Safety air cushion bag in automotive vehicles

• US 4,111,458 A
• Filed: 11/11/1976
• Issued: 09/05/1978
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/1975
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Honda, Kiyoshi, Okada, Motohiro, Matsuura, Kazuo, Oka, Katsumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Silverstrim, John P.
• Application Number:
  US05/741,149
• Time in Patent Office: 663 Days
• Field of Search: 280/739, 280/738, 280/742, 280/743, 280/728, 244/138 R, 220/372, 220/371, 220/370, 220/DIG. 6, 267/113, 267/118
• US Class Current: 280/739
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/239 characterised by their venting means

Abstract

An improved safety air cushion bag which is constructed with a main body of the air cushion bag, an air outlet port or hole formed in one part of the air cushion bag main body, a gas-permeable cloth covering the air outlet port, and at least a single reinforcing member for preventing the gas-permeable cover cloth from breakage or bursting at an excessive load being applied to the air cushion bag at the shock of collision, the reinforcing member being attached separately to the air outlet port, or formed integrally with the air cushion bag main body at the part of the air outlet port, in a manner to extend across the air outlet port with both ends thereof being joined to the peripheral edges of the air outlet port in the air cushion bag main body.

Claims

1. A safety air cusion bag for use in automotive vehicles, which comprises in combination:

(a) a foldable main body of said air cushion bag made of cloth impermeable to gas;

(b) at least one air outlet port formed in one part of said main body of the air cushion bag;

(c) a gas-permeable stretchable cover cloth which stretches with more difficulty in one direction than another, and is disposed on said air outlet port to close the same; and

(d) at least a single strip of foldable reinforcing band made of cloth impermeable to gas which is extended diametrically across said air outlet port, and between the opposing peripheral edges thereof, in parallel with the direction of the greatest stretch difficulty of said gas-permeable cover cloth.

2. The safety air cushion bag as set forth in claim 1, in which two strips of said reinforcing band are crossed with respect to said air outlet port.

3. The safety air cushion bag as set forth in claim 2, in which a plurality of strips of said reinforcing band are provided in parallel with the direction of the greatest stretch difficulty of said gas-permeable cover cloth and in one plane.