Motor vehicle body with side airbag system

• US 8,439,392 B2
• Filed: 04/06/2011
• Issued: 05/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/07/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC (General Motors Company)
• Original Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC (General Motors Company)
• Inventors: Heim, Gunther, Yazdandoost, Hamid, Westenberger, Claus
• Primary Examiner(s): CULBRETH, ERIC D
• Application Number:
  US13/081,234
• Publication Number:
  US 20110248483A1
• Time in Patent Office: 769 Days
• Field of Search: 280/730.2, 280/728.2
• US Class Current: 280/728.2
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 3/026 characterised by the fixing means B60N3/023 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/213 in vehicle roof frames or pillars

Abstract

A motor vehicle body is provided with a side airbag system that has a gas generator of the side airbag system and a handle mounted adjacently to a side window. The gas generator is inserted in a mounting frame between the handle and the roof frame, which connects the handle to a roof frame of the body.

Claims

1. A motor vehicle with side airbag system, comprising:

a gas generator mounted adjacently to a side window;

a handle mounted adjacently to the side window; and

a mounting frame configured to receive the gas generator and connect the handle to a roof frame of a body with the gas generator inserted between the handle and the roof frame, the gas generator fixed on the mounting frame with a wrapped-around clamping strap,

wherein airbags fed by the gas generator are arranged on opposite ends of the gas generator and the mounting frame comprises a rail extending in a longitudinal direction of the gas generator on which the gas generator is fixed through the wrapped-around clamping strap.

2. The motor vehicle according to claim 1, further comprising:

a base plate of the mounting frame on which the handle is fastened; and

two first feet that are offset against the base plate that are fastened to the roof frame and wall portions connecting the two first feet to the base plate.

3. The motor vehicle according to claim 2, wherein a clearance is formed in at least one of the wall portions accommodating the gas generator .

4. The motor vehicle according to claim 2, further comprising a first frame part of the mounting frame that connects the handle to the body and a second frame part on which the gas generator is fixed.

5. The motor vehicle according to claim 4, wherein the base plate, the wall portions and the two first feet are parts of the first frame part and in that second feet of the second frame part are fastened to the two first feet that bear against the roof frame.

6. The motor vehicle according to claim 5, wherein at least one of the first feet and at least one of the second feet are fastened to the roof frame by a common screw.

7. The motor vehicle according to claim 5, wherein the rail is on the second frame part and configured to cross the wall portions.

8. The motor vehicle according to claim 7, wherein a connecting piece rests on an upper edge of one of the two first feet between the rail and one of the second feet.

9. The motor vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the rail is unitarily connected to the wrapped-around clamping strap.

10. The motor vehicle according to claim 1, wherein one of said airbags extends along a pillar of the body.