Fastening structure of side curtain airbag

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9630585-B2
Application number	US-201615136285-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 22, 2016
Priority date	Apr 23, 2015
Publication date	Apr 25, 2017
Grant date	Apr 25, 2017

Abstract

A side curtain airbag includes a protector that holds a bag body and that guides deployment of the bag body and a bag bracket that is fastened to a bag attaching seat located between two grab rail attaching seats protruded from a roof side portion and that is used to attach the side curtain airbag to the roof side portion. Portions of the protector which are located between the two grab rail attaching seats and which are located at both sides of the bag attaching seat in the vehicle front-rear direction are provided with first cutout portions.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A side curtain, airbag fastening structure comprising:
two grab rail attaching seats which are protruded inward in a vehicle transverse direction from a roof side portion of a vehicle and spaced from each other in a vehicle front-rear direction and to which a grab rail is attached; and
a side curtain airbag that is attached to the roof side portion and that comprises,
a bag body that is deployed into a curtain shape from the roof side portion when an impact is input,
a protector that holds the bag body and that guides deployment of the bag body, and
a bag bracket that is fastened to a bag attaching seat and that supports the protector provided with the bag body at a location between the two grab rail attaching seats such that the protector and the bag body of the side curtain airbag are disposed along the roof side portion and in a vicinity of the two grab rail attaching seats, and

wherein the bag bracket has first cutout portions at the location between the two grab rail attaching seats and on both sides of the bag bracket in the vehicle front-rear direction.

2. The side curtain airbag fastening structure according to claim 1 , further comprising a tape that binds the bag body and the protector together, wherein:
the protector has a second cutout portion that extends along a direction in which the first cutout portions extend and at a location that holds the tape in its position; and
a length of the first cutout portions in the extending direction thereof is greater than a length of the second cutout portion in the extending direction thereof.

3. The side curtain airbag fastening structure according to claim 1 , wherein
the first cutout portions of the protector are provided in a vicinity of the grab rail attaching seats in the vehicle front-rear direction.

4. The side curtain airbag fastening structure according to claim 1 , wherein
the first cutout portions are open downward.

Assignees

• Honda Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Tsumura Takahide
• Nishikawa Soichi
• Ikeda Koji
• Shimizu Taro
• Maeda Kento

Classifications

• B60R21/201

  Packaging straps or envelopes for inflatable members · CPC title

• B60R21/213 Primary

  in vehicle roof frames or pillars · CPC title