Passenger Restraint Apparatus

• US 20090045606A1
• Filed: 10/23/2006
• Published: 02/19/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Takata Corporation (Ningbo Junsheng Investment Group Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Takata Corporation (Ningbo Junsheng Investment Group Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Yoshikawa, Hiromichi, Koshikawa, Kimihiro
• Application Number:
  US12/091,309
• Publication Number:
  US 20090045606A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 280/728.200
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/42763 with anti-submarining systems
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/022 mounted on seats
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/23332 using independent bags, one within the other
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/207 in vehicle seats
• 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

Abstract

A passenger restraint apparatus 10 in which a seat bag is inflated stepwise includes a seat bag 12 extending in the right-left width direction of a seat and configured to be inflated so as to push a seat cushion from below, an inner bag 13 provided in the seat bag 12, and an inflator 14 that inflates the seat bag 12 and the inner bag 13. The inner bag 13 extends in the right-left width direction of the seat in the seat bag 12, and the inflator 14 is provided in the inner bag 13 so that the longitudinal direction thereof coincides with the longitudinal direction of the inner bag 13. Gas outlets 17 are provided in an upper surface of the inner bag 13. Through the gas outlets 17, gas in the inner bag 13 is discharged upward into the seat bag 12.

Claims

1. A passenger restraint apparatus comprising:

a seat bag provided on a lower side of a seat cushion of a seat having a passenger sitting region, and configured to inflate so as to push the seat cushion from below; and

an inflator configured to inflate the seat bag in a vehicle emergency,

wherein the seat bag extends in a right-left width direction of the seat,

wherein an inner bag having a capacity smaller than that of the seat bag is provided in the seat bag,

wherein the inner bag is disposed on a lower side of the passenger sitting region of the seat cushion, and extends in a longitudinal direction of the seat bag,

wherein the inner bag includes at least one gas outlet through which gas is discharged from the inner bag into the seat bag, and

wherein gas is supplied from the inflator into the inner bag so as to inflate the inner bag, and the gas in the inner bag is discharged into the seat bag so as to inflate the seat bag.

2. The passenger restraint apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the ratio of the total open area of the gas outlet to the surface area of the inner bag in an inflated state is 2 to 40%.

3. The passenger restraint apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the longitudinal length of the inner bag in an inflated state is 50 to 80% of the longitudinal length of the seat bag in an inflated state.

4. The passenger restraint apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the perimeter of the inner bag in an inflated state is 50 to 80% of the perimeter of the seat bag in the inflated state.

5. The passenger restraint apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the gas outlet is provided in an upper surface of the inner bag.

6. The passenger restraint apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the inflator has a gas discharging port provided near at one longitudinal end of the inner bag, and the gas outlet is disposed near the other longitudinal end of the inner bag.

7. The passenger restraint apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the longitudinal length of the inner bag in an inflated state is 50 to 80% of the longitudinal length of the seat bag in an inflated state.

8. The passenger restraint apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the perimeter of the inner bag in an inflated state is 50 to 80% of the perimeter of the seat bag in the inflated state.

9. The passenger restraint apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the perimeter of the inner bag in an inflated state is 50 to 80% of the perimeter of the seat bag in the inflated state.

10. The passenger restraint apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the perimeter of the inner bag in an inflated state is 50 to 80% of the perimeter of the seat bag in the inflated state.