US 2017/0282841 A1Published application

Airbag device for front passenger seat

AssigneeToyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.

InventorsTakeki HAYASHI, Tsuyoshi FURUNO, Junichi ASANUMA

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Abstract

An airbag includes a main bag section and a center bag section deployable to protrude towards a vehicle interior out of an inboard side of the main bag section. An inboard-side member, which forms the inboard side of the main bag section, is composed of a front component and a rear component. The center bag section includes a front wall and a rear wall. The front wall is composed of a rear extended region of the front component which is disposed in such a manner as to protrude rearward out of the rear edge of the front component. The rear wall is composed of a front extended region of the rear component which protrudes forward out of the front edge of the rear component and has a generally identical outer contour to the rear extended region. The center bag section is formed by jointing outer edges of the front and rear extended regions.

Claims8

Dependent claims

An airbag device for a front passenger seat adapted to be mounted on an instrument panel in front of a front passenger seat of a vehicle, the airbag device comprising a housing adapted to be disposed in the instrument panel and an airbag housed in the housing in a folded-up configuration, the airbag comprising:

a main bag section that is deployable in front of the front passenger seat and includes an inboard-side region deployable to face a vehicle interior and an inboard-side member that forms at least the inboard-side region;
a front component that forms a front part of the inboard-side region and includes a rear extended region which protrudes rearward out of a region in a vicinity of a rear edge of the front component;
a rear component that is provided separate from the front component and forms a rear part of the inboard-side region, the rear component including a front extended region which protrudes forward out of a region in a vicinity of a front edge of the rear component and has a generally identical outer contour to the rear extended region of the front component;
a center bag section that is disposed on the inboard-side region of the main bag section and deployable in such a manner as to protrude towards the vehicle interior out of a portion of the inboard-side region, the center bag section being formed by jointing outer circumferential edges of the rear extended region and front extended region, whereby the rear extended region forms a front wall region of the center bag section that is deployable to face a front of the vehicle while the front extended region forms a rear wall region of the center bag section that is deployable to face a rear of the vehicle.

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a main bag section that is deployable in front of the front passenger seat and includes an inboard-side region deployable to face a vehicle interior;
a center bag section that is disposed on the inboard-side region of the main bag section and deployable in such a manner as to protrude towards the vehicle interior out of a portion of the inboard-side region;
a communicating region that provides gas communication between the main bag section and the center bag section;
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a regulating tether that is disposed inside the airbag and regulates a clearance in a front and rear direction of a vicinity of the communicating region, a front edge region of the regulating tether being jointed to a front area of a periphery of the communicating region and a rear edge region of the regulating tether being jointed to a rear area of the periphery of the communicating region.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/461,780Filed 17 Mar 2017
Priority: JP 2016-6888130 Mar 2016
Published: 5 Oct 2017
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification18 codes

B60R 21/231
Inflatable members: characterised by their shape, construction or spatial configuration
B60R 21/233
Characterised by their shape, construction or spatial configuration: comprising a plurality of individual compartments; comprising two or more…
B60R 21/203
Arrangements for storing inflatable members in their non-use or deflated condition; Arrangement or mounting of air bag modules or components: in…
B60R 21/205
Arrangements for storing inflatable members in their non-use or deflated condition; Arrangement or mounting of air bag modules or components: in…

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