Silicone rubber sheet and airbag device

• US 9,352,719 B2
• Filed: 04/29/2013
• Issued: 05/31/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/18/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Joyson Safety Systems Japan GK (Ningbo Junsheng Investment Group Co., Ltd.), Shin-Etsu Chemical Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Takata Corporation (Ningbo Junsheng Investment Group Co., Ltd.), Shin-Etsu Chemical Company Limited
• Inventors: Nakamura, Kenji, Miyata, Shuichiro, Hotta, Masakatsu, Yoneyama, Tsutomu, Fukuda, Masaki
• Primary Examiner(s): VERLEY, NICOLE T
• Application Number:
  US14/400,485
• Publication Number:
  US 20150123387A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,128 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/23123 Heat protection panels
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/23504 characterised by material
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/23576 Sewing
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/231 characterised by their shape, construction or spatial configuration
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/235 characterised by their material
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/262 Elongated tubular diffusers, e.g. curtain-type
• CPC Class Codes: D06M 15/643 containing silicon in the main chain
• CPC Class Codes: D06M 15/693 with natural or synthetic rubber, or derivatives thereof

Abstract

An airbag device including an inflator, an airbag and a silicone rubber sheet. The silicone rubber sheet is used for a flow passage to feed gas from an inflator to an airbag and is produced by stacking 0.5 mm or more of silicone composition comprising: 100 parts by weight of organopolysiloxane which is represented by the following average composition formula R¹SiO_(4-n)/2, where in the formula, R¹ represents a substituted or unsubstituted monovalent hydrocarbon group and n represents a positive number of 1.95 to 2.05, and which exhibits an average degree of polymerization of 1,000 or more; 20 to 80 parts by weight of reinforcing silica powder having a specific surface area of 50 m²/g or more; and a curing agent on at least an inner surface of a fiber fabric constituting the flow passage and performing heat curing.

Claims

1. An airbag device comprising an airbag which is usually folded and which is expanded and developed in the event of an emergency, an inflator which generates gas by burning an agent stored in the inside, and a flow passage to feed the gas from the inflator to the airbag,

with a silicone rubber sheet being used on at least an inner surface of a synthetic fiber fabric or an inorganic fiber fabric constituting the flow passage, the silicone rubber sheet being produced by stacking 0.5 mm or more of silicone composition containing

(A) 100 parts by weight of organopolysiloxane which is represented by the following average composition formula (1):

R1SiO(4-n)/2 

 

(1)

where in the formula, R1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted monovalent hydrocarbon group and n represents a positive number of 1.95 to 2.05,

and which exhibits an average degree of polymerization of 1,000 or more,

(B) 20 to 80 parts by weight of reinforcing silica powder having a specific surface area of 50 m²/g or more and

(C) a curing agent, and,

performing heat curing; and

,

wherein when the silicone rubber sheet is formed into a substantially cylindrical shape, tab portions protruding in the forward and backward directions of the flow passage are included, and the tab portions are sewed on the airbag.

2. The airbag device according to claim 1, further comprising an inner tube in which the silicone rubber sheet is formed into a substantially cylindrical shape and a shape retention member to retain the shape of the inner tube.

3. The airbag device according to claim 2, wherein the shape retention member is a belt member which connects an end portion extended from the inner tube to the outer periphery of the inner tube, a cover member connected to an end portion extended from the inner tube in such a way as to cover the outer periphery of the inner tube, or a circular member which is inserted through an overlap portion of the inner tube and is connected to the outer periphery of the inner tube.

4. The airbag device according to claim 1, wherein the cylindrical portion is formed from one end side of the silicone rubber sheet or the shaped sheet produced by sewing up of the silicone rubber sheet, the folded portion is formed from the other end side so as to cover the cylindrical portion, and the other end and the folded portion are sewed up.