VEHICLE REAR SIDE AIRBAG DEVICE FIXING STRUCTURE

• US 20130175792A1
• Filed: 09/14/2010
• Published: 07/11/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Fukawatase, Osamu, Shamoto, Takehisa
• Granted Patent: US 8,752,861 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 280/728.2
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/289 coupled to the vehicle frame
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/5825 by hooks, staples, clips, snap fasteners or the like
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/986 Side-rests B60N2/2872, B60N2/885 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2002/5808 comprising opening zones for airbags
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/2078 in rear seats
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/207 in vehicle seats

Abstract

A fixing structure of a rear side airbag device for a vehicle may assure a margin of time for the side airbag to be deployed. In a vehicle rear side airbag device fixing structure, an airbag module is fixed by fastening to a child seat fixing member conforming to ISOFix standards, via a metal plate. The child seat fixing member is fixed to the rear floor of a vehicle body at the downward side of a rear seatback. Therefore, in comparison with a structure in which an airbag module is fixed to a rear wheel housing via a bracket, the airbag module may be disposed to the vehicle width direction inner side. Moreover, the child seat fixing member exhibits a high rigidness with respect to a side collision of the vehicle. Therefore, fixing portions of the airbag module are resistant to being deformed during a side collision of the vehicle.

Claims

1. A vehicle rear side airbag device fixing structure comprising:

a child seat fixing member having an elongated shape that is disposed at a downward side of a rear seatback of a rear seat of a vehicle, a length direction of the child seat fixing member being in a vehicle width direction, the child seat fixing member being fixed to a vehicle body or a seat frame, and the child seat fixing member being provided with a fixing portion for child seat fixing; and

a vehicle rear side airbag device including an airbag module that is fixed to the child seat fixing member directly or via a rigid member that is a separate body from the seat frame, a side airbag that is provided in the airbag module being inflated and deployed sideward of an occupant sitting on the rear seat in the event of a side collision of the vehicle.

2. The vehicle rear side airbag device fixing structure according to claim 1, wherein the rear seatback includes:

a main body portion that is tiltable about a lower end portion thereof relative to the vehicle body; and

a side seat portion that is disposed at a vehicle width direction outer side relative to the main body portion and is fixed to the vehicle body, and the airbag module is disposed in the side seat portion.

3. The vehicle rear side airbag device fixing structure according to claim 1, wherein a lower end portion of the airbag module is fixed to the child seat fixing member directly or via the rigid member.

4. The vehicle rear side airbag device fixing structure according to claim 3, wherein the side seat portion includes a seat frame made of resin, the airbag module includes an inflator that inflates and deploys the side airbag by producing gas inside the side airbag, and the airbag module is fixed by being fastened to the seat frame in a height region at which the inflator is disposed.

5. The vehicle rear side airbag device fixing structure according to claim 4, wherein the rigid member is superposed with the seat frame, the airbag module is fixed by being fastened both to the rigid member and to the seat frame, and a lower end side of the rigid member is fixed to the child seat fixing member.

6. The vehicle rear side airbag device fixing structure according to claim 1, wherein:

the airbag module is fixed to the child seat fixing member via the rigid member;

the vehicle rear side airbag device includes a webbing, of which one end side is joined to the rigid member and another end side is sewn to a seam portion of a cover of the rear seatback; and

an opening for allowing the side airbag to inflate and deploy is formed in the rear seatback by the seam portion being ruptured by inflation pressure of the side airbag acting on the seam portion via the webbing.

7. The vehicle rear side airbag device fixing structure according to claim 6, wherein the one end side of the webbing is anchored at an anchoring fixture that is fixed by being fastened both to the rigid member and to the airbag module.

8. The vehicle rear side airbag device according to claim 1, wherein a projection portion of the rigid member is projected to the downward side from the airbag module side, the projection portion is fixed to the child seat fixing member, and the projection portion is formed in an open cross-section shape of which one side in a vehicle front-and-rear direction is open.

9. The vehicle rear side airbag device according to claim 1, wherein the child seat fixing member is formed of a pipe member, and the rigid member is fixed by being fastened to a fastening fixture that is fixed to the pipe member.