Curtain airbag apparatus

• US 10,501,044 B2
• Filed: 12/11/2017
• Issued: 12/10/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Moon, Geon Woong
• Primary Examiner(s): Brown, Drew J
• Application Number:
  US15/838,174
• Publication Number:
  US 20180162311A1
• Time in Patent Office: 729 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/0009 Oblique collision
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/0048 Head
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/23107 the bag being integrated in a multi-bag system
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/23316 Inner seams, e.g. creating separate compartments or used as tethering means
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/214 in roof panels
• 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 21/232 Curtain-type airbags deploying mainly in a vertical direction from their top edge
• 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 21/2338 Tethers

Abstract

A curtain airbag apparatus may include: a curtain airbag cushion installed on an inner side surface of a vehicle including a first chamber configured to be inflated and deployed from a collapsed position as gas is injected therein from an inflator into an expanded position covering the inner side surface of the vehicle; and a first restraint part disposed toward a side of a driver airbag cushion to limit expansion of the curtain airbag cushion and form a restraint recess in the curtain airbag cushion to allow the driver airbag cushion to be fitted into the restraint recess such that the first chamber supports the driver airbag cushion in the expanded position.

Claims

1. A curtain airbag apparatus comprising:

a curtain airbag cushion installed on an inner side surface of a vehicle including a first chamber configured to be inflated and deployed from a collapsed position as gas is injected therein from an inflator into an expanded position covering the inner side surface of the vehicle; and

a first restraint part disposed toward a side of a driver airbag cushion to limit expansion of the curtain airbag cushion and form a restraint recess in the curtain airbag cushion to allow the driver airbag cushion to be fitted into the restraint recess such that the first chamber supports the driver airbag cushion in the expanded position;

wherein the curtain air bag cushion has a height H upon complete deployment to the expanded position and the shortest distance between an upper end of the first restraint part and an upper joined portion of the curtain airbag cushion is within a range of about H/4 to about H/2.

2. The curtain airbag apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first restraint part is configured to form the restraint recess in the curtain airbag cushion by preventing inflation in a thickness direction when inflating the curtain airbag cushion into its expanded position.

3. The curtain airbag apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the curtain airbag cushion further includes a second chamber partitioned from the first chamber part by the first restraint part and configured to be inflated and deployed when inflating the curtain airbag cushion into its expanded position.

4. The curtain airbag apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the curtain airbag cushion further includes a second restraint part configured to limit an inflation thickness of the second chamber.

5. The curtain airbag apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the second restraint part comprises a second seaming part.

6. The curtain airbag apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the second chamber part is configured to absorb shock of from a head of an occupant upon a side oblique collision of the vehicle.

7. The curtain airbag apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the first chamber is disposed at one side of the first restraint part and the second chamber is disposed at another side of the first restraint part.

8. The curtain airbag apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the shortest distance between a lower end of the first restraint part and a lower joined portion of the curtain airbag cushion is within a range of about H/6 to about H/5.

9. The curtain airbag apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the driver airbag cushion has an inflation thickness V and the shortest distance between the lower end of the first restraint part and a front joined portion of the curtain airbag cushion is within a range of about V to about 1.4V.

10. The curtain airbag apparatus according to claim 8,

wherein a third restraint part is configured to limit an inflation thickness of the curtain airbag cushion is disposed below a B pillar, and

wherein the distance in a front-rear direction between the first restraint part and the third restraint part is L, the curtain airbag cushion further includes a second restraint part configured to limit an inflation thickness of the second chamber, the second restraint part is disposed at a position that is separated from the third restraint part by about L/4 to about L/2.

11. The curtain airbag apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the second restraint part is disposed at a position that is separated forward by L/3 from the third seaming part.

12. The curtain airbag apparatus according to claim 10,

wherein a fourth restraint part is configured to limit an inflation thickness of the curtain airbag cushion in front of the second restraint part, and

wherein the fourth restraint part is disposed at a position that is separated from the second restraint part by about L/4 to about L/2.

13. The curtain airbag apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the third restraint part comprises a third seaming part.

14. The curtain airbag apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the fourth restraint part is disposed at a position that is separated from the second restraint part by about L/3.

15. The curtain airbag apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the fourth restraint part comprises a fourth seaming part.

16. The curtain airbag apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first restraint part comprises a first seaming part.