External Airbag System for Vehicles
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
InventorsHyeong Ho CHOI, Yong Sun KIM
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Abstract
An external airbag system for a vehicle is proved to be commercialized and which can absorb impact induced by a frontal collision of the vehicle and thus substantially protect passengers in the vehicle. The external airbag system may include a bumper cover, a cushion provided behind the bumper cover, and an inflator for generating a gas pressure to deploy the cushion, wherein the bumper cover moves in a forward direction by the deploying cushion.
Claims17
1-2. (canceled)
The external airbag system as set forth in claim 4, wherein the back beam is fixed to a medial portion of the bumper cover and the cushions are disposed behind the bumper cover symmetrically with respect to the medial portion thereof with equal numbers.
An external airbag system for a vehicle, comprising:
- a bumper cover;
- a plurality of cushions provided behind the bumper cover;
- and
- an inflator for generating a gas pressure to deploy the cushion, wherein the bumper cover moves in a forward direction by the deploying cushion,
- wherein a portion of the bumper cover is fixed to a back beam, and
- wherein one cushion is provided to one side of the bumper cover and another cushion is provided to the other side of the bumper cover so that each side of the bumper cover is configured to be rotated forwards around the portion that the bumper cover and the back beam are fixed each other by a deployment force of the corresponding cushion.
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An external airbag system for a vehicle, comprising:
- a bumper cover;
- at least a cushion provided behind the bumper cover;
- at least an inflator for generating a gas pressure to deploy the cushion;
- and
- a back beam provided behind the bumper cover and having therein at least a recess for containing the cushion and the inflator,
- wherein at least one portion of the bumper cover is moved forwards away from an original position thereof by deployment force of the cushion, and
- wherein a support bracket is provided on at least one of an upper surface and/or a lower surface of the back beam to support, along with the back beam, a rear portion of the cushion that is in a deployed state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.