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Occupant restraint device

  • US 8,448,983 B2
  • Filed: 07/13/2010
  • Issued: 05/28/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/13/2009
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An occupant restraint device comprising:

  • a seat belt that restrains an occupant, wherein the seat belt includes an expandable portion provided at a portion of the seat belt that extends from a shoulder portion to a waist portion, and the expandable portion expands when supplied with gas;

    a retractor that allows the seat belt to be extracted and wound up from a side of the shoulder portion;

    an inflator that supplies the gas to the expandable portion; and

    a flow path member that is flexible, and that communicates an end of the expandable portion oriented towards the retractor with the inflator, wherein the flow path member has a curved shape, the flow path member is supported on a seat at a supported portion that is positioned at a part of the flow path member that is nearest the inflator at an inner circumferential side of a curved portion of the flow path member, the part of the flow path member that is nearest the inflator at the curved portion of the flow path member is a first folded back portion;

    wherein the supported portion is positioned at a side of the inflator on the first folded back portion and at an inner circumferential side of the first folded back portion.

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