Airbag Apparatus for Vehicle
AssigneesHyunnai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
InventorsYong Sun KIM, Jun Yeol Choi
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Abstract
An airbag apparatus for a vehicle may include an inflator; a housing installed in a roof, and a cushion contained in the housing and configured to be deployed downwards by a gas discharged from the inflator to protect an occupant in the vehicle, wherein an upper surface of the cushion is supported by the roof when the cushion is in a deployed state, and a front surface of the cushion extends in a rear direction of the vehicle in an inclined shape to form a recess to prevent interference with a seatback of the front seat while the cushion is deployed downwards.
Claims20
An airbag apparatus for a vehicle, comprising:
- an inflator;
- a housing installed in a roof;
- and
- a cushion contained in the housing and configured to be deployed downwards by a gas discharged from the inflator to protect an occupant in the vehicle,
- wherein an upper surface of the cushion is supported by the roof when the cushion is in a deployed state, and a front surface of the cushion extends in a rear direction of the vehicle in an inclined shape to form a recess to prevent interference with a seatback of the front seat while the cushion is deployed downwards.
An airbag apparatus for a vehicle, comprising:
- an inflator;
- a housing installed in a roof between a front seat and a rear seat;
- a cushion contained in the housing, the cushion being deployed downwards by gas discharged by the inflator to protect a rear seat passenger;
- and
- a gas passage configured such that the gas flows along an inner surface of the cushion and then around a rear surface of the cushion that faces the rear seat passenger, and the gas is charged into the cushion in a direction from a lower end to an upper end of the rear surface of the cushion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.