Column-mounted knee airbag device

Details Column-mounted knee airbag device Column-mounted knee airbag device

2007-10-04

2011-11-15

Dickson, Paul N (Department: 3616)

Land vehicles

Wheeled

Attachment

C280S728200, C280S777000

Reexamination Certificate

active

08056925

ABSTRACT:
Rapidly constraining the knees of a driver, even for a steering column structure with plural obstructions projecting below the rear end side of the steering column, while also suppressing or preventing any detriment to column collapse operation during a frontal collision; the steering column is fixed to the vehicle body side with a lower bracket, an upper bracket and a housing, and a combination switch is disposed at the rear end side of an inner tube; lower portions are disposed in a state so as to protrude below a column tube and face each other, so that an airbag module is installed in an installation space between the two portions; a module case is manufactured from a fabric, and the airbag module is attached at a position in the vicinity of the combination switch through a rear attachment bracket.

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