Air bag apparatus

• US 20080084051A1
• Filed: 10/05/2007
• Published: 04/10/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Company Limited (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Company Limited (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Yamamoto, Tadashi, Shigemura, Takashi, Okuhara, Masaaki
• Application Number:
  US11/905,872
• Publication Number:
  US 20080084051A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 280/728.2
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/207 in vehicle seats
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/2171 specially adapted for elongated cylindrical or bottle-like inflators with a symmetry axis perpendicular to the main direction of bag deployment, e.g. extruded reaction canisters B60R21/2176 takes precedence

Abstract

According to the air bag apparatus, for example, a side air bag apparatus 20, in a mode in which a portion on a side of a connector portion 33 of an inflator 30 is exposed from a cylindrical portion 51 of a retainer 50, the inflator 30 is contained in the retainer 50. Further, an exposed portion of the inflator 30, that is, a portion thereof exposed from the cylindrical portion 51 of the retainer 50 is fastened together with an extended portion 52 substantially in a shape of a half cylinder extended from the cylindrical portion 51 of the retainer 50 by a clamp mechanism 60 in a state of being covered by an extraneous portion of a base cloth extended from an opening portion 41 of the air bag 40.

Claims

1. An air bag apparatus, wherein in a mode in which a portion of an inflator on a side of being provided with a harness is exposed from a retainer in a cylindrical shape, the inflator is contained in the retainer;

and

a portion of being exposed from the retainer of the inflator contained at a base end portion of an air bag is fastened together with the retainer by fastening means in a state of being covered by a base cloth of the air bag extended from an opening of the air bag.

2. The air bag apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the retainer is provided with a portion extended in correspondence with the portion of exposing the inflator, and the extended portion of the retainer is fastened together with the inflator by the fastening means in the state of being covered by the base cloth of the air bag.

3. The air bag apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the portion of the retainer fastened together with the inflator by the fastening means is provided with a slit for assisting to fasten the base cloth of the air bag and the inflator by the fastening means.

4. The air bag apparatus according to claim 2, wherein a terminal portion of the cylindrical portion of the retainer is provided with a flange for preventing the inserted inflator from being drawn, and a front end portion of the extended portion of the retainer is provided with a calking piece for preventing the inserted inflator from being drawn in a reverse direction by calking.

5. The air bag apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the cylindrical portion of the retainer is formed with a pressing portion for pressing the inflator by being projected in an inner direction of the cylinder, the inflator is press-fitted to the cylindrical portion of the retainer in a form of elastically deforming the pressing portion.

6. The air bag apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the fastening means comprises a clamp mechanism subjected to calking.