FASTENING STRUCTURE OF SIDE CURTAIN AIRBAG

• US 20160311390A1
• Filed: 04/22/2016
• Published: 10/27/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Tsumura, Takahide, Nishikawa, Soichi, Shimizu, Taro, Maeda, Kento, Ikeda, Koji
• Granted Patent: US 9,630,585 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/201 Packaging straps or envelopes for inflatable members
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/213 in vehicle roof frames or pillars

Abstract

A side curtain airbag includes a protector that holds a bag body and that guides deployment of the bag body and a bag bracket that is fastened to a bag attaching seat located between two grab rail attaching seats protruded from a roof side portion and that is used to attach the side curtain airbag to the roof side portion. Portions of the protector which are located between the two grab rail attaching seats and which are located at both sides of the bag attaching seat in the vehicle front-rear direction are provided with first cutout portions.

Claims

1. A side curtain, airbag fastening structure comprising:

two grab rail attaching seats which are protruded inward in a vehicle transverse direction from a roof side portion of a vehicle and spaced from each other in a vehicle front-rear direction and to which a grab rail is attached; and

a side curtain airbag that is attached to the roof side portion and that comprises,

a bag body that is deployed into a curtain shape from the roof side portion when an impact is input,

a protector that holds the bag body and that guides deployment of the bag body, and

a bag bracket that is fastened to a bag attaching seat and that supports the protector provided with the bag body at a location between the two grab rail attaching seats such that the protector and the bag body of the side curtain airbag are disposed along the roof side portion and in a vicinity of the two grab rail attaching seats, and

wherein the bag bracket has first cutout portions at the location between the two grab rail attaching seats and on both sides of the bag bracket in the vehicle front-rear direction.

2. The side curtain airbag fastening structure according to claim 1, further comprising a tape that binds the bag body and the protector together, wherein:

the protector has a second cutout portion that extends along a direction in which the first cutout portions extend and at a location that holds the tape in its position; and

a length of the first cutout portions in the extending direction thereof is greater than a length of the second cutout portion in the extending direction thereof.

3. The side curtain airbag fastening structure according to claim 1, wherein

the first cutout portions of the protector are provided in a vicinity of the grab rail attaching seats in the vehicle front-rear direction.

4. The side curtain airbag fastening structure according to claim 1, wherein

the first cutout portions are open downward.