AIRBAG APPARATUS HAVING EASILY-BENDING PORTION FORMED IN BACK-SIDE COVER

• US 20070052220A1
• Filed: 08/16/2006
• Published: 03/08/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/02/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Hidaka, Nobuyuki
• Granted Patent: US 7,694,998 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 280/730.200
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/213 in vehicle roof frames or pillars
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/215 characterised by the covers for the inflatable member B60R21/2176 takes precedence

Abstract

An airbag apparatus includes a back-side cover provided at a roof side rail which is provided on a side of a roof of a vehicle and extends in a front-back direction of the vehicle, wherein the back-side cover is arranged on a side of the roof side rail, which faces an interior of the vehicle; an interior-side cover for covering a side of the back-side cover, which faces the interior; and an airbag contained in a case formed by the back-side cover and the interior-side cover. An easily-bending portion is formed in the middle of the back-side cover along vertical directions thereof, and the easily-bending portion bends when receiving a pushing pressure from the airbag which is deploying, and the airbag deploys toward the interior through a space between the back-side cover and the interior-side cover which open in accordance with the bending of the easily-bending portion.

Claims

1. An airbag apparatus comprising:

a back-side cover provided at a roof side rail which is provided on a side of a roof of a vehicle and extends in a front-back direction of the vehicle, wherein the back-side cover is arranged on a side of the roof side rail, which faces an interior of the vehicle;

an interior-side cover for covering a side of the back-side cover, which faces the interior; and

an airbag contained in a case formed by the back-side cover and the interior-side cover, wherein

an easily-bending portion is formed in the middle of the back-side cover along vertical directions thereof, and the easily-bending portion bends when receiving a pushing pressure from the airbag which is deploying; and

the airbag deploys toward the interior through a space between the back-side cover and the interior-side cover which open in accordance with the bending of the easily-bending portion.

2. The airbag apparatus in accordance with claim 1, wherein upper end portions of the back-side cover and the interior-side cover are overlapped and joined to each other, and the easily-bending portion is formed along a line under the upper end portions

3. The airbag apparatus in accordance with claim 1, wherein the back-side cover has a rib, and the easily-bending portion is formed along an upper end of the rib.

4. The airbag apparatus in accordance with claim 1, wherein an interior finishing member is fastened to a body of the vehicle, and is detachably engaged with the interior-side cover.

5. The airbag apparatus in accordance with claim 4, wherein the interior-side cover has an opening through which the interior finishing member fastened to the body of the vehicle can pass.

6. The airbag apparatus in accordance with claim 4, wherein the interior finishing member is a passenger'"'"'s handle.

7. The airbag apparatus in accordance with claim 2, wherein portions other than the upper end portion and the easily-bending portion of the back-side cover are fastened to a body of the vehicle.