Side impact protection apparatus

Details Side impact protection apparatus Side impact protection apparatus

1993-06-25

1994-10-18

Rice, Kenneth R.

Land vehicles

Wheeled

Attachment

293107, B60R 2104

Patent

active

053561775

ABSTRACT:
A side impact protection apparatus for use on the inner panel of a vehicle door. The apparatus is a cushion including a hollow flexible skin having an inner wall secured to the inner panel, and flexible walls between the skin and the inner wall, some having an orifice formed therein, to prevent the skin from bulging. Air contained in the cushion is adaptable to flow through inner wall orifice(s), prior to discharge through a side wall orifice, when subjected to impact by the vehicle occupant in the event of a high force side impact against the vehicle.

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