AIRBAG APPARATUS

• US 20170036637A1
• Filed: 08/03/2016
• Published: 02/09/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/05/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Takahashi, Kei, Tonoka, Daiei
• Granted Patent: US 10,336,281 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0059 using clips, clamps, straps or the like
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/213 in vehicle roof frames or pillars

Abstract

There is provided a side curtain airbag apparatus. The side curtain airbag apparatus includes a bag that is inflated and unfolded, a piece of fixing hardware that is fixed to an edge portion of the bag and includes a temporary fixing claw capable of being locked to a locking portion of a vehicle body panel, and a protector that includes a lower contact portion in contact with a lower surface of a bent portion of the vehicle body panel and surrounds the bag.

Claims

1. An airbag apparatus to be arranged along an angled portion of a side wall of a vehicle body panel, the angled portion including a lower surface facing downward and a side surface extending upward from the lower surface, the side surface having a locking portion capable of a temporary hanging of the airbag apparatus therefrom, the airbag apparatus comprising:

an airbag that can be inflated and unfolded;

at least one fixing member that is fixed to an edge of the airbag and has a temporary fixing claw capable of engagement with the locking portion of the side surface, thereby hanging the airbag apparatus therefrom; and

a protector that holds the airbag and has a contact portion to be in contact with the lower surface of the angled portion of the vehicle body panel when the airbag apparatus is hung on the angled portion.

2. The airbag apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the contact portion includes,

a base plate that is provided to stand upright from a main body of the protector and

a plurality of ribs that are supported by the base plate and are each to be in contact with the angled portion of the vehicle body panel when the airbag apparatus is hung on the angled surface.

3. The airbag apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the airbag is arranged away from the angled portion of the vehicle body panel than the contact portion and at a side on a vehicle interior side of the angled portion.

4. The airbag apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the protector has an upper contact portion to be in contact with the side surface of the angled portion that is connected to the lower surface from an upper side when the airbag apparatus is hung on the angled surface.

5. The airbag apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

a plurality of the fixing members are fixed to the airbag, and

the contact portion is provided at a side of at least one of the plurality of fixing members.

6. The airbag apparatus according to claim 5, wherein

the contact portion is arranged at only one side of two sides of each of the at least one of the fixing members.