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US 2003/0192731 A1Published application
Automotive outboard air bag system
AssigneeHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYuji Kikuchi, Yutaka Okamoto
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AssigneeHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYuji Kikuchi, Yutaka Okamoto
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An automotive outboard air bag system (30) is provided in which an elongate tubular air bag (33) is inflated to deploy upwardly from the vicinity of a front pillar lower end portion (18a), the air bag so inflated to deploy is made to extend along an outer surface (18b) of a front pillar (18), and a strap (35) which is shorter than the overall length (L2) of the air bag (33) is allowed to extend from an upper end (33b) to a lower end (33a) of the air bag (33) so as to face the outer surface (18b) of the front pillar (18).
An automotive outboard air bag system comprising:
An automotive outboard air bag system comprising:
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Protecting non-occupants of a vehicle, e.g. pedestrians: using airbags
Expansion control features: tethers
Tethers: external tether means
Vehicle fittings and parts
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an automotive outboard air bag system for relaxing an impact exerted on an object by inflating and deploying an air bag in case a vehicle should collide with the object.
2. Description of the Related Art
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a vehicle equipped with an automotive outboard air bag system (a first embodiment) according to the invention;
FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken along the line 2-2 in FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing the automotive outboard air bag system (the first embodiment) according to the invention;
Embodiments of the invention will be described below based on the accompanying drawings. Here, “front”, “rear”, “left” and “right” means such directions, respectively, as viewed from the driver. Note that the drawings are viewed in a direction in which reference numerals are shown.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a vehicle equipped with automotive outboard air bag systems (a first embodiment) according to the invention.
The vehicle 10 includes a cowl 13 provided in the vicinity of a rear end 11a of a bonnet 11 on a lower end portion 12a side of a windshield 12, and left and right automotive outboard air bag systems 30, 30 provided in the vicinity of lower end portions 18a, 18a of left and right front pillars, respectively, in the interior of the cowl 13.