Invention Grant
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
- Patent Title: Vehicle knee airbag device and method of deploying vehicle knee airbag
- Patent Title (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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Application No.: US12299959Application Date: 2007-05-07
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Publication No.: US07896386B2Publication Date: 2011-03-01
- Inventor: Osamu Fukawatase , Makoto Sekizuka , Kenji Imamura , Takuya Nezaki
- Applicant: Osamu Fukawatase , Makoto Sekizuka , Kenji Imamura , Takuya Nezaki
- Applicant Address: JP Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken
- Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken
- Agency: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP
- Priority: JP2006-130674 20060509
- International Application: PCT/JP2007/059468 WO 20070507
- International Announcement: WO2007/129690 WO 20071115
- Main IPC: B60R21/16
- IPC: B60R21/16

Abstract:
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.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090115172A1 VEHICLE KNEE AIRBAG DEVICE AND METHOD OF DEPLOYING VEHICLE KNEE AIRBAG Public/Granted day:2009-05-07
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