Vehicle airbag device

• US 10,308,207 B2
• Filed: 06/29/2016
• Issued: 06/04/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/17/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Ohno, Mitsuyoshi, Ishida, Shinichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Beck, Karen
• Application Number:
  US15/196,861
• Publication Number:
  US 20170015270A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,070 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/23308 the individual compartments defining the external shape of the bag
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/23324 Inner walls crating separate compartments, e.g. communicating with vents
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/205 in dashboards
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/231 characterised by their shape, construction or spatial configuration
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/23138 specially adapted for side protection B60R21/23184, B60R21/232 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/233 comprising a plurality of individual compartments; comprising two or more bag-like members, one within the other B60R21/232 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/237 characterised by the way they are folded

Abstract

A vehicle airbag device of the present disclosure includes an airbag provided inside a front passenger seat side of an instrument panel. The airbag includes: a first bag inflated and deployed from the instrument panel toward the front passenger seat side; and a second bag inflated and deployed at a vehicle width direction center side of the first bag. The second bag is disposed, in side view, at a vehicle rear side of a vehicle cabin interior component, and is disposed, in side view, obliquely at a vehicle lower side and rear side of an inner mirror. The second bag is inflated and deployed from the first bag toward the vehicle width direction center side on being supplied with gas from the first bag that has been inflated and deployed.

Claims

1. A vehicle airbag device comprising:

an airbag that is provided inside a front passenger seat side of an instrument panel and that is inflated and deployed toward an outer side of the front passenger seat side of the instrument panel on being supplied with gas from an inflator, the airbag including;

a first bag that is inflated and deployed from the instrument panel toward the front passenger seat side and that is disposed at a vehicle front side of a front passenger seat occupant; and

a second bag that is inflated and deployed at a vehicle width direction center side of the first bag, and that is disposed, in side view, at a vehicle rear side of a display device installed at a vehicle width direction center portion of the instrument panel and is disposed, in side view, obliquely at a vehicle lower side and rear side of an inner mirror installed at a vehicle width direction center portion of a roof or a windshield, a rear end portion of the second bag projecting out further toward the vehicle rear side than the first bag and disposed obliquely at a vehicle width direction center side and front side of a head of the front passenger seat occupant,

wherein the second bag is inflated and deployed from the first bag toward the vehicle width direction center side on being supplied with gas from the first bag that has been inflated and deployed,

wherein the display device projects out toward a vehicle upper side from the instrument panel.

2. The vehicle airbag device of claim 1, wherein:

the first bag includes a partition wall that partitions between the first bag and the second bag;

the partition wall is formed with a flow path that places interiors of the first bag and the second bag in communication with each other in a vehicle width direction; and

gas is supplied to the second bag through the flow path from the first bag that has been inflated and deployed.

3. The vehicle airbag device of claim 2, wherein

in a state in which the airbag has been inflated and deployed, the flow path is disposed further toward the vehicle rear side than the inner mirror.

4. The vehicle airbag device of claim 2, wherein:

the partition wall is formed with a plurality of flow paths arranged along a vehicle up-down direction; and

opening areas of the plurality of flow paths are different areas.

5. The vehicle airbag device of claim 2, wherein:

in a state in which the airbag has been inflated and deployed, the flow path is disposed at a rear side of the display device.

6. The vehicle airbag device of claim 1, wherein:

the airbag is stowed in a folded state in a case provided inside the instrument panel; and

in the folded-state of the airbag, after the second bag has been folded toward a side of the first bag, the first bag and the second bag are folded in a vehicle front-rear direction.

7. The vehicle airbag device of claim 1, wherein:

in an inflated and deployed state of the second bag, a front end portion of the second bag is disposed adjacent to a rear side of the display device, and the front end portion of the second bag is configured so as to abut a rear face of the display device.

8. The vehicle airbag device of claim 1, wherein:

in an inflated and deployed state of the second bag, the second bad includes a sloped face that links a front end portion of the second bag to an upper end of the rear end portion of the second bag, the sloped face slopes toward a rear side on progression from the front end portion of the second bag, the sloped face is disposed separated from the roof and the windshield toward a vehicle cabin inside, and the inner mirror is disposed in a space between the sloped face and the roof.

9. The vehicle airbag device of claim 1, wherein:

in an inflated and deployed state of the second bag, a lower end portion of the second bag is configured to as to abut the instrument panel, and an upper end portion of the rear end portion of the second bag is configured so as to abut the roof in a vehicle cabin inside.