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Inflatable windshield curtain

  • US 20040100073A1
  • Filed: 11/22/2002
  • Published: 05/27/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/22/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. Apparatus for helping to protect an occupant of a vehicle that has a roof and a windshield extending from a driver side A pillar to a passenger side A pillar of the vehicle, said apparatus comprising:

  • an inflatable vehicle occupant protection device having a stored position extending along a forward edge of the vehicle roof at an upper edge of the windshield; and

    an inflation fluid source that is actuatable to provide inflation fluid for inflating said inflatable vehicle occupant protection device;

    said inflatable vehicle occupant protection device being inflatable from said stored position to a deployed position overlying the windshield, said inflatable vehicle occupant protection device while in said deployed position covering the windshield from the driver side A pillar to the passenger side A pillar and from an upper edge of the windshield to a position near a lower edge of the windshield, said inflatable vehicle occupant protection device while in said deployed position also covering the driver side A pillar and the passenger side A pillar.

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