Vehicular airbag device
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsOsamu Fukawatase, Tomotaka Kuroda, Muneo Akashio
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Abstract
A vehicular airbag device includes an airbag and an opening degree change portion. The airbag is folded and accommodated in an accommodation portion provided in front of a vehicle seat. The airbag is deployed toward an occupant seated in the vehicular seat by being supplied with a gas when a head-on collision occurs, and has a vent hole that allows the gas to be discharged in restraining the occupant. The opening degree change portion changes an opening area of the vent hole in accordance with a direction of impact of an upper body of the occupant with the airbag during deployment of the airbag.
Claims12
A vehicular airbag device comprising:
- an airbag that is folded and accommodated in an accommodation portion provided in front of a vehicular seat, wherein the airbag is deployed toward an occupant seated in the vehicular seat by being supplied with a gas when a head-on collision occurs, and includes a vent hole that allows the gas to be discharged to an outside of the airbag in restraining the occupant;
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- an opening degree change portion that changes an opening area of the vent hole in accordance with a direction of impact of an upper body of the occupant with the airbag during deployment of the airbag.
A vehicular airbag device comprising:
- an airbag that is folded and accommodated in an accommodation portion provided in front of a vehicular seat, wherein the airbag is deployed toward an occupant seated in the vehicular seat by being supplied with a gas when a head-on collision occurs, and includes a vent hole that allows the gas to be discharged to an outside of the airbag in restraining the occupant;
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- opening degree change means for changing an opening area of the vent hole in accordance with a direction of impact of an upper body of the occupant with the airbag during deployment of the airbag.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.