Side airbag device for vehicle

• US 9,085,279 B2
• Filed: 11/17/2010
• Issued: 07/21/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/17/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Fukawatase, Osamu, Shamoto, Takehisa
• Primary Examiner(s): Beck, Karen
• Application Number:
  US13/510,470
• Publication Number:
  US 20130229003A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,707 Days
• Field of Search: 280/730.2, 280/733, 280/729, 280/743.1, 280/801.1, 280/803, 280/804
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/0039 Body parts of the occupant or pedestrian affected by the accident
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/23146 seat mounted
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/207 in vehicle seats
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/23138 specially adapted for side protection B60R21/23184, B60R21/232 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/233 comprising a plurality of individual compartments; comprising two or more bag-like members, one within the other B60R21/232 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/2338 Tethers

Abstract

At a side airbag, integrally provided are a waist portion protecting bag portion that is expanded between a waist portion of a seated passenger and a vehicle body side portion, and a chest portion/shoulder portion protecting bag portion that is expanded between a chest portion and shoulder portion of the seated passenger and a vehicle body side portion. A non-inflating portion, to which gas is not supplied, is provided so as to extend from a peripheral edge portion of a vehicle front side of the side airbag to outer peripheral portions of the waist portion protecting bag portion and the chest portion protecting bag portion, so that a front side upper end portion of the waist portion protecting bag portion at a time of expansion is positioned at a lower side of a lap side webbing that restrains the waist portion of the seated passenger.

Claims

1. A side airbag device for a vehicle, the side airbag device comprising:

an inflator that is provided at a side portion of a seat back, and jets-out gas at a time of a side collision; and

a side airbag that is stored in a folded-up state at the side portion of the seat back, and at which are integrally provided a waist portion protecting bag portion that, due to gas being supplied from the inflator, is expanded between a waist portion of a seated passenger and a vehicle body side portion, and a chest portion protecting bag portion that is expanded between at least a chest portion of the seated passenger and the vehicle body side portion, wherein

the side airbag is formed in a substantially rectangular shape in side view, the chest portion protecting bag portion having a top-bottom two-level chamber structure defining an upper-side chamber and a lower-side chamber and including a non-inflating portion that is substantially L-shaped in side view, to which the gas is not supplied, the non-inflating portion extending from a peripheral edge portion of a vehicle front side of the side airbag to outer peripheral portions of the waist portion protecting bag portion and the chest portion protecting bag portion and having a substantially vertical section extending vertically along the peripheral edge portion of the vehicle front side of the side airbag and a substantially horizontal section extending horizontally between the lower-side chamber of the chest portion protecting bag portion and the waist portion protecting bag portion, so that a front-most end portion of the lower-side chamber of the chest portion protecting bag portion is arranged at a position closer to a vehicle rear side than is a front-most end portion of the waist portion protecting bag portion,

the side airbag is configured such that, at a time of expansion, (i) gas that is jetted out from the inflator is supplied more promptly to the waist portion protecting bag portion than to the chest portion protecting bag portion, (ii) a front side upper end portion of the waist portion protecting bag portion slips between the seated passenger and a lower side of a webbing for waist portion restraining that is strip shaped and restrains the waist portion of the seated passenger so as to be located beneath the lower side of the webbing for waist portion restraining, and (iii) the chest portion protecting bag portion is arranged at an upper side of the webbing for waist portion restraining via the non-inflating portion,

the non-inflating portion is structured as a portion of two cloths that is formed by two base cloths being overlapped,

the non-inflating portion is surrounded by an outer peripheral sewn portion at the peripheral edge portion of the vehicle front side and an inner side sewn portion along outer shapes of the waist portion protecting bag portion and the chest portion protecting bag portion, and

the non-inflating portion connects, in a vehicle vertical direction, the waist portion protecting bag portion and the chest portion protecting bag portion.

2. The side airbag device of claim 1, wherein

the outer peripheral sewn portion includes a turn-in portion, that turns-in toward the vehicle rear side at an upper side of the front side upper end portion of the waist portion protecting bag portion.

3. The side airbag device of claim 1, wherein the non-inflating portion includes a hollowed-out portion, that is hollowed-out toward the vehicle rear side with respect to a line segment that connects, in the vehicle vertical direction, the front side upper end portion of the waist portion protecting bag portion and a front side upper end portion of the chest portion protecting bag portion.

4. The side airbag device of claim 3, wherein the hollowed-out portion is formed in a range that extends from the front side upper end portion of the waist portion protecting bag portion to at least a front end portion of a lower portion of the chest portion protecting bag portion.

5. The side airbag device of claim 1, wherein, at the waist portion protecting bag portion, an outer periphery of a front side upper portion, that includes the front side upper end portion, and an outer periphery of a front side lower portion are both formed by arc-shaped curves in side view, and a radius of the outer periphery of the front side upper portion is larger than a radius of the outer periphery of the front side lower portion.

6. The side airbag device of claim 2, wherein the non-inflating portion includes a hollowed-out portion, that is hollowed-out toward the vehicle rear side with respect to a line segment that connects, in the vehicle vertical direction, the front side upper end portion of the waist portion protecting bag portion and a front side upper end portion of the chest portion protecting bag portion.

7. The side airbag device of claim 2, wherein, at the waist portion protecting bag portion, an outer periphery of a front side upper portion, that includes the front side upper end portion, and an outer periphery of a front side lower portion are both formed by arc-shaped curves in side view, and a radius of the outer periphery of the front side upper portion is larger than a radius of the outer periphery of the front side lower portion.

8. The side airbag device of claim 3, wherein, at the waist portion protecting bag portion, an outer periphery of a front side upper portion, that includes the front side upper end portion, and an outer periphery of a front side lower portion are both formed by arc-shaped curves in side view, and a radius of the outer periphery of the front side upper portion is larger than a radius of the outer periphery of the front side lower portion.

9. The side airbag device of claim 6, wherein, at the waist portion protecting bag portion, an outer periphery of a front side upper portion, that includes the front side upper end portion, and an outer periphery of a front side lower portion are both formed by arc-shaped curves in side view, and a radius of the outer periphery of the front side upper portion is larger than a radius of the outer periphery of the front side lower portion.

10. The side airbag device of claim 4, wherein, at the waist portion protecting bag portion, an outer periphery of a front side upper portion, that includes the front side upper end portion, and an outer periphery of a front side lower portion are both formed by arc-shaped curves in side view, and a radius of the outer periphery of the front side upper portion is larger than a radius of the outer periphery of the front side lower portion.