Air bag device having engagement portions to facilitate attachment of the cover to the retainer

• US 5,167,427 A
• Filed: 04/22/1991
• Issued: 12/01/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Takata Corporation (Ningbo Junsheng Investment Group Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Takata Corporation (Ningbo Junsheng Investment Group Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Baba, Yoshiyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Assistant Examiner(s): Milef, Boris
• Application Number:
  US07/688,455
• Time in Patent Office: 589 Days
• Field of Search: 280/728, 280/743, 280/731, 280/741, 403/345, 403/363
• US Class Current: 280/728.3
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/217 Inflation fluid source retainers, e.g. reaction canisters; Connection of bags, covers, diffusers or inflation fluid sources therewith or together

Abstract

An air bag device, in which an air bag is attached to a retainer to which a module cover for covering the air bag is fixed, is characterized in that the module cover is provided with an engagement portion for the retainer.

Claims

1. An air bag device, comprising,

an air bag,

a retainer including a plate portion with an outer surface, said air bag being placed on the outer surface, and erected pieces extending from the plate portion in the direction away from the outer surface of the plate portion and having outer surfaces,

a module cover for covering the air bag placed on the retainer, said module cover having leg portions overlapping the erected pieces of the retainer,

a plurality of tongues formed on the erected pieces, each tongue having an upper end flush with the outer surface of the erected piece on which it is formed and a lower end located away from the outer surface of the erected piece on which it is formed so that each tongue extends downwardly outwardly from the erected piece on which it is formed at a predetermined angle, and

a plurality of openings formed in the leg portions of the module cover at positions corresponding to the tongues of the erected pieces so that when the leg portions of the module cover are slid over the erected pieces of the retainer for assembling together, the leg portions pass over the tongues and allow the openings to engage with the tongues to thereby firmly hold the module cover over the retainer.

2. An air bag device of claim 1, wherein each opening formed in the leg portion of the module cover is inclined at an angle corresponding to the angle of its engaging tongue so that its engaging tongue easily enters into the opening.

3. An air bag device of claim 2, further comprising fixing means for fixing the module cover to the retainer, said fixing means including reinforcing means to be placed over the leg portions and rivets extending through the reinforcing means, the leg portions and the erected pieces to fasten together.

4. An air bag device, comprising,

an air bag,

a retainer including a plate portion with an outer surface, said air bag being placed on the outer surface, and erected pieces extending from the plate portion in the direction away from the outer surface of the plate portion and having lower edges and a plurality of projections extending further downwardly from the lower edges of the erected pieces,

a module cover for covering the air bag placed on the retainer, said module cover having leg portions overlapping the erected pieces of the retainer, and

hook portions formed at lower ends of the leg portions of the module cover, said hook portions extending in the directions toward the erected pieces of the retainer located adjacent thereto and having a plurality of openings adjacent to the leg portions, the openings having sizes corresponding to the sizes of the projections so that when the leg portions with the hook portions are slid over the erected pieces of the retainer for assembling together, the hook portions pass over the lower edges of the erected pieces to engage thereto and the projections of the erected pieces enter into the openings of the hook portions to thereby firmly hold the module cover over the retainer.

5. Air bag device of claim 4, further comprising fixing means for fixing the module cover to the retainer, said fixing means including reinforcing means to be placed over the leg portions and rivets extending through the reinforcing means, the leg portions and the erected pieces to fasten together.