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Vehicle body/supplemental inflation restraint arrangement

  • US 5,513,877 A
  • Filed: 12/02/1994
  • Issued: 05/07/1996
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/02/1994
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An arrangement of a vehicle body and supplemental inflatable restraint comprising:

  • a vehicle compartment including a space for a non-driving, seated occupant;

    a windshield at a forward end of the compartment forming a boundary thereof, the windshield having a lower end;

    an instrument panel positioned at a forward end of the compartment adjacent the lower end of the windshield, the instrument panel having an upper surface projecting rearwardly toward a seated occupant and a lower surface with a portion positioned at approximately the height of a knee region of a seated occupant;

    an air bag housing positioned in the instrument panel lower surface with an open end extending toward the seated occupant, the open end having a top and a bottom; and

    an air bag, the air bag having a lower lobe for contact with lower extremities of a seated occupant and the air bag having an upper lobe for contact with the torso of a seated occupant, the upper lobe being significantly larger than the lower lobe, the upper and lower lobes being separated by a first tether extending from an area generally adjacent to the top of the housing projecting generally toward the seated occupant, and the air bag having a pressure restrictor creating a pressure differential between the upper and lower lobes, the upper lobe being subdivided by a second tether extending from an area adjacent to the top of the housing to an end of the upper lobe generally opposite the lower lobe.

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