Occupant restraint device
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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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Abstract
An air belt device includes: a seat belt that restrains a seated occupant; an air belt that is provided in a shoulder belt portion of the seat belt and that is deployed when supplied with a gas; a retractor that extractably winds up the seat belt from a side of a shoulder portion of the occupant; an inflator that supplies gas to the air belt; and a flexible hose that is curved when the seat belt is not worn and that communicates the inflator with the end of the air belt that extends into the seat back.
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1. An occupant restraint device comprising:
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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. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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