Air bag apparatus
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorIsamu Takahara
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Abstract
In an air bag apparatus structured such that an air bag (11) housed in a part of a vehicle in a folded manner is inflated and deployed by a gas supplied from an inflator (14) so as to protect an occupant, the gas supplied from the inflator (14) is dispersed in a three-dimensional direction by a shower head (13a) so as to be supplied to a gas passage (11b) of the air bag (11).
Claims15
An air bag apparatus structured such that an air bag housed in an air bag side of a vehicle in a folded manner is inflated and deployed by a gas supplied from an inflator so as to protect an occupant, comprising:
- a diffusing means provided in the air bag side, and for diffusing the gas supplied from the inflator in three-dimensional directions;
- wherein:
- a diffuser pipe is assembled in the inflator and the diffuser pipe is formed in a substantially J shape, and
- the diffusing means includes at least a triangular bag base fabric in a view of the vehicle width direction, a top portion of the triangular bag base fabric being disposed immediately below an opening of the diffuser pipe.
An air bag apparatus structured such that an air bag housed in an air bag side of a vehicle in a folded manner is inflated and deployed by a gas supplied from an inflator so as to protect an occupant, comprising:
- a diffusing means provided in the air bag side, and for diffusing the gas supplied from the inflator,
- wherein:
- a diffuser pipe is assembled in the inflator and the diffuser pipe is formed in a substantially J shape,
- in a view of the vehicle width direction, the diffusing means is a non-inflating portion that protrudes toward upstream side of gas supplied from the inflator, and
- a portion of the triangular bag base fabric being disposed immediately below an opening of the inflator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.