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US 7,029,024 B2Granted
Air bag housing
AssigneeKey Safety Systems, Inc.
InventorEric Baumbach
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Abstract
An air bag module has an air bag, an air bag inflator and an air bag housing. The air bag has flaps that extend through slots in the air bag housing. The flaps are folded onto hooks on the exterior of the air bag housing. The slots extend around a mouth of the air bag housing.
Claims11
An air bag module comprising:
- an air bag having a plurality of flaps;
- an air bag inflator in communication with said air bag;
- and an air bag housing for storing said air bag and said air bag inflator, said air bag housing having four sides, each side having at least one aperture to receive at least one flap and wherein each flap has a first connection feature and each side of said air bag housing has a second connection feature, said first connection feature secured to said second connection feature, wherein said first connection feature is a hole and said second connection feature is a protrusion extending from each side on an exterior of said housing, said protrusion being a hook, wherein each of said hooks is spaced between an air bag housing opening and said at least one aperture.
An air bag module comprising:
- an air bag having an air bag opening, said air bag having four or more flaps extending around said air bag opening;
- an air bag inflator in communication with said air bag opening;
- an air bag housing for storing said air bag and said air bag inflator, said air bag housing having four sides, each side comprising one or more apertures to receive said flaps, said four or more apertures extending around an air bag housing opening from which said air bag deploys;
- and wherein said flaps have a first connection feature and each side of said air bag housing has a second connection feature, said first connection feature secured to said second connection feature, wherein said first connection feature comprises a hole and said second connection feature comprises a protrusion extending from each side on an exterior of said housing and wherein said protrusion comprises a hook wherein each of said hooks is spaced between said air bag housing opening and said apertures.
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