Airbag device for front passenger's seat
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorOsamu Fukawatase
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Abstract
At an airbag device for a front passenger's seat, due to an inflator being fixed to a front side bottom wall portion that is formed at a vehicle front side and upper side of a rear side bottom wall portion, the inflator is offset toward the vehicle front side with respect to a central axis of a case. Further, the front side bottom wall portion is inclined with respect to the rear side bottom wall portion such that a central axis of the inflator intersects a normal line of the rear side bottom wall portion further toward a vehicle upper side than airbag doors, and due thereto, the inflator is tilted.
Claims7
An airbag device for a front passenger's seat, comprising:
- an airbag door provided at a vertical direction intermediate portion that is formed curvingly so as to be convex toward a vehicle upper side and rear side between an upper portion and a lower portion at a region in front of a front passenger's seat of an instrument panel;
- an airbag that is provided in a folded-up state at a reverse side of the airbag door, and that, when the airbag receives a supply of gas, opens the airbag door and is inflated and expanded at an obverse side of the instrument panel;
- an inflator that is disc-shaped and is provided at the reverse side of the airbag door and supplies gas to the airbag;
- a rear side accommodating portion that has a rear side bottom wall portion that is provided at the reverse side of the airbag door and faces the airbag door side, and that accommodates a lower inflating portion, that is positioned at an obverse side of a lower portion of the instrument panel, at the airbag when inflation is completed;
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- a front side accommodating portion that has a front side bottom wall portion that is formed at a vehicle front side and upper side of the rear side bottom wall portion, and to which are fixed the inflator and a base portion at a general portion that is other than the lower inflating portion at the airbag, and that is inclined with respect to the rear side bottom wall portion such that a central axis of the inflator intersects a normal line of the rear side bottom wall portion further toward a vehicle upper side than the airbag door, and the front side accommodating portion, together with the rear side accommodating portion, structures a box-shaped case that is open at the airbag door side, and the front side accommodating portion accommodates the general portion of the airbag and the inflator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.