Air bag in air bag equipment

• US 5,016,913 A
• Filed: 07/12/1990
• Issued: 05/21/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 07/14/1989
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Takara
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Takara
• Inventors: Nakajima, Hideo, Takamiya, Toshio
• Primary Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Assistant Examiner(s): Shaughnessy, Mike
• Application Number:
  US07/552,969
• Time in Patent Office: 313 Days
• Field of Search: 280/743, 280/739, 280/738, 280/742, 280/741, 244/99
• US Class Current: 280/738
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/239 characterised by their venting means

Abstract

The air bag 3 according to this invention is furnished with exhaust outlet 6 to discharge internal gas, and the material 8 with and heat-shrinking property is provided, which blocks at least a part of the exhaust outlet 6 in normal case and shrinks to such direction as to increase the passage area of said exhaust outlet when reaction gas is introduced from the inflator 2. Therefore, the passage area of the exhaust outlet 6 is relatively narrowed down by the heat-shrinking material 8 in normal case. For this reason, it is rapidly expanded by reaction gas from the inflator 2. Thereafter, the material 8 is shrinked by the heat of reaction gas and the passage area of exhaust outlet 6 is increased. Thus, more reaction gas flows out of air bag 3, and this alleviates the impact when the air bag 3 receives the person in the vehicle. In this case, the shrinking degree of the material 8 varies according to the ambient temperature, and the internal pressure of the air bag 3 is maintained at almost constant level regardless of atmospheric temperature. As a result, the air bag 3 can receive the person in the vehicle always in stable condition.

Claims

1. An air bag in an air bag equipment, comprising and exhaust outlet to discharge internal gas and alleviating the impact of collision when a person in a vehicle equipped with said air bag equipment hits the air bag by decreasing pressure through discharge of internal gas from the exhaust outlet, characterized in that a material with heat-shrinking property is provided, to block at least part of said exhaust outlet in a normal case and which shrinks in a direction so as to increase the passage area of said exhaust outlet when reaction gas is introduced from the an inflator.