Cushion of curtain air bag device

• US 9,421,941 B2
• Filed: 04/23/2015
• Issued: 08/23/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/29/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Jo, Kum Ho
• Primary Examiner(s): Condra, Darlene P
• Application Number:
  US14/694,574
• Publication Number:
  US 20150307053A1
• Time in Patent Office: 488 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/232 Curtain-type airbags deploying mainly in a vertical direction from their top edge
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/237 characterised by the way they are folded

Abstract

A cushion of a curtain air bag device including: a single-layer chamber receiving gas from an inflator and spreading to form a single gas layer, when a vehicle is involved in a collision; a multilayer chamber having a structure in which a plurality of layers overlap each other, and communicating with the single-layer chamber; a sealing part sealing edges of the single-layer chamber and the multilayer chamber; and a coupling part integrally connecting an overlapping part of the sealing part formed at the edge of the multilayer chamber.

Claims

1. A cushion of a curtain air bag device for a vehicle, comprising:

a single-layer chamber configured to receive gas from an inflator and to spread to form a single gas layer whenever a vehicle is involved in a collision;

a multilayer chamber comprising a plurality of layers overlapping each other, and configured to communicate with the single-layer chamber;

a sealing part configured to seal edges of the single-layer chamber and the multilayer chamber;

a coupling part integrally connecting an overlapping part of the sealing part formed at the edge of the multilayer chamber; and

an inactive part formed on the multilayer chamber,

wherein the inactive part is not expandable.

2. The cushion of claim 1, wherein the multilayer chamber comprises:

a first chamber layer extending from a front side of the vehicle to a rear side of the vehicle;

a second chamber layer communicating with the first chamber layer and extending toward the front side while overlapping the first chamber layer; and

a third chamber layer communicating with the second chamber layer, and extending toward the rear side while overlapping the first and second chamber layers.

3. The cushion of claim 2, wherein the single-layer chamber comprises:

a front chamber layer communicating with the first chamber layer; and

a rear chamber layer formed at a rear side of the front chamber layer and communicating with the third chamber layer.

4. The cushion of claim 2, wherein, whenever the multilayer chamber is spread, a total thickness formed by the first to third chamber layers, or adhesion among the first to third chamber layers, is not uniform, but differs at different positions in the first to third chamber layers.

5. The cushion of claim 4, wherein, when the inactive part is formed at a lower part of the boundary between the second and third chamber layers, a lower part of the multilayer chamber has a thickness less than that of an upper part thereof in a state where the multilayer chamber is spread, and the adhesion among the first to third chambers decreases.

6. The cushion of claim 4, wherein, when the inactive part is formed at a lower part of the multilayer chamber at which the head of a passenger is positioned, an upper part of the multilayer chamber is inflated more than the lower part thereof.

7. The cushion of claim 1, wherein the coupling part comprises:

an upper coupling part coupling a plurality of layers of the sealing part formed at the upper part of the multilayer chamber; and

a lower coupling part coupling the plurality of layers of the sealing part formed at the lower part of the multilayer chamber.

8. The cushion of claim 7, wherein the coupling part connects the respective layers of the sealing part by sewing the layers in a lateral direction.

9. The cushion of claim 7, wherein the coupling part determines the thickness of the multilayer chamber in an inflated state using widths of the upper coupling part and the lower coupling part.

10. The cushion of claim 9, wherein:

as the width of the upper coupling part is increased, the thickness of the upper part of the multilayer chamber is reduced; and

as the width of the lower coupling part is increased, the thickness of the lower part of the multilayer chamber is reduced.

11. The cushion of claim 7, wherein, when the lower coupling part has a width greater than that of the upper coupling part, the upper part of the multilayer chamber has a thickness less than that of the lower part thereof.

12. The cushion of claim 1, wherein:

the sealing part comprises a gas introduction part formed therein; and

the gas introduction part forms a path through which the gas supplied from the inflator is introduced into the single-layer chamber and the multilayer chamber via the sealing part.