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US 2024/0181985 A1Published application
Airbag apparatus for vehicle
AssigneeHyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
InventorsDong Young KIM, Seok Min LEE, Ga Ram JEONG, Dong Joon LEE
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a vehicle airbag device, which includes a main cushion and an auxiliary cushion deploying from the main cushion and may more effectively protect both a passenger-seat passenger in a normal seating state and a passenger-seat passenger in a relaxed seating state even in the event of an oblique offset collision by differentiating the deployment of the auxiliary cushion by releasing or maintaining the connection of a tether connected to the auxiliary cushion during deployment of an airbag cushion.
Claims15
A vehicle airbag device comprising:
- an airbag cushion including a main cushion deployed toward a passenger by receiving airbag gas generated by an inflator;
- an auxiliary cushion deployed by receiving airbag gas through the main cushion;
- a tether release device fixed to an airbag housing and activated by an electrical signal;
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- a tether interconnecting the auxiliary cushion and the tether release device, the tether being released from the auxiliary cushion when the tether release device is activated.
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