Inflatable safety device

• US 3,414,292 A
• Filed: 07/01/1966
• Issued: 12/03/1968
• Est. Priority Date: 07/01/1966
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sidney Oldberg, William R. Carey
• Original Assignee: Sidney Oldberg, William R. Carey
• Inventors: SIDNEY OLDBERG, Carey, William R.
• Application Number:
  US04/562,289
• Time in Patent Office: 886 Days
• US Class Current: 280/740
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/23153 specially adapted for rear seat passengers
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/017 including arrangements for providing electric power to safety arrangements or their actuating means, e.g. to pyrotechnic fuses or electro-mechanic valves
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/16 Inflatable occupant restraints or confinements designed to inflate upon impact or impending impact, e.g. air bags protective garments with automatically inflatable shock-absorbing means A41D13/018; connection of valves to inflatable elastic bodies B60C29/00
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/235 characterised by their material
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/268 using instantaneous release of stored pressurised gas B60R21/26005 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 3/188 having radio-frequency filters , e.g. containing ferrite cores or inductances F42B3/185 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F42C 19/06 Electric contact parts specially adapted for use with electric fuzes switches operated by change of speed H01H35/06; switches operated by change of acceleration, e.g. shock or vibration, inertia switches H01H35/14; fluid-pressure-operated switches H01H35/24

Claims

1. SAFETY APPARATUS FOR PROTECTING AN OCCUPANT OF A VEHICLE, SAID SAFETY APPARATUS COMPRISING AN EXPANDABLE OCCUPANT RESTRAINT HAVING A CONTRACTED CONDITION, A RESERVOIR FOR CONTAINING A SUPPLY OF FLUID, MEANS OPERABLE TO PROVIDE FOR FLUID FLOW FROM SAID RESERVOIR TO SAID OCCUPANT RESTRAINT TO DISPOSE SAID OCCUPANT RESTRAINT ADJACENT AN OCCUPANT OF A VEHICLE DURING A COLLISION FOR LIMITING MOVEMENT OF THE OCCUPANT DURING SUCH COLLSION, SAID OCCUPANT RESTRAINT COMPRISING CONFINEMENT MEANS FORMED OF A MATERIAL WHICH IS SUBSTANTIALLY IRREVERSIBLY EXPANDABLE TO INCREASE THE VOLUME THEREOF IN RESPONSE TO MOVEMENT OF THE OCCUPANT RELATIVE TO THE CONFINEMENT MEANS TO ABSORB AT LEAST A PART OF THE KINETIC ENERGY OF THE OCCUPANT CREATED BY SUCH MOVEMENT AND THEREBY MINIMIZE REBOUND OF THE OCCUPANT THEREFROM.