Gas bag for airbag systems

• US 5,178,408 A
• Filed: 04/22/1991
• Issued: 01/12/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kolbenschmidt AG Karl-Schmidt-Strasse D-7107 Neckarsulm FED REP of Germany
• Original Assignee: Kolbenschmidt AG (Rheinmetall AG)
• Inventors: Barrenscheen, Frank, Kreuzer, Martin
• Primary Examiner(s): Olszewski, Robert P.
• Assistant Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Application Number:
  US07/689,381
• Time in Patent Office: 631 Days
• Field of Search: 280/728, 280/743, 383/107, 383/109, 139/383 R
• US Class Current: 280/728.1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/235 characterised by their material
• CPC Class Codes: D03D 1/02 Inflatable articles
• CPC Class Codes: D03D 15/283 synthetic polymer-based, e.g. polyamide or polyester fibres cellulose-based artificial fibres D03D15/225
• CPC Class Codes: D03D 15/56 elastic
• CPC Class Codes: D10B 2331/02 polyamides D10B2331/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: D10B 2401/061 elastic
• CPC Class Codes: D10B 2505/124 Air bags

Abstract

In an automotive vehicle provided with an inflatable gas bag for protection of an occupant in the event of collision, the improvement wherein the bag is made of a plain-weave woven fabric of synthetic threads and having a top and a bottom, the woven fabric having a sett of 16 to 23 threads per cm, its threads having a denier of at most 470 dtex, low-shrinkage threads being in the bottom of the gas bag and extensive thread being in the top of the gas bag.

Claims

1. In combination, an inflatable gas bag for use as protection for a passenger in a vehicle, and an explodable charge to inflate said gas bag, said explodable charge upon explosion producing gas and solid particles of predetermined sizes, said gas bag being made of a plain-weave woven fabric of synthetic threads and having a top and a bottom, the woven fabric having a sett of 16 to 23 threads per cm, its threads having a denier of at most 470 dtex, low-elongation threads being in the bottom of the gas bag and high elongation threads being in the top of the gas bag, inflation of said gas bag resulting in expansion of said bag with formation of interstices of sufficient size to permit escape of said gas but not of said solid particles.

2. A combination according to claim 1, wherein the woven fabric of the bottom of the gas bag has a sett of 16 to 18.5 threads per cm.

3. A combination according to claim 1, wherein the woven fabric of the bottom of the gas bag has a sett of 17.5 warp threads per cm and of 17.1 picks per cm.

4. A combination according to claim 1, wherein the woven fabric of the top of the gas bag has a sett of 21 to 23.5 threads per cm.

5. A combination according to claim 1, wherein the woven fabric of the top of the gas bag has a sett of 22.8 warp threads per cm and of 20.8 picks per cm.

6. A combination according to claim 1, wherein the threads of the top of the gas bag have an elongation of 20 to 30%.

7. A combination according to claim 1, wherein the woven fabric of the bottom of the gas bag extends at an angle of 45°

to the woven fabric of the top of the gas bag.

8. A combination according to claim 1, wherein the threads are of polyamide.

9. In an automotive vehicle provided in combination with an inflatable gas bag for protection of an occupant in the event of collision and an explodable charge to inflate said gas bag, the improvement wherein explodable charge upon explosion producing gas and solid particles of predetermined sizes, said gas bag being made of a plain-weave woven fabric of synthetic threads and having a top and a bottom, the woven fabric having a sett of 16 to 23 threads per cm, its threads having a denier of at most 470 dtex, low-elongation threads being in the bottom of the gas bag and high elongation threads being in the top of the gas bag, inflation of said gas bag resulting in expansion of said bag with formation of interstices of sufficient size to permit escape of said gas but not of said solid particles.