Air bag system
AssigneeToyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
InventorsMichio Inoue, Shigeyuki Suzuki
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Abstract
An air bag system includes an air bag which can cover a front surface side of a front pillar of a vehicle. The air bag includes an inflatable main body portion and a supporting inflatable portion. The inflatable main body portion covers a front surface of the front pillar when the air bag is inflated completely. The supporting inflatable portion stretches continuously from the inflation main body portion so as to extend towards an outside of the vehicle from the inflation main body portion and is disposed to be brought into abutment with an upper surface of a mirror main body of a door mirror which is in a usable position on a lower surface side so as to be supported thereon to thereby support the inflatable main body portion, when the air bag is inflated completely.
Claims4
An air bag system comprising:
- an air bag capable of covering a front surface side of a front pillar of a vehicle, which is provided with a front side door installed at a rear side of the front pillar consecutively and having a side window positioned at a rear of the front pillar and a door mirror positioned in the vicinity of a front lower corner of the side window, the door mirror comprising a mount base which is mounted on the front side door and a mirror main body which is installed while being supported rotatably on the mount base at a proximal portion side thereof so as to be positioned in a foldable position where a distal end is positioned in proximity to the side window and a usable position where the distal end is positioned so as to project towards an outside of the vehicle,
- wherein the air bag is folded to be stowed in proximity to a front of the door mirror below the front pillar and comprises:
- an inflatable main body portion which covers a front surface of the front pillar when completely inflated;
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- a supporting inflatable portion which stretches continuously from the inflatable main body portion so as to extend towards the outside of the vehicle from the inflatable main body portion and which is disposed so that a lower surface side is brought into abutment with an upper surface of the door mirror in the usable position so as to be supported thereon to thereby support the inflatable main body portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.