Curtain airbag apparatus

• US 20060043708A1
• Filed: 08/19/2005
• Published: 03/02/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Inazu, Tadashi, Okimoto, Kohei
• Granted Patent: US 7,331,598 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 280/730.200
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/161 characterised by additional means for controlling deployment trajectory
• 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

Abstract

A curtain airbag apparatus is provided with a bag disposed along the upper edge of an opening of a vehicle body in a folded state, a plurality of protectors disposed along a lengthwise direction of the bag, which prevent the bag from interfering with the vehicle body; and brackets intervening between the bag and the vehicle body, which attach the bag to the vehicle body and support the protectors, wherein protectors adjacent to each other are spaced from each other in the lengthwise direction of the bag.

Claims

1. A curtain airbag apparatus comprising:

a bag disposed along an upper edge of an opening of a vehicle body in a folded state;

a plurality of protectors disposed along a lengthwise direction of the bag, which prevent the bag from interfering with the vehicle body; and

brackets intervening between the bag and the vehicle body, which attach the bag to the vehicle body and support the protectors;

wherein protectors adjacent to each other are spaced from each other in an lengthwise direction of the bag.