Side airbag device for vehicle

• US 9,180,837 B2
• Filed: 09/16/2014
• Issued: 11/10/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Fujiwara, Yusuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Fleming, Faye M
• Application Number:
  US14/487,609
• Publication Number:
  US 20150076801A1
• Time in Patent Office: 420 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/23146 seat mounted
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/23316 Inner seams, e.g. creating separate compartments or used as tethering means
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/231 characterised by their shape, construction or spatial configuration
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/23138 specially adapted for side protection B60R21/23184, B60R21/232 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/233 comprising a plurality of individual compartments; comprising two or more bag-like members, one within the other B60R21/232 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/239 characterised by their venting means

Abstract

A side airbag device for vehicle includes: a gas generator that is disposed in a seat cushion side part in a vehicular seat and generates a gas for inflation and deployment by actuation; and a side airbag in which the inside thereof is partitioned into an upper chamber and a lower chamber by a up-down dividing tether having a connecting hole and the gas from the gas generator is supplied to the lower chamber.

Claims

1. A side airbag device for vehicle comprising:

a gas generator that is disposed in a seat cushion side part in a vehicular seat and generates a gas for inflation and deployment by actuation; and

a side airbag in which an inside thereof is partitioned into an upper chamber and a lower chamber by an up-down dividing tether having a connecting hole and the gas from the gas generator is supplied to the lower chamber, the side airbag is inflated and deployed in a rectangle in a vehicle side view during inflation and deployment, and the up-down dividing tether is disposed on a diagonal line that inclines to a vehicle lower side from a vehicle front to a vehicle back of the side airbag.

2. The side airbag device for vehicle according to claim 1, wherein

the up-down dividing tether of the side airbag is disposed along an upper end part on the seat cushion side part in a vehicle side view during inflation and deployment of the side airbag.

3. The side airbag device for vehicle according to claim 1, wherein

the connecting hole of the side airbag is provided with an exhaust mechanism that makes the gas stay in the lower chamber during inflation and deployment of the side airbag and makes the gas supply in the upper chamber when an external force is applied to the lower chamber.

4. The side airbag device for vehicle according to claim 3, wherein

the exhaust mechanism is a variable vent tube.

5. The side airbag device for vehicle according to claim 4 wherein

the variable vent tube includes a vent tube and a vent tube tether,

the vent tube is disposed to the up-down dividing tether and formed in socks shape, both a base end part connected to the up-down dividing tether and an apical part being opened and connecting the upper chamber and the lower chamber;

the vent tube tether is formed in belt-shape, one end part thereof being attached to a vehicle lower side of the up-down dividing tether and to a cabin side of the vent tube, the other end part being attached to an opposite side from the cabin in the apical part of the vent tube; and

a length of the vent tube tether is set to a length in which the vent tube and the vent tube tether are under tension without slackness in a state in which the vent tube protrudes toward the lower chamber when the lower chamber is inflated and deployed.

6. The side airbag device for vehicle according to claim 1, wherein

the lower chamber of the side airbag is set to be inflated and deployed in the seat cushion side part during inflation and deployment.

7. The side airbag device for vehicle according to claim 1, wherein

the side airbag is set such that, during inflation and deployment of the side airbag, the upper chamber is located at the side of an abdominal part of an occupant seated on the vehicular seat and the lower chamber is located at the side of a lumbar part of the occupant.

8. The side airbag device for vehicle according to claim 1, wherein

an upper terminal of the side airbag extends up to an armrest of a door trim during inflation and deployment.

9. The side airbag device for vehicle according to claim 1, wherein

the up-down dividing tether is disposed between a lumbar part and an abdominal part of the occupant during inflation and deployment.

10. The side airbag device for vehicle according to claim 8, further comprising:

a side airbag for chest disposed on a seat back separately from the side airbag

wherein the side airbag for chest is inflated and deployed above the armrest of the door trim.

11. A side airbag device for vehicle comprising:

a gas generator that is disposed in a seat cushion side part in a vehicular seat, the gas generator generates a gas for inflation and deployment by actuation; and

a side airbag in which an inside thereof is partitioned into an upper chamber and a lower chamber by an up-down dividing tether having a connecting hole and the gas from the gas generator is supplied to the lower chamber, the side airbag is inflated and deployed in a rectangle in a vehicle side view during inflation and deployment, and the up-down dividing tether is disposed on a line that inclines to a vehicle lower side from a vehicle front to a vehicle back of the side airbag.

12. The side airbag device for vehicle according to claim 11, wherein the line is a diagonal line of the side airbag.

13. A side airbag device for vehicle comprising:

a gas generator that is disposed in a seat cushion side part in a vehicular seat, the gas generator generates a gas for inflation and deployment by actuation; and

a side airbag in which an inside thereof is partitioned into an upper chamber and a lower chamber by an up-down dividing tether having a connecting hole and the gas from the gas generator is supplied to the lower chamber,

the side airbag is inflated and deployed in a rectangle in a vehicle side view during inflation and deployment, and

the up-down dividing tether is disposed so as to be arranged along an apical part of a seat cushion side support in a side view during inflation and deployment of the side airbag.