Land vehicles – Wheeled – Attachment
Patent
1997-10-15
1999-12-28
Dickson, Paul N.
Land vehicles
Wheeled
Attachment
280731, B60R 2116
Patent
active
060070889
ABSTRACT:
An air bag apparatus, assembled in a vehicle steering wheel, is provided with an inflator, an air bag in a folded state and a cover for covering the folded air bag. The cover provided with a hinged door portion which is opened by a force at a time when the bag body is initially developed and inflated as it deploys. The air bag is folded to one direction to form a long and narrow shape having a predetermined width and both ends of the long and narrow shape are housed in a housing space formed between the inflator and the cover in the form of outwardly winding rolls. At a time of initial development of the air bag, each outer surface of the outwardly winding rolls is brought into contact with a wall surface of the housing space opposing to the outer surface by a gas supplied from the inflator so that the development of the outwardly winding rolls is temporally delayed.
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Oguchi Shinji
Yamamoto Tadashi
Dickson Paul N.
Toyoda Gosei Co,., Ltd.
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