Apparatus for guiding deployment of curtain airbag for vehicle

• US 20080111354A1
• Filed: 01/10/2007
• Published: 05/15/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/10/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kia Motors Corporation (Kia Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Kia Motors Corporation (Kia Corp.)
• Inventors: Ryu, Seung Soo
• Application Number:
  US11/652,279
• Publication Number:
  US 20080111354A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 280/730.2
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/161 characterised by additional means for controlling deployment trajectory
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/23386 External tether means
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/233 comprising a plurality of individual compartments; comprising two or more bag-like members, one within the other B60R21/232 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/2338 Tethers

Abstract

An apparatus for guiding deployment of a curtain airbag for a vehicle which is installed at an inside of the mating part where a head lining and a pillar trim of a center pillar meet with one another. The apparatus includes a guide member, one end of which is fixed to a vehicle body to which an airbag is mounted at a region below the curtain airbag and the other end of which is connected to an airbag cushion. The guide member may be a wire.

Claims

1. An apparatus for guiding deployment of a curtain airbag for a vehicle, which is installed at an inside of a mating part where a head lining and a pillar trim of a center pillar meet with one another, said apparatus comprising a guide member one end of which is fixed to a vehicle body to which an airbag is mounted at a region below the curtain airbag and the other end of which is connected to an airbag cushion.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the guide member is a wire having a length such that the guide member can be loosened at a lower end portion of the deployed airbag cushion with a center portion of which being temporarily bound.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein a guide rounded toward a cabin is formed at an upper end portion of the pillar trim such that a wire connected to a lower end portion of the airbag cushion can be guided in a normal direction when the airbag cushion deploys.