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Seat device

  • US 7,878,531 B2
  • Filed: 10/16/2006
  • Issued: 02/01/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/18/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A seat device comprising:

  • a backrest including a cleavage portion;

    an airbag provided in an interior of the backrest so that, during inflation, the airbag cleaves the cleavage portion and is deployed to an upper side of the head of an occupant;

    a deployment-direction guide member provided in the interior of the backrest so as to guide a deployment direction of the airbag towards the vicinity of the cleavage portion while restricting the deployment direction during the inflation of the airbag, wherein the deployment-direction guide member includes an upper guide de member disposed so as to restrict upward deployment of the airbag during the inflation of the airbag; and

    a headrest at the top portion of the backrest, wherein the upper guide member is disposed so as to substantially match a tangent line that contacts a contour of a front side of the headrest from a back-side end portion of an area where the inflation of the airbag is started.

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