Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
280732000 | Deflated confinement located in or on instrument panel | 33 |
20080315567 | Air bag with adaptive venting - An apparatus ( | 12-25-2008 |
20090058056 | Airbag for a front passenger's seat - An airbag for a front passenger's seat internally includes a communication port defined by an inner joint that joins inner circumferential edges of a pair of inner panels. The airbag includes at a rear side a recess and a pair of raised regions. The airbag further includes a contact portion where outer surfaces of the inner panels are in face-to-face contact proximate the circumference of the communication port at full inflation. The contact portion is created and maintained by an inner pressure of the airbag at full inflation that acts on the panels of the airbag, and is not formed if the inner pressure is less than that at full inflation of the airbag. | 03-05-2009 |
20090146403 | Passenger Seat Airbag - A passenger-seat airbag ( | 06-11-2009 |
20090146404 | Airbag for a front passenger's seat - The airbag for a front passenger's seat includes an inner panel comprised of a pair of left and right base cloths. Each of the base cloths has a band shape curved in a generally C shape. A circumferential edge of a communication area communicating left and right shoulder restraining portions of the airbag is constituted by a joint portion joining inner edges of the respective base cloths together. The joint portion includes a corner area having a large curvature. Each of the base cloths includes a reinforcing portion at its inner edge for preventing the corner area from being so deformed as to reduce the curvature thereof upon airbag deployment. | 06-11-2009 |
20090194981 | Airbag - An occupant protection apparatus for protecting a front seat passenger of a vehicle. The apparatus includes an airbag module configured to be mounted in a instrument panel of a vehicle in front of the front seat passenger. The module includes an airbag and a gas generator. The airbag includes left and right inflatable lobes separated by a central gap. Each of the inflatable lobes is bounded by an outer panel forming an outer surface of the lobe and an inner panel forming an inner surface of the lobe. | 08-06-2009 |
20090194982 | Airbag apparatus for a front passenger's seat - An airbag apparatus for a front passenger's seat includes a case that includes a front storage area that has an airbag mounting plane and a rear storage area. A bottom wall of the rear storage area is located at a lower level than the airbag mounting plane of the front storage area. The airbag has a generally square conical contour whose top is disposed at the front end and includes proximate the front end a gas inlet port. The airbag is secured to the mounting plane of the case by the periphery of the gas inlet port. A lower folded-up portion that is formed by folding up a lower inflatable portion of the airbag is stored in the rear storage area of the case. The airbag apparatus further includes proximate left and right edges of an opening of the case in the rear storage area means for restraining emergence of the lower folded-up portion of the airbag from the opening of the case in an early stage of airbag deployment by holding down left and right end regions of the lower folded-up portion. | 08-06-2009 |
20090283993 | Instrument panel having an airbag therein and method for forming thereof - Several embodiments take the form of an instrument panel having an airbag therein for a motor vehicle. The instrument panel includes a pre-constructed substrate that includes a mounting surface and a reference surface. The instrument panel also includes a cover including a cover skin layer and a woven layer. The cover skin layer has an outer surface that defines a stitched region for presentation to an occupant and an airbag region that is separate from the stitched region. The woven layer has an inner surface that is coupled to the mounting surface of the substrate and coupled to the mounting surface via an adhesive. The stitched region is configured to receive at least one stitch and the airbag region corresponds to at least part of an area where the airbag impacts the cover skin layer during a deployment of the airbag. Other embodiments relate forming an instrument panel. | 11-19-2009 |
20100038891 | INSTRUMENT PANEL FOR MOTOR VEHICLE - An instrument panel for a motor vehicle is disclosed herein. The instrument panel includes a body extending along a lateral axis between an outboard side and an inboard side. The body has an outwardly-facing surface for display in a passenger compartment of a motor vehicle and an inwardly-facing surface opposite the outwardly-facing surface. The instrument panel also includes a plurality of mounting structures associated with the body. The instrument panel also includes a score pattern formed in the inwardly-facing surface including first and second score lines extending substantially parallel to one another. The score pattern also includes a third score line extending between the first and second score lines. The third score line being oblique to at least one of the first and second score lines. | 02-18-2010 |
20100045006 | Air Bag Inflation Baffle - An air bag includes a bag base wall having a mouth registering with an inflator and extending rearward along an instrument panel and toward the seated occupant. Spaced apart left and right sidewalls connect the bag base wall with a top wall and an occupant facing wall, thereby defining upper and lower torso restraining portions. An internal baffle has a baffle base wall sewn to the bag base wall rearwardly of the mouth and a left side baffle portion and a right side baffle portion attached to and extending from the baffle base wall and attached to the sidewalls of the air bag so that inflation gas impinges on the baffle and divides into left and right flow streams flowing on opposite sides of the baffle base wall and directed downwardly into the lower torso restraining portion and away from the upper torso restraining portion. | 02-25-2010 |
20100052297 | FRONT PASSENGER SEAT AIR BAG APPARATUS - A passenger seat air bag apparatus includes an air bag which is housed folded inside an instrument panel, and inflates toward a passenger who is seated in a front passenger seat with a supply of gas during a frontal collision, and which has a vent hole that can be opened and closed; a first strap which is connected to both an area around the vent hole and a rear lower portion of a base cloth of the air bag in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, and which closes the vent hole as the air bag inflates; and a second strap which is connected to an edge portion of the vent hole, and pulls on the edge portion of the vent hole and on the first strap around the vent hole so as to open the vent hole when the passenger who is wearing a seatbelt is restrained by the air bag. | 03-04-2010 |
20100230938 | Interlocking One Piece Molded Passenger Air Bag Chute - An integrated air bag chute structure that provides means for providing automatic interlocking attachment of the chute to the substrate of an instrument panel. By inserting the air bag chute into a substrate aperture and utilizing slots, depressions and notches formed in the chute structure beneath a surrounding flange, the aperture edges are captured and retained to thereby lock the chute in place. | 09-16-2010 |
20100230939 | Air Bag Chute Seal - An integrated air bag chute structure that provides sealing of an air bag aperture in an instrument panel substrate during a foam-in-place process. The structure provides an extended flange with flexible tapered edges that surround the aperture. The tapered edges are compressed against the upper surface of the substrate to seal and surround the substrate aperture when the chute structure is inserted into and retained in the substrate aperture. The air bag chute structure further defines a door support panel with pre-weakened molded edges and a hinge which are all integrally connected to the structure and flange without gaps that would allow for leakage during the foam-in-place process. | 09-16-2010 |
20100230940 | AIRBAG - In an airbag arrangement for a front seat passenger in a motor vehicle, an airbag | 09-16-2010 |
20110109068 | PASSENGER AIRBAG APPARATUS - The disclosure discloses a passenger airbag apparatus comprising: an airbag configured to inflates and expands from an opening; a retainer configured to comprise a body having substantially rectangular frame-shaped side walls; arm members configured to extend respectively from the side walls along a left and right directions, and to be affixed to the panel; a substantially disk-shaped gas generator attached to the bottom surface of the body; and a support member arranged in a manner that the upper end portion thereof is attached to an outer periphery of the opening and to cover the sides of the airbag, wherein: the retainer further includes hook members provided on the side walls along a front and rear directions, and engage the body with the support member; the body and the hook members are integrally constructed with substantially the same thickness; and the hook members further includes a first rib portion. | 05-12-2011 |
20120013109 | AIRBAG APPARATUS - An airbag apparatus is provided including an airbag which is formed as a bag body by connecting a plurality of panels via seaming and is folded and housed in an instrument panel, and an inflator, wherein: in one form the airbag includes: a multi-layered connecting portion that connects at least three layers of the panels; and a height regulating portion that regulates a dimension of a height direction of the airbag from an upper surface of the instrument panel in an initial stage of an inflation and deployment process of the airbag; and the multi-layered connecting portion is positioned further toward a vehicle rear than the height regulating portion, in a state where the airbag apparatus is mounted to a vehicle. | 01-19-2012 |
20120091698 | INSTRUMENT PANEL WITH INTEGRAL HIDDEN DOOR COVER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE THEREOF - An instrument panel having a deployable cover for an airbag module, the instrument panel including: a substrate layer with a tear seam formed therein; a bi-laminate layer comprising a foam layer and an outer layer with a tear seam formed therein, the tear seam of the bi-laminate layer of being aligned with the tear seam of the substrate layer, wherein the substrate layer and the bi-laminate layer are secured to each other and wherein the tear seam of the substrate layer and the tear seam of the bi-laminate layer are each separately formed prior to the substrate layer and the bi-laminate layer being secured to each other. | 04-19-2012 |
20120146315 | AIRBAG DEVICE - An airbag device configured to be disposed in an instrument panel includes an inflator configured to generate gas, and an airbag that includes a gas inlet through which the gas from the inflator is introduced and is inflated and deployed in a bag shape toward a vehicle room side by the gas introduced from the inflator through the gas inlet. The airbag has, in an upper portion thereof, an extra length in a front and rear direction of a vehicle and is folded in a housed state after experiencing a folded state in an approximately planar fashion such that the extra length portion is tucked into the airbag toward the rear of the vehicle. | 06-14-2012 |
20120205899 | PASSENGER FRONT AIRBAG - A front passenger airbag ( | 08-16-2012 |
20120261910 | AIR BAG WITH UNINFLATED POCKET - An inflatable vehicle occupant protection device ( | 10-18-2012 |
20120267881 | VEHICLE OCCUPANT RESTRAINT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF RESTRAINING A VEHICLE OCCUPANT - A vehicle occupant restraint system comprises an airbag module ( | 10-25-2012 |
20120326421 | AIRBAG DEVICE AND AIRBAG FOLDING METHOD - Provided are an airbag device and an airbag folding method capable of enhancing deployment performance of an airbag without using a separate component. An airbag includes a restraint portion to be located in front of an occupant upon inflation and deployment, a base portion connected to an inflator, a top portion to be located on a windshield W side upon inflation and deployment, and a bottom portion to be located between the occupant and an instrument panel I upon inflation and deployment. The restraint portion is folded in a belt shape with a contact surface of the restraint portion for contact with the occupant facing up to form a flap portion, and the flap portion is folded to move while turning toward the occupant upon inflation and deployment of the airbag. | 12-27-2012 |
20130001937 | AIRBAG APPARATUS FOR A FRONT PASSENGER'S SEAT - An airbag apparatus for a front passenger's seat is disclosed. The apparatus includes a wrapping member that wraps up an airbag in a folded-up configuration. The wrapping member includes a joint portion that is secured to an airbag housing or its vicinity together with the airbag, a main body that extends forward from the joint portion and a cover portion that extends rearward from the joint portion for deployment between the airbag and an out-of-position object in an initial phase of airbag deployment. During a folding process of the airbag, the cover portion is wrapped around a front-rear contracted bag, and a leading end of the cover portion is tucked down between an upper folded portion and a lower folded portion of the front-rear contracted bag. | 01-03-2013 |
20130087997 | PASSENGER AIRBAG DEVICE - The volume of a passenger airbag device is reduced, and the behavior thereof when inflated and deployed is stabilized. A passenger airbag device ( | 04-11-2013 |
20130341895 | MOTOR VEHICLE LINING ELEMENT COMPRISING A FRAME FOR THE DEPLOYMENT OF AN AIRBAG - The lining element ( | 12-26-2013 |
20140021707 | VEHICLE INSTRUMENT PANEL REINFORCEMENT AND PASSENGER SEAT AIRBAG DEVICE ATTACHMENT STRUCTURE EMPLOYING THE VEHICLE INSTRUMENT PANEL REINFORCEMENT - Vehicle instrument panel reinforcement and a passenger seat airbag device attachment structure employing the vehicle instrument panel reinforcement are provided that are capable of securing the strength and rigidity to support for example a reaction force imparted during deployment of a passenger seat airbag device, and are also capable of achieving a reduction in both cost and weight. Instrument panel reinforcement formed with a quadrilateral shaped closed cross-section profile from an upper member and a lower member is disposed along the vehicle width direction inside a vehicle instrument panel. A circular cylinder shaped collar is disposed inside a closed cross-section portion of the upper member. A passenger seat airbag device is fastened and fixed to the instrument panel reinforcement by a bolt and weld nut, employing the collar. | 01-23-2014 |
20140300090 | INTERIOR TRIM PANEL AND INTERIOR EQUIPMENT SYSTEM - The invention relates to an interior trim panel ( | 10-09-2014 |
20140339798 | AIRBAG AND AIRBAG DEVICE - An airbag and an airbag device are provided in which a posture of inflation and deployment of the airbag can be held easily and simply even if the airbag is mounted on an instrument panel having a convex portion in the space of inflation and deployment of the airbag. An airbag device includes an airbag that is folded and housed in an opening portion of an instrument panel during a normal state and is inflated and deployed on a surface of the instrument panel by gas supplied in an emergency; an inflator that supplies gas to the airbag; a retainer that holds the airbag and the inflator; and an airbag cover that covers the airbag and configures a part of the instrument panel, in which the airbag has a concave portion formed in both lower side portions when the airbag is inflated and deployed. | 11-20-2014 |
20140375036 | VEHICLE COLLISION DAMAGE MITIGATION SYSTEM - A vehicle collision damage mitigation system includes: a vehicle having a crashable zone on a front side of a dash panel in a vehicle longitudinal direction; a body airbag device that inflates a body airbag that is provided on a front surface of the dash panel by a pressure of gas generated by a gas generating device; a detector that detects whether a mode of a frontal collision of the vehicle is a full-overlap collision or another collision; and a control unit that operates the gas generating device when detecting a collision other than the full-overlap collision on the basis of a detection result of the detector and that does not operate the gas generating device when detecting the full-overlap collision. | 12-25-2014 |
20150145235 | VEHICLE AND AN INSTRUMENT PANEL FOR THE VEHICLE - A vehicle is disclosed. A wall includes a first portion disposed adjacent to a first end, a second portion disposed adjacent to a second end and a middle portion disposed between the first and second portions. A panel includes a first panel portion disposed along the first portion, a second panel portion disposed along the second portion and a middle panel portion disposed along the middle portion. The panel extends outwardly away from the wall a distal surface to define a cavity. An airbag device is attached to the second portion and disposed inside the cavity. A beam is coupled to one of the first portion and the middle portion inside the cavity. The beam extends into the cavity from the first end of the wall along an axis such that the beam is spaced from the second panel portion and the second portion along the axis. | 05-28-2015 |
20150321703 | MODULAR COMPOSITE INTRUMENT PANEL - A vehicular instrument panel, including a substrate comprising a plurality of chopped carbon and chopped glass fibers within a nylon resin, the substrate defines an airbag canister. The plurality of chopped carbon and chopped glass fibers are segregated such that the chopped carbon fibers are substantially concentrated within a driver-side portion of the substrate and the airbag canister, and the chopped glass fibers are substantially concentrated within a passenger-side portion of the substrate. The substrate can also include a boundary region such that the plurality of chopped carbon and glass fibers in the substrate are substantially mixed in the boundary region. | 11-12-2015 |
20150367802 | VEHICLE AIRBAG DEVICE - A vehicle airbag device included: an airbag that is disposed at an inner side of an instrument panel, that receives a supply of gas from an inflator and inflates and deploys to an outer side of the instrument panel, and that comprises a first bag that inflates and deploys at a vehicle front side of an occupant, and a second bag that inflates and deploys at a vehicle width direction center side of the first bag; and a recess that is formed at a lower face of the second bag when inflated and deployed, that is open toward a vehicle lower side, and that covers an interior component installed at a vehicle width direction central portion of the instrument panel from a vehicle upper side | 12-24-2015 |
20160059821 | FRONTAL AIRBAG SYSTEMS AND USES THEREOF - An inflatable airbag system can be configured to be mounted to a frontal region of a vehicle. The inflatable airbag system includes an airbag and a positioning member, and is configured to deploy in various configurations in response to frontal and oblique collision events. The positioning member can include a tether or an inflatable member. | 03-03-2016 |
20180022303 | AIRBAG DEVICE FOR A FRONT PASSENGER SEAT | 01-25-2018 |