Far side airbag device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9796351-B2
Application number	US-201514733161-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 8, 2015
Priority date	Jun 23, 2014
Publication date	Oct 24, 2017
Grant date	Oct 24, 2017

Abstract

A far side airbag device comprising: a side airbag provided at a side section on a vehicle center side of a seatback, the side airbag comprising a rear inflation section and a front inflation section that inflates and deploys when supplied with gas through a communication path formed at a boundary with the rear inflation section; a fixing structure that fixes the side airbag to a seatback frame at the rear inflation section; and a tension cloth that receives tension and deploys accompanying inflation and deployment of the side airbag, wherein a vehicle front-rear direction front end side of the tension cloth is connected to the side airbag and a rear end side of the tension cloth is connected to the seatback frame, and in a deployed state, the tension cloth covers at least a portion of the rear inflation section as viewed from a side of the seatback.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A far side airbag device comprising:
a side airbag provided at a side section on a vehicle center side of a seatback in a vehicle width direction, the side airbag comprising a rear inflation section that inflates and deploys when supplied with gas and that restrains at least rear parts of the chest and abdomen of a seated occupant, and a front inflation section that inflates and deploys when supplied with gas through a communication path formed at a boundary with the rear inflation section and that restrains at least front parts of the chest and abdomen of the seated occupant,
wherein the side airbag is divided into the rear inflation section configuring a rear lower portion of the side airbag, and the front inflation section configuring a remainder of the side airbag, the boundary between the rear inflation section and the front inflation section is formed by stitching together base cloths of the side airbag with seams, and the rear inflation section and the front inflation section are in communication with each other through the communication path formed as a discontinuous portion at the boundary where the seams are not present; and
wherein a part of the boundary is between the rear lower portion of the side airbag and a rear upper portion of the side airbag;

a fixing structure that fixes the side airbag to a seatback frame at the rear inflation section; and
a tension cloth that receives tension and deploys accompanying inflation and deployment of the side airbag, wherein a vehicle front-rear direction front end side of the tension cloth is connected to the side airbag and a vehicle front-rear direction rear end side of the tension cloth is connected to the seatback frame, and in a deployed state, the tension cloth covers at least a portion of the rear inflation section as viewed from a side of the seatback,
wherein a length of the tension cloth in the vehicle up-down direction at the rear end side of the tension cloth is shorter than a length of the tension cloth in the vehicle up-down direction at the front end side of the tension cloth, and
wherein the front end side of the tension cloth is connected to the side airbag at the boundary between the rear inflation section and the front inflation section.

2. The far side airbag device of claim 1 , wherein:
the rear inflation section includes a shoulder restraint portion that restrains the shoulder region of the seated occupant in an inflated and deployed state; and
the tension cloth deploys to cover at least a portion of the shoulder restraint portion as viewed from the side of the seatback.

3. The far side airbag device of claim 1 comprising, as the tension cloth:
an outside tension cloth with the rear end side thereof connected to a portion of the seatback frame positioned to the rear side of the fixing structure in the vehicle front-rear direction, and that deploys at the seat width direction outside of the side airbag.

4. The far side airbag device of claim 3 , wherein:
in plan view, a peripheral length of the outside tension cloth from a connection location with the side airbag to a connection location with the seatback frame is the same as or less than a peripheral length of the side airbag from a fixing location with the seatback frame to the connection location with the outside tension cloth.

5. The far side airbag device of claim 1 , comprising, as the tension cloth, an inner side tension cloth that deploys at the seat width direction inner side of the side airbag.

6. The far side airbag device of claim 1 , wherein:
the front inflation section includes a portion that inflates and deploys to the upper side of the rear inflation section in a vehicle up-down direction; and
the tension cloth deploys to cover at least an upper portion of the rear inflation section.

7. The far side airbag device of claim 5 , wherein:
at least one out of a rear end side of an outside tension cloth or the rear end side of the inner side tension cloth is connected to the fixing structure.

8. The far side airbag device of claim 3 , comprising, as the tension cloth, an inner side tension cloth that deploys at the seat width direction inner side of the side airbag.

9. The far side airbag device of claim 1 , wherein the front inflation section is supplied with gas through the communication path from the rear inflation section, and an internal pressure of the rear inflation section is higher than an internal pressure of the front inflation section in the inflated and deployed state.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Fujiwara Yusuke

Classifications

• B60R2021/23146

  seat mounted · CPC title

• B60R21/23138 Primary

  specially adapted for side protection (B60R21/23184, B60R21/232 take precedence) · CPC title

• B60R2021/23386

  External tether means · CPC title

• B60R21/207 Primary

  in vehicle seats · CPC title

• B60R21/216

  comprising tether means for limitation of cover motion during deployment · CPC title