Method of folding an air bag
AssigneeBreed Automotive Technology, Inc.
InventorMichael K. Dennis
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Abstract
A method of folding an air bag consisting of the following steps: providing an air bag with a square configuration; folding four corners of the air bag toward the center of the air bag resulting in a smaller square configuration; repeating said folding step to place the air bag in a smaller square configuration; folding a resulting left corner of the air bag toward the center of the air bag; folding a resulting right corner of the air bag toward the center of the air bag; and pinching lower and upper portions of the air bag while folding the lower and upper portions, respectively, toward the center of the air bag.
Claims3
A method of folding an air bag, comprising the steps of:
- providing an air bag in a substantially square configuration, the air bag having a center;
- folding four corners of the air bag toward the center of the air bag to place the air bag in a smaller substantially square configuration;
- folding a resulting left corner of the air bag toward the center of the air bag, wherein the left corner is folded beyond the center of the airbag;
- folding a resulting right corner of the air bag toward the center of the air bag, wherein the right corner is folded beyond the center of the airbag forming an overlapping tip, the overlapping tip is folded toward the center of the air bag;
- pinching first side of the lower portion toward second side of the lower portion along with pinching the second side of the lower portion toward the first side of the lower portion, and then fold the lower portion toward the center of the airbag;
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- pinching first side of the upper portion toward second side of the upper portion along with pinching the second side of the upper portion toward the first side of the upper portion, and then fold the upper portion toward the center of the airbag;
- wherein the resulting folded airbag has a hexagonal two dimensional shape when viewing a back panel of the folded airbag.
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