Side gas bag, side gas bag module and method of folding a side gas bag

• US 20020158451A1
• Filed: 04/23/2002
• Published: 10/31/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: TRW Occupant Restraint Systems GmbH & Co. KG
• Original Assignee: TRW Occupant Restraint Systems GmbH & Co. KG
• Inventors: Nusshor, Bernd
• Application Number:
  US10/128,073
• Publication Number:
  US 20020158451A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 280/730.2
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/213 in vehicle roof frames or pillars
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/237 characterised by the way they are folded

Abstract

An inflatable side gas bag for a vehicle occupant restraint system comprises an upper edge by means of which it can be fastened in a vehicle. The side gas bag has an upper portion adjacent the upper edge and a lower portion remote from the upper edge. In a non-inflated condition, the upper portion of the side gas bag is folded in another way as the lower portion. There is proposed a method of folding such a side gas bag, and a side gas bag module incorporating such side gas bag.

Claims

1. An inflatable side gas bag for a vehicle occupant restraint system, said side gas bag comprising an upper edge by means of which it can be fastened in a vehicle, said side gas bag having an upper portion adjacent said upper edge and a lower portion remote from said upper edge, in a non-inflated condition said upper portion of said side gas bag being folded in another way as said lower portion.

2. The side gas bag as claimed in claim 1, wherein said upper portion is zigzag-folded and said lower portion is rolled.

3. The side gas bag as claimed in claim 2, wherein said lower portion of said side gas bag is rolled up to form a roll such that a side of said side gas bag which in a built-in and inflated condition of said side gas bag will point toward an inside of said vehicle forms an outside of said roll.

4. A side gas bag module being comprised of a housing and of a side gas bag comprising an upper edge by means of which it can be fastened in a vehicle, said side gas bag having an upper portion adjacent said upper edge and a lower portion remote from said upper edge, in a non-inflated condition said upper portion of said side gas bag being folded in another way as said lower portion, said side gas bag being accommodated in said housing in a non-inflated condition.

5. A method of folding a side gas bag comprising an upper edge by means of which it can be fastened in a vehicle, in an upper portion adjacent said upper edge said side gas bag being folded in another way as in a lower portion remote from said upper edge.

6. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein said side gas bag is zigzag-folded in said upper portion and is rolled in said lower portion.

7. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein said lower portion of said side gas bag is rolled up to form a roll such that a side of said side gas bag which in a built-in and inflated condition of said side gas bag will point toward an inside of said vehicle forms an outside of said roll.