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US 11,951,927 B1Granted
Seatback supported airbag and seatbelt webbing
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsMohammad Omar Faruque, Dean M. Jaradi, S. M. Iskander Farooq
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Abstract
An assembly includes a vehicle seat having a seat bottom and a seatback supported by the seat bottom. The assembly includes an airbag supported by the seatback. The airbag is inflatable to an inflated position. The assembly includes a seatbelt webbing extending from the seatback to the airbag. The seatbelt webbing is between the airbag and the seatback in the inflated position. The assembly includes a pyrotechnic device supported by the seat bottom and operatively coupled to the airbag.
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An assembly comprising:
- a vehicle seat having a seat bottom and a seatback supported by the seat bottom;
- an airbag supported by the seatback, the airbag being inflatable to an inflated position;
- a seatbelt webbing extending from the seatback to the airbag, the seatbelt webbing being between the airbag and the seatback in the inflated position;
- a pyrotechnic device supported by and fixed in position relative to the seat bottom and operatively coupled to the airbag to pull the airbag downwardly toward the seat bottom;
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- a retractor supported by and fixed in position relative to the seatback, the seatbelt webbing being retractably coupled to the retractor so that the webbing is retractable into the retractor and the retractor prevents extension of the seatbelt webbing from the retractor.
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An assembly comprising:
- a vehicle seat having a seat bottom and a seatback supported by the seat bottom;
- an airbag supported by the seatback, the airbag being inflatable to an inflated position;
- a seatbelt webbing extending from the seatback to the airbag, the seatbelt webbing being between the airbag and the seatback in the inflated position;
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- a pyrotechnic device supported by the seat bottom and operatively coupled to the airbag;
- the seatbelt webbing extending from an upper end of the seatback to a bottom end of the airbag when the airbag is in the inflated position;
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- the seatbelt webbing being unattached to the airbag between the upper end of the seatback and the bottom end the airbag.
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An assembly comprising:
- a vehicle seat having a seat bottom and a seatback supported by the seat bottom;
- an airbag supported by the seatback, the airbag being inflatable to an inflated position;
- a seatbelt webbing extending from the seatback to the airbag, the seatbelt webbing being between the airbag and the seatback in the inflated position;
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- a pyrotechnic device supported by the seat bottom and operatively coupled to the airbag;
- the seatbelt webbing including a lap portion elongated in a cross-seat direction and a pair of shoulder portions extending from the seatback to the lap portion, the shoulder portions being spaced cross-seat from each other.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.