Airbag device

• US 20010030416A1
• Filed: 02/23/2001
• Published: 10/18/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Company Limited (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Company Limited (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Tanase, Toshinori, Tanabe, Choko
• Granted Patent: US 6,382,669 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 280/743.1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/0018 Roll-over
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/23316 Inner seams, e.g. creating separate compartments or used as tethering means
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/23386 External tether means
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/23514 coated fabric
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/23547 one piece weaving
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/213 in vehicle roof frames or pillars
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/232 Curtain-type airbags deploying mainly in a vertical direction from their top edge
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/235 characterised by their material

Abstract

An airbag device is provided with a double-woven coated airbag in which average values of the number of warps and wefts per square inch in double-weaving are 49 to 50 in one embodiment or 51 or more in another embodiment. With the airbag, peak inner pressure values before and after completion of expansion are set corresponding to the coating weight of the coating agent on the basis of a straight-line formula for a relationship between peak inner pressure values and the coating agent at the time of inflowing of the expansion gas.

Claims

1. An airbag device comprising:

a double-woven airbag, which is folded for receipt in a vehicle in a manner to permit an expansion gas from an inflator to flow thereinto to develop and expand the airbag,

said airbag having warps and wefts with average values of the number of warps and wefts per square inch in double-weaving being 49 to 50,

a coating agent of silicone rubber on said airbag for preventing leakage of the expansion gas through texture,

the airbag device being such that peak inner pressure values before and after completion of expansion of the airbag correspond to the coating weight of the coating agent on the basis of the straight line represented by the straight-line formula Y=5X/2−

100 for a relationship between peak inner pressure values and the coating agent at the time of inflowing of the expansion gas,

where, in the system of XY coordinates, peak inner pressure values (KPa) are indicated by X and the coating weight (g/m²) of the coating agent is indicated by Y, and in the ranges of 70 KPa or higher and 80 to 155 g/m² in a leftside region including values on the straight line.

2. The airbag device according to

claim 1

, wherein said peak inner pressure values are adjusted by adjustment of outputs of the inflator.

3. The airbag device according to

claim 1

, wherein said peak inner pressure values are adjusted by adjustment of a volume of the airbag, into which the expansion gas is caused to flow.

4. An airbag device comprising:

a double-woven airbag, which is folded for receipt in a vehicle in a manner to permit an expansion gas from an inflator to flow thereinto to develop and expand the airbag,

said airbag having warps and wefts with average values of the number of warps and wefts per square inch in double-weaving being 51 or more,

a coating agent of silicone rubber on said airbag for preventing leakage of the expansion gas through texture is coated,

the airbag device being such that peak inner pressure values before and after completion of expansion of the airbag are set corresponding to the coating weight of the coating agent on the basis of the straight line represented by the straight-line formula Y=5X/2−

150 for a relationship between peak inner pressure values and the coating agent at the time of inflowing of the expansion gas,

where, in the system of XY coordinates peak inner pressure values (KPa) are indicated by X and the coating weight (g/m²) of the coating agent is indicated by Y, and in the ranges of 70 KPa or higher and 80 to 155 g/m² in a leftside region including values on the straight line.

5. The airbag device according to

claim 4

, wherein setting of the peak inner pressure values is made by adjustment of outputs of the inflator.

6. The airbag device according to

claim 4

, wherein setting of the peak inner pressure values is made by adjustment of a volume of the airbag, into which the expansion gas is caused to flow.