Cushion of curtain air bag device

• US 9,505,373 B2
• Filed: 04/16/2015
• Issued: 11/29/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Moon, Geon Woong
• Primary Examiner(s): GOODEN JR, BARRY J
• Application Number:
  US14/688,570
• Publication Number:
  US 20150307057A1
• Time in Patent Office: 593 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/23386 External tether means
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/232 Curtain-type airbags deploying mainly in a vertical direction from their top edge
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/2338 Tethers
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/237 characterised by the way they are folded

Abstract

A cushion of a curtain air bag device may include: a cushion body part including: a main chamber receiving gas from an inflator and spreading to form a single gas layer, when a vehicle collides; and a reinforcement chamber forming a plurality of gas layers overlapping each other, and inflating more than the main chamber; and a tether part fastening the reinforcement chamber to maintain an overlapping state, when the cushion body part is expanded.

Claims

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

a cushion body part, configured to receive gas from an inflator in response to a collision-related detection, comprising;

a main chamber configured to form a gas layer when inflated; and

a reinforcement chamber disposed adjacent the main chamber, the reinforcement chamber configured to form overlapping gas layers and to protrude further toward a vehicle occupant than the main chamber when inflated; and

a tether part fastening the reinforcement chamber, the tether part configured to maintain an overlapping state of the reinforcement chamber when the cushion body part is being inflated,

wherein the reinforcement chamber is configured to form the overlapping gas layers by a front vertical fold in the cushion body part and a rear vertical fold in the cushion body part.

2. The cushion of claim 1, wherein the tether part has a substantially triangular shape.

3. The cushion of claim 1, wherein the reinforcement chamber comprises:

a first chamber layer;

a first inactive part configured to not substantially expand when the cushion body part is being inflated,

a second chamber layer divided from the first chamber layer by the first inactive part, the second chamber layer extended from the first inactive part toward a front and overlapping the first chamber;

a second inactive part configured to not substantially expand when the cushion body part is being inflated; and

a third chamber layer divided from the second chamber layer by the second inactive part, the third chamber layer extending toward a rear from the second inactive part and overlapping the first and second chamber layers.

4. The cushion of claim 3, wherein the main chamber comprises:

a front chamber layer adjacent the first chamber layer toward the front; and

a rear chamber layer adjacent to the third chamber layer toward the rear.

5. The cushion of claim 3, wherein when the cushion body part is expanded, the second chamber layer maintains a state of being extended from the first inactive part toward the front and overlapping the first chamber.

6. The cushion of claim 3, wherein an upper part of the tether part is configured to fasten the first, second, and third chamber layers together with a mounting part such that upper parts of the first, second, and third chamber layers maintain contact therebetween.

7. The cushion of claim 3, wherein a lower part of the tether part is configured to fasten the first, second, and third chamber layers such that lower parts of the first, second, and third chamber layers maintain contact therebetween.

8. The cushion of claim 1, wherein the cushion body part comprises:

a sealing part configured to seal edges of the main chamber and the reinforcement chamber; and

a fixing part formed on the sealing part and configured to fix an edge of the tether part.

9. The cushion of claim 8, wherein the tether part comprises:

a first tether part covering one surface of the reinforcement chamber and having a first connection part formed thereon, the first connection part passing through the fixing part; and

a second tether part covering an other surface of the reinforcement chamber and having a second connection part formed thereon, the second connection part being coupled to the first connection part passing through the fixing part.

10. The cushion of claim 8, wherein the sealing part comprises a gas introduction part formed at one side thereof, the gas introduction part configured to form a path through which the gas supplied from the inflator is introduced into the main chamber and the reinforcement chamber via the sealing part.

11. The cushion of claim 8, wherein the cushion body part further comprises a mounting part formed at a top of the sealing part and configured to fix the top of the sealing part to a vehicle body.

12. The cushion of claim 11, wherein the fixing part comprises:

a first fixing part formed at the top of the sealing part at a rear side of the reinforcement chamber and configured to fasten an upper part of the reinforcement chamber with the mounting part;

a second fixing part formed under the first fixing part; and

a third fixing part formed on the sealing part at a front side of the main chamber and configured to fasten a lower part of the reinforcement chamber in cooperation with the second fixing part.

13. The cushion of claim 12, wherein the third fixing part is formed at a level corresponding to a range of ½

to ¼

of a vertical height of the reinforcement chamber.