108 results about "Front airbag" patented technology

In at least one embodiment, the present invention provides a side airbag apparatus for a vehicle having a seat with a back rest part and a hinge mechanism. The side airbag includes a separation means defining a front airbag chamber and a rear airbag chamber within the side airbag. A connecting passage connects the front and rear airbag chambers adjacent a lower extremity of the separation means. An attaching portion provided on the rear portion of the rear airbag chamber attaches the side airbag to the backrest part. An inflator proximate said attaching portion injects gas into the rear airbag chamber which flows through the connecting passage into the front airbag chamber.

A front airbag apparatus for a vehicle may include an airbag chamber including front panels, and internal tethers connecting the front panels of the airbag chamber to an airbag housing and dividing the airbag chamber into a plurality of sections, in which lengths of the internal tethers may be smaller than a length of the airbag chamber in a front-rear direction of the vehicle, and when the airbag chamber is fully inflated, joints of the internal tethers on the front panels may be recessed, whereby the front panels may form a prominence-depression shape.

A front passenger airbag (5) is described for arrangement in the instrument panel (20) of a motor vehicle. It has an airbag envelope (10) having an impact area (11) and lateral surfaces extending from the impact area (11). In order to use small gas generators and to reduce the danger for a passenger in a non-standard seating position, the impact area (11) is nearly exclusively allocated to the front passenger's (I) head or head and shoulder area, the impact area (11) having a concave shape when the airbag envelope (10) is fully expanded and free of external forces, such that a left and right section of the impact area (11) respectively extend farther into the interior of the motor vehicle than a central section.

A crash protection system includes a base connectable to a support on an open vehicle or an animal. The base includes a front airbag module arranged proximate a front end of the base and a rear airbag module arranged proximate a rear end of the base. The front airbag module has a front airbag, and the rear airbag module has a rear airbag. The system further includes a belt system having a first belt connectable around a waist of a rider and at least one strap connecting the first belt to the base. A control system includes sensors that are monitored to determine whether a crash situation is present and the control system actuates the front airbag module and the rear airbag module and releases the base from the support when the crash situation is present.

The invention provides a side curtain airbag which can be simply arranged while an airbag body is simply folded so as to enable the airbag body to be stable, improve protection performance for passagers and ensure self shock absorption performance of an internal decoration material. A side curtain airbag (10) includes an airbag body (11) and a plurality of airbag fixation portions (12). The airbag body is divided into a plurality of cells (15) that are inflated by gas flowing into them. The plurality of airbag fixation portions are provided along the upper periphery of the airbag body and attached to a plurality of vehicle body side fixation portions. In a state before attachment, of the plurality of airbag fixation portions, an upper front airbag fixation portion is located above the vehicle body side fixation portion corresponding to the airbag fixation portion, and at substantially the same level as the other airbag fixation portions. Of the plurality of cells, an upper front cell is formed so as to bulge close to the upper front airbag fixation portion.

Disclosed is a front airbag for a vehicle comprising an air bag cushion including front and rear panels on which a passenger is received safely; an air bag housing in which the air bag cushion is installed and to which the rear panel is affixed; a first panel tether provided in a vertical direction inside the air bag cushion and connecting the air bag housing and the front panel; and a second panel tether provided in a vertical direction inside the air bag cushion and connecting the air bag housing and the front panel, wherein the length of the second panel tether from the air bag housing to the front panel is longer than the length of the first panel tether from the air bag housing to the front panel.

A vehicle occupant sensing system includes a plurality of image pickup devices arranged to capture a three-dimensional image in a region including at least a cover part of the front airbag system and an upper part of the front passenger seat, and a signal processing unit for processing image signals taken by the image pickup devices to determine a three-dimensional position of the captured image. The signal processing unit is configured to determine a three-dimensional position of a part of the captured image pertaining to the cover part and includes a storage section which stores in advance a reference three-dimensional position corresponding to an external configuration of the cover part, and a comparing section which compares the three-dimensional position of the image part pertaining to the cover part with the reference three-dimensional position to determine if there is an object placed on the cover part.

An airbag apparatus for a vehicle may include: a surrounding airbag installed in a seat on which a passenger is seated, and deployed toward the passenger so as to cover an upper part and side parts of the passenger; a front airbag connected to the surrounding airbag, and laterally deployed to cover a front part of the passenger; and a behavior constraint tether extended from the front airbag to an upper portion of the surrounding airbag so as to constrain the surrounding airbag and the front airbag, and configured to constrain a forward behavior of the passenger through a tensile force.

The invention discloses an intelligent safety protection belt, which comprises a waist belt and two shoulder belts, both of which are U-shaped structures with the opening facing downwards, and the two shoulder belts are arranged parallel to each other; the U-shaped The two ends of the structural opening are respectively connected to the front side and the rear side of the belt; each of the shoulder belts is provided with a first air belt to protect the human head; the front and rear sides of the belt are symmetrically provided with The front air belt and the rear air belt of the human body; the belt is also provided with an intelligent sensor, and the first air bag, the front air bag and the rear air bag are respectively arranged in the first air belt, the front air belt and the rear air belt, and A first gas generator, a front gas generator and a rear gas generator; the first gas generator, the front gas generator and the rear gas generator are respectively connected to the smart sensor. The invention has the functions of comprehensively protecting the human body, detecting the state of the human body in time to determine whether to open the airbag, and avoiding secondary injuries.

The invention discloses a coal mine gas pre-extracting drilling flexible hole sealing system and method. The system comprises a hole sealing mechanism, a gas extracting mechanism and a grouting mechanism. The hole sealing mechanism comprises an extracting pipe, a grouting pipe and two pressurizing pipes, all of which are arranged side by side. One end of gas extraction serves as the inner end of agas pre-extracting drilling space, and the other end of gas extraction serves as the outer end of the gas pre-extracting drilling space. A front airbag, a middle airbag and a rear airbag are sequentially arranged in the gas pre-extracting drilling space from outside to inside. The middle airbag is composed of an upper airbag and a lower airbag which are symmetrically arranged up and down. An extracting pipe penetrates through the front airbag and the rear airbag and is clamped between the upper airbag and the lower airbag, one of the two pressurizing pipes sequentially penetrates through thefront airbag and the upper airbag from outside to inside into the rear airbag, and the other of the two pressurizing pipes sequentially penetrates through the front airbag and the lower airbag from outside to inside into the rear airbag. The grouting pipe penetrates through the front airbag and is clamped between the upper airbag and the lower airbag. The method includes the steps of drilling, hole washing, grouting hole sealing and gas extracting. The hole sealing effect can be effectively improved.

An occupant protection device, which protects an occupant seated in a seat, includes: a seat belt; a front airbag device provided with a front airbag which is placed in an area of a lap belt and inflates to cover a front of the occupant when operated; and a seat airbag device provided with a seat airbag which is arranged inside a seat portion in the seat and inflates so as to raise at least a front portion side of the seat portion upward. The front airbag causes inflation gas to flow into the inside and inflates so as to protrude forward and upward when operated and a thigh abutment surface abutting on a thigh of the occupant and an upper body restraining surface restraining an upper body of the occupant are arranged on an outer peripheral surface of the front airbag when the inflation is completed.

The invention relates to a punching die for machining and punching of a mount support of a front safety air bag. In the invention, a positioning rod and a positioning sleeve are arranged at corresponding positions of an upper die holder and a lower die holder, so that the upper die holder can accurately aim at the lower die holder in the descending process, the rejection rate is reduced and the quality of a product is improved.

An integrated crashpad is provided. The integrate crashpad includes an integrally formed crashpad base that is indented on a passenger-facing front surface thereof toward the front of a vehicle, an accommodation space with a front airbag that is disposed therein, and a front airbag door that is integrally formed with the crashpad base. The front airbag door opens based on a first bent portion that is indented on the front surface of the crashpad base as a score line and is coupled to a second bent portion on the front surface to define the accommodation space. A reinforcement sheet is inserted into the crashpad base and the front airbag door to connect the crashpad base and the front airbag door based on the score line. The reinforcement sheet prevents separation of the front airbag door from the crashpad base along the score line when the front airbag is inflated.

A front air bag for a vehicle is provided. The air bag includes an air bag cushion that has of a plurality of chambers and a gas flow passage that supplies each of the chambers with gas of an inflator. A variable valve selectively closes or opens the gas flow passage. Additionally, a controller determines a type of vehicle collision and operates the variable valve based on the collision type.

A vehicle airbag system is proposed, The vehicle airbag system includes: a front airbag mounted to a portion of a vehicle at front of a passenger and configured to be unfolded toward front of the passenger; an upper airbag mounted to a portion of the vehicle above the passenger and configured to be unfolded toward front of the passenger; a seat detector configured to detect a seating posture of the passenger; and a controller configured to control unfolding of the front airbag or the upper airbag on the basis of the passenger's seating posture detected by the seat detector.

A front passenger airbag (5) is described for arrangement in the instrument panel (20) of a motor vehicle. It has an airbag envelope (10) having an impact area (11) and lateral surfaces extending from the impact area (11). In order to use small gas generators and to reduce the danger for a passenger in a non-standard seating position, the impact area (11) is nearly exclusively allocated to the front passenger's (I) head or head and shoulder area, the impact area (11) having a concave shape when the airbag envelope (10) is fully expanded and free of external forces, such that a left and right section of the impact area (11) respectively extend farther into the interior of the motor vehicle than a central section.

The invention discloses a flexible grinding and polishing compound arc sand wheel and relates to a sand wheel. The flexible grinding and polishing compound arc sand wheel comprises a sand wheel body, an air valve, an airbag arc-shaped adjustment device, an annular airbag, a grinding and polishing material ring and a compaction device, wherein an air channel is formed in the sand wheel body; the air valve is arranged in the air channel; the inner end of the air channel is communicated with an inner cavity in the annular airbag; the air channel is externally connected with an air source through the air valve; the airbag arc-shaped adjustment device is provided with a front airbag arc-shaped adjustment ring, a rear airbag arc-shaped adjustment ring and an adjustment drive screw rod; the front airbag arc-shaped adjustment ring and the rear airbag arc-shaped adjustment ring are respectively nested onto the rear end surface of the sand wheel body; the adjustment drive screw rod penetrates through the front airbag arc-shaped adjustment ring and the rear airbag arc-shaped adjustment ring as well as the sand wheel body and is in running fit with the sand wheel body; the front part and the rear part of the adjustment drive screw rod are in threaded fit with the front airbag arc-shaped adjustment ring and the rear airbag arc-shaped adjustment ring respectively; the annular airbag is sleeved and pressed onto the front airbag arc-shaped adjustment ring and the rear airbag arc-shaped adjustment ring; the grinding and polishing material ring is sleeved onto the annular airbag; a front pressure ring and a rear pressure ring of the compaction device are used for compacting the two end surfaces of the grinding and polishing material ring and the two end surfaces of the annular airbag respectively; and the front pressure ring and the rear pressure ring are fixedly connected with the front airbag arc-shaped adjustment ring and the rear airbag arc-shaped adjustment ring respectively.

A vehicle occupant protection apparatus includes a seat for an occupant of a vehicle and an airbag device. The airbag device includes a front airbag configured to deploy in front of an upper body of the occupant in the seat. The front airbag is capable of deploying so as to receive the upper body that has been displaced forward from a seating position on the seat. The front airbag includes a pair of shoulder-receiving projections capable of receiving both shoulders of the upper body that has been displaced forward from the seating position by projecting rearward at both sides of the front airbag in a vehicle width direction of the vehicle in a deployed state.

The invention relates to a front airbag module for an automotive vehicle comprising an inflatable cushion (11) that can be inflated with the gas produced by a generator, including at least one venting opening (17) and a venting regulation device formed by a flexible material part (21) joined to the inflatable cushion (11) on the periphery or near zones of said venting opening (17) such that it can completely or partially close or uncover it, preventing or allowing the output of gas, and a stress member (23) joined at one of its ends to said flexible material part (21) and at the other end to the inflatable cushion (11), the geometric configurations of said stress member (23) and of said flexible material part (21) being established such that the opening degree of the venting opening (17) is determined by the stress level in the stress member (23) during cushion (11) deployment.

The invention provides an automobile active safety multi-layer and multi-set outer anti-collision airbag device formed by assembling a multi-layer and multi-set front airbag, an extending airbag back, two side airbags, a rear airbag, a radar, a single-chip microcomputer, a signal connecting line, a gas distributor, gas conveying pipelines, multiple small gas bottles, airbag fixing devices and the like. The multi-layer and multi-set front airbag of an automobile is formed by connecting multiple independent airbag bodies. The front airbag is shaped like a barrel placed in an inverted mode from appearance. Each airbag body is made of macromolecule fiber shell fabric and a net. The size of the nets is smaller than that of the airbag bodies. The airbag bodies are shrunk in a vacuum mode. When the automobile travels at a high speed and is within a critical distance, the radar is started, the single-chip microcomputer transmits signals, the gas distributor is opened, gas in the small gas bottles enters airbag pipelines of independent outer, middle and inner layers of the gas distributor through pipelines, and is conveyed to the multiple layers of independent airbag bodies at the other end of the gas distributor, and the airbag body of the outmost layer of the multi-layer and multi-set front airbag and the extending airbag back are integrated; the airbag back is inflated to extend to a front windshield. The two side airbags and the rear airbag of the automobile are made of single-layer airbag bodies and nets. A control system is just like the front airbag.

The invention discloses an anti-collision system for an automobile. The system includes a shock-absorbing energy-absorbing safety framework which comprises a front bumper, a rear bumper, a shock-absorbing device, a front collision sensor, a side collision sensor, a front safety airbag and a side safety airbag. The front collision sensor is arranged between the front bumper and the shock-absorbingdevice, the side collision sensor is arranged on the side of a vehicle, and the front safety airbag and the side safety airbag are connected with the front collision sensor and the side collision sensor respectively.

In at least one embodiment, the present invention provides a side airbag apparatus for a vehicle having a seat with a back rest part and a hinge mechanism. The side airbag includes a separation means defining a front airbag chamber and a rear airbag chamber within the side airbag. A connecting passage connects the front and a rear airbag chambers adjacent a lower extremity of the separation means. An attaching portion provided on the rear portion of the rear airbag chamber attaches the side airbag to the backrest part. An inflator proximate said attaching portion injects gas into the rear airbag chamber which flows through the connecting passage into the front airbag chamber.

An airbag (100a) having a single inflatable chamber (101) formed by a main panel (102b) and a pair of side panels (104a, 104b) integrated into or attached along mating edges. The main piece (102b) has an upper portion (135), a front portion (126) and a lower portion. A vertically oriented groove portion (110) is formed on a portion of the airbag (100a) facing forward. A groove portion (110) divides the inflatable chamber (101) into two lug portions (112a, 112b). A tether (180) is located within the inflatable chamber (101) and has one end attached to the groove portion (110) and a second end anchored, thereby constraining the groove portion (110) when the inflatable chamber (101) is inflated. With forward movement, the upper portion (135) of the main piece (102b) extends across the upper region of the groove portion (110). The airbag is used as a frontal airbag, in particular as a frontal airbag on the passenger side.

A vehicle occupant protection device includes a front airbag and a lateral airbag. The front airbag is provided in a vehicle body and deploys in front of an occupant boarding the vehicle body so that at least a head of the occupant hits against the front airbag. The lateral airbag is provided in the vehicle body so as to deploy at a lateral side of the occupant. The lateral airbag has a protrusion that deploys toward a middle of the vehicle body in a width direction. The protrusion is deployed together with the front airbag so that the head of the occupant hitting against the front airbag is supported from front and lateral sides.

An occupant protection device, which protects an occupant seated in a seat, includes: a seat belt; a front airbag device provided with a front airbag which is placed in an area of a lap belt and inflates to cover a front of the occupant when operated; and a seat airbag device provided with a seat airbag which is arranged inside a seat portion in the seat and inflates so as to raise at least a front portion side of the seat portion upward. The front airbag causes inflation gas to flow into the inside and inflates so as to protrude forward and upward when operated and a thigh abutment surface abutting on a thigh of the occupant and an upper body restraining surface restraining an upper body of the occupant are arranged on an outer peripheral surface of the front airbag when the inflation is completed.

A vehicle occupant sensing system includes a plurality of image pickup devices arranged to capture a three-dimensional image in a region including at least a cover part of the front airbag system and an upper part of the front passenger seat, and a signal processing unit for processing image signals taken by the image pickup devices to determine a three-dimensional position of the captured image. The signal processing unit is configured to determine a three-dimensional position of a part of the captured image pertaining to the cover part and includes a storage section which stores in advance a reference three-dimensional position corresponding to an external configuration of the cover part, and a comparing section which compares the three-dimensional position of the image part pertaining to the cover part with the reference three-dimensional position to determine if there is an object placed on the cover part.