Air bag suppression system
    1.
    发明授权
    Air bag suppression system 有权
    气囊抑制系统

    公开(公告)号:US06270115B1

    公开(公告)日:2001-08-07

    申请号:US09404482

    申请日:1999-09-23

    IPC分类号: B60R2101

    CPC分类号: B60R21/0156 B60R21/01554

    摘要: A dual stage air bag suppression system based upon seat position. A deceleration sensor senses the deceleration of the vehicle during a crash/collision. If the deceleration exceeds a first threshold value, and the seat is rearward of a predetermined value, then the SIR Controller initiates a first/low stage inflation. If the deceleration exceeds a second higher threshold value, and the seat is rearward of a predetermined value, then the SIR Controller initiates both first/low and second/high stages of inflation. If the seat is positioned at a point forward of a predetermined position, then the SIR Controller initiates the first/low stage inflation only when the deceleration exceeds the first/lower or second/higher threshold value and suppresses deployment of the second stage. Thus the SIR Controller initiates the inflation stages not only based on the severity of the collision or deceleration, but also based on the position of the vehicle seat.

    摘要翻译: 基于座椅位置的双级气囊抑制系统。 减速传感器在碰撞/碰撞期间感测车辆的减速度。 如果减速度超过第一阈值,并且座椅在预定值的后方,则SIR控制器启动第一/低阶段充气。 如果减速度超过第二较高的阈值,并且座椅在预定值的后方,则SIR控制器启动第一/低和第二/高阶段的充气。 如果座椅位于预定位置的前方的位置,则SIR控制器仅在减速度超过第一/下限或第二/更高阈值并且抑制第二阶段的展开时启动第一/低段充气。 因此,SIR控制器不仅基于碰撞或减速的严重性,而且基于车辆座椅的位置启动充气阶段。

    Supplemental inflatable restraint disabling system
    2.
    发明授权
    Supplemental inflatable restraint disabling system 失效
    补充充气限制系统

    公开(公告)号:US5803491A

    公开(公告)日:1998-09-08

    申请号:US808751

    申请日:1997-02-28

    CPC分类号: B60R21/01566 B60R21/01554

    摘要: A disabling system is provided for a supplemental inflatable restraint system in a vehicle. The disabling system includes a seat movable forward and rearward in the vehicle. The seat has a predetermined seat position. The disabling system automatically disables the supplemental inflatable restraint system when the seat is moved forward of the predetermined seat position and automatically enables the supplemental inflatable restraint system when the seat is moved rearward of the predetermined seat position. In a preferred form of the invention, the predetermined seat position occurs when the seat is fully forward in the vehicle such that the supplemental inflatable restraint system is automatically disabled when the seat is at the fully forward position.

    摘要翻译: 为车辆中的补充充气约束系统提供禁用系统。 禁用系统包括可在车辆中向前和向后移动的座椅。 座椅具有预定的座椅位置。 当座椅向预定座椅位置向前移动时,禁用系统自动禁用补充充气约束系统,并且当座椅向预定座椅位置向后移动时,自动启用补充充气约束系统。 在本发明的优选形式中,当座椅完全向前在车辆中时,发生预定的座椅位置,使得当座椅处于完全向前位置时,辅助充气约束系统被自动禁用。

    Method of making a hidden tear seam in a vehicle body panel
    3.
    发明授权
    Method of making a hidden tear seam in a vehicle body panel 失效
    在车体面板上制作隐藏的撕裂缝的方法

    公开(公告)号:US06348172B1

    公开(公告)日:2002-02-19

    申请号:US09383431

    申请日:1999-08-27

    IPC分类号: B29C4108

    摘要: A method of making a thermoplastic skin comprises the steps of providing a mold having a mold surface with first and second mold surface portions which intersect at a sharp corner coincident with the desired location of the tear seam in the molded skin. The mold is oriented with one of the first and second mold surface portions oriented in a generally horizontally orientation and the other of the mold surface portions oriented in a generally vertical orientation. A thermoplastic material such as polyurethane is sprayed onto the mold surface and the curing of the sprayed material is controlled to permit gravity to induce flow of the sprayed material down the vertical surface of the mold at the sharp corner and thereby provide a cured skin which is of significantly lessened thickness at the corner than at other regions of the skin. Accordingly, the reduced thickness of thermoplastic material at the sharp corner defines the tear seam at which the skin material will tear upon deployment of an air bag against the skin.

    摘要翻译: 制造热塑性皮肤的方法包括以下步骤:提供具有模具表面的模具,所述模具表面具有第一和第二模具表面部分,所述第一模具表面部分和第二模具表面部分在与模制皮肤中的撕裂缝的期望位置重合的尖角处相交。 模具被定向成使得第一和第二模具表面部分中的一个以大体上水平的方向定向,并且模具表面部分中的另一个以大致垂直的方向定向。 将热塑性材料如聚氨酯喷涂在模具表面上,并且控制喷涂材料的固化,以允许重力引起喷射材料在锐角处沿着模具的垂直表面流动,从而提供固化的皮肤,其是 在角落处的厚度显着减小,而不是皮肤的其他部位。 因此,在尖角处的热塑性材料的减小的厚度限定了在将气囊展开在皮肤上时皮肤材料将撕裂的撕裂缝。

    Instrument panel seamless air bag cover
    4.
    发明授权
    Instrument panel seamless air bag cover 失效
    仪表板无缝气囊盖

    公开(公告)号:US5755460A

    公开(公告)日:1998-05-26

    申请号:US734813

    申请日:1996-10-22

    CPC分类号: B60R21/2165 B60R2021/2172

    摘要: An air bag module is mounted on the instrument panel structure forwardly of the passenger seating position and has an air bag normally stored and folded therein and inflatable to project into the occupant compartment to restrain the passenger. An instrument panel cover is mounted atop the instrument panel structure to conceal the air bag from view and extends transversely across the instrument panel structure forwardly of both the driver and passenger sides of the occupant compartment. The instrument panel cover has a weakened tear seam which originates at the rearward most edge of the cover, at a point between the driver and the passenger and proceeds from the rearward edge in a generally forward direction. The driver side portion of the instrument panel cover is fixedly fastened to the instrument panel structure. The passenger side portion of the instrument panel cover is detachably fastened to the instrument panel cover. Upon inflation of the air bag, the passenger side of the instrument panel cover is forcibly lifted and pivoted upwardly as permitted by detachment of detachable fasteners and the tearing of the instrument panel cover along the weakened tear seam. The instrument panel cover is preferably of the type including a raised hood portion which wraps around the instrument display cluster and the weakened tear seam extends in a curving path around the margin of the raised hood portion and is hidden thereby.

    摘要翻译: 安全气囊模块安装在乘员座位位置前方的仪表板结构上,并且具有通常存储和折叠在其中的气囊,并且可充气以投射到乘员舱中以限制乘客。 仪表板盖安装在仪表板结构的顶部,以隐藏气囊的视野,横向延伸穿过乘员舱的驾驶员和乘客两侧的仪表板结构。 仪表板盖具有弱化的撕裂缝,其起始于盖的最后边缘,在驾驶员和乘客之间的点处,并且从后沿沿大致向前的方向前进。 仪表板盖的驱动器侧部分固定地固定在仪表板结构上。 仪表板盖的乘客侧部分可拆卸地固定在仪表板盖上。 当气囊膨胀时,仪表板盖的乘客侧被强制地提升并且由于可拆卸的紧固件的拆卸和仪器面板盖沿着弱化的撕裂撕裂允许而向上枢转。 仪表板盖优选为包括围绕仪器显示屏群的凸起罩部分和弱化的撕裂缝在围绕凸起的罩部分的边缘的弯曲路径中延伸并被隐藏的类型。