Occupant protection device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9944246-B2
Application number	US-201615220036-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 26, 2016
Priority date	Aug 25, 2015
Publication date	Apr 17, 2018
Grant date	Apr 17, 2018

Abstract

An occupant protection device, including an airbag that is inflated and deployed on being supplied with gas, the airbag configuring an integral bag body including a front inflating portion that is inflated and deployed at a seat front side of the head of an occupant and that limits movement of the head toward a seat front side, and a pair of lateral inflating portions that are inflated and deployed at both seat width direction sides of the head of the occupant and that limit movement of the head toward a seat side, wherein an energy absorption amount with respect to displacement of the head by at least the lateral inflating portion, from out of the pair of lateral inflating portions, positioned at a vehicle width direction outside is greater than an energy absorption amount with respect to displacement of the head by the front inflating portion.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An occupant protection device, comprising:
an airbag that is configured to be inflated and deployed from a state housed in a headrest or a seatback on being supplied with gas, the airbag configuring an integral bag body including
a front inflating portion that is configured to be inflated and deployed at a seat front side of the head of an occupant and that is configured to limit movement of the head toward a seat front side, and
a pair of lateral inflating portions that are configured to be inflated and deployed at both seat width direction sides of the head of the occupant and that are configured to limit movement of the head toward a seat side, wherein

an energy absorption amount with respect to displacement of the head by at least the lateral inflating portion in a case of a side-on collision, from out of the pair of lateral inflating portions, positioned at a vehicle width direction outside is greater than an energy absorption amount with respect to displacement of the head by the front inflating portion in a case of a frontal collision.

2. The occupant protection device of claim 1 , wherein
on inflation and deployment of the airbag, a maximum thickness in the seat width direction of at least the vehicle width direction outside lateral inflating portion that is configured to face the head of the occupant is thicker than a maximum thickness in a seat front-rear direction of the front inflating portion that is configured to face the head of the occupant.

3. The occupant protection device of claim 1 , wherein
on inflation and deployment of the airbag, an internal pressure of at least the vehicle width direction outside lateral inflating portion is higher than an internal pressure of the front inflating portion.

4. The occupant protection device of claim 1 , wherein
a diffuser that distributes gas such that a gas supply amount to at least the vehicle width direction outside lateral inflating portion is greater than a gas supply amount to the front inflating portion is provided between the airbag and an inflator that supplies gas to the airbag.

5. The occupant protection device of claim 4 , wherein the diffuser includes:
a first gas supply port that is connected to the front inflating portion and supplies gas to the front inflating portion; and
a second gas supply port that is connected to the lateral inflating portions and supplies gas to the lateral inflating portions, and that is set with a larger opening area than the first gas supply port.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Ohno Mitsuyoshi
• Masuda Yasushi
• Suzuki Shigeyuki
• Ishida Shinichi
• Ozaki Takenori

Classifications

• B60R21/231

  characterised by their shape, construction or spatial configuration · CPC title

• B60R2021/0048

  Head · CPC title

• B60R2021/2074

  in head rests · CPC title

• B60R2021/23146

  seat mounted · CPC title

• B60R21/207 Primary

  in vehicle seats · CPC title