Air bag assembly

Details Air bag assembly Air bag assembly

1989-05-11

1990-10-23

Bertsch, Richard A.

Land vehicles

Wheeled

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280741, B60R 2116

Patent

active

049646540

ABSTRACT:
An assembly comprising: a hollow cylindrical member or can including an opening into which a gas generator may be inserted, the gas generator of the type responsive to a control signal, for generating gas to inflate an air bag. The assembly including the air bag, for protecting, when activated, an occupant of a vehicle, comprising an inflatable bag or sack, disposed in a compacted or stored condition, during periods prior to deployment, proximate a side of the cylindrical member containing at least one aperture, the inflatable bag, including an open end disposed about the cylindrical member to receive the gas an including relatively opposing flaps extending from proximate the open end and adapted to envelop the cylindrical member, the flaps, proximate a side of the cylindrical member, away from the at least one apature, disposed in an overlapping, condition, one to the other. A band of tearable material is provided to secure the air bag in its stored or predeployment condition.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3756617 (1973-09-01), Brown
patent: 4351544 (1982-09-01), Ross
patent: 4400010 (1983-08-01), Stutz et al.
patent: 4536008 (1985-08-01), Brown, Jr.
patent: 4830401 (1989-05-01), Honda

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