Air bag device
AssigneeBecker Group Europe GmbH
InventorMartin Specht
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Abstract
An air bag unit is provided to protect a vehicle passenger from impacting a member of the interior of a vehicle. The air bag unit includes one or more air bags attached as an integral unit to a clamping device for attachment to a portion of the interior vehicle frame. Since the air bag is intended to protect passengers from impact with an interior member of the vehicle frame, the air bag is adapted to the shape of such member. The clamping device includes an attachment part which slidably engages the interior of the vehicle frame. In addition, the air bag unit is inflated by a tube housed therein. The tube exerts a restraining action on the inflating gas and includes one or more breakage locations which are intended to rupture within the air bag at a predetermined pressure for inflation of the air bag.
Claims14
An air bag device for a motor vehicle comprising:
- at least one air bag capable of being inflated with gas and at least one gas generator for inflation of the air bag;
- said air bag having an elongated shape and extending along an upper door-frame part of a body of the vehicle;
- a tube disposed inside the air bag by which the air bag is inflated, said tube adapted to the shape of said door-frame part and to receive the inflating gas;
- said tube further being sewn to an outer fabric of the air bag, said air bag outer fabric including two longitudinal edges which are sewn to the tube along seams which extend in a longitudinal direction of the tube;
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- a clamping device holding the air bag to a part of a vehicle frame in a passenger space of the motor vehicle, said clamping device being attached to said vehicle frame.
An air bag device for a motor vehicle comprising:
- at least one air bag capable of being inflated with gas and at least one gas generator for inflation of the air bag, said air bag having an elongated shape and extending along an upper door-frame part of a body of the vehicle;
- a tube disposed inside the air bag by which the air bag is inflated, said tube adapted to the shape of said door-frame part and to receive the inflating gas;
- a clamping device holding the air bag to a part of a vehicle frame in a passenger space of the motor vehicle, the clamping device being attached to the vehicle frame;
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- an air bag unit including the tube and the air bag attached by at least one mechanical holding part which is inserted at a clamping device attachment location in form-locked manner between an attachment part of the clamping device and an attachment part of the vehicle body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.