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US07896386B2 Vehicle knee airbag device and method of deploying vehicle knee airbag
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车辆膝盖安全气囊装置及部署车辆膝盖气囊的方法
- 专利标题: Vehicle knee airbag device and method of deploying vehicle knee airbag
- 专利标题(中): 车辆膝盖安全气囊装置及部署车辆膝盖气囊的方法
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申请号: US12299959申请日: 2007-05-07
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公开(公告)号: US07896386B2公开(公告)日: 2011-03-01
- 发明人: Osamu Fukawatase , Makoto Sekizuka , Kenji Imamura , Takuya Nezaki
- 申请人: Osamu Fukawatase , Makoto Sekizuka , Kenji Imamura , Takuya Nezaki
- 申请人地址: JP Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken
- 专利权人: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- 当前专利权人: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- 当前专利权人地址: JP Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken
- 代理机构: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP
- 优先权: JP2006-130674 20060509
- 国际申请: PCT/JP2007/059468 WO 20070507
- 国际公布: WO2007/129690 WO 20071115
- 主分类号: B60R21/16
- IPC分类号: B60R21/16
摘要:
In a knee airbag attached to a steering column, the knee airbag is inflated and deployed quickly to a small space between an instrument panel and the knees of a vehicle occupant in a collision.A knee airbag 36 of a knee airbag device 10 is formed of a first inflation portion 38 which extends in a vehicle lateral direction along an instrument panel 12 side, and a second inflation portion 46, which is deployed to a vehicle occupant knee side. A gas supply opening 42, to which gas ejected from an inflator 22 is supplied, is disposed at a first inflation portion 38 side. The gas supply opening 42, and the pair of protection portions 46 provided at left and right end portions of knee airbag 36, are provided on substantially the same line in a vehicle lateral direction, and the first inflation portion 36 communicates the two as a gas flow path. Therefore, in a frontal collision, even if a space 48 between the instrument panel 12 and the knees of the vehicle occupant is small, the pair of protection portions 46 can be quickly inflated and deployed to the small space 48.
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