AIR BAG AND AIR BAG DEVICE

• US 20100213692A1
• Filed: 01/21/2010
• Published: 08/26/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company), Nihon Plast Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company), Nihon Plast Company Limited
• Inventors: Sagisaka, Ryuji, Barasawa, Akihiro, Nagai, Makoto
• Granted Patent: US 8,439,395 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 280/729
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/23332 using independent bags, one within the other
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/2346 Soft diffusers

Abstract

An airbag and an airbag device, which are capable of readily improving expansion characteristics of the airbag and reducing manufacturing cost, are provided. An airbag 11 for occupant at passenger'"'"'s seat includes a first bag 21 and a second bag 22 which is provided inside of the first bag 21. An outside top face portion 36 of the first bag 21 and an inside top face portion 46 of the second bag 22 are brought into a sheet-like intimate contact with each other, and are detachably jointed at the jointing portion 51. The jointing portion 51 is comprised of a breakable seam line 52. Gas is supplied into the second bag 22 to thereby expand the first bag 22, and is supplied into the first bag 21 via a gas distributing portion 48 to thereby expand the first bag 21. In a case where an occupant exists at a predetermined position, the jointing portion 51 breaks away, and the first bag 21 then expands to its maximum. In an OOP state in which the occupant exists in the proximity of the airbag device 1, a head part of the occupant holds the outside top face portion 36 and disallows breakage of the jointing portion 51, so that expansion of the first bag 21 to the occupant side can be restrained and the occupant can be protected with an appropriate force.

Claims

1. An airbag inflating and expanding toward a target to be protected, when gas is introduced in a retracted and accommodated state, said airbag comprising:

a first bag substantially shaped like a bag in which a sheet-like outside top face portion opposed to the target for projection is provided while the first bag inflates and expands;

an inside top portion which is disposed inside of the first bag and opposed to the outside top face portion;

a gas introducing portion from which gas is to be introduced;

a second bag substantially shaped like a bag which is positioned between the inside top face portion and the gas introducing portion, in which a gas distributing portion at which gas is distributable is provided, and which is independent of the first bag; and

a jointing portion for detachably jointing the outside top face portion and the inside top face portion with each other, with the outside top face portion and the inside top face portion being superimposed in a sheet-like intimate contact with each other.

2. An airbag device for occupant at passenger'"'"'s seat, which is disposed in an instrument panel portion of a vehicle in opposite to an occupant at passenger'"'"'s seat, said airbag device comprising:

the airbag set forth in claim 1, the gas distributing portion opening toward a vehicle widthwise direction, the airbag inflating and expanding with the outside top face portion thereof being opposed to the occupant as a target to be protected; and

an inflator for supplying gas to the gas introducing portion of the airbag.