Hood airbag device for use in a vehicle
AssigneesToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Takata Corporation
InventorsHiroyuki Takahashi, Takayuki Takimoto
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Abstract
A vehicle hood airbag device in which an in-hood reinforcement (28) is arranged in a hood width direction at a rear end portion of an inner hood panel (20). The in-hood reinforcement (28) has longitudinal opposite end portions coupled to left and right hood hinge reinforcements (40) that are disposed on the respective lateral sides of the inner hood-panel (20) to increase the rigidity of the inner hood panel (20). Further, by fixing the airbag case (46) to the in-hood reinforcement (28), the rigidity of the inner hood panel (20) is further increased.
Claims13
A hood airbag device for use in a vehicle, comprising:
- an airbag case accommodating therein a gas generating unit that discharges a gas when the vehicle collides with an impact object and an airbag adapted to be deployed over an outer hood panel by the gas supplied from the gas generating unit, wherein the airbag case is capable of being inserted from below an inner hood panel and mounted in place through a mounting aperture formed at a rear side of the inner hood panel and formed along a hood width direction;
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- an in-hood reinforcement, arranged around the airbag case, and connected to the outer hood panel and the periphery around the mounting aperture of the inner hood panel to reinforce a peripheral portion around the mounting aperture of the inner hood panel, in which longitudinal opposite end portions of the in-hood reinforcement are respectively coupled to hood hinge reinforcements disposed at opposite lateral sides of the inner hood panel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.