Reinforced thermoplastic resin film air bag

• US 5,630,620 A
• Filed: 08/30/1995
• Issued: 05/20/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 09/01/1994
• 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: Tomita, Hiroshi, Hirai, Kinji
• Primary Examiner(s): Johnson, Brian L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): English, Peter C.
• Application Number:
  US08/521,181
• Time in Patent Office: 629 Days
• Field of Search: 280/743.1, 280/728.1, 280/731, 280/732, 280/730.1, 280/743.2
• US Class Current: 280/743.1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/2359 Welding
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/235 characterised by their material

Abstract

An air bag is formed of a plurality of thermoplastic resin films fused together, wherein the thermoplastic resin films include a first film and second film which are superposed on each other and fused together by heat sealing along the peripheries thereof. Third thermoplastic resin films are superposed on a fused portion of the first and second films and fused together with the first and second films by heat sealing. The third thermoplastic resin films are disposed at the front side of the first film and at the front side of the second film.

Claims

1. A thermoplastic resin film air bag, comprising:

a plurality of thermoplastic resin films for constituting the air bag, said thermoplastic resin films having peripheries and being superposed together along the peripheries, and

at least one reinforcing thermoplastic resin film superposed on at least one surfaces of the peripheries of the thermoplastic resin films opposite to facing surfaces superposed each other, said at least one reinforcing thermoplastic resin film and the thermoplastic resin films superposed together being fused and bonded together along the peripheries of the thermoplastic resin films inside the at least one reinforcing thermoplastic resin film to thereby securely connect the thermoplastic resin films while reinforcing a fuse bonded portion of the thermoplastic resin films, total thicknesses of the fuse bonded portion of the thermoplastic resin films and the at least one reinforcing thermoplastic resin film being less than total thicknesses of the thermoplastic resin films and the at least one reinforcing thermoplastic resin film outside the fuse bonded portion, the width of the fuse bonded portion being less than the width of the at least one reinforcing thermoplastic resin film and greater than the width between edges of the thermoplastic resin films and an edge of the fuse bonded portion near the edges of the thermoplastic resin films.

2. A thermoplastic resin film air bag according to claim 1, wherein said plurality of thermoplastic resin films includes two thermoplastic resin films and said at least one reinforcing thermoplastic resin film includes two reinforcing thermoplastic resin films, said two thermoplastic resin films being directly laminated together and sandwiched between said two reinforcing thermoplastic resin films.

3. A thermoplastic resin film air bag according to claim 2, wherein the thickness of each of the reinforcing thermoplastic resin films is less than the thickness of each of the thermoplastic resin films.

4. A thermoplastic resin film air bag according to claim 3, wherein the fuse bonded portion is located inside the air bag.

5. A thermoplastic resin film air bag according to claim 3, wherein the fuse bonded portion is located outside the air bag.

6. A thermoplastic resin film air bag according to claim 1, wherein one of the thermoplastic resin films includes an opening for receiving gas to deploy the air bag, and a plurality of flaps surrounding the opening, said flaps being fused to said one of the thermoplastic resin films around the opening.