Curtain airbag apparatus

• US 9,511,737 B2
• Filed: 10/26/2015
• Issued: 12/06/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/21/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Cho, Kwang Soo
• Primary Examiner(s): BROWN, DREW J
• Application Number:
  US14/922,672
• Publication Number:
  US 20160144819A1
• Time in Patent Office: 407 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/213 in vehicle roof frames or pillars
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/2171 specially adapted for elongated cylindrical or bottle-like inflators with a symmetry axis perpendicular to the main direction of bag deployment, e.g. extruded reaction canisters B60R21/2176 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/232 Curtain-type airbags deploying mainly in a vertical direction from their top edge
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/262 Elongated tubular diffusers, e.g. curtain-type

Abstract

Provided is a curtain airbag apparatus in which an airbag and an inflator are securely coupled to each other. To this end, according to the curtain airbag apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an insertion portion of an anti-withdrawal member, together with a tip portion of the inflator, is inserted into a gas inlet unit of the airbag, and a clamp couples the insertion portion and the tip portion of the inflator to the gas inlet unit.

Claims

1. A curtain airbag apparatus comprising:

an airbag which is inflated when gas flows into the airbag, and has a gas inlet unit through which the gas flows in;

an inflator which has a tip portion inserted into the gas inlet unit and generates the gas;

an anti-withdrawal member which has an insertion portion including;

a first insertion portion positioned inside the gas inlet unit, and

a second insertion portion extended from the first insertion portion, positioned inside the gas inlet unit, and having a width wider in a circumferential direction of the inflator than a width of the first insertion portion; and

a clamp which is installed to press an outer surface of the gas inlet unit and the first insertion portion positioned under the pressed outer surface of the gas inlet unit to couple the tip portion of the inflator and the insertion portion to the gas inlet unit.

2. The curtain airbag apparatus of claim 1, wherein the anti-withdrawal member further includes a coupling portion that extends from the insertion portion to be disposed outside the gas inlet unit and is coupled to the inflator.

3. The curtain airbag apparatus of claim 1, wherein the second insertion portion further includes

a first protruding portion that further protrudes from at least one side of the second insertion portion.

4. The curtain airbag apparatus of claim 3, wherein the first protruding portions are formed at both sides of the second insertion portion, respectively.

5. The curtain airbag apparatus of claim 1, wherein a rib, which protrudes at a position further forward than the clamp, is formed on the insertion portion.

6. The curtain airbag apparatus of claim 3, wherein the anti-withdrawal member further includes a coupling portion that extends from the insertion portion to be disposed outside the gas inlet unit and is coupled to the inflator, and the insertion portion further includes a body portion that connects the first insertion portion and the coupling portion.

7. The curtain airbag apparatus of claim 6, wherein a second protruding portion, which further protrudes from the first insertion portion, is formed at least one side of the body portion.

8. The curtain airbag apparatus of claim 7, wherein the second protruding portions are formed at both sides of the body portion, respectively.

9. The curtain airbag apparatus of claim 6, wherein the body portion is formed to have the same width in a circumferential direction of the inflator as the second insertion portion.

10. The curtain airbag apparatus of claim 1, wherein the insertion portion is formed to have a curved surface corresponding to a circumferential surface of the inflator.

11. The curtain airbag apparatus of claim 1, wherein the anti-withdrawal member further includes a mounting portion mounted on a vehicle body.

12. The curtain airbag apparatus of claim 11, wherein the mounting portion has a fastening hole into which a fastening member for mounting the mounting portion on the vehicle body is inserted.

13. The curtain airbag apparatus of claim 6, wherein a recessed portion, which has a portion that corresponds to the first insertion portion and the body portion and is recessed in a shape corresponding to the shapes of the first insertion portion and the body portion, is formed in the outer surface of the gas inlet unit.