Structure for mounting curtain airbag
AssigneeHyundai Motor Company
InventorEungman Kim
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Abstract
The present invention provides a structure for mounting a curtain airbag. According to the structure, a curtain airbag can be simply mounted to a car body by a fixing bracket and usability of the curtain airbag is maximized by guiding an airbag cushion, which is unfolded, with a guiding portion so that the airbag cushion can smoothly and rapidly expand inside while opening a head lining, without interference from a center pillar trim.
Claims11
A structure for mounting a curtain airbag to a vehicle, the structure comprising:
- a holding portion of a fixing bracket holding at least a portion of the curtain airbag;
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- an inserting portion-to-car body formed at a lower end portion of the fixing bracket and inserted in a fixing hole formed at a car body;
- wherein the holding portion has a C-shaped cross-section that is open to the inside of the car body, and the lower portion of the holding portion and a guiding portion are formed in a plate shape facing the inside;
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- wherein the guiding portion is sufficiently offset from a center pillar trim for the curtain airbag to be unfolded without interference from the center pillar trim in expanding.
A structure for mounting a curtain airbag to a vehicle the structure comprising:
- a holding portion of a fixing bracket holding at least a portion of the curtain airbag;
- and
- an inserting portion-to-car body formed at a lower end portion of the fixing bracket and inserted in a fixing hole formed at a car body;
- wherein the structure further comprises an ear-fixing means that fixes to the car body an end portion of an ear of the curtain airbag that passes through a locking hole formed at the upper portion of the holding portion of the fixing bracket.
A structure for mounting a curtain airbag to a vehicle, the structure comprising:
- a holding portion of a fixing bracket holding at least a portion of the curtain airbag;
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- an inserting portion-to-car body formed at a lower end portion of the fixing bracket and inserted in a fixing hole formed at a car body;
- wherein the fixing bracket further includes:
- an outward-extending portion that extends from an inside end portion of the guiding portion toward the car body;
- a downward-extending portion that extends downward from an outside end portion of the outward-extending portion;
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- an inserting portion-to-car body that extends downward from a distal end portion of the downward-extending portion wherein at least a portion of the inserting portion-to-car body is inserted into a fixing hole of the car body;
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- wherein the holding portion, outward-extending portion, downward-extending portion, and insertion portion-to-car body are integrally formed by bending a panel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.