Side air bag device

• US 10,479,312 B2
• Filed: 09/14/2017
• Issued: 11/19/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/14/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: TS Tech Company Limited
• Original Assignee: TS Tech Company Limited
• Inventors: Tanabe, Jinichi, Hayashi, Kazuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Dickson, Paul N
• Assistant Examiner(s): Wilhelm, Timothy
• Application Number:
  US15/704,469
• Publication Number:
  US 20180001860A1
• Time in Patent Office: 796 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/2078 in rear seats
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/2172 the cover being connected to the surrounding part and to the module, e.g. floating mounts
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/23153 specially adapted for rear seat passengers
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/017 including arrangements for providing electric power to safety arrangements or their actuating means, e.g. to pyrotechnic fuses or electro-mechanic valves
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/207 in vehicle seats
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/215 characterised by the covers for the inflatable member B60R21/2176 takes precedence
• 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 21/23138 specially adapted for side protection B60R21/23184, B60R21/232 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/2334 Expansion control features
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/26 characterised by the inflation fluid source or means to control inflation fluid flow arrangement or mounting thereof to the vehicle B60R21/20; blasting cartridges for producing gas under pressure in general F42B3/04; initiators or igniters therefor F42B3/10

Abstract

A side air bag device is described which is disposed in a space between a vehicle body and a back seat and for which rigidity of attachment to a vehicle body member is improved. The side air bag device provided between a vehicle body and a back seat includes: a base member including a base storage configured to store an air bag and an inflator and a base attachment portion attached to the vehicle body; and a retainer member configured to hold the base storage from a vehicle back side. The retainer member extends from a portion holding the base storage while being bent along the shape of the vehicle body. The retainer member is attached to the vehicle body together with the base attachment portion while being overlapped with the base attachment portion.

Claims

1. A side air bag device provided between a vehicle body and a back seat, comprising:

an expandable air bag;

an inflator configured to supply gas into the air bag;

a base member including a base storage, configured to store the air bag in a folded state and the inflator, the base member being attached between a vehicle body door and the back seat;

a webbing configured to guide the air bag in an expansion direction;

a harness having an end portion connected to the inflator and configured to supply ignition electric power to the inflator; and

a retainer member configured to hold the base storage from a vehicle back side;

wherein;

an opening is provided on a back side of the base member;

a portion of the opening of the base member through which the harness passes is disposed at a same height as the webbing;

the opening penetrates through the base member in a front to rear direction and is disposed above the inflator; and

the harness passes through the opening of the base member.

2. The side air bag device according to claim 1, wherein the harness is supported by the opening of the base member;

wherein an end portion of the webbing is attached to the base member.

3. The side air bag device according to claim 1, wherein:

the inflator comprises an assembly shaft through which the inflator is assembled to the base member by the assembly shaft being inserted into a first side of the base member;

the opening is formed at a second side of the base member that is a different side from the first side of the base member; and

a portion of the retainer member into which the assembly shaft is inserted is disposed at a same height as the webbing.

4. The side air bag device according to claim 1, wherein the opening of the base member is located at a higher position in an up-to-down direction than a fastening portion where the base member and the retainer member are fastened.

5. The side air bag device according to claim 1, wherein:

the base member comprises a harness support portion that supports the harness; and

the harness support portion is provided above a central portion of the base storage in an up-to-down direction.

6. The side air bag device according to claim 1, wherein:

the base member comprises a harness support portion that supports the harness; and

the harness support portion is provided at the opening of the base member and has a concave shape in which a lower portion of the harness support portion in an up-to-down direction is a bottom surface of the concave shape.

7. The side air bag device according to claim 1, wherein:

the base member comprises a harness support portion that supports the harness; and

the harness support portion is arranged at a lower position in an up-to-down direction than an upper end of the retainer member.

8. The side air bag device according to claim 1, wherein:

the base member comprises a downwardly-protruding portion that protrudes downward; and

the retainer member extends from a portion of the retainer member that holds the base storage toward the downwardly-protruding portion, the retainer member being overlapped with the downwardly-protruding portion and attached to the downwardly-protruding portion.

9. The side air bag device according to claim 1, wherein the retainer member directly contacts the base member to be attached to the base member.

10. The side air bag device according to claim 1, wherein:

a protrusion that protrudes toward the vehicle back side is provided on a back face of the retainer member; and

the opening of the base member is disposed at a position aligned with the protrusion of the retainer member in a vehicle width direction.

20. The side air bag device according to claim 1, wherein:

a protrusion that protrudes toward the vehicle back side is provided on a back face of the retainer member; and

the opening of the base member is disposed at an upper side of the protrusion of the retainer member.

11. A side air bag device provided between a vehicle body and a back seat, comprising:

an expandable air bag;

an inflator configured to supply gas into the air bag;

a base member including a base storage, configured to store the air bag in a folded state and the inflator, the base member being attached between a vehicle body door and the back seat;

a webbing configured to guide the air bag in an expansion direction;

a harness having an end portion connected to the inflator and configured to supply ignition electric power to the inflator; and

a retainer member configured to hold the base storage from a vehicle back side;

wherein an opening is provided on a back side of the base member;

wherein a portion of the opening of the base member through which the harness passes is disposed at a same height as the webbing;

wherein the opening penetrates through the base member in a front to rear direction and is formed on a back surface of the base storage;

wherein the harness passes through the opening of the base member.

12. The side air bag device according to claim 11, wherein the opening of the base member is disposed above the inflator in an up-to-down direction;

wherein the inflator comprises an assembly shaft through which the inflator is assembled to the base member;

wherein a portion of the retainer member into which the assembly shaft is inserted is disposed at a same height as the webbing.

13. The side air bag device according to claim 11, wherein the harness is supported by the opening of the base member;

wherein an end portion of the webbing is attached to the base member.

14. The side air bag device according to claim 11, wherein:

a protrusion that protrudes toward the vehicle back side is provided on a back face of the retainer member; and

the opening of the base member is disposed at an upper side of the protrusion of the retainer member.

15. A side air bag device provided between a vehicle body and a back seat, comprising:

an expandable air bag;

an inflator configured to supply gas into the air bag;

a base member including a base storage, configured to store the air bag in a folded state and the inflator, the base member being attached between a vehicle body door and the back seat;

a webbing configured to guide the air bag in an expansion direction;

a harness having an end portion connected to the inflator and configured to supply ignition electric power to the inflator; and

a retainer member configured to hold the base storage from a vehicle back side;

wherein;

a portion of an opening of the base member through which the harness passes is disposed at a same height as the webbing;

a protrusion that protrudes toward the vehicle back side is provided on a back face of the retainer member; and

the protrusion is formed as a recessed portion that is a portion of the back face of the retainer and recessed toward the vehicle back side.

16. The side air bag device according to claim 15, wherein:

an opening is provided on a back side of the base member;

the inflator comprises an assembly shaft through which the inflator is assembled to the base member by the assembly shaft being inserted into a first side of the base member;

the opening is formed at a second side of the base member that is a different side from the first side of the base member; and

a portion of the retainer member into which the assembly shaft is inserted is disposed at a same height as the webbing.

17. The side air bag device according to claim 15, wherein:

an opening is provided on a back side of the base member; and

the opening of the base member is located at a higher position in an up-to-down direction than a fastening portion where the base member and the retainer member are fastened.

18. The side air bag device according to claim 15, wherein:

the base member comprises a harness support portion that supports the harness; and

the harness support portion is provided above a central portion of the base storage in an up-to-down direction;

wherein an end portion of the webbing is attached to the base member.

19. The side air bag device according to claim 15, wherein:

an opening is provided on a back side of the base member;

the base member comprises a harness support portion that supports the harness; and

the harness support portion is provided at the opening of the base member and has a concave shape in which a lower portion of the harness support portion in an up-to-down direction is a bottom surface of the concave shape.