Occupant protection device
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorOsamu Fukawatase
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Abstract
A side-impact airbag system includes an inner airbag that is supplied with gas and inflates and deploys in an inner side in a vehicle width direction for a seating occupant on a driver's seat, and an ECU that instructs an inner inflator to supply gas to the inner airbag. The ECU activates the inner inflator of the driver's seat to supply gas to the inner airbag at a first timing in the event of the side impact collision on a passenger seat side and at second timing that is set to be later than the first timing in the event of the side impact collision on a driver's seat side.
Claims16
An occupant protection device comprising:
- an inner airbag that is supplied with gas and inflates and deploys in an inner side in a vehicle width direction for a seating occupant on a seat that is arranged to offset in a first direction of the vehicle width direction with respect to a central part of a vehicle in the vehicle width direction;
- an outer airbag that is supplied with the gas and inflates and deploys in an outer side in the vehicle width direction for the seating occupant on the seat;
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- a gas supply device that supplies the gas to the inner airbag at a first timing in an event of a side impact collision of the vehicle in a second direction of the vehicle width direction that is an opposite direction of the first direction and supplies the gas to the inner airbag at a second timing that is set to be later than the first timing in the event of a side impact collision of the vehicle in the first direction of the vehicle width direction,
- wherein the first timing is set to be later than a timing to supply gas to the outer airbag in the event of the side impact collision of the vehicle in the first direction of the vehicle width direction.
An occupant protection device comprising:
- an inter-seat airbag that is supplied with gas and inflates and deploys between a pair of seats that are arranged next to each other in a vehicle width direction;
- a gas supply device in which a second timing at which the gas is supplied to the inter-seat airbag during protection of a seating occupant on one of the pair of seats on a collision side is set to be later than a first timing at which the gas is supplied to the inter-seat airbag during protection of a seating occupant on another one of the pair of seats on an opposite side of the collision in an event of a side impact collision;
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- an outer airbag that is supplied with the gas and inflates and deploys in an outer side in the vehicle width direction for the seating occupant on the one of the pair of seats on the collision side;
- wherein the first timing is set to be later than a timing to supply gas to the outer airbag in the event of the side impact collision of the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.