AIRBAG DEVICE

• US 20150014969A1
• Filed: 12/04/2013
• Published: 01/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Inventors: CHOI, Jun Yeol
• Application Number:
  US14/097,106
• Publication Number:
  US 20150014969A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 280/730.1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/2395 comprising means to control the venting
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/239 characterised by their venting means

Abstract

An airbag device may include a cushion each of both sides of which is formed with a vent hole through which introduced gas is discharged outside, a vent tether a front of which is connected to a front surface of the cushion and a rear of which is extended toward the vent hole inside the cushion, and a vent screen which is extended from the vent tether, connected to a rear of the vent hole and has a surface area for covering the vent hole. The vent screen is initially folded and upon being pulled by the vent tether when the cushion is deployed, is unfolded frontward to cover and close the vent hole. A force of the vent tether is decreased when the deployed cushion is compressed by a passenger, thereby opening the vent hole to discharge the gas.

Claims

1. An airbag device, comprising:

a cushion each of both sides of which is formed with a vent hole through which introduced gas is discharged outside;

a first vent tether disposed at an upper side of the cushion, wherein a front end of the first vent tether is slidably connected to a front surface of the cushion and a rear portion of the first vent tether is extended toward the vent hole inside the cushion;

a second vent tether disposed at a lower side of the cushion, wherein a front end of the second vent tether is connected to the front end of the first vent tether and a rear end thereof is connected to a lower end in a rear surface of the cushion;

a vent screen which is extended from the first vent tether, connected to a rear of the vent hole and has a surface area for selectively covering the vent hole,

wherein the vent screen is initially folded and upon being pulled by the vent tether when the cushion is deployed, is unfolded frontward to cover and close the vent hole,

wherein a tension force of the vent tether is decreased when the deployed cushion is compressed by a passenger, thereby opening the vent hole to discharge the gas,

wherein a screen guide is formed at a perimeter of the vent hole in the cushion to fix the vent tether so as not to be moved to a direction other than a front/rearward direction, and

wherein the vent screen is temporarily folded in a zigzag shape.

3. The airbag device of claim 1, wherein the screen guide is formed to cover the vent hole and the vent screen wherein a hole having substantially a same diameter as the vent hole is formed and a front end thereof is opened for the vent tether to be moved in the front/rearward direction.

6. The airbag device of claim 1, wherein a front end of the first vent tether is connected to an upper front of the cushion to correspond to a head of the passenger when the cushion is deployed.

7. The airbag device of claim 1, wherein a width of the first vent tether is narrower than that of the vent screen so that even when the first vent tether is disposed within the vent hole while the vent screen is folded, a discharging space for the gas is ensured.

9. The airbag device of claim 1, wherein the vent screen is inclined toward a center from a rear side to a front side so that a gap is formed between an inclined portion and the vent hole when the vent screen is unfolded frontward to cover the vent hole.

10. The airbag device of claim 1, wherein at least one through hole is formed corresponding to the vent hole when the vent screen is unfolded.

11. The airbag device of claim 10, wherein the at least one through hole formed in the vent screen includes a plurality of through holes within the periphery of the vent hole.

2. (canceled)

4. (canceled)

5. The airbag device of claim 4, wherein a tether guide to which the vent tether is connected slidably is provided to the front surface of the cushion and a length of the first and second vent tethers is controlled to vary as the first and second vent tethers are slid to the tether guide when the cushion is compressed after deployment.

8. (canceled)