Seat-mounted airbag device
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMitsuyoshi Ohno, Toshiki Iwama, Tatsuya Hashido, Yu Suzuki
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Abstract
A seat-mounted airbag device including an inflator that is provided at a vehicle seat and that ejects gas during a vehicle collision; and an airbag including an airbag body that, by being supplied with gas ejected from the inflator, moves toward a seat front side through between a head of a passenger seated on a vehicle seat and a ceiling of a vehicle cabin, and is expanded and deployed, so as to be disposed at the seat front side of the passenger, wherein the airbag is housed in the headrest with both seat width direction end portions fold-bent toward a seat downward side, so as to follow an external profile of a headrest of the vehicle seat in face-on view seen from the seat front side.
Claims9
A seat-mounted airbag device comprising:
- an inflator that is provided at a vehicle seat and that ejects gas during a vehicle collision;
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- an airbag including an airbag body that, by being supplied with gas ejected from the inflator, moves toward a seat front side between a head of a passenger seated on the vehicle seat and a ceiling of a vehicle cabin, and is expanded and deployed, so as to be disposed at the seat front side of the passenger,
- wherein the airbag includes the airbag body being packed up in a roll shape rolled from the outside and both seat width direction end portions folded into a concertina shape, and the both seat width direction end portions are fold-bent toward a seat downward side such that the airbag body and the both seat width direction end portions are housed in a headrest so as to follow an external profile of the headrest of the vehicle seat in face-on view seen from the seat front side.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.