AIRBAG DEVICE

• US 20150274113A1
• Filed: 03/17/2015
• Published: 10/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Subaru Corp.
• Original Assignee: Fuji Heavy Industries Limited (Subaru Corp.)
• Inventors: Nagasawa, Isamu, Kobayashi, Masaaki, Yamada, Kousuke, Oorai, Junichi, Shoji, Takeru
• Granted Patent: US 9,469,267 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/2074 in head rests
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/23146 seat mounted
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/23161 specially adapted for protecting at least two passengers, e.g. preventing them from hitting each other
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/207 in vehicle seats
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/231 characterised by their shape, construction or spatial configuration

Abstract

An airbag device has an airbag housing that is provided in inward lateral faces of a driver'"'"'s seat backrest and a passenger seat backrest in a vehicle width direction. An upper portion of the airbag housing is provided with a cover portion through which the airbag supplied with gas moves upward from the airbag housing.

Claims

1. An airbag device used in a vehicle having a seats disposed apart from each other in a vehicle width direction, the airbag device comprising

an airbag that inflates and deploys from an inner side of a backrest of a corresponding one of the seats in the vehicle width direction,

wherein the airbag inflates and deploys upward, then inflates and deploys at least in a forward direction of the vehicle.

2. The airbag device according to claim 1, wherein the airbag inflates and deploys upward to a position higher than a height of the backrest.

3. The airbag device according to claim 1, wherein the airbag inflates and deploys upward, then inflates and deploys in the forward direction and a rearward direction of the vehicle.

4. The airbag device according to claim 2, wherein the airbag inflates and deploys upward, then inflates and deploys in the forward direction and a rearward direction of the vehicle.

5. The airbag device according to claim 1, wherein the airbag inflates and deploys from an upper portion of the inner side of the backrest in the vehicle width direction.

6. The airbag device according to claim 2, wherein the airbag inflates and deploys from an upper portion of the inner side of the backrest in the vehicle width direction.

7. The airbag device according to claim 3, wherein the airbag inflates and deploys from an upper portion of the inner side of the backrest in the vehicle width direction.

8. The airbag device according to claim 4, wherein the airbag inflates and deploys from an upper portion of the inner side of the backrest in the vehicle width direction.