Airbag with flow adjustment member and tether
AssigneeTakata Corporation
InventorsNorihisa Okada, Kazuhiro Abe
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Abstract
An airbag is formed of an airbag body having a front surface facing a passenger and a rear surface with a gas inlet opening, a flow adjustment member disposed in the airbag body on a side of the rear surface and having an outlet port for discharging gas toward an outer periphery of the airbag body, and a tether connecting the front surface and the rear surface of the airbag body. The tether is arranged relative to the flow adjustment member so as to face the outlet port in a state where the airbag body is inflated to adjust a gas flow ejected from the outlet port. Thus, the airbag can be inflated evenly as a whole.
Claims6
An airbag, comprising:
- an airbag body having a front surface for facing a passenger and a rear surface on a side opposite to the front surface, said rear surface having a gas inlet opening;
- a flow adjustment member disposed in the airbag body on a side of the rear surface, and having an outer portion covering the gas inlet opening to block gas entering the airbag body and at least one outlet port on a side of the outer portion for discharging the gas toward an outer periphery of the airbag body;
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- a tether connecting the front surface and the rear surface of the airbag body, said tether being arranged relative to the flow adjustment member so as to face the at least one outlet port in a state where the airbag body is inflated, to thereby adjust a gas flow ejected from the at least one outlet port.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.