Airbag module with an airbag and a tubular gas generator that can be fastened to a module housing

• US 7,976,062 B2
• Filed: 07/30/2010
• Issued: 07/12/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Takata - Petri AG (Ningbo Junsheng Investment Group Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Takata - Petri AG (Ningbo Junsheng Investment Group Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Fechner, Tobias, Meisenzahl, Sebastian
• Primary Examiner(s): Dickson; Paul N
• Assistant Examiner(s): WILHELM, TIMOTHY
• Application Number:
  US12/805,428
• Publication Number:
  US 20100295274A1
• Time in Patent Office: 347 Days
• Field of Search: 280/728.2, 280/732, 280/741
• US Class Current: 280/741
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/2171 specially adapted for elongated cylindrical or bottle-like inflators with a symmetry axis perpendicular to the main direction of bag deployment, e.g. extruded reaction canisters B60R21/2176 takes precedence

Abstract

An airbag module comprising an airbag and a tubular gas generator that can be fastened to a module housing is provided. Said gas generator having gas outlet openings along the periphery thereof. The tubular gas generator can be fastened to the module housing using two clamp rings which can move along the tubular gas generator and along sections of the module housing. The module housing comprises an opening at the base thereof for introducing the tubular gas generator. A support for the tubular gas generator is disposed at the module housing below said opening, wherein the support has a smaller length than the tubular gas generator.

Claims

1. An airbag module with an airbag and a module housing, said airbag module comprising:

a tubular gas generator having gas outlet openings along the periphery thereof;

two clamp rings; and

a support for the tubular gas generator provided on said module housing,

wherein the module housing comprises an opening at a base thereof for introducing the tubular gas generator, said support being disposed below said opening,

wherein the tubular gas generator is fastened to the module housing using the two clamp rings, said clamp rings each including a first extended section that grasps underneath the support on one side of the clamp ring, and a second extended section that grasps above the base of the module housing on an opposite side of the clamp ring, and

wherein the support has a smaller length than the tubular gas generator.

2. The airbag module according to claim 1, wherein the clamp rings are adapted to the geometry of the tubular gas generator and the module housing and have extended sections separated from each other in axial direction and continuing axially into the opposite direction.

3. The airbag module according to claim 1, wherein a middle section and the first extended section of the clamp rings assigned to the support have together a length which is smaller than the distance of the edges of the base and the edges of the support in direction of the longitudinal axis of the tubular gas generator.

4. The airbag module according to claim 1, wherein the support has tapered ends and the assigned extended section of the clamp rings so that by moving of the clamp rings in direction of the centre of the tubular gas generator the tubular gas generator can be sandwiched between the support and the upper area of the clamp rings.

5. The airbag module according to claim 1, wherein the extended section of the clamp rings grasping above the base of the module housing has a smaller thickness than a middle section of the clamp rings.

6. The airbag module according to claim 1, wherein the extended section of the clamp rings grasping underneath the support has a smaller thickness than the middle section of the clamp rings.

7. The airbag module according to claim 1, wherein there is a sealing between edges of the base and the clamp rings, between edges of the support and the tubular gas generator and between edges of an overhang of the clamp rings and the tubular gas generator.

8. The airbag module according to claim 1, wherein the clamp rings are interlocked with the module housing.

9. The airbag module according to claim 8, wherein the module housing has at least one latch nose and the clamp ring has at least one assigned deformable latch hook.

10. The airbag module according to claim 8, wherein two latch noses are arranged with an assigned deformable latch hook.

11. The airbag module according to claim 1, wherein the airbag is fastened between the tubular gas generator and the support in the clamping position of the clamp rings.

12. The airbag module according to claim 1, wherein a vacuum-folded airbag is separately fastened to the module housing.