SIDE AIRBAG DEVICE FOR VEHICLE

• US 20150035262A1
• Filed: 04/17/2012
• Published: 02/05/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Hayashi, Shigeki, Fukushima, Satoshi, Tanaka, Shinobu
• Granted Patent: US 9,039,037 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 280/729
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/0009 Oblique collision
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/23146 seat mounted
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/23138 specially adapted for side protection B60R21/23184, B60R21/232 take precedence
• 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 21/2346 Soft diffusers

Abstract

In an inflated and expanded state of a side airbag, a forwardly extending portion, provided at an upper portion of a rear side bag portion, extends from a side of a shoulder portion of a seated passenger toward a vehicle front side and is disposed above a front side bag portion. A dimension in a vehicle transverse direction of this forwardly extending portion is set to be smaller than that of the front side bag portion, and a vehicle transverse direction inner side surface at an upper end side of the front side bag portion is inclined or curved so as to rise-up while heading toward a vehicle transverse direction outer side. An upper arm portion is pushed-up due to sliding contact with this surface. Even when the seated passenger inertially toward an oblique front of a vehicle, the shoulder portion can be restrained by the forwardly extending portion .

Claims

1. A side airbag device for a vehicle, comprising:

an inflator that is provided at a vehicle seat and that, when a side collision of a vehicle is sensed or predicted, is operated and generates gas; and

a side airbag that is provided at a side portion of a seat back of the vehicle seat, and that inflates and expands between a seated passenger and a vehicle body side portion due to gas that the inflator generates being supplied to an interior of the side airbag, and that, in an inflated and expanded state, is divided into a front side bag portion and a rear side bag portion that are lined-up in a vehicle longitudinal direction, and at which a forwardly extending portion, that is provided at an upper portion of the rear side bag portion, extends from a side of a shoulder portion of the seated passenger toward a vehicle front side and is disposed above the front side bag portion, and, due to a dimension in a vehicle transverse direction of the forwardly extending portion being set to be smaller than that of the front side bag portion, a vehicle transverse direction inner side surface at an upper end side of the front side bag portion is inclined or curved so as to rise up while heading toward a vehicle transverse direction outer side.

2. The side airbag device for a vehicle of claim 1, wherein the front side chamber has a rearwardly extending portion that extends toward below the rear side chamber, and inflates and expands at a side of an abdomen portion and a chest portion front side of the seated passenger, and the rear side chamber inflates and expands at a side of a chest portion rear side and the shoulder portion of the seated passenger.

3. The side airbag device for a vehicle of claim 2, wherein the side airbag is formed such that a boundary, in the vehicle longitudinal direction, of the front side bag portion and the rear side bag portion in an inflated and expanded state faces a longitudinal direction central side of a chest portion of the seated passenger.

4. The side airbag device for a vehicle of claim 2, wherein the side airbag is structured such that, in an inflated and expanded state, an internal pressure of the rear side bag portion is higher than an internal pressure of the front side bag portion.

5. The side airbag device for a vehicle of claim 1, wherein a non-inflating portion is provided at the side airbag between an upper end of the front side bag portion and the forwardly extending portion.

6. The side airbag device for a vehicle of claim 1, wherein the forwardly extending portion is formed such that a dimension, in a vertical direction in an inflated and expanded state, becomes smaller while heading toward a front end side.

7. The side airbag device for a vehicle of claim 6, wherein the side airbag is formed such that, in a state in which the seat back is positioned at a reference setting position and the side airbag is inflated and expanded, an upper end of the front side bag portion is inclined forwardly and upwardly with respect to the vehicle longitudinal direction.

8. The side airbag device for a vehicle of claim 1, wherein a vent hole for discharging, to an exterior, gas that has been supplied to an interior, is formed in each of the front side bag portion and the rear side bag portion.

9. The side airbag device for a vehicle of claim 1, wherein a gas flow path for supplying gas, that the inflator generates, independently to the front side bag portion interior and the rear side bag portion interior respectively, is provided at the side airbag.

10. The side airbag device for a vehicle of claim 1, wherein the side airbag has a lower side bag portion that inflates and expands below the front side bag portion and at a side of a waist portion of the seated passenger.

11. The side airbag device for a vehicle of claim 10, wherein a gas flow path for supplying gas, that the inflator generates, independently to the front side bag portion interior, the rear side bag portion interior, and the lower side bag portion interior respectively, is provided at the side airbag.

12. The side airbag device for a vehicle of claim 1, wherein the side airbag is formed such that, in an inflated and expanded state, a dimension in the vehicle transverse direction of a front portion side of a portion, that is further toward a lower side than the forwardly extending portion, is smaller than that of a rear portion side.