Side curtain airbag system

• US 10,300,879 B2
• Filed: 07/12/2017
• Issued: 05/28/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/14/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Hirayama, Hiroyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): English, James A
• Application Number:
  US15/647,528
• Publication Number:
  US 20180015900A1
• Time in Patent Office: 685 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/161 characterised by additional means for controlling deployment trajectory
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/213 in vehicle roof frames or pillars
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/217 Inflation fluid source retainers, e.g. reaction canisters; Connection of bags, covers, diffusers or inflation fluid sources therewith or together
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/2171 specially adapted for elongated cylindrical or bottle-like inflators with a symmetry axis perpendicular to the main direction of bag deployment, e.g. extruded reaction canisters B60R21/2176 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/232 Curtain-type airbags deploying mainly in a vertical direction from their top edge

Abstract

A side curtain airbag system 10 includes: an airbag body 21 mounted on a vehicle interior side of a roof side part of a body and deploying upon supply of gas; and a protector 22 designed to hold the airbag body 21 and guide deployment of the airbag body 21. The protector 22 includes: a main body part 41 extending along the roof side part and covers the airbag body 21; multiple first ribs extending toward a vehicle exterior from the main body part 41, capable of making contact with the body at the time of deployment of the airbag body 21, and arranged in a direction in which the main body part 41 extends; and a second rib 43 connecting an adjacent pair, of the first ribs 42 to each other, and extending toward the vehicle exterior and obliquely downward from the main body part 41.

Claims

1. A side curtain airbag system comprising:

an airbag body mounted on a vehicle interior side of a roof side part of a vehicle body and configured to deploy upon supply of gas; and

a protector configured to hold said airbag body and guide deployment of said airbag body,

wherein said protector comprises;

a main body part that extends along said roof side part in a longitudinal direction of the main body part and covers said airbag body;

a plurality of first ribs each protruding from said main body part, extending toward a vehicle exterior side, and configured to make contact with said vehicle body when said airbag body is deployed, said first ribs being arranged in the longitudinal direction in which said main body part extends; and

a second rib provided between an adjacent pair of said first ribs such that the second rib connects the adjacent pair of said first ribs to each other, the second rib protruding from the said main body part and extending toward said vehicle exterior and obliquely downward from said main body part, wherein

said second rib has a cutout part at the center of said second rib in the longitudinal direction in which said main body part extends, the cutout part having been formed by cutting out a vehicle exterior-side portion of said second rib, the cutout part being formed in a trapezoidal shape whose short parallel side extends in the longitudinal direction at a side of a proximal end of said second rib.

2. The side curtain airbag system according to claim 1, wherein said second rib is placed at a position corresponding to an occupant'"'"'s seating position.

3. The side curtain airbag system according to claim 1, wherein said second rib is placed at a position closer to said vehicle exterior than a vehicle interior-side end part of each of said first ribs.

4. The side curtain airbag system according to claim 1, further comprising an interior lining member that covers the airbag body,

wherein each of said first ribs has a protruding part that protrudes toward said interior lining member so as to be capable of making contact with said interior lining member.