Knee air bag
AssigneeHyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
InventorsDo Hyoung Kim, Dong Young Kim, Seok Hoon Ko
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Abstract
A knee airbag is proposed. The knee airbag is configured to be applied to a slim-type cockpit design and to quickly restrain the knees of an occupant without increasing a package of an airbag cushion to reduce a risk of injuries to the occupant. The knee airbag includes an airbag housing provided at a lower end of a cockpit, and including an airbag cushion located toward an occupant, a cover assembled to the airbag housing in a shape of covering the airbag cushion, wherein in deployment of the airbag cushion, a lower portion of the cover is fixed to the airbag housing and an upper portion thereof is separated and opened from the airbag housing, and an opening limiting unit configured to limit an opening degree of the upper portion of the cover.
Claims5
A knee airbag of a vehicle, comprising:
- an airbag housing disposed at a lower portion of a cockpit of the vehicle and containing an airbag cushion;
- a cover pivotally attached to the airbag housing and covering the airbag cushion, wherein the cover has a lower portion coupled to the airbag housing and an upper portion configured to be separated from the airbag housing to open the cover toward an occupant of the vehicle when the airbag cushion is deployed;
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- an opening limiting unit including a connection part configured to limit an opening degree of the cover when the airbag cushion is deployed;
- a selvage that protrudes laterally from a side surface of the airbag cushion;
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- wherein the connection part comprises a first tether and a second tether, the first tether connecting the airbag housing to a first side surface of the selvage and the second tether connecting the cover to a second side surface of the selvage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.