Airbag device for rollover countermeasure of vehicle
AssigneeMazda Motor Corporation
InventorsMotoharu Hirata, Akihiro Kobayashi
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Abstract
A rear window curtain airbag device comprises an airbag placed at the portion. near the upper edge of the rear window, an inflator to inject gas for the airbag, and a connecting pipe to supply the gas injected from the inflator to the airbag. Accordingly, the passenger's protection can be further improved by properly preventing part of the passenger's body from getting out of the rear window when the vehicle having the rear window being located above the seat back is rolled over.
Claims18
An airbag device for rollover countermeasure of a vehicle, in which a rear window is substantially located above a seat back in a use position of a seat that is disposed in a cabin, comprising:
- a rollover judging device operative to judge a vehicle rollover by detecting or predicting the vehicle rollover;
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- an inflatable airbag, the airbag being placed at a portion near an edge of the rear window in a folded state thereof,
- wherein said airbag is configured so as to be inflated toward the rear window in a curtain shape from the portion near the edge of the rear window when the vehicle rollover is judged by said rollover judging device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.