Airbag device

• US 8,474,864 B2
• Filed: 03/12/2010
• Issued: 07/02/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ashimori Industry Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ashimori Industry Company Limited
• Inventors: Konishi, Shuhei, Azuma, Hidetaka
• Primary Examiner(s): ROCCA, JOSEPH M
• Application Number:
  US13/147,497
• Publication Number:
  US 20120001409A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,208 Days
• Field of Search: 280/729, 280/730.2, 280/743.1, 280/743.2
• US Class Current: 280/730.2
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/23123 Heat protection panels
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/232 Curtain-type airbags deploying mainly in a vertical direction from their top edge
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/2346 Soft diffusers

Abstract

An inflator that supplies gas in the event of a vehicle emergency and a curtain airbag that is inflated and deployed by gas introduction from the inflator are included. The curtain airbag includes an airbag body obtained by sewing a pair of base cloths together. The airbag body has, in the portion in which the gas is introduced from the inflator, a sewn part obtained by sewing a pair of edges of the base cloths. The airbag body further includes a protective cloth sewn to each of the pair of edges along the sewn part such that the sewn part is covered from the inside of the airbag body.

Claims

1. An airbag device, comprising:

an inflator supplying gas in the event of a vehicle emergency; and

an airbag inflated and deployed by the gas introduction from said inflator,

wherein said airbag includes a sewn part obtained by sewing a pair of opposed portions of at least one base cloth in a portion into which the gas from said inflator is introduced, and further includes a protective cloth sewn to each of said pair of opposed portions at a pair of protective cloth sewn parts provided at positions apart from said sewn part along said sewn part such that the protective cloth covers at least a portion of said sewn part from an inner side of the airbag into which the gas from said inflator is introduced, and said pair of said protective cloth sewn parts is sewn to said pair of opposed portions at positions that are horizontally opposed with respect to said sewn part and apart from each other.

2. The airbag device according to claim 1, wherein:

said airbag includes an airbag body inflated and deployed into a bag shape upon a first base cloth and a second base cloth being sewn, and the gas from said inflator is introduced directly into said airbag body; and

said protective cloth is provided to at least part of the sewn part of said first base cloth and said second base cloth.

3. The airbag device according to claim 1, wherein a length dimension of said protective cloth between said pair of protective cloth sewn parts on a side of the protective cloth opposed to the sewn part is larger than a length dimension of said protective cloth between said pair of protective cloth sewn parts on a side of the protective cloth adjacent to the sewn part.

4. The airbag device according to claim 1, wherein a length dimension of said protective cloth between said pair of protective cloth sewn parts on a side of the protective cloth opposed to the sewn part is smaller than a length dimension of said protective cloth between said pair of protective cloth sewn parts on a side of the protective cloth adjacent to the sewn part, and

wherein at least one of said pair of protective cloth sewn parts is formed so as to be broken by a tension acting by the gas introduction.

5. The airbag device according to claim 1, wherein said protective cloth is sewn to said pair of opposed portions such that edges thereof are directed to said sewn part and that an intermediate part in a width direction thereof is directed to an interior space side into which the gas from said inflator is introduced.

6. The airbag device according to claim 1, wherein said protective cloth is sewn in a state in which edges of said at least one base cloth and edges of said protective cloth are aligned with each other.

7. An airbag device comprising:

an inflator supplying gas in the event of a vehicle emergency; and

an airbag inflated and deployed by the gas introduction from said inflator,

wherein said airbag includes;

an airbag body inflated and deployed into a bag shape; and

an inner tube located in said airbag body and distributing the gas from said inflator into a plurality of spots in said airbag body;

said inner tube is formed by rolling a belt-like third base cloth into a tubular shape and sewing both edges thereof with inner side surfaces thereof being opposed to each other; and

said inner tube includes a sewn part obtained by sewing said both edges in a portion into which the gas from said inflator is introduced;

said airbag further includes a protective cloth disposed adjacent to at least part of said sewn part on both edges of said inner tube and sewn to each edge at a pair of protective cloth sewn parts provided in positions apart from said sewn part along said sewn part such that the protective cloth covers at least a portion of the sewn part from an inner side of the inner tube into which the gas from said inflator is introduced, and said pair of said protective cloth sewn parts is sewn to said edges of the inner tube at positions that are horizontally opposed with respect to said sewn part and apart from each other.

8. The airbag device according to claim 7, wherein an opening formed by said protective cloth or an opening formed by said protective cloth and said third base cloth on said inflator side is closed.

9. The airbag device according to claim 7, wherein a length dimension of said protective cloth between said pair of protective cloth sewn parts on a side of the protective cloth opposed to the sewn part is larger than a length dimension of said protective cloth between said pair of protective cloth sewn parts on a side of the protective cloth adjacent to the sewn part.

10. The airbag device according to claim 7, wherein a length dimension of said protective cloth between said pair of protective cloth sewn parts on a side of the protective cloth opposed to the sewn part is smaller than a length dimension of said protective cloth between said pair of protective cloth sewn parts on a side of the protective cloth adjacent to the sewn part, and

wherein at least one of said pair of protective cloth sewn parts is formed so as to be broken by a tension acting by the gas introduction.

11. The airbag device according to claim 7, wherein said protective cloth is sewn to said edges of the inner tube such that edges of the protective cloth are directed to said sewn part and such that an intermediate part in a width direction thereof is directed to an interior space side into which the gas from said inflator is introduced.

12. The airbag device according to claim 7, wherein said protective cloth is sewn in a state in which the edges of the inner tube and edges of said protective cloth are aligned with each other.