Air bag system

• US 6,357,786 B1
• Filed: 08/08/2000
• Issued: 03/19/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 08/09/1999
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: TS Tech Company Limited
• Original Assignee: TS Tech Company Limited
• Inventors: Higashi, Yosuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Dickson, Paul N.
• Application Number:
  US09/634,680
• Time in Patent Office: 588 Days
• Field of Search: 280/743.1, 280/730.2, 280/732, 280/728.2
• US Class Current: 280/728.2
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/26076 characterised by casing
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/20 Arrangements for storing inflatable members in their non-use or deflated condition; Arrangement or mounting of air bag modules or components

Abstract

There is provided an air bag system in which leakage of gas generated by an inflator through an insertion opening formed at a mounting base portion of an air bag is prevented reliably. The air bag system has the air bag in which the inflator for generating gas for inflating and deploying the air bag is mounted through the insertion opening formed at the mounting base portion of said air bag. The air bag system has an applied cloth mounted to an outside of the air bag such that the insertion opening for the inflator is covered with the applied cloth by making one side of the applied cloth an open hole and fixing edges of three other sides of the applied cloth to an outside face of the mounting base portion.

Claims

1. An air bag system having an air bag in which an inflator for generating gas is mounted through an insertion opening formed at a mounting base portion of said air bag, said air bag system having an applied cloth mounted to an outside of said air bag such that said insertion opening of said inflator is covered with said applied cloth by making one side of said applied cloth an open hole and fixing edges of three other sides of said applied cloth to an outside face of said mounting base portion.

2. An air bag system according to claim 1, wherein said open hole is capable of being opened into an openmouthed shape.

3. An air bag system according to claim 1, wherein said applied cloth is mounted to said outside of said air bag such that said open hole on said one side is positioned on a side held by said inflator mounted in said air bag.

4. An air bag system according to claim 2, wherein said applied cloth is mounted to said outside of said air bag such that said open hole on said one side is positioned on a side held by said inflator mounted in said air bag.

5. An air bag system according to claim 1, wherein said insertion opening is formed of a slit formed in said mounting base portion of said air bag.

6. An air bag system according to claim 2, wherein said insertion opening is formed of a slit formed in said mounting base portion of said air bag.

7. An air bag system according to claim 3, wherein said insertion opening is formed of a slit formed in said mounting base portion of said air bag.

8. An air bag system according to claim 4, wherein said insertion opening is formed of a slit formed in said mounting base portion of said air bag.