Air bag and vehicle seat device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11712985-B2
Application number	US-202217655814-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 22, 2022
Priority date	Apr 2, 2021
Publication date	Aug 1, 2023
Grant date	Aug 1, 2023

Abstract

An air bag includes a bag portion formed by bonding two sheet members together. The bag portion includes an expansion portion including an annular joining portion extending in an annular shape, and a passage portion including a pair of parallel linear joining portions and connected to the expansion portion. Air filled in the bag portion flows through an internal space of the expansion portion surrounded by the annular joining portion and a passage sandwiched between the linear joining portions defining the passage portion. At a connection portion between the expansion portion and the passage portion, the linear joining portions extend in parallel, or the linear joining portions extend so as to expand toward a deep side of the passage from an opening position of the passage with respect to the internal space of the expansion portion.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An air bag comprising:
a bag portion formed by bonding two sheet members together, wherein
the bag portion includes:
an expansion portion which includes an annular joining portion extending in an annular shape, and
a passage portion which includes a pair of parallel linear joining portions and is connected to the expansion portion,

air filled in the bag portion flows through an internal space of the expansion portion surrounded by the annular joining portion and a passage sandwiched between the pair of linear joining portions defining the passage portion, and
at a connection portion between the expansion portion and the passage portion, the pair of linear joining portions extend in parallel, or the pair of linear joining portions extend so as to expand toward a deep side of the passage from an opening position of the passage with respect to the internal space of the expansion portion.

2. The air bag according to claim 1 , wherein
the expansion portion has a polygonal shape when viewed from a direction in which the sheet members are overlapped, and the passage portion is connected to a vertex portion of the polygonal shape.

3. The air bag according to claim 1 , wherein
the expansion portion and the passage portion have a line-symmetric shape having an axis of the passage portion extending linearly as a symmetry axis.

4. The air bag according to claim 1 , wherein
the expansion portion is a pair of expansion portions connected via the passage portion.

5. A vehicle seat device, wherein
the air bag according to claim 1 is disposed on an inner side of a seat cover of the vehicle seat device.

6. The vehicle seat device according to claim 5 , wherein
a refresh function of pressing the seat cover from the inner side by expanding and contracting the air bag is provided.

Assignees

• Aisin Corp

Inventors

• Ogiso Takashi
• Kanbara Tomoko
• Masuda Satoshi

Classifications

• B60N2/665 Primary

  using inflatable bladders · CPC title

• A47C7/467

  adjustable by fluid means · CPC title

• B60N2/914 Primary

  Hydro-pneumatic adjustments of the shape · CPC title

• B60N2/976

  massaging systems · CPC title

• B60N2/22

  the back-rest being adjustable {(B60N2/2878 takes precedence)} · CPC title