Motor vehicle head impact air bag system
First Claim
1. An air bag system for a motor vehicle having a pair of adjacent seats and a ceiling located above said seats, said seats have a bottom and a back, said air bag system including a singular inflatable multisection air bag mounted in said ceiling for deployment vertically downward in a front and side and in between manner with respect to said seats, said air bag configured in an E-shape as viewed from overhead and in cross-section so as to form on inflation a singular air bag cushion that extends downward to at least about the level of the top of said seat backs along a front side of both of said seats and along an outer side of both of said seats and along an inner side of both said seats.
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Abstract
A motor vehicle is provided with an air bag system having a singular air bag that deploys downward from the ceiling to cushion the front and both sides of both the driver and a front seat passenger from over their head and to at least their shoulders to prevent their impacting with upper interior portions of the vehicle and with each other in a collision. The air bag includes an elongated front section that extends transverse of the vehicle along the front of the seats, elongated side sections that extend rearwardly from the front section along the outer side of the respective seats, and an elongated intermediate section that extends rearwardly from the front section between the seats.
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9 Claims
- 1. An air bag system for a motor vehicle having a pair of adjacent seats and a ceiling located above said seats, said seats have a bottom and a back, said air bag system including a singular inflatable multisection air bag mounted in said ceiling for deployment vertically downward in a front and side and in between manner with respect to said seats, said air bag configured in an E-shape as viewed from overhead and in cross-section so as to form on inflation a singular air bag cushion that extends downward to at least about the level of the top of said seat backs along a front side of both of said seats and along an outer side of both of said seats and along an inner side of both said seats.
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