accommodated and fixed in the expansion part of the outer cushion along the forward and backward direction of the vehicle and being spaced apart from each other and independently expandable;
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- inflators disposed in the plurality of inner cushions and configured to eject gas into the inner cushions so that the inner cushions are expanded by generation of the gas.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.