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Airbag apparatus and method of folding an airbag

A folding method and airbag technology, which can be used in transportation and packaging, pedestrian/passenger safety arrangement, vehicle safety arrangement, etc., and can solve problems such as inability to stretch the airbag

Inactive Publication Date: 2005-09-28
TAKATA CORPORATION
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However, since the connection panel connects the front ends of the left half airbag and the right half airbag, the airbag that starts to inflate first cannot be fully stretched by the connection panel until the airbag that inflates has reached its front end.

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[0057] Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

[0058] figure 1 is a perspective view of the airbag device of the embodiment, figure 2 This is a horizontal sectional view of the airbag device. also, Figure 3 ~ Figure 7 , Figure 8 (a), Figure 9 (a), Figure 10 (a), Figure 11 (a) is a perspective view showing the airbag folding sequence of this airbag device, Figure 8 (b), Figure 9 (b), Figure 10 (b), Figure 11 (b) respectively along Figure 8 (a), Figure 9 (a), Figure 10 (a), Figure 11 (a) Cross-sectional view of line B-B. In the following description, the front (front end) side of the airbag refers to the front end side in the airbag inflation direction, and the rear (bottom end) side refers to the rear end side in the airbag inflation direction.

[0059] The airbag 10 has a left half airbag 12 inflated on the left side in front of the occupant, a right half airbag 14 inflated on the right side in...

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Abstract

An airbag apparatus receives an occupant's left breast by an expanded left airbag section and receives the right breast by a right airbag section. A void space of the expanded airbag opposes the lateral center of the occupant's breast. Both the left and right airbag sections expand smoothly and substantially evenly. The left and right airbag sections are folded firstly to obtain a first folded body elongated in the fore-and-aft direction and, subsequently, the distal sides from a joint belt, which connect the midsections in the expanding direction of the left and right airbag sections, are opened laterally apart from each other. The rear sides from the joint belt are folded so as to be reduced in width in the fore-and aft direction to obtain the second folded body, and then the lateral width is reduced by the third folding operation to obtain the final folded body.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to an airbag device having an airbag that inflates to protect an occupant during a vehicle collision, etc., and more particularly to an airbag apparatus having a left half airbag and a right half airbag that inflate on the left and right sides in front of the occupant, respectively. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a method of folding the airbag. Background technique [0002] JP-A-4-292239 discloses that an airbag for protecting the occupant when a vehicle collides, etc., has the following configuration: a left half airbag and a right half airbag respectively inflated on the left and right sides in front of the occupant, and through a common inflator for inflation. In the airbag disclosed in this publication, the front ends of the left-half airbag and the right-half airbag are connected by a connecting panel. [0003] The airbag is housed in a box after being folded and covered with a cover. When the vehicl...

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IPC IPC(8): B60R21/00B60R21/16B60R21/233B60R21/237
CPCB60R2021/23386B60R21/2338B60R2021/2375B60R2021/23382B60R2021/0044B60R21/201B60R21/233B60R21/237
Inventor 长谷部雅广
Owner TAKATA CORPORATION
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